Nana Osei-Opare, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, is a historian whose research and teaching interests focus on Ghana, Marxist-Leninism and socialism, labor, global Black political and intellectual thought, Africa-Soviet relations, the Cold War, and race and racism globally. 

Nana is currently working on his book, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War and Decolonization Projects, 1957–66." It unpacks, rethinks, and ties Ghana’s Cold War and political-economic projects to larger socialist and Marxist debates from multiple ideological and geographic vantage points.