Tracy C. Davis (Barber Professor of Performing Arts, Northwestern University, USA) specializes in the historiography and methodologies of theatre and performance research, 19^th-century theatre history, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, gender and theatre, museum studies, and Cold War studies. She serves on the Executive Committee of IFTR and is a Past President of ASTR. She is the recipient of grants from the Mellon Foundation, Humboldt Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and SSHRC, and has published a dozen books and over 100 articles in journals dedicated to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. She is working on two monographs: a study of St. George and the Dragon performances and a book that will launch the titular series “Critical Media Histories.”

Recent publications include Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform, The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies (coedited with Paul Rae), The Routledge Handbook to Theatre and Performance Historiography (coedited with Peter Marx), and Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (co-edited with Stefka Mihaylova). A seasoned research mentor, she has provided trainings across the globe for faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to improve mentoring skills, and is co-PI on two National Science Foundation grants to enhance mentoring and inclusivity in the geosciences.