Biography

Dr. Bright Gyamfi is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Gyamfi's research sits at the intersection of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development. 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 NEH, the SSRC, Fulbright, the U.S. Department of State, the University of California, Northwestern University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, African Studies Review, Radical History Review, Africa is a Country, and The Conversation.

He holds a BA in History (Honors) and Political Science from Notre Dame, an MSc in African Studies from Oxford, and a PhD in History from Northwestern. Before joining Rutgers, he was an Assistant Professor of History at UC San Diego and a Presidential Fellow at Northwestern.

In addition to his scholarly work, Gyamfi serves or has served on the board of the West African Research Association, the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Ghana, Grenada's Institute for People's Enlightenment, the African and African American Studies Research Center at UC San Diego, and the Global Black Thought.