Harry Nii Koney Odamtten is Assistant Professor of African and Atlantic History at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. He holds a Dual Ph.D. in African American & African Studies, and History from Michigan State University, 2010 and earned his Bachelors from the University of Ghana, Legon, 2001. 

Odamtten is primarily an intellectual and social historian, and his dissertation, which he is currently revising into a manuscript, is entitled “A History of Ideas: West Africa, the “Black Atlantic” and Pan-Africanism.” His research activities and publications span African and African Diaspora intellectual and social history, African and African-American gender and women’s studies, Pan-Africanism, Hip-Hop and public culture. He teaches African, and Atlantic history as well as world history until 1492.