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Professor Christie Davies
Office: FOLS 292A Tel. (44) (0)118 931 8518 Email: j.c.h.davies@reading.ac.uk |
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Christie Davies M.A. PhD (Cantab) was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he was a senior scholar of the college and Wrenbury scholar in political
economy. He obtained first class honours in both parts of the Economics Tripos,
was president of the Union, acted in the annual Footlights Review and was a
member of a British debating team that toured the United States. On leaving
Cambridge he was a radio producer on the BBC Third Programme before becoming a
lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds and later moving to Reading where
he has been in turn Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and established
Professor. Professor Davies is the co-author of Wrongful Imprisonment (1973), author of Permissive Britain (1975), co-editor of Censorship and Obscenity (1978), author of Ethnic Humor Around the World: a Comparative Analysis (1990 and 1997) and of Jokes and their Relation to Society (1998) and co-author of The Corporation under Siege (1998). Christie's academic articles have been published in the leading journals. He has also been a regular contributor to national and international newspapers. His main research and teaching interests continue to be in the comparative and historical study of morality and of humour. He is currently completing a third book on the sociology of humour for Transaction of New Brunswick, N.J. and is seeking a publisher for a book on the moral transformation of Britain during the last half of the twentieth century. |
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