Natalie Zemon Davis Biography

Natalie Zemon Davis specializes in the social and cultural history of France, as well as other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. She has taught at Brown University, the University of Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, and at Princeton University, where she was Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. She has been awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and National Humanities Medal, and been named Companion of the Order of Canada.

Bibliography

Society and culture in early modern France: eight essays, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1975.

The return of Martin Guerre, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Retour de Martin Guerre. English Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Fiction in the archives: pardon tales and their tellers in sixteenth-century France, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Culture and identity in early modern Europe (1500-1800): essays in honor of Natalie Zemon Davis, edited by Barbara B. Diefendorf and Carla Hesse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

The gift in sixteenth-century France, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

Slaves on screen: film and historical vision, by Natalie Zemon Davis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.