Bright Gyamfi is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and the Acting President of the Ghana Studies Association. He writes on African intellectuals who worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic. He has received research fellowships and grants from several organizations and institutions, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright. His work has appeared in the Journal of African History, Journal of African American History, African Studies Review, Radical History Review, Africa is a Country, and The Conversation.