Bev Davenport is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a specialty in medicine and public health. She retired from UNT in 2019. She taught countless undergraduates and advised many seeking help with planning their futures. She also was the Departmental Adviser for incoming freshman and transfer students. Finally, she was the thesis advisor to several dozen graduate students first as an assistant professor and then as a principal lecturer. At present she is living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, still teaching and advising but doing so on a voluntary basis.

EDUCATION

2005 PhD, Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley

1980 M.S.P.H., Health Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1978 A.B., Anthropology, Harvard College