[2] [3] [4] Davary's interests are broadly within the field of Comparative Religion focusing on Islamic studies.
Davary's first monograph Women and the Qur'an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), which was awarded the Adèle Mellen Prize, examines development, continuity, and change in the representation of women in the Qur'an with a focus on dynamic identities of the text.
Davary's later writings focuses on the development of Muslim feminist ideas, especially as it involves with the questions of Orientalism, colonialism, neo-orientalism, and patriarchy.
She has published several papers in academic journals and encyclopedias and has presented more than 100 lectures locally, nationally, and internationally.
[5] Prior to that she was a professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York.