Participant Info
- First Name
- Rebecca
- Last Name
- Davis
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- rldavis@udel.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Delaware
- Website URL
- www.rebeccaldavis.com
- Keywords
- American marriage, American religion, 20th century U.S. history, gender, sexuality, LGBTQ, American Jewish history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Rebecca L. Davis is a historian of twentieth-century American religion, sexuality, and culture. Her first book, MORE PERFECT UNIONS: THE AMERICAN SEARCH FOR MARITAL BLISS, explores the history of marriage counseling in the United States — and helps explain both why Americans remain so uniquely obsessed with the pursuit of marital perfection and what that preoccupation means for the culture as a whole. She has a special interest in American religious history and often teaches courses on immigration, race, and ethnicity. In 2017 she became a producer and story editor for Sexing History, a podcast.
- Recent Publications
More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (Harvard University Press, 2010)
- Media Coverage
- http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/07/faith-in-marriage/
- Social Media
- @historydavis
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Politics, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
