Personal Info

E-mail: gareth.davies(at)history.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 284624

Academic Background:

DPhil (Modern History, Oxford University, 1991). In 2004-05, he was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship.

Research Interests:

Gareth Davies specializes in 20th-century American history, with a particular focus on institutional changes in American government since the 1960s, and on the political legacy of the Johnson and Nixon presidencies.

Selected Publications:

Books:
Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism (1996)
Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (2007)
Gareth Davies and Cheryl Hudson (eds.), Ronald Reagan and the 1980s (2009)
Articles:
Gareth Davies has published essays in the Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, the Journal of Policy History, the Journal of American Studies and the Journal of Contemporary History.