Cheron H. Davis

Associate Professor of Reading Education, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

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Dr. Davis' research interests include teacher preparation at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), interdisciplinary reading pedagogy, the promotion of equity and justice through literacy, and early literacy intervention techniques.

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Contributions

What a Small, All-Black Private School Can Teach Florida About the Reading Wars

Commentary, August 2024

In the News

Opinion: "Navigating Academic Leadership: Why Both Mentorship and Sponsorship Matter," Cheron H. Davis (with Adriel A. Hilton), Leadership and Mentoring Institute, April 3, 2025.

Opinion: "What a Small, All-Black Private School Can Teach Florida about the Reading Wars," Cheron H. Davis, The Tampa Bay Times, August 21, 2024.

Opinion: "We Must Help Save America’s Historic Black Colleges," Cheron H. Davis (with Adriel A. Hilton), The EDU Ledger, July 28, 2024.

Interviewed in "FAMU and PLT Promote Literacy and Connection to Nature for HBCU Students," eePRO Blog, June 7, 2024.

Opinion: "SCOTUS Delivers a “Well-Done” Decision: Rare Justice for Higher Education," Cheron H. Davis (with Roshunda Harris-Allen), The EDU Ledger, July 6, 2023.

Opinion: "An Urgent Solution Required: Too Many Guns Are Killing Too Many of Our Children," Cheron H. Davis (with Adriel A. Hilton), Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, April 25, 2023.

Opinion: "Let’s Get an Amen on Who Can Legitimately Be Called an HBCU Expert," Cheron H. Davis (with Adriel A. Hilton), Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, July 27, 2022.

Publications

"Transformative teacher preparation at HBCUs: Empowering advocates for social change—A case study of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University’s College of Education" (with Sundra D. Kincey, Vanessa R. Pitts Bannister, Ameenah Shakir, Kristine M. Fleming, Sarah L. Price, and Cheree Y. Wiltsher) in Teacher Preparation as Social Activism at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, edited by Eugene Pringle, Shalander “Shelly” Samuels, Amanda Wilkerson, Anthony Broughton, (Routledge, 2025).

Examines how Florida A&M University’s College of Education prepares teachers as advocates for social change through culturally grounded, justice-oriented practices within an HBCU context. Highlights how this transformative model of teacher preparation empowers candidates to challenge inequities, engage communities, and lead educational reform.

"'You're All I Need to Get By': A Reimagined Method to Mentorship" (with tiyana Herring, Krystal Bush, Jhaneil Thompson, and De'Keria Hunter) in Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders, edited by Amanda Wilkerson, Shalander Samuels, (IGI Global, 2023).

Explores how mentorship shaped the professional and personal identities of scholars through an autoethnographic reflection grounded in hip-hop feminism and gendered racial identity. Reimagines mentorship as a culturally responsive, socially conscious practice that values authenticity, resilience, and community-building within academic spaces.

The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor (edited with Adriel Hilton, Ricardo Hamrick, and F. Erik Brooks). (Emerald Publishing, 2021).

Examines the lived experiences of Black professors across higher education, illuminates both the rewards and challenges of navigating academic spaces shaped by systemic inequities, and centers voices that call for institutional transformation to promote equity, belonging, and authentic representation in the professoriate.