Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and economic transformation, and their exposure to emergent ideals of citizenship in the contemporary United States. Her teaching interests include the anthropology of multicultural America, the anthropology of globalization, the anthropology of children/youth, the anthropology of education, and urban anthropology.