ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
St. John Hall, Room B30-15
Queens Campus
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-5256
Fax: (718) 990-1907
davisz@stjohns.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 2006
- M.A., Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 1997
- B.A., Philosophy and Mathematics, University of New Hampshire,
1995
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Recent European philosophy
- Social-political philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Environmental philosophy
PROFILE
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.