Presidential Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Chair of the Faculty
Bucknell University (USA)
About Coralynn
Coralynn V. Davis is Presidential Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and currently serves as Chair of the Faculty at Bucknell University. An award-winner teacher, Dr. Davis holds a PhD (1999) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (1994). She has held Research Associateships at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (2005-2006) and at the Harvard Divinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program (2008-2009). Her ethnographic research with communities in Nepal and India has been supported by three Fulbright Grants (1994-1995; 2003-2004; 2016-2017). In addition to having published peer-reviewed articles in journals centred in several disciplines, her book Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border was published by University of Illinois Press in 2014. Most recently, Dr. Davis has produced an award-winning documentary film, Sama in the Forest (Dir. Carlos Gomez), based on her many years of research in the Mithila region of South Asia.
Research Interests
- Anthropology/Ethnography
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- Folklore Studies
- Critical Development Studies
- Ethnographic/Documentary Film
The Mithila Studies Network 