Dr. Samantha Davis is the 2024-2025 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Political Science. She is a political theorist with research interests in Black political thought, the history of political thought, and the 19th century especially in respect to theorizing the concepts of the state and freedom. Her work engages political theory, history, and comparative political theory across the African Diaspora. Her current work on the concept of abolition, the state and freedom in the Abolitionist movement, along with an article on the hermeneutics of Frederick Douglass’s political theory are forthcoming.
Dr. Davis teaches a range of courses in Black political thought inspired by her research, including, African American political thought, the Abolitionist Movement: From Past to Present, and upcoming courses in the Black radical tradition, critical race theory, and Revolution and Rebellion in Black thought.