Natalie Zemon Davis (elected October 1987), the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, at Princeton University, died on October 21, 2023. Davis’s research focused on the social and cultural lives of marginalized people, and her writing illuminated entire worlds of life and thought, most famously in her third book, The Return of Martin Guerre (1983). Davis co-taught (with Jill Ker Conway) a pioneering course in the history of women and gender at the University of Toronto and helped found women’s studies programs at Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley. She received eighteen honorary degrees in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel and was presented the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2013.
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