Natalie Zemon Davis

1928 -

country of citizenship: Canada, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Smith College, University of Michigan, Cranbrook Educational Community

occupation: historian, screenwriter, university teacher, women's rights activist, writer

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Humanities Medal, Holberg International Memorial Prize, Companion of the Order of Canada, Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award, Aby Warburg Prize, The Smith College Medal, honorary doctorate of the University of Basel, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto, honorary doctorate of Concordia University, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, honorary doctor of the Yale University, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, honorary doctor of the Northwestern University

Natalie Zemon Davis, (November 8, 1928 – October 21, 2023) was an American-Canadian historian of the early modern period. She was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her work originally focused on France, but it later broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. For example, her book, Trickster Travels (2006), views Italy, Spain, Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. (By 2023, the text had appeared in six translations.) Davis' books have all been translated into other languages: twenty-two for The Return of Martin Guerre. She was the second female president of the American Historical Association (the first, Nellie Neilson, was in 1943). Davis was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and National Humanities Medal and was named Companion of the Order of Canada. Source: Wikipedia (en)