David Ikard | |
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Education | North Carolina State University (BA, MA) University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
David H. Ikard[1] is professor of African-American and Diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University since 2017.[2][3][4] Ikard was previously a professor of English and director of Africana studies at the University of Miami.[3] He also taught at Florida State University and at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.[3]
Ikard earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from North Carolina State University in 1994 and in 1997 respectively.[2] He also earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002.[2]
In March 2018, Ikard gave a talk at a TEDx in Nashville, Tennessee. During the talk, he debunked myths about civil rights activist Rosa Parks and explained why white people should care about the whitewashing of black history.[4][5][6]
Ikard was born in Troutman, North Carolina[3] and currently resides in Nashville.[7]