Katie Davis

Katie Davis

First Name: 
Katie
Last Name: 
Davis
Title: 
Postdoctoral Fellow (She/Her)
Biography : 

Katie Davis is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary International History, a position jointly held with the History Department and the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. Her work focuses on the relationship between public opinion, civil society, and foreign policymaking in the United States. Her current book project examines these themes in the context of US debates about international control of atomic energy in the 1940s. She is particularly interested in exploring how historians can incorporate public opinion research into their work. Katie is also the International History Editor for International Journal and the coordinator for the MA field in Contemporary International History.

Education: 
PhD, University of Toronto
MSc Theory & History of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science

People Type:

Research Area:

Areas of Interest: 

Public opinion, nuclear history, Cold War, international organizations

Program:

Dissertation Title: 
“The World Must Choose”: Public Opinion, Atomic Monopoly, and the Illusion of International Control, 1945-1950
Dissertation Supervisors: 
Robert Bothwell
Postdoctoral Fellowship Title: 
Contemporary International History

Campus: