Mary Clemente Davlin (March 6, 1929 – December 19, 2017) was a Sinsinawa Dominican Sister, an advocate for diversity in higher education, and a noted scholar of medieval studies, particularly the allegorical poem Piers Plowman.
"She spent a lifetime working hard to broaden and diversify Dominican’s student body," said Mickey Sweeney, a professor of English at Rosary College.
"[9] Sr. Davlin also tutored at Malcolm X College after retirement, and played second violin in the Oak Park-River Forest Symphony from 1970 onward, becoming one of its longest-serving members.
[10] She was an expert on the medieval allegorical poem Piers Plowman, and led academic seminars and even religious retreats based on the text.
Scholarships such as the Waters, Davlin, Crapo "Sisters" scholarship (for African-American students with financial need), continue in her name, and Dominican University also gives the Sister Mary Clemente Davlin Diversity Leadership Award to faculty at the annual Caritas Veritas Symposium.