Jorge Banuelos

Jorge is a doctoral candidate in the Religion & Modernity subfield of Yale’s Departments of Religious Studies & Black Studies; both departments are housed in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. His dissertation is an intellectual history of nineteenth century Pan-Africanism in the Anglophone Atlantic world. It considers how theologies of African missionization, methods of settler-colonial displacement, and shifts in ethnological thought informed nineteenth century theories of Black nationalism & Pan-African racial ecumenism. Jorge researches & teaches materials related to US religious history, Black religion, historical political economy, Black Studies, critical theory, and philosophy of religion. His work has been supported by the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), to name a few.