Sharon L. Davies, the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor at the Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University in Columbus, was named executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the university. The institute was founded in 2003 and seeks to conduct research on racial and ethnic disparities and to develop strategies to bring about a more equitable society. Professor Davies will continue to teach at the law school as she assumes her new duties.
Professor Davies is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she majored in political science. She completed her legal training at the Columbia University School of Law, where she was the notes and comments editor for the Columbia Law Review. She joined the faculty of the Moritz College of Law in 1995.