Marni Davis

Marni Davis is a historian of ethnicity and immigration in the United States. She is the author of Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition (New York University Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature and the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies.

Davis has recently developed research interests in the history of cities in the U.S. South. Her 2019 essay, “Toward an ‘Immigrant Turn’ in Jewish Entrepreneurial History: A View from the New South,” was awarded the Wasserman Prize from the journal American Jewish History. She is currently writing a book about the history of immigration, race, and urban development in Atlanta, with a focus on Black-Jewish relations. She is an affiliate faculty member of Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute.

Davis is co-Editor-in-Chief of American Jewish History, the scholarly journal of the American Jewish Historical Society.