Bright Gyamfi is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and a former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University. His research lies at the intersection of West African intellectual history, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and economic development. He focuses 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 various organizations and institutions, including the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-IIE, the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, 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, Africa is a Country, and The Conversation. Bright holds a BA in History (Honors) and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in History from Northwestern University. His first book project, “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization 1960-1980,” examines Ghanaian intellectuals who sought to transform and radicalize the study of Africa and its diaspora in academic centers around the Atlantic. Through an examination of their scholarly trajectories, his project explores how Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow in 1966 affected the trajectory of Nkrumahism, a strand of Pan-Africanism and an ideology for African decolonization. In this way, he highlights how and why anti-colonial and decolonial ideas emerge, as well as how these insurgent ideas were sustained after the collapse of a radical government during a period of rapid decolonization from the 1960s to the 1980s.