She has published widely on black women’s fictional writing and constructions of gender and sexuality. As the former director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), Davis helped to strengthen research links between Canadian and Caribbean researchers, and York University and the University of the West Indies (Mona), and also led a research partnership exploring Jamaican and Toronto youth experiences with violence. Davis worked closely with Carl E. James in this partnership, and the research now informs their professional development work with high school teachers in Jamaica focusing on the teaching of boys. Her most recent publications include Jamaica in the Canadian Experience (2012), co-edited with James.