David Hicks

David Hicks is a professor of History and Social Science Education (Social Studies Education) at Virginia Tech. Each year David is gutted that he never wins an Oscar, Noble Prize, Emmy, Tony or Grammy - he has not even found the baby in the king cake on Mardi Gras. 

Current projects include: (1) trying to become self-appointed affiliate faculty to the vet school – expertise is a little-known field: small animal puppetry (since shoulder surgery large animal puppetry is out); and, (2) changing the name of the School of Education to the School of Cognitive Engineering. He has stopped using X because he has been confused with David Hicks the Australian Taliban- seriously, google “David Hicks.”

David loves reading fake news and has extensive military experience including Thermopylae with Gerard Butler, Defense of Rorke‘s Drift (Anglo-Zulu War) alongside Michael Caine and Stanley Baker, Gallipoli with Mel Gibson, Battle of the Bastards with Jon Snow, and most recently Dunkirk alongside Harry Styles, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.

In 2024 David served as Ryan Gosling’s muse for the role of Ken in the Barbie Movie. David enjoys doing conference presentations on the learning of history and historical inquiry, writing run-on sentences, and he also likes Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain but nowadays he is asleep by midnight. He is no longer a big fan of traveling with certain Americans in France and despises grammar and punctuation. He is also not a big fan of COVID 19…