Natalie Davis: "Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname". Tubman Seminar Series, September 21, 2010.

Natalie Davis, Professor Emeritus, History Department, University of Toronto, presented "Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname".

Short biography

Davis is adjunct professor of history and professor of Medieval studies at U of T, and the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita at Princeton University.  Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she graduated from Smith College and then received her master’s degree at Radcliffe College in 1950. She received her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1959 and has since been awarded many honorary degrees. Her teaching career has taken her to Brown University, the University of Toronto, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University. Professor Davis was also president of the American Historical Association in 1987, the second woman to hold the position.