Modern Africa, South Africa, Postwar U.S., History of Science, Labor History, Social Movements

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-L
Phone: 718-997-5381
Fax: 718-997-5359
grace.davie@qc.cuny.edu

Grace Davie earned her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Michigan. Grace has received fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Her first book was Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has published essays in The Journal of Southern African Studies, OD Practitioner, and Politique Africaine. Her current book, Webs of Power: Labor Union Corporate Campaigns in the United States, 1960-2015 (forthcoming in 2023 from University of North Carolina Press, Justice Power Politics series), tells the story of civil rights activists, New Left radicals, and activist-researchers who used power mapping to develop strategies and tactics for struggling labor unions in a period of rapid transformation, financialization, and anti-union repression. Grace is developing a new research project on the transnational history of anti-apartheid activism. Along with courses on research and writing for MA students, Grace has taught courses on Africa, South Africa, the global anti-apartheid movement, truth commissions, and historical approaches to social memory. She has been an ARC faculty fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, also at the Grad Center.