Career
In 1955, Davis joined the history faculty at Cornell University. In the 1960s, he published several works on slavery and its place in Western culture, as well as aspects of its history and reform movements in the United States.
In 1970, Davis moved to Yale, where he taught until 2001.
In 1998, Davis founded Yale's Gilder Lehrman Institute for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and directed it until 2004.
Read more about this topic: David Brion Davis
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)
“He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)