Derek A. Ide, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Grand Valley State University
idede@gvsu.edu
EDUCATION
2023 Ph.D. in History, University of Houston, Dissertation: “The Anticolonial International: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution, 1965-73”
2015 Master’s in History (Middle East), University of Toledo
2011 B.A. (History) and B.E. (Social Studies), University of Toledo
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2025-26 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, History Department, Grand Valley State University
2023-25 Inclusive History Project / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer in History Department, University of Michigan, NCID & Department of History
2022-23 Visiting Instructor of History, Miami University Regionals (Middletown), Department of History
BOOKS
Ghosts of Bandung: Black Power and Palestine in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, Coming 2026)
PUBLICATIONS
2023 “Panthères et Palestine,” Araborama, Institut du monde arabe (Paris), Issue 3 (March 2023).
2020 “Al-Fuhuud wa Filastin: Al-Umumiyyah Al Suudaah’ wa al-Thawrah al-Filastiniyyah” (“Panthers and Palestine: Black Internationalism and the
Palestinian Revolution”), Al-Adab, (June 2020). Italian translation in
Sardegna Palestina.
2015 “From Kafr al-Dawwar to Kharga’s ‘Desert Hell Camp’: The Repression of Communist Workers in Egypt, 1952-1965” Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, Vol. 1 No. 7 (Nov. 2015): 50-67.
2015 “Socialism without Socialists: Egyptian Marxists and the Nasserist State, 1952-65,” Master’s Thesis, University of Toledo
PRESENTATIONS
2026 “Imagining a World after Empire: Writing Global Histories of Decolonization,” Discussant, American History Association, Chicago, IL
2024 Ghosts of Bandung: Black and Palestinian Internationalism between Algiers and Jakarta, Rice Global and International History Series Seminar, Rice University, Houston, TX
2023 “On ‘Long Histories’ of Solidarity: The Palestinian Revolution, al-Hadaf, and Black Anticolonialism,” The Palestinian Revolutionary Tradition and Global Anti-Colonialism, New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2022 “From Robert F. Williams to Eldridge Cleaver: Black Internationalism between Panmunjom and Palestine,” Towards a Global History of Solidarity Movements with Palestinians, 1950s-1980s, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2020 “The Internationalist and the Informant: Robert F. Williams and Richard Gibson from Beijing to Black September,” Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington D.C.
2019 “Panthers, Palestinians, and the Pig Power Structure, 1967-74,” Resistance in Retrospect 10th Annual History Conference, Texas A&M
2018 “Panthers, Palestinians, and the Pig Power Structure: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution,” University of Houston
2015 “Communist Acquiescence to Socialism-from-Above and the Facilitation of Neoliberalism in Egypt,” Global Studies Association Conference, University of Toledo
2014 “From Kafr al-Dawwar to Kharga’s ‘Desert Hell Camp’: Imprisoned Communists in Post-Coup Egypt, 1952-6,” Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium, University of Toledo
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2022 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2022 Farouk Shaami Arab-American Educational Foundation Travel Research Grant
2022 University of Houston John King Award for Outstanding Graduate Student
2022 University of Houston History Department Murray Miller Award
2019 University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Bordin-Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship
2018 University of Houston International Education Fee Scholarship
2018 University of Houston History Department Murray Miller Award
2017-2023 Arab-American Educational Foundation Issa B. Cook Scholarship
2014 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
2014 University of Toledo Center for International Studies and Programs Travel Grant
2014 University of Toledo History Department Lapp Travel Grant
2014 Institute for Humane Studies Fund for Scholars
2014 William H. Leckie Graduate History Fellowship
2013-15 Graduate Assistantship (University of Toledo)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2022 John King Award for Outstanding Graduate Student (University of Houston, History Department)
2019 Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants (University of Houston)
2011 Andrew J. Townsend Outstanding Male Undergraduate Award in History
(University of Toledo)
2011 ETS Recognition of Excellence for Social Studies Content Knowledge (Praxis II)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025-26 Grand Valley State University
African American History
American Identity and Sports
The Black Athlete in History
Introduction to American Civilizations
2024-25 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sports in World History (Fall ’25)
Palestine in the World (Winter ’25)
The Global South during the Cold War (Fall ’24)
2022-23 Miami University (Regionals, Middletown Campus)
World History to 1500 (online synchronous)
World History since 1500 (online synchronous and asynchronous)
World History since 1945 (face-to-face)
African American History (face-to-face)
2021-22 University of Houston Instructor
“The United States from 1877” (Summer, face-to-face and online asynchronous)
2017-2021 University of Houston Teaching Assistantship
“The United States to 1877”
“The United States from 1877”
2015-17 University of Toledo Adjunct Lecturer
“Contemporary World History”
“Middle Eastern Civilization”
2013-15 University of Toledo Teaching Assistantship
“Middle Eastern Civilization” (lectured last half of each semester)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2016-present AP World History Question Leader, 2021-current
AP World History Exam Early Table Leader, 2019-20
AP World History Exam Rater (ETS), 2016-18
2011-2016 Student Teaching (St. John’s High School), Substitute Teaching (Sylvania Schools, Washington Local Schools, Maumee Schools), ESL Instruction (Englishunt, Online, Gwangju and Busan, South Korea)
DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2022-23 Creative and Community Initiatives Departmental Committee
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
U.S. and the World, transnational history, modern Arab world, Black radical tradition, Black internationalism, modern world history, colonialism and imperialism, communist movements, anticolonial and national liberation movements, Middle East
LANGUAGE TRAINING
Arabic – advanced
2019 Sijal Institute (Amman, Jordan), Intensive Summer Program
2018 Sijal Institute (Amman, Jordan), Intensive Summer Program
2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Arabic, Persian, Turkish Language Immersion Institute, Intensive Summer Program
2012 Owens Community College, Language Endorsement of Proficiency
Spanish – high-intermediate reading
2008-9 University of Toledo, coursework
EDUCATIONAL/ADVISING UI EXPERIENCE
Canvas – Used for face-to-face, synchronous, and asynchronous courses, 2022-23
Blackboard – Used for face-to-face, synchronous, and asynchronous, 2013-2022
Navigate – Completed Navigate Training for Advising Reporting, 202
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