Belinda Joy Davis (born July 13, 1959) is an American historian of modern Germany and Europe.
She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and earned her PhD from the University of Michigan.
Davis writes on popular politics and social change.
She is currently Professor of History at Rutgers University.Davis served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review, and as North American editor of Women’s History Review.
She was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2015, and Research Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University, 2003 - 2004.
Davis co-directed the Volkswagen Foundation-funded research project "Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre.” She is also a political activist, working with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.