David Reed

David Leon Reed has taught history for ten years at the collegiate level including United States history, World Civilization, Introduction to Philosophy, and African-American history.  Currently teaching at the Department of History and Government

Education

He earned his doctorate in United States history with a minor in African-American history and education at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He also holds a Master of Arts degree in history from Morgan State and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Bowie State University.

Awards & Honors

He has been a guest lecturer for the U.S. Capital Historical Society at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. and was awarded a graduate fellowship to study at Cornell University's Africana Studies Center. Dr. Reed has also served as the liason between the Department of History & Government at Bowie State and Bowie High School where history education majors complete their practicum field experience. 

Publications

He has also published articles in encyclopedias such as Black Heroes and Notable Black American Men. The main focus of Dr. Reed's scholarly work has centered on black intellectual history and Pan-Africanism in the service of the liberation of Africans throughout the diaspora. Currently he is completing two articles for publication: one on the nexus between the scholarship and activism of Rayford W. Logan during early years of the Pan-African Congresse and the other is a critique of the failure of the United Nations' policies regarding colonialism in Africa after World War II from a Pan-African perspective.