Zachary Davis

Zachary Davis has been a member of the Philosophy Department since 2007. His primary research has been in the areas of recent European philosophy, with particular interest in phenomenology and environmental philosophy, and he has published articles in both areas. His doctoral dissertation concerned the political philosophy of Max Scheler. For his doctoral research, Dr. Davis was awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Germany at the Universität Wuppertal (2001 to 2002) and to conduct archival research in Munich. He also received a grant to study at the Universität Zürich, in Switzerland (1999). He is at work on two book-length manuscripts based on this research: Love and Power: The Political Thought of Max Scheler and Cognition and Labor, a translation of Schler’s Erkenntnis und Arbeit. In addition to teaching at St. John’s, Dr. Davis has taught at the University of New Hampshire and Keene State College.