Curriculum Vita
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Education
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1981 - 1983: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University: Harvard Adolescence Project
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1974 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Personality
Psychology
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1966 B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Psychology
Occupational History
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2006-present Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Haverford
College
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2002-2006 Benjamin Collins
Professor of Social Sciences, Haverford
College
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1972-2006 Department
of Psychology, Haverford College
Courses taught:
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1972 Trainee Development Officer,
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1971 Cross-Cultural Coordinator,
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1967-1970 Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan
Professional Activities
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Haverford College: Assistant to the Provost for Information Technology
(2000-01), member of Haverford “CIO” group
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Haverford College: Faculty Seminar in the Humanities (1998-99): Trauma,
Displacement, Memory
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Middle East Studies Association: Chair, Committee on
Electronic Communications
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National Institute for
Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE): Director, Al Musharaka: A Collaborative for Teaching and Research in
Islam, the Middle East, and Arab Culture. Arab Culture and Civilization
site.
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Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology: Organizer and Chair of Freud Study Group
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PSYCOLOQUY,
a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
Association: Personality Psychology member, editorial board
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Society
for Cross-Cultural Research. Past President and Program Chair (1995)
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Webster's Weekly,
a World Wide Web features magazine: Author of "Erotic Computing,"
a column on
sex and gender issues in personal computer and Internet use
Haverfordiana
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Advice
to Honor Council (April 18, 2001).
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Isaac Sharpless and the Psychology 109 HyperSyllabus
(Rufus Jones Newsletter, 2000.)
Internet/Computer Consulting
Activities, Talks, and Web-pages
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March-April, 2008: A series of talks to youth in Morocco on
“Blogs and the US Election,” sponsored by the Public Affaris
Office of the US Embassy, Rabat, Morocco
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February, 2005: Madrasa, Satellite, Cyber: New Media and the
Negotiation of Muslim Values. Mershon Center. Ohio
State University. Columbus
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October, 2002: Freud and
CyberCulture: Massively-Multiplayer Online
Role-Playing Games as a Social Laboratory. Paper presented at the Workshop
on Cultural Impact on Technology Development in European and Islamic Countries.
Al Akawayn University in Ifrane,
Morocco. October 28-30
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February, 2001: Information Technology
and a Haverford College Education: presentation to the Educational Affairs
Committee of the Board of Managers
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April, 2000: Sidi ROM: Coming of Age in the Time of the Internet.
University of Washington, Seattle
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1999: Haverford College: award for technological innovation
in teaching:
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1998: Pennsyvania Humanities Council: Commonwealth
Speaker
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Coming of Age in the Global Media
Culture
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Classrooms in Cyberspace: The
Coming Revolution in Education
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April 16, 1998: Panelist: "Seeing Ourselves: Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow." Berks Community
Television, Reading, PA
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September 18/October 2, 1997: Quadrangle
and the Net. A lecture demo for a retirment
community
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November 15, 1996: Morocco and the
Web. Center
for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
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May, 1996: Bringing the Networked
Future to Morocco: An Interim Report. Report on Morocco Fulbright Project
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October, 1995- May, 1996: Moroccan-American Commission
(Fulbright) grant, Bringing the Networked Future to
Morocco. Sponsored seminars and lectures.
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May, 1995: Invited participant, workshop leader, Ecunet
95: Ministry in Cyberspace: Baltimore MD.
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May, 1994: World Wide Web layout and hypertext markup
language for Marrakesh Express,
an online Moroccan textile gallery and shop.
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1994: Invited participant in international conference,
"Les Premières Journées
Internet au Maroc," Rabat, October 17-19.
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1994: Friends School Haverford: Chair of committee to design
and implement networked computer learning center with $150000 grant from Pew
Charitable Trust
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1992: World Bank: Statistical analysis of data for Ziz-Tafilalet (Morocco) water-use project
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1987: National Institute for Statistics and Applied
Economics (INSEA), Rabat, Morocco: seminar on DOS-based spreadsheet resources
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1983: EDUCOM Consulting Group: Social science member of
consulting team to Trinity College, Hartford, CT
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1982: USAID (Rabat, Morocco): Ministry of Health:
Installation and training for Apple II-based statistical system
Selected Papers and
Publications
Davis, D.A. (1976). On being detectably sane in insane places: Base rates and psychodiagnosis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85, 416-422.
Davis, D. A. and Widseth, J.C. (1977). Prediction of college counseling service use: The problem of base rates. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 33, 995-100.
Wagner, D.A., & Davis, D.A. (1978). The necessary and the sufficient in cross-cultural research (comment). American Psychologist, 33, 857-858.
Davis, D. A. (1979). What's in a name: A Bayesian rethinking of attributional biases in clinical judgment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 1109-1114.
Davis, D.A. (1987). Formal operational thought and the Moroccan adolescent. In J. Valsiner (Ed.) Cultural context and child development: Towards a culture-inclusive developmental psychology. Hofgrefe, 1988.
Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1989). Adolescence in a Moroccan town: Making social sense. Rutgers University Press.
Davis, D.A. (1990a). Freud's unwritten case. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 7, 185-209.
Davis, D.A. (1990b). Abortion and its discontents: Reproductive psychodynamics in early psychoanalysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, August.
Davis, D.A. (1990c). Writing Freud. transcription of Haverford College Faculty Research Talk, November 29, 1990.
Davis, D.A. (1992) Belling Hélène. Review of Hélène Cixous, "Coming to writing" and other essays. Postmodern Culture, v.2 n.2 (January, 1992).
Davis, D.A. (1993). Accounting Freud: Review of The Diary of Sigmund Freud: A Record of the Final Decade. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 1315-1316.
Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1993). Dilemmas of adolescence: Courtship, sex, and marriage in Moroccan town. In D.L Bowen and E.A. Early (Eds.) Everyday life in the contemporary Muslim Middle East, Indiana University Press, pp. 84-90.
Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1993). Sexual values in a Moroccan town. In W.J. Lonner & R.S. Malpass (Eds.) Psychology and culture. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, pp. 225-230.
Davis, D.A. (1994). A theory for the 90s: Freud's seduction theory in historical context. Psychoanalytic Review, 81, 627-640.
Davis, D.A. (1995). Modernizing the sexes: Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town. In A. Schlegel (Ed.) Special Issue on Adolescence. Ethos, 23, 69-78.
Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1995). Possessed by love: Gender and romance in Morocco. In W. Jankowiak (Ed.) Romantic passion: A universal experience? New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 219-238
Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1995). Love Conquers All? Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town. In E.J. Fernea (Ed.) Children in the Muslim Middle East. Austin: The University of Texas Press.
Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1995). "The mosque and the satellite": Media and adolescence in a Moroccan town. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 577-593.
Davis, D.A. (1997). Jung in the Psychoanalytic movement. In P. Young-Eisendrath & T. Dawson (Eds.). Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press.
Davis, D.A. (2003a). Milennial Teaching. Academe, v. 89, 1, pp. 19-22.
Davis, D.A.. (2003b). Virtual Science: Dreams, Memexes, and MMORPGs. Notes for The Collins Professorship Talk. February 21, 2003.
Davis,
D.A. (2007). Review of Deborah L. Wheeler. The
Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in
Kuwait. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39, pp. 302-304 Cambridge University Press.
Davis, D.A. (2008). Review of Linda Hopkins. False Self: The Life of Masud Khan. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2008, 28, pp. 29-33.