Posted on May 16, 2002 at 1:42 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) historian Jack E. Davis, Ph.D., has been named as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2002-2003 academic year.

Davis will teach graduate courses in American social history at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. He is one of 800 faculty and professionals from the United States who will travel to 140 countries in 2002-2003 through the Fulbright Scholar Program.

The Fulbright program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The program is designed to build mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries. Since the program began, more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers and university faculty and professionals have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

Davis is an associate professor in the Department of History at UAB, specializing in the civil rights movement and environmental history. He directs the environmental studies program. He is the author of Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 (2001, Louisiana State University Press). He recently edited the book The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (2002, University Press of Florida).

He also is faculty advisor to the history department’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the student journal The Vulcan Historical Review.

Davis is a native of Pinellas County, Florida. He earned his doctorate degree in history from Brandeis University in 1994.