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Lindsay Davis

Assistant Professor of Teaching
AFFILIATED DEPARTMENT OR OFFICE
History
Humanities and Arts
EDUCATION
PhD The George Washington University 2018
MA Dartmouth College 2009
BA University of Vermont with Honors 2005
Expert Bio

Professor Davis is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history, focusing specifically on topics of race, gender, legal history, and critical prison studies.

Inside Higher ED
How professors can foster inclusivity with their syllabus

Inside Higher Ed highlighted recent research by WPI researchers who looked into how syllabi can signal inclusivity in the classroom. The study, originally published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Connections, was authored by Francesca Bernardi, Crystal Brown, Lindsay Davis, Michelle Ephraim, Rebecca Moody and Raisa Trubko. 

The Academic Minute
Projects Narrow Self-Efficacy Gaps for Women

In The Academic Minute podcast, Lindsey Davis, assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Humanities and Arts, describes a WPI alumni survey which found women attributed significantly greater gains in self-efficacy to their project work at WPI than men did. The findings suggest project-based learning as a method to recruit and retain women in STEM.

 

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