Dean Roland Davis, Ph.D.

phone: (207) 786-8303
rdavis@bates.edu

Dean Davis is the Director of the Office of Intercultural Education and Associate Dean of Students. A member of the Class of 1992, he graduated from Bates with a double major in history and sociology. He has also participated in various theater productions, was a member of the Deansmen a cappella group, and ran and coached track and field. He received his Master’s in social work from Boston College and worked for several years as a clinical therapist in public schools in the Boston area and at Harvard University Health Services. While at Harvard, he also worked as an Assistant Coach for the Men’s and Women’s Track & Field program, and was a residential Proctor at Harvard College.

Prior to returning to Bates in 2002, Dean Davis was the Assistant Dean of First-Year Students at Dartmouth College, where he was also the Director of the Integrated Academic Support Program. Dean Davis earned his Ph.D. in Education at the University of New Hampshire where his research focused on issues of race and culture in higher education, and his dissertation was a study about campus racial climate, stereotype threat, and how these factors affect academic motivation among African American students at predominantly white colleges.

Dean Davis is also a very active Bates alumnus, having served as Class President, President of the College Key (the College’s Alumni Honor Society), and is currently President of the Bates College Alumni Council. He is a DIE HARD fan of the New England Patriots, loves movies, enjoys cooking and listening to music, and is married to a member of the Class of 1996 with whom he has two children.