Jalen Parks

jalen is a first-year student in the Theology and Religion & Modernity subfields. jalen's research interests are at the interstices of black religion, critical legal studies, critical theory, and literary studies. Specifically, jalen is studying the de/constitution of personhood through the dynamic confluence of theological and legal doctrine in the United States.

Hailing from Flint, Michigan, jalen is a 2019 graduate of Yale College and a 2022 graduate of Yale Divinity where he obtained the Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Master of Divinity, respectively. In addition to academic study, jalen is a student of poetry and film photography where he seeks to cobble together what cannot be captured about black life in the protocols of proper grammar that the Academy necessitates.