Michael studies 20th century African American religious history; the sensory, material, and popular cultures of religion; and Black and Womanist theologies. He is particularly interested in questions of knowledge, authority, and violence behind religion’s dual social functions of order/control and chaos/change—particularly in the wake of colonial rupture, under conditions of antiblackness, within territories named America. He holds a BA from Moody Bible Institute, an MA from Wheaton College, and an MTS from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
