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James Davis

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James Davis is currently on leave from faculty duties to serve as President of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY's faculty-staff union. He teaches in the American Studies Program and the English Department. He is the author of Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean (2015) and Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (2007). He has received the Leon Levy Center for the Study of Biography Fellowship and Brooklyn College's Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award and Whiting Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities.

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