Drs. Davidson and Harris co-conceptualized the idea for the OU Center for Peace and Development during their first trip to Uganda. Dr. Davidson was instrumental in drafting the first proposal and engaging in critical initial discussions about the CPD and its programs.
Dr. Davidson’s main field of research is black women’s studies where she is primarily known for her analysis of black women’s agency, critiques of Global South feminism, and her attempts to put continental philosophy in dialogue with diasporic black feminist theory.
Dr. Davidson is the author of Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism (2017) and The Rhetoric of Race: Toward a Revolutionary Construction of Black Identity (2007; translated into Spanish 2009) and the co-editor of five collections. She has also authored several articles and book chapters.
Along with her OU colleagues, Dr. Davidson has conducted extensive field work in northern Uganda (2015-), including interviewing 180 members of various grassroots women’s organizations (2016-2019), organizing CITI training for several Ugandan translators (2019) and helping to organize two grassroots women’s peace conferences in Gulu, Uganda (2018 & 2019).
Along with Dr. John Harris and Dr. David Monk, Dr. Davidson is a founding member of the East Africa Social Justice Research Group. This group of social science and humanities scholars based in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom work collaboratively to produce engaged, impactful, relevant, and community based social justice research in the intersecting areas of: gender, development, violence & precarity, postconflict societies, urbanization, education & and vocational training, climate & the environment. She co-edits (with Dr. John Harris, Dr. David Monk, and Dr. Jonathan Hall) Borderless: A Book Series Dedicated to Coalitional Politics, Interdisciplinarity, Community Building, Participatory Research, and Disruptive Thought.
Phone: (304) 293-2339
Email: lupe.davidson@mail.wvu.edu
Bio: eberly.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/directory/dean-and-leadership/lupe-davidson
