She is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School.
[1] Davis has degrees from University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Comparative Literature), the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (M.Div.)
Davis's work has focused on how biblical interpretation can be used to address urgent contemporary issues in the church and world.
She has considered how the Old Testament can be used to address preaching, interfaith dialogue, and the ecological crisis.
[1] Davis is known in particular for this latter work; she has written a book on the Old Testament view of land and ecology entitled Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible.