Natalie Zemon Davis
Historian, Author
1928 –
Who is Natalie Zemon Davis?
Natalie Zemon Davis, CC is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. For example, Trickster Travels views Italy, Spain, Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. It has appeared in four translations, with three more on the way. Davis' books have all been translated into other languages: twenty-two for The Return of Martin Guerre. She is a hero to many historians and academics, as "one of the greatest living historians", constantly asking new questions and taking on new challenges, the second woman president of the American Historical Association and someone who "has not lost the integrity and commitment to radical thought which marked her early career".
She has been awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and National Humanities Medal and been named Companion of the Order of Canada.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1928
Detroit - Spouses
- Chandler Davis
(1948 - )
- Chandler Davis
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Michigan
History
( - 1959) - Radcliffe College
- Smith College
- Harvard University
- Cranbrook Schools
- PhD, University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Toronto
(1996 - ) - New Jersey
( - 1996)
- Toronto
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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