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Professor Whitney Davis

Biography

Professor Whitney Davis (2013–2016) has been George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley since 2001. Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of Art History and Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities. He received his PhD in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1985, where he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows from 1983 to 1986.

Davis has been awarded fellowships by the Stanford Humanities Center, the National Humanities Center, the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has served as a member of the board of the College Art Association and recently as a member of the Advisory Board of CASVA; currently he serves on the predoctoral fellowship committee of the Social Science Research Council and as a member of an initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation (and headquartered at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University) to “rethink the PhD in art history.” At Berkeley, he has served as Chair of the Department of History of Art, Director of the Film Studies Program, Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Chair of the University Senate Committee on the Library and Scholarly Communication, and Director of the Consortium for the Arts and the Arts Research Center. He was a founding member of what is now the Berkeley Center for New Media.