25TH Anniversary
University of Michigan Senate’s
Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture
on Academic & Intellectual Freedom
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Natalie Zemon Davis is a leading European historian, a pioneer in feminist studies, and one of the first women to assume a senior position in academic life. She graduated from Smith College in 1949, earned a master’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1950, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1959. She joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1978, where she was the Henry Charles Lea professor of history from 1981 until her retirement in 1996. Davis was the Northrop Frye professor of literary theory at the University of Toronto. She has written six books, co-authored one and co-edited two. She has also published over seventy articles. She has been awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and National Humanities Medal and been named Companion of the Order of Canada
“Academic Freedom in the Age of War on Terror”

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history. She is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She received her PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago; Northwestern University; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Since 1985, she has been a professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She has received the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, the Hans Sigrist Award for Outstanding Research in Gender Studies, and the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize of the AHA for graduate mentorsh