Derek Fearon
Class of 2026
Hometown: Highlands Ranch, CO
Education: Pomona College, History & French
Academic & Research Interests: Postcolonial educational policy in the US and France; embodied historical practice as a means to improve postcolonial memory and policy
Work Experience: Generation Teach, Boston: Teaching Fellow
Why I chose MAGES: I’m interested in relationship between post/neocolonial France and the US. I want to particularly learn from how both countries remember and narrativize history in fragmenting, highly diverse postcolonial communities. I chose MAGES to study this trans-Atlantic relationship and maybe work towards solutions, especially given the program’s strength in studying policy.