Jenny Davidson is an American historian and writer. She is currently an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow during 2005-2006 and was named a visiting scholar to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year. Davidson was awarded the Mark Van Doren Award in 2010 for her commitment to undergraduate instruction. An alumna of Harvard University, Davidson completed her PhD at Yale University in 1999. Her dissertation Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. |
