The Faculty of Today

Faculty in History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Concentrations: History, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Barbara B. Davis, Associate Professor of History. Favorite Course: The Holocaust. Davis says: “Teaching the course was a rewarding experience that pushed me to read such extraordinary books as Primo Levi’s misnamed Survival in Auschwitz, see again ‘Le chagrin at la pitié,’ and a host of equally extraordinary recent documentaries, among them Into the Arms of Strangers: the Kindertransport, Bach at Auschwitz, etc. It forced me to think again and differently about this nightmarish event in our collective history.”

Davis attended the Sixteenth Century Conference held in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of October 2002 where she was elected to the Business Council, a 3-year position. In November, she was at the Newberry Library as Antioch’s representative to the Newberry Library Seminar Program sponsored by the ACM/GLCA consortium, and then traveled to Milwaukee to see Leonardo Da Vinci’s beautiful portrait, “Lady with an Ermine,” part of the show “Treasures of Poland.” Also during Fall 2002, she was invited by the Renaissance Quarterly to review Vanessa Harding’s The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670, (2002) which will appear in the course of next year. She reviewed Ian McEwan’s Atonement in the Winter 2003 Antioch Review, pp. 179-180. In March at the Newberry Library, she will participate in “Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Europe,” a workshop in their History of the Book series.

Robert Fogarty, Editor of the Antioch Review and Professor of History. Rowan & Littlefield will publish a paperback edition (with a new introduction) of All Things New: Communal and Utopian Movements, 1865-1914 in March, 2003. The first edition was published by the University of Chicago Press. In April, he will participate in a seminar on “Sexuality and Socialism” at the Boston University Center for the Millennial Studies and give a paper on “The Oneida Community: A Binocular View.” In June he will participate in the Fourth Annual International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society and deliver a paper on “The Raelians in Ireland: Post Modernists or the ‘Me’ Generation.” He will be the keynote speaker at the Philadelphia Writers Conference, and has recently had reviews published in the American Historical Review, The Journal of American History and Church History.

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