Educational background

• 1992, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
• 1982, M.S.P.H., University of North Carolina
• 1980, B.S., Wake Forest University

Service at the College (summary)

• Chair, School of Education Executive Committee (2009 – present)
• School of Education Executive Committee (2006 – 2008; interim Chair 2007)
• Department of Childhood Education Executive Committee (2004 – 2008)
• Chair, Bilingual Education/TESOL Faculty Search Committee (2006 – 2008)
• Department of Childhood Education Curriculum Committee (2006 – 2007)
• Fellowship leave (2005)
• Head of the Program in Bilingual Education, TESOL, & Secondary Spanish Education (2003–04)

Courses taught

• Language, Mind, and Society (undergraduate)
• Linguistics for Teachers (graduate)
• Grammar and its Pedagogy: English and Other Languages (graduate)
• Contrastive Phonology of English and Other Languages for Teachers (graduate)
• Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Bilingual Education (graduate)
• Theories of Second Language Acquisition (graduate)
• Methods of Teaching Second Languages (graduate)
• Practicum in Teaching a Second Language (graduate)

Professional activities (summary)

• President, Columbia School Linguistic Society (2006–09), Vice President (2009 – present; www.csling.org)
• Organizing Committee, Tenth International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form & Meaning with Human Behavior, Rutgers University, February 2010. (2008 - present)
• Organizing Committee, Ninth International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form & Meaning with Human Behavior, City College, February 18-19, 2007. (2006-07)
• Associate Editor, The New Educator journal (2003-07)

Publications (recent)

• Huffman, Alan, & Joseph Davis. (In press).  Language: Communication and human behavior:  The linguistic essays of William Diver.  Leiden/Boston:  Brill. 
• Davis, Joseph.  (2009).  Rule and meaning in the teaching of grammar.  Language and linguistics compass, 3/1.  199-221.
• Davis, Joseph, Radmila Gorup, & Nancy Stern (Eds.). (2006). Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School Beyond its Origins. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Davis, Joseph. (2006). “Introduction: Consistency and Change in Columbia School Linguistics.” In Davis, Gorup, & Stern (Eds.), 1-15.
• Davis, Joseph. (2006). “Phonology Without the Phoneme.” In Davis, Gorup, & Stern (Eds.), 163-175.
• Davis, Joseph. (2004). “The Linguistics of William Diver and the Linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure.” In Gerda Hassler & Gesina Volkmann (Eds.), History of Linguistics in Texts and Concepts, vol. 1. Münster: Nodus, 307-326.
• Davis, Joseph. (2004). “Revisiting the Gap Between Meaning and Message.” In Robert S. Kirsner, Ellen Contini-Morava, & Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (Eds.), Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 155-174.
• Davis, Joseph. (2002). “Rethinking the Place of Statistics in Columbia School Analysis.” In Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy, & Nancy Stern (Eds.), Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-based Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 65-90.
• Davis, Joseph. (2002). “A Surpassingly Simple Analysis.” In Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy, & Nancy Stern (Eds.), Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-based Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 113-136.
• Diver, William, & Joseph Davis.  (Forthcoming).  Latin voice and case.  In A. Huffman & J. Davis (Eds.), Language as an instrument of human communication:  The linguistic essays of William Diver.  Leiden/Boston:  Brill.  Anticipated 2010.
• Diver, William, & Joseph Davis.  (Forthcoming).  Phonology of the extremes.  In A. Huffman & J. Davis (Eds.), Language as an instrument of human communication:  The linguistic essays of William Diver.  Leiden/Boston:  Brill.  Anticipated 2010.
• Diver, William, & Joseph Davis.  (Forthcoming).  Traditional grammar and its legacy in twentieth-century linguistics.  In A. Huffman & J. Davis (Eds.), Language as an instrument of human communication:  The linguistic essays of William Diver.  Leiden/Boston:  Brill.  Anticipated 2010.