• Ph D, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1980
• MA, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1971
• BA, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1970

• CITI Completion in Social Behavioral Research, CITI/USD Office of Research
• 1440576, CITI

• Faculty Research Fund, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Tromso2003)

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• Davis, Dona, Maurstad, Anita , , , and Dean, Sarah. My Horse Is My Therapist: The Medicalization of pleausre among women Equestrians. In Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 22. American Anthropological Assoc, 2014. (DOI: 10.111/maq.1262)
• Davis, Dona. Twins Talk: What Twins Tell Us about Person, Self and Society, 322. Iss. 1 Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2014.
• Davis, Dona, Maurstad, Anita, and Dean, Sarah. I'd rather wear out than rust out': autobiologies of ageing equestriennes, 23. Cambridge: Ageing and Society, 2014. (DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X14001172)
• Cowles, Sarah, and Davis, Dona. Krusty and other sexagenerians: Self-stylings of aging equestrienne time rebels, 29-33. Vol. 19, Iss. 1 & 2 American Anthropological Association: Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes, 2013.
• Davis, Dona. Method and Theory. In Book Review: Humanitarianism and Suffering, by R. wilson and R. Brown, 659-660. Vol. 17 UK: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011.
• Davis, Dona, Davis, Dorothy, and . "Dualing Memories: Twinship and the Disembodiment of Identity.". In The Ethnographic Self as Resource: Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography, editors Peter Collins and Anselma Gallinet, 129-149. Iss. 1 London: Berghahn Press, 2010.
• Davis, Dona, Davis, Dorothy, and . "I-We, Me-You, Us-Them: Navigating the Hyphens of Intersubjectivity Among Sets of Identical Twins.". In Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter, editors Gronseth and Davis, 122-142. London: Sean Kingston Press, 2010.
• Davis, Dona, and Gronseth, Anne S.. Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter. In Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter. London: Sean Kingston Press, 2010.
• Davis, Dona. Same and Different/Fair and Balanced: An Anthropological Analysis of Identical Twins and the Embodiment of Core Cultural Values in North America. In Twin Research and Human Genetics. Iss. 10:27
• Davis, Dona. Psychiatry and Sexual Health., Editors Juan Mezzich, Ruben Hernandex-Serrano with Carlos Berganza, Dona Davis and Rafael Garcia. New York: Jason Aronson Press, 2006.
• Davis, Dona. Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Exercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community. In The Athletic Intruders: Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture and Exercise, editors Anne Bolin and Jane Granskog, 201-226. NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.
• Davis, Dona. In the Beginning: Region, Crisis and Occupational Choice Among Newfoundlands Youth. In Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland, 177-198. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
• Davis, Dona. Can here Be a Feminist Sociobiology? A Critical Assessment of Evolutions of Human Sexuality. In Kvinnforsks Skriftserie, editors Christina Wegener and Aase Wynn, 22-38. Iss. 5
• Davis, Dona. Commentary: Anything Goes. In Teaching Anthropology in the USA, 24-26. Vol. 6, Iss. 4 Cultura Polaris, 2000.
• Davis, Dona. Gendered Cultures of Conflict and Discontent: Living the Crisis in a Newfoundland Community. In Women's Studies International, 343-353. Vol. 23, Iss. 3
• Davis, Dona, and Gerrard, Siri. Introduction: Gender and Resource Crises in North Atlantic Fisheries. In Women's Studies International, 279-286. Iss. 23(3)
• Davis, Dona. Me, Myself, Menopause and I. In In P. Freeman and J. Zlotnik Schmidt (eds). Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife, 69-80. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Davis, Dona. Changing Constructions of Gender and Community in a Newfoundland Fishing Village. In Global Coasts: Life Changes, Gender Challenges, 145-153. Tromso: University of Tromso, 1999.
• Davis, Dona. Kjonn i Spenning i Newfoundland Fiskevaere. In Globale Kyster. Kvinnforsks Scriftserie, 183-190. Vol. 1 Tromso: Universitet i Tromso, 1999.
• Davis, Dona. Biological Essentialist versus Social Constructionist Approaches to Human Sexuality: The Debate Continues. In Transcultural Psychiatry, 426-428. Vol. 35, Iss. 3
• Davis, Dona. Presentation of Self. In Cultura Polaris, 12-13. Vol. 2
• Davis, Dona. The Sexual Disorders of DSM-IV: A Critical Review. In Transcultural Psychiatry, 403-414. Vol. 35, Iss. (3)
• Davis, Dona. Blood and Nerves Revisited: Menopause and the Body Private in a Newfoundland Post Industrial Fishery. In Medical Anthropology Quarterly , 3-20 and Author's Reply 24-25. Vol. II, Iss. 1
• Davis, Dona. Cultural Sensitivity and Sexual Disorders. In DSM-IV Sourcebook, 951-058. Vol. 3 Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1997.
• Davis, Dona. Gender, Culture and the Sea. In Gender and Natural Resources. New York: Taylor and Francis, 1997.
• Davis, Dona. Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Norway. In Qualitative Health Research, 370-390. Vol. 7, Iss. 3
• Davis, Dona. Sexual Motivation and Culture. In Motivation and Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.
• Davis, Dona. Cultural Sensitivity and the Sexual Disorders of DSM-IV: Review and Assessment. In Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A DSM Perspective, 191-208. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1996.
• Davis, Dona. Household, Gender and Generation: Mainstreaming on the margins of Newfoundland's Post-Industrial Fishery. In Economic Futures on the North Atlantic Margin. Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995.
• Davis, Dona. Recent Innovations in Human Sexuality Research: A Review Essay. In Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 178-182. Iss. 32
• Davis, Dona. The Cultural Constructions of Menstruation, Menopause and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. In Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.
• Davis, Dona. The Sexual Disorders. In Critical Review of the DSM-IV Cultural Effort. Pittsburgh: NIMH Group on Culture, Diagnosis and Care, 1995.
• Davis, Dona. Women in an Uncertain Age: Crisis and Change in a Newfoundland Fishery. In Their Lives and Times, Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's: Killick Press, 1995.
• Davis, Dona. Gender, Health and Illness: The Case of Nerves. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Press, 1989.
• Davis, Dona. Special Issue: "Health, Culture and the Nature of Nerves". Vol. 11, Iss. (1) Medical Anthropology, 1989.
• Davis, Dona. Special Issue: "Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Nerves". Vol. 26, Iss. (12) Social Science and Medicine, 1988.
• Davis, Dona. To Work and to Weep: Women in Fishing Economies. St. John's: Memorial University Institute of Social and Economic Research Press, 1988.
• Davis, Dona. Blood and Nerves: An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause. St. John's: Memorial University Institute of Social and Economic Research Press, 1983.
• Maurstad, Anita, Davis, Dona, and Cowles, Sarah. Co-being and Intra-action in Horse-Human Relationships: A Multi-species ethnography of be(coming) human and be(coming) horse., 322-335. Vol. 21, Iss. 3 Social Anthropology. (DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12029)
• Davis, Dona, Maurstad, Anita , Cowles, Sarah , and . Riding up forested mountain sides, in wide open spaces, and with walls; Developing an ecology of horse-human realtionships, 1-19. Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Depauw U: Humanimalia.
• Maurstad, Anita , Davis, Dona, and Dean, Sarah. What's underfoot: Emplacing Identity among horse-human pairs. In Affective aimals: Relational Approaches to Human Animal Encounters.
• Davis, Dona, Maurstad, Anita , and Cowles, Sarah. My horse is my therapist: The medicalization of pleasure among a sample of equestriennes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

• SACC Student Award for Academic Excellence, Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, 2011
• Harrington Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences/USD, 2007
• Visiting Professor, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway, 1993
• Advisory Board, International Journal of Canadian Studies, 1992
• Full Membership in Sigma Xi, Sigma Xi: The National Science Honors Society, 1988
• National Faculty Exchange, University of North Dakota Medical School, 1987
• Faculty Achievement Award, Burlington Northern Foundation, 1986
• Excellence in Teaching Award, University of South Dakota Board of Regents, 1984
• Honor Society Membership, Alpha Kappa Delta: National Sociology Honor Society, 1981
• Lamda Alpha: National Anthropology Honor Society, Lamda Alpha, 1981

• Davis, Dona, Anita Maurstad, Sarah Cowles, and , "I'd rather wear out than rust out": Autobiologies of Aging Equestreinnes. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago IL. (November 24, 2013)
• Davis, Dona, , , and , Personality, Identity and Play: Anthropomorphism and Affect as Process and Product in Human Horse Relations. Presented at the Affective Animals, International Symposium, Joensuu, Finland. (November 15, 2013)
• Maurstad, Anita , Davis, Dona, and Cowles, Sarah , What's underfoot: Emplacing identity in practice among horse-human pairs. Presented at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Manchester, England. (August 06, 2013)
• Davis, Dona, , , , and , "Barn Banter": Exploring the borderlands between anthropomorphism of horses and the equine-o-morphism of humans.. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, san Francisco, CA. (November 2012)
• , Davis, Dona, , , and , Be(com)ing human, be(com)ing horse: Co-being in horse-human relationships . Presented at the Minding Animals Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands. (July 2012)
• Davis, Dona, , and , 'Riding with walls', up forested mountain sides and in wide open spaces: Developing an ecology of horse-human relationships . Presented at the Canadian Sociiology Association, Guelph, Ontario. (May 2012)
• Davis, Dona, Horse People and horse led Lives: A Multi-Species Perspective on Identity and Community in South Dakota. Presented at the Plains Anthropology Conference, Tuscon AZ. (October 29, 2011)
• Davis, Dona, Student Creativity Flourishes. Presented at the SACC, Omaha, NB. (April 08, 2011)
• Davis, Dona, Sharing Bodies: Pleasures of 'Acting the Part' at Twins Festivals. Presented at the 106th American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC. (November 28, 2007)
• Davis, Dona, Same and Different/Fair and Balanced: An Anthropological Analysis of Identical Twins and the Embodiment of Core Cultural Values in North America. Presented at the 12th International Congress on Twin Studies, Ghent, Belgium. (June 09, 2007)
• Davis, Dona, How to Perfect an Academic Abstract. Presented at the Invited Workshop, Women's Studies Department, Tromso, Norway. (March 05, 2007)
• Davis, Dona, Contemporary Perspectives for Gendering Your Healthcare Research. Presented at the Invited Workshop, Women's Studies Department, Tromso, Norway. (March 02, 2007)
• Davis, Dona, What Anthropologists Learn When They Talk To Identical Twins. Presented at the Invited Lecture Faculty of Social Sciences, Trondheim, Norway. (December 14, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Dualing Memories: Twinship and the Emponiement of Identity. Presented at the European Association of Social Anthropology Meetings, Bristol, UK. (September 20, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, How Gender Came to Fish. Presented at the Invited Plenary Speaker, Tromso, Norway. (July 2006)
• Davis, Dona, How Gender Came to fish: The challenge of Gendering Knowledge Production. Presented at the Gender and Fisheries Conference, Tromso, Norway. (June 26, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, The New Old Family Values: The Politicized Family and Its Consequences for Women's Agency and Sexuality. Presented at the Kvinnforsk Seminar Series on the Family, Tromso Norway. (June 21, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, So Now You Are an Anthropologist: Where Can You Go from Here. Presented at the Distinguished Alumni Graduation Lecture, Greensboro, North Carolina. (May 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Brokeback Mountain: A Through the Lens View of Class and Sexuality in the United States. Presented at the Kvinnforsk, Tromso, Norway. (February 22, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Selves and Others in Ethnographic Encounters. Presented at the Center of Women's Studies and Woman in Research, Tromso, Norway. (February 21, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Twins, Kinship and Gender in North America. Presented at the Center of Women's Studies and Woman in Research, Tromso, Norway. (February 20, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Practical Advice for Getting Published in Peer Review, English Language, Social Science Journals. Presented at the Kvinnforsk, Tromso, Norway. (February 14, 2006)
• Davis, Dona, Twins Talk: What Twins Tell us about Person, Self and Identity in Usan Society. Presented at the Department of Social Anthropology, Tromso, Norway. (January 2006)
• Davis, Dona, and , Like to Peas in a Pod, NOT! A Life-Cycle Approach to Embodiment and Identity among Identical Twins. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA. (January 2005)
• Davis, Dona, I-We, Me-You, Us-Them: Navigating the Hyphens of Intersubjectivity among Sets of Identical Twins. Presented at the European Social Anthropological Association Meetings, Vienna, Austria. (September 12, 2004)
• Davis, Dona, Acting the Part: Identity Politics and the Performance of Twinship at Twins Festivals in the USA. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Twin Studies, Odense, Denmark. (July 02, 2004)
• Davis, Dona, Twin Tropes: Bridging Same and Different with Fair and Equal. Presented at the Invited Lecture, Department of Anthropology, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. (May 10, 2004)
• Davis, Dona, Twins Talk: Narrative of Being Same and Different. Presented at the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, Montreal Quebec, Canada. (April 02, 2004)
• Davis, Dona, Little Blue Pills and the Medical Politics of Sex: Challenges to the Globalization of Sexual Well Being. Presented at the Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Greensboro, NC. (March 27, 2003)
• Davis, Dona, The Gendered Impacts of Fisheries Policies: A Cross-National Comparison. Presented at the One Step Forward: Assessing the Status and Treatment of Women in the New Century: An International Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. (March 21, 2003)
• Davis, Dona, Anthropologies of Pleasure: Food and Culture. Presented at the Series of 7 Double Lectures, Department of Social Anthropology, Tromso, Norway. (April 2002)
• Davis, Dona, Contemporary Perspective on Gender. Presented at the Series of 7 Double Lectures, Department of Social Anthropology, Tromso, Norway. (January 2002)
• Davis, Dona, Can There Be a Feminist Sociobiology?. Presented at the Invited Lecture for Feminist Theory and Research Seminar, Tromso, Norway. (April 03, 2001)
• Davis, Dona, Sex, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Knowledge: An International Perspective. Presented at the Invited Lecture, Medical Anthropology, Tromso, Norway. (April 02, 2001)
• Davis, Dona, Fish, Sex, and Menopause: Midlife and Anthropology in the Margins of Academia. Presented at the Invited Lecture, Hartford, CT. (March 02, 2001)
• Davis, Dona, Use and Abuse of Narrative Data in Anthropology. Presented at the Series of Four Double Lectures and Workshop, Department of Social Anthropology, Tromso, Norway. (January 2001)
• Davis, Dona, Epidemiology of the Sexual Dysfunctions. Presented at the Meetings of World Psychiatry Association Sexual Health Working Group, New York, New York. (June 2000)
• Davis, Dona, Responsibility and Accountability: Linking the Local and Global. Presented at the International Conference of Gender and Globalization of the Fisheries, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada. (May 2000)
• Davis, Dona, Presented at the Meetings of World Psychiatry Association Sexual Health Working Group, New York, New York. (May 2000)
• Davis, Dona, Medicalization from a Gendered Perspective. Presented at the Invited Lecture, Graduate School of Nursing, Tromso, Norway. (April 2000)
• Davis, Dona, 'Nerves': Psychiatric Syndrome or Idiom of Distress?. Presented at the International Medical Sociology Research Conference, Bergen, Norway. (September 18, 1998)
• Davis, Dona, Current Issues in the Development of a culturally Sensitive Psychiatry. Presented at the International Medical Sociology Research Conference, Bergen, Norway. (September 17, 1998)
• Davis, Dona, Gendered Constructions of Self and Identity in Newfoundland and North Norwegian Coastal Communities. Presented at the KJONN OG KYST (Gender and Coast) Conference, Tromso, Norway. (March 25, 1998)
• Davis, Dona, Changing Constructions of Gender and Community: Then and Now. Presented at the Canadian Anthropology Associatino Symposium on Internalizing Identity, St. John's, Newfoundland. (June 13, 1997)
• Davis, Dona, Reinventing Community as Lived Experience and Social Relations: A Newfoundland Case Study. Presented at the Conference on Changing Conception of Community, Tromso, Norway. (April 30, 1997)
• Davis, Dona, The Continuing Importance of Community in Anthropology. Presented at the Conference on Changing Conception of Communities, Tromso, Norway. (April 28, 1997)
• Davis, Dona, Maurstad, Anita, and Cowles, Sarah, "My horse is my therapist: The medicalization of pleasure among a sample of women equestrains. Presented at the EASA Medical Anthropology Network and AAA society for Medical Anthropology, Tarragona, Spain.
• Cowles, Sarah, and Davis, Dona, Krusty and other sexagenerains: Heroic self-stylings of Aging among Equestreinne time Rebels. Presented at the SACC Annual Meetings, Austin, TX.