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She is a professor in the History Department and Chair of the Geography Graduate Group.</p> <h3>Research Focus</h3> <p class="Bodytext">Political Ecology; Environmental History; Pastoral Societies and Arid Lands; Colonialism/Imperialism; Medical Geography; Environmental Change and Public Health; Ethnoveterinary Medicine; and the Middle East and North Africa..</p> <h3>Publications</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Davis, D.K. (2021) "Deserting Arboreal (Bio)Politics," pp. 41-54 in <em>Manual for a Future Desert,</em> Ida Soulard, Abinadi Meza and Bassam El Baroni, Eds.<em> </em> Milan: Mousse Publishing.</p> </li> <li> <p>Davis, D.K. (2020) "Of Deserts and Decolonization: Dispelling Myths about Drylands" <em>MIT Press Reader</em>, https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dispelling-myths-about-drylands/.</p> </li> <li> <p>Davis, D.K. (2019) "From the Divine to the Desertified: The Foundational Case of Deserts in the Middle East," <em>Global Environments</em>, 12 (1): 56-83.</p> </li> <li> <p>Davis, D.K. and P. Robbins (2018) "<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2514848618812029">Pathological Ecologies of the Colonial Present: From the 'Taux de Boisement' to Contemporary Forestry</a>” with Paul Robbins, <em>Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, </em><br> 1(4): 447-469.</p> </li> <li> <p>Davis, D. K. (2018) "Between Sand and Sea: Constructing Mediterranean Plant Ecology" pp. 129-151 in <em>The Handbook of Critical Physical Geography</em>, R. Lave, et. al., Ed. Palgrave.</p> </li> <li> <p>Sayre, N., D.K. Davis, B. Bestelmeyer and J.C. Williamson (2017) "<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/6/2/31">Rangelands: Where Anthromes meet their Limits</a>," <em>Land</em>, 62(3), 31; doi:10.3390/ land6020031.</p> </li> <li> <p><span>Davis, D. K. (2016) </span><em>The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge,</em><span> The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.</span></p> </li> <li><span>Davis, D. K. (2015) "Historical Approaches to Political cology," Ch. 20, pp. 263-275 in the </span><em>Handbook of Political Ecology</em><span>, Bridge, Gavin, James McCarthy and Tom Perrault (Eds.) Routledge. </span></li> <li><span>Davis, D. K. (2012) </span><em>Les mythes environnementaux de la colonisation française au Maghreb</em><span>, Éditions Champ Vallon, Seyssel.</span></li> <li><span>Davis, D. K. & Burke, E. (Eds.) (2011) </span><em>Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa</em><span>, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio .</span></li> <li><span>Davis, D. K. (2007)</span><em> Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonia Expansion in North Africa, </em><span>Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.</span></li> </ul> <p class="Citation"> </p> <h3>Teaching</h3> <p>HIS/SAS 109: Environmental Change, Disease and Public Health; GDB 106: Geographies of (One)Health; HIS 107: Medicine's Histories; HIS 108: Global Environmental History; GEO 260: Global Political Ecology; GEO 200AN: Geographic Concepts: Histories of Geographic Thought.</p> <h3>Awards</h3> <ul> <li><span>Guggenheim Fellowship, Ryskamp Research Fellowship (ACLS) , NEH Summer Fellowship, Millstone Fellowship, EPA STAR fellowship.</span></li> <li><span>Book Prizes: Marsh Prize , Meridian Award & Blaut Award, 2008, for </span><em>Resurrecting the Granary of Rome</em><span>.</span></li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 class="field__label heading--auxiliary">Tags</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-tags field--type-entity-reference tags"> <a class="tags__tag" href="/tags/modern">Modern</a> <a class="tags__tag" href="/tags/contemporary">Contemporary</a> <a class="tags__tag" href="/tags/middle-east-south-asia">Middle East and South Asia</a> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-element-container block block-views block-views-blockpublications-related-to-person-block-1 panel o-box" id="block-views-block-publications-related-to-person-block-1"> <h2 class="panel__title"> Publications </h2> <div><div class="view view-publications-related-to-person view-id-publications_related_to_person view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-6689610c7ddc5c90efa04a7b39bc0e3481d7d978a9bb3712fd424af162877c31"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="history-books-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-book-cover-images"><div class="field-content"> <a href="/book-cover/environmental-imaginaries-middle-east-and-north-africa-ecology-history" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk11356/files/styles/book_cover_images_for_view_3/public/media/images/image74.jpg?h=74bddc33&itok=jBUpX_yQ" width="250" height="350" alt="Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa (Ecology & History)" class="image-style-book-cover-images-for-view-3" /> </a> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/book-cover/environmental-imaginaries-middle-east-and-north-africa-ecology-history" hreflang="en"> Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa (Ecology & History) </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-author-s-"><div class="field-content"><a href="/people/diana-davis" hreflang="en">Diana K. Davis</a></div></div></div> <div class="history-books-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-book-cover-images"><div class="field-content"> <a href="/book-cover/resurrecting-granary-rome-environmental-history-and-french-colonial-expansion-north" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk11356/files/styles/book_cover_images_for_view_3/public/media/images/image72.jpg?h=64a94b11&itok=OBsF-X7Y" width="250" height="350" alt="Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa " class="image-style-book-cover-images-for-view-3" /> </a> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/book-cover/resurrecting-granary-rome-environmental-history-and-french-colonial-expansion-north" hreflang="en"> Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-author-s-"><div class="field-content"><a href="/people/diana-davis" hreflang="en">Diana K. 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