REDEFINING CLASSICS

Dr. David Withun, Ph.D., is the founding Head of School at Ivy Classical
Academy in Prattville, Alabama. Dr. Withun has nearly two decades of
leadership experience in the military and education. He is a veteran of the
United States Army, where he served as an Intelligence Analyst. He earned his
MA and Ph.D. in Humanities at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Withun has taught various subjects, including History and Literature, at the
elementary, middle, and high school levels. He has also taught college
Composition, Humanities, and Literature. His academic interests center broadly on intellectual history, with a particular interest in the influences and responses to ancient, classical, and medieval philosophy and mythology in modern American thought and literature. Dr. Withun’s areas of expertise and interest also include African American history and literature, classical education, American intellectual history, and the Great Books tradition. Dr. Withun’s writing has been published in journals and magazines such as Classical Receptions Journal, Black Perspectives, Phylon, Forma Journal, and The Explicator. His first book, Coworkers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, was published by Oxford University Press in spring 2022. Dr. Withun currently lives in Prattville, Alabama, with his wife Vanessa and their three children.