Frances Davey Profile

• Ph.D., History, University of Delaware
• M.A., History, University of Delaware
• M.A., American Studies, The College of William and Mary
• A.B., American Studies, Smith College

U.S. History, specifically focused on women and gender, material culture, and public history.

• AMH 3561: Women in America from 1870
• AMH 3561: Women in America to 1870
• AMH 3312: History of Sexuality in America
• HIS 3065: Introduction to Public History
• HIS 3070: Oral History
• HIS 4931: Material Culture in America

Recent Publications

• Frances Davey, “‘My blood was all turning to water’: Testimonial Advertisements and the Creation of a Menstrual Network,” Gender & History, 2022. In production
• Frances Davey and Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, “A Transnational Perspective of Women on the Home Front,” in Paul R. Bartop, The Routledge History of the Second World War (London: Routledge), 2021.
• Frances Davey and Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, ““We hung around the radio with great interest”: Accessing Childhood Recollections of World War II Through Interdisciplinarity,” The Oral History Review 47: 2 (Winter/Spring 2020); published online March 5, 2020.
• Frances Davey, review of Nothing to Speak of: Wartime Experiences of the Danish Jews 1943-1945, by Sofie Lene Bak (Copenhagen, Denmark: Dansk Jødisk Museum, 2011) in The Oral History Review (Winter/Spring 2020); published online January 1, 2020.
• Frances Davey, “’Disguised beyond any possibility of recognition’: The Seaside and the Subversion of Social Norms at Coney Island,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2019).
• Frances Davey, Kris De Welde, and Nicola Foote, “Histories of Choice: Using Feminist Pedagogies Outside the Traditional Classroom,” in Kristina R. Llewellyn and Nicholas Ng-A- Fook, eds., Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Winner of the Canadian Oral History Association Prize.
• Frances Davey, Kris De Welde, and Nicola Foote, “Oral History as Inspiring Pedagogy for Undergraduate Education,” Our Schools/Our Selves (Winter 2016).
• Frances Davey, Nicola Foote, and Kris De Welde, “Teaching and Researching Roe vs. Wade: Responding to Linda Kerber’s Call for Historical Action Through a Service-Learning Undergraduate Project,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (January 2015).

Recent Conference Participation

• Memory and Narrative: Oral History of World War II on the Home Front, conference co-hosted with Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2019.
• “‘To help us access the more human side of the past’: Student Perceptions of Older Adults Mediated Through Oral History,” co-presented with Joanna Salapska-Gelleri and Abigail Winslow at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2018.
• “Oral History, Reproductive Rights, and the State,” presented at the Seventeenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, 2017.
• “Adults’ Childhood Recollections of World War II: Engaging Audiences Across Culture and Language,” co-presented with Joanna Salapska-Gelleri at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2017.
• “Breaking Through Childhood Metanarratives of War,” co-presented with Joanna Salapska-Gelleri at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2016.
• “Giving Voice: Feminist Oral History Approaches to Reproductive Justice,” presented at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2015.
• “Histories of Choice: Collecting Stories Surrounding Roe v. Wade,” poster presented at National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, 2014.
• “Histories of Choice: The Evolution of a Student-Driven Oral History Project,” in “Current Feminist Practices of Oral History,” presented at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2014.
• “’Nymphs, Nereids, Sirens in Truth’: Creating an Alternative Urbanisms on Coney Island,” presented at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, 2014.
• “’In No Wise Unique’: Working Women and the Creation of a Menstrual Subculture, 1880s-1910s,” presented at the History of Women’s Health Conference, 2013.
• “’Thoroughly Democratic in Principle’: The Material Mediation of Class and Gender at Coney Island, 1880s-1910s,” presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, 2013.

Recent Grants & Awards

• Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Research Associateship, Five College Inc., Mount Holyoke College MA, 2018-2020
• Innovative Course Development Grant, FGCU, 2017
• With Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, Small Grant for Preliminary Research Office of Research and Special Projects, FGCU, 2017
• With Bill Locascio, Department of Social Sciences Fieldwork Fund FGCU, 2017
• Newcomb Institute Travel-to-Collections Grant, Tulane University, 2014, 2016
• Canadian Arts and Humanities Research Board Travel Grant, University of Ottawa, 2015
• Lucas Center Travel Grant, FGCU, 2015
• Service-Learning Course Development Grant, FGCU, 2015
• Professional Development Fund Grant, FGCU, 2013-2019
• Oral History Association Travel Grant, Oral History Association, 2014