Speakers | Deborah Davis
Deborah Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University. She joined the Yale Department of Sociology as a lecturer in 1978 and retired as Full Professor in 2018 during which time she held fellowships from the National Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Aging, Luce Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the ACLS. During her forty years on the Yale faculty, Davis served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for Study of Globalization, as Chair of the Department of Sociology, and as of Co-Chair of the Women Faculty Forum. Since 2016 she has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and on the faculty of the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. She also serves on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly and The China Review and is a Trustee of the Yale China Association.
In Urban China Forum 2019, Professor Deborah Davis will share her recent research “When the City Comes to You”. Half of new urban residents in China are people who have never left their home village but have been designated urban residents via expansion of administrative boundaries. Thus rather than going to the city, the city has come to them. Yet to date most research on new urbanites has focused on those who left their villages and moved to new towns or cities. Using a 2018 household survey (N=3,229) designed to assess quality of life among residents in newly urbanized areas, we demonstrate how integrating information on place of residence improves (but also complicates) explanations for variation in self-reported health, overall satisfaction, and perceptions of low social status.
For more information about Professor Deborah Davis, visit her personal page at Yale University.
