Derek Ide is an IHP / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow and an Affiliated Faculty member of the History Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining UM, he was a Visiting Instructor of History at Miami University (Regionals). Derek received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Houston in 2023, where he was a College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dissertation Fellow.

As a historian, Derek’s primary research is focused on anticolonial and internationalist movements challenging imperialism in the 20th century. His current book, Ghosts of Bandung: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution during the Cold War (under contract with University of California Press), analyzes 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 his dissertation work at the University of Houston, Derek wrote a master’s thesis on the role of the Egyptian communist movement under Gamal abd al-Nasser at the University of Toledo.

His work has appeared in a variety of places and languages, including the Lebanese journal Al-Adab, the Institut du monde arabe‘s annual series Araborama, and in the International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict. He has also published in Picturing Black History, Black Agenda Report, Popdust, ZNet, and the Hampton Institute, among other places. He has presented his research in diverse forums, including the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the Freie Universität Berlin, and the New Directions in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.

Email: derekide@umich.edu
Website: https://derekide.com/