Jorge Banuelos

Jorge is a doctoral student in the Religion and Modernity subfield. His scholarly interests include Black radical religious thought, Africana philosophies of religion, Black religious skepticism, and American religious history. His topical interests include the enmeshment of politics and spirituality in African American religious history & Black public life and questions of race, class, and empire in the study of religion.

Jorge graduated from Carleton College in 2020 where he completed a double major in History & Religion and a minor in Africana Studies. While at Carleton, he received the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the Schomburg-Mellon Summer Humanities Institute research fellowship, the David Parks Memorial research fellowship, the Bardwell Smith Prize for Excellence in the Study of Religion, and Distinction in the Religion major. A selection of his work, entitled “‘Become Black with God!’A Black Theological Response to afropessimism” is published in Harvard University’s MMUF journal.

Upon matriculation to Yale, Jorge received a graduate fellowship from Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). They currently serve as Graduate Coordinator for the 2022-2023 cohort of RITM graduate fellows.