Jonathan Cabrera
Graduate School Student
Year of Study:
2
Field of Interest:
American Religious History, Religion and Modernity
A w(a/o)nderer from the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, Jonathan Pangelinan Cabrera (Chamorro, Refaluwasch) is a rising second-year PhD student in Religious Studies (American Religious History) at Yale. He has studied at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Boston College, and Brite Divinity School and had a career as a literature and writing teacher in public high schools and the community college on the island of Saipan, his home island, before beginning his PhD. His current research interests include religion, race, indigeneity, and reproduction, the US culture wars, white Protestant Christianity at the US Supreme Court (especially in the Insular Cases), religion and/in law, planetary white supremacy, and US empire.