Jathan Martin
Graduate School Student
Black Religious Performance, Material and Visual Culture, African American Childhoods, Death and Racialized Terror
Florida A&M University,
B.S. in Political Science, 2017
Yale Divinity School, M.Div, 2021
Jathan’s research lie at the intersection of Religious History and Public Humanities with topics covering African American history, commemoration and death, popular culture, and religious aesthetics. By examining the fragilities and performances of Black life, Jathan’s work contextualizes the history and materiality of African American Religion in the wake of the quotidian reality of death in African America.
Department:
Combined Ph.D. with Religious Studies