{"id":7805,"date":"2026-10-07T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/ecdavis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:23","slug":"ecdavis","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/experiments\/faculty\/ecdavis\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Elisabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elisabeth Davis believes in student engagement. \u201cStudents drive class discussions, and I always learn so much from them,\u201d she says. \u201cI want students to be a stakeholder in their education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis approaches each class session with a sense of joy and wonder, committed to making learning a joyful experience for her students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also partners with students in her upper-level writing intensive courses when drafting her research. \u201cThey are so helpful when I am revising for clarity and content,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns faculty-accolades is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., History, University at Buffalo, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.L.S., University at Buffalo, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A., History, Temple University, 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A., History, Shippensburg University, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>United States to 1865<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States from 1865<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women&#8217;s History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Research and Specialization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>American history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women\u2019s history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Religious studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women Religious and Native American Boarding Schools 1847-1918, Lexington Press (in progress).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Back Under the Jurisdiction of the Rev. Provincial\u2019:The Dominican Sisters and the Limitations of Female Agency in the Nineteenth Century Catholic Church in the Midwest,\u201d Ohio History 130 1 (Spring 2023): 9-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018To keep the Catholics intact\u2019: The Catholic Experience at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1883-1918.\u201d U.S. Catholic Historian (Fall 2022): 1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5325\/libraries.6.2.0238\">It Was About Time for Our Children to Learn How to Read\u2019: Ruby Duncan, Operation Life, and the West Las Vegas Library<\/a>,\u201d Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 6 2 (Fall 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA Softness, Slyness and Low Cunning of the Mulatto\u201d: Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, Gender, and the Schism of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 89 2 (April 2022): 249\u2013272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018A Promise of Obedience\u2019: The Oblates of Providence and the Catholic Hierarchy,\u201d U.S. Catholic Historian 38 1 (Winter 2020): 93-112.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Disappearance of Mother Agnes Spencer: The Centralization Controversy and the Antebellum Catholic Church,\u201d American Catholic Studies 130 2 (Summer 2019): 31-52.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Relevanssi image attachment filter Relevanssi index exclude","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"academic_division":[82,55],"class_list":["post-7805","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Davis, Elisabeth - Website Experiments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/experiments\/faculty\/ecdavis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Davis, Elisabeth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elisabeth Davis believes in student engagement. \u201cStudents drive class discussions, and I always learn so much from them,\u201d she says. \u201cI want students to be a stakeholder in their education.\u201d Davis approaches each class session with a sense of joy and wonder, committed to making learning a joyful experience for her students.&nbsp; 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