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Archie K. Davis Senior Fellowship

Archibald “Archie” K. Davis is most well known for his visionary leadership of Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo) and the regional development of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Davis also served as president of both the American Bankers Association and the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Davis was a particularly crucial figure in the development of the National Humanities Center as he helped lead the effort to bring the Center to North Carolina, securing a location and capital funding to erect the Center’s building, which is named in his honor. Davis is also remembered through the Archie K. Davis Senior Fellowship, the Center’s first senior fellowship, which was endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation and has been awarded annually to a senior scholar since 2000.

2000–2001 Liam Murphy New York University Promise, Practice and Contract
2001–2002 James Sterba University of Notre Dame Affirmative Action and Practical Ethics
2002–2003 Jo Burr Margadant Santa Clara University Monarchy at Risk: The Last French Royal Family, 1830–1848
2003–2004 Theda Perdue University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Who Is an Indian? Native Americans in North Carolina, 1500–2000
2004–2005 Bruce Kapferer University of Bergen Cosmologies of Healing: Ritual Systems in Comparative Perspective
2005–2006 Catherine Gallagher University of California, Berkeley Undoing: Alternate-History Novels, Counterfactual Histories, and Social Policies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
2006–2007 Jan E. Goldstein University of Chicago Political Affiliations of the Flesh: The Movement of Biologistic Conceptions of the Person from Left to Right in 19th-Century France
2007–2008 Roger S. Gilbert Cornell University In the Wind My Rescue Is: The Life and Art of A.R. Ammons
2008–2009 Trevor Burnard University of Warwick Tropical Transformations: St. Domingue, Jamaica and the Making of Racial Order
2009–2010 Cornelis A. van Minnen Roosevelt Study Center, The Netherlands Dixie and the Southernization of the United States since the 1970s
2010–2011 John Komlos University of Munich An Anthropometric History of the World from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
2011–2012 Don Harrison Doyle University of South Carolina America’s International Civil War
2012–2013 Fred Anderson University of Colorado Boulder Imperial America, 1672–1764
2013–2014 Michael Lurie University of Richmond Not To Be Born is Best: Greek Pessimism Revisited
2014–2015 Marcus Bull University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eyewitness and Narration: Texts of Conflict and Cultural Encounter Between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries
2015–2016 Martin Berger University of California, Santa Cruz Inventing Stereotype: Race, Art, and 1920s America
2016–2017 Mary Hegland Santa Clara University Days of Revolution: Religion, Ritual & Politics in an Iranian Settlement or Political Islam: Engagement and Disengagement in an Iranian Settlement
2017–2018 Kimberly Jannarone University of California, Santa Cruz Mass Performance
2018–2019 Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi University of California, Santa Barbara An Ambiguous Past: Fascism, the Resistance, and ‘Structures of Feeling’ in Italy (1943–1945)
2019–2020 Dennis Trout University of Missouri, Columbia Monumental Verse: Poetry, Cityscape, and Authority in Late Ancient Rome
2020–2021 Helmut Puff University of Michigan The Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting (1500–1800)
2021–2022 Christian Raffensperger Wittenberg University Political Culture in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000–1300
2022–2023 Nancy Tomes Stony Brook University A History of the Modern Infodemic
2023–2024 Michael S. Gorham University of Florida Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age
2024–2025 Edyta M. Bojanowska Yale University Empire and the Russian Classics