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