IHP / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow
About
As a historian, Derek Ide's primary research is focused on anticolonial and internationalist movements challenging imperialism in the 20th century. His dissertation analyzed the internationalist commitments that bound Black radicals and Palestinian revolutionaries together in their quest for liberation. It further explores how those commitments were encouraged, shaped, and sometimes even limited by various centers of anticolonial activity during the Cold War.
Before joining UM as an IHP / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow, Derek grew up in a working class family from Toledo, Ohio. He received his Master’s in History from the University of Toledo, where he wrote a thesis on the Egyptian communist movement under president Nasser. His work has been published in the Lebanese journal Al-Adab, the Institut du monde arabe's annual series Araborama, and in the International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, among other places. Derek has taught at the University of Toledo, the University of Houston, and was a visiting instructor of History at Miami University (Regionals).
