Alexander E Davis is a lecturer in International Relations at The University of Western Australia. He has an MA in History from the University of Tasmania, and a PhD in International Studies from the University of Adelaide. After graduating from his PhD, he held research postdocs at the University of Johannesburg and La Trobe University in Melbourne. 

Alex's research looks at international relations from historical, critical and postcolonial perspectives, particularly in South Asia. He is the author of the research monograph India and the Anglosphere: Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations. He is also lead author of The Imperial Discipline: Race and the founding of International Relations, with Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale (Pluto Press, 2020). He recently completed his third book, titled The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains: An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya (Palgrave, 2023). 

His primary research focus at the on geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya. He has secondary research interests in: the Indian diaspora in India-Australia relations and the possibility of decolonising Australia's international relations.

He is head of the Australian Himalaya Research Network, and a foundation member of the network New International Histories of South Asia.