About me
Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary scholar, a veteran journalist, and a writer working in theater, fiction and non-fiction. The author of The Emancipation Circuit and My Confederate Kinfolk, she is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a recipient of the 2023 MAAH Stone Book Award, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEW Foundation National Theatre Artist Residency, a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York City, and was an inaugural fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York. She was honored by the Congressional Black Caucus’ Veterans Committee for work on 2011 national monument designation of Fort Monroe, Va., cite of the 1619 landing, by President Barack Obama. Davis was the first woman to win a Grammy for liner notes and is a two-time Grammy nominee in opera as a librettist.