Edward (Ned) L. Davis
Associate Professor
Primary Fields: China, World Comparative / Transnational, Environmental History, Race & Indigeneity, Imperialism & Colonialism, Gender & Sexuality
Other Fields: Medieval China (Han through Song Dynasties)
Office: Sakamaki B212
Email: edavis@hawaii.edu | Phone: (808) 956-7708
Accepting new graduate students? Yes
BA Harvard, 1976; MA, PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1981, 1994
Background
Professor Davis specializes in the history of medieval China (Han through Song Dynasties). His books include Society and the Supernatural in Song China (2001) and Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (2005) and numerous articles and book reviews and is currently completing a three-part two-volume revisionist history of Daoism and Popular Religion from the late Han through the Southern Song. His specialties include all Chinese religions, including Buddhism and Confucianism; the nature of pre-modern Chinese imperialism, colonialism, ethnicity, and gender; the history of the Late Roman Empire and Early Medieval Europe, including the origins of Christianity and monasticism; and 20th and 21st century European and American Thought, Philosophy and Historiography. Professor Davis teaches History 151, 161a, 311/312, 416, and 602 as well as graduate seminars in various aspects and periods of Chinese history.
Representative Publications
- Co-editor, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (London, New York, 2006).
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (2005).
- Society and the Supernatural in Song China (Honolulu, 2003).
- “Arms and the Tao: Hero Cult and Empire in Traditional China,” in Sōdai no shakai to shūkyō [Song Society and Religion], (Tokyo, 1985).
