Bright Gyamfi, PhD
Historian | Policy Consultant | Public Intellectual

I am an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. My research sits at the intersection of African intellectual history, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development. My work explores how African intellectuals worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic. By extension, I also study the institutions that these intellectuals were engaged in and how they reconceptualized the relationship between history, politics, and economic development.

 

In addition to my scholarly pursuits, I engage the public through my writing, public speaking, exhibitions, and documentary filmmaking. I also advise international organizations on matters related to cultural policy, global Black thought, and Pan-African development. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, the  Journal of African American History, African Studies Review, Radical History Review, Africa is a Country, and The Conversation.