Charles H.F. Davis III

Charles Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. His current research and teaching broadly focus on issues of race and racism, systems of oppression and structures of domination in US higher education and its social contexts. He has received funding support from the Lumina Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Center for Institutional Diversity. In addition to publishing in top peer-reviewed academic journals, Davis’s work has been featured by leading national news outlets, cited in amicus curiae briefs in the Fisher v. University of Texas and the SFFA v. Harvard Supreme Court cases and was recently recognized by Diverse: Issues of Higher Education as a 2020 Emerging Scholar. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, Davis was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and the Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Research of the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center. Davis earned his doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Arizona and holds MAmaster’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and Florida State University.