Dr. Davis has been teaching history and the humanities for over 15 years. He has a PhD in History, with an emphasis on modern Germany, from the University of Missouri. In addition to this, he holds an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BA in History and German from Oklahoma City University. He was also a language instructor in Japan for several years.
Specialty
European HistoryAcademic Credentials
PhD in History, 2007, University of Missouri
MA in Social Sciences, 1999, University of Chicago
BA in History and German, magna cum laude, 1998, Oklahoma City University
Teaching
Fall 2024
HIST 120-01 Early European History
Research
“Teaching the Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Course,” Powell Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Oct. 2011
“Parental Rights, Parental Duties: The German Churches and their Struggle for the Next Generation of the Faith in Postwar West Germany,” German Studies Association Conference, Oct. 2008
“Crusading for Godly Order: Catholic Popular Missions in Postwar West Germany,” Mid-America History Conference, Sept. 2007
“Mixed Confessional Marriage and the Renegotiation of Confessional Difference in Postwar West Germany,” German Studies Association Conference, Sept. 2006
“Inter-confessional Relations in Post-War West Germany,” German Historical Institute Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Freiburg, Germany, April 2006
“Remarriage or Bigamy? Catholic Debate on Second Marriages at the 1954 Diocesan Synod in Würzburg,” Missouri Conference on History, April 2006
“Der Ochsenfurter Zwischenfall, 28 Juni 1953,” (=The Ochsenfurt Incident of June 28, 1953). Seminar of Modern European History, University of Erlangen, Germany, June 2005
Public Writing and Media Commentary
Oshu Nippo Translation Project. Japanese American Museum of Oregon.
“The Confessional Peace in Light of the Ochsenfurt Sugar Factory Incident of June 1953,”
Jahrbuch für fränkische Landesforschung 65 (2005): 307-323.
“Die Würzburger Diözesansynode von 1954 und ihre Beschlüsse zur ‘Bigamie’,” (=The 1954
Diocesan Synod in Würzburg and its Decisions Concerning ‘Bigamy’)
Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblatter 69 (2007): 279-286.