13. Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology and Member of the Council on East Asian Studies.

Deborah Davis' primary teaching interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. Past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare, class cleavages and occupational mobility. Her most recent work is on the consumer revolution in urban China. In addition to teaching at Yale, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China.