Nakia Parker

Biography

Nakia Parker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Michigan State University. Dr. Parker is a historian of nineteenth-century U.S. slavery, African American, and American Indian history. She received her Ph.D. in History from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. From 2019-2021, Dr. Parker was a College of Social Science Dean’s Research Associate in the Department of History. She is currently wo