Faculty
Colin J. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor
SUNY-Binghamton
cjdavis@uab.edu
Colin J. Davis joined the faculty in September 1991 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997, and Professor in 2002. His area of study is transnational labor history, and late nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. labor and social history. Dr. Davis' primary focus of research is on the transnational relationship between governmental power, trade unions, and workers. He has published books on these themes, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61 (University of Illinois Press, 2003); Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike (University of Illinois Press, 1997); he is also co-editor of It Is Union and Liberty: A History of Alabama Coal Miners (University of Alabama Press, 1999); and A Comparative International History of Dock Labour, 1780-1970 (Ashgate Publishing, 2000).
His current research is a comparative study of Altantic fishers in New England and Britain. A further comparative study under progress is of the fishing communities of Broome, Western Australia and Bayou La Batra, Alabama. He is also co-editing a book Moving Workers: Labor Migration and the South (under contract, University of Florida Press).
His teaching interests include U.S. Labor History, Comparative Labor History, and Public History. He has been the recipient of numerous grants including in 1999 a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and in 1997 he won the UAB Alumni/Ellen Greg Ingalls Teaching Award.
For questions concerning his research, please contact Dr. Davis.
