Davis’ areas of specialization include black studies, family and sexual violence, reproductive rights, poverty and welfare policy, and women’s studies. She has published the book Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform, as well as a number of articles on women and welfare policy. She is also the co-editor of Black Genders and Sexuality, with Shaka McGlotten and the recently published Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America co-edited with Christa Craven. She is currently Co-Editor of Transforming Anthropology, the journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists.