Markeysha Davis
Lecturer
Dr. Markeysha Davis is a proud alumna of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies (MA 2011, PhD 2016). While a student at the University, she worked with various student advocacy groups, including the Graduate Student Senate and Student Bridges. Currently, she serves as Academy Dean for Hartford Youth Scholars (HYS), an organization committed to getting students in Hartford, CT to and through college.
Priorly, Dr. Davis worked at the University of Hartford as an assistant professor of Literature and Africana Studies and chair of the University’s Africana Studies minor program. She has been published by The Black Scholar and American Studies Journal. In 2023, she worked as a historical consultant with the Fairfield Museum and History Center in Fairfield, CT, to renovate their long-term exhibit, Creating Community: 400 Years of Fairfield Stories, funded by National Parks Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research interests include post-Civil Rights movement African American history, the Black Arts Movement, Black Feminist Arts, Afrofuturist literature and visual culture, and rap lyricism.
Dr. Davis hails from the Westside of Detroit, MI, and is a proud alumna of both Detroit Public Schools and Wayne State University (BA, Africana Studies and Journalism, 2007). She currently makes her home in Holyoke, MA.