I’m a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Africana colonial history, literature, and theory. My dissertation is on the politics of knowledge production and use under imperial domination. It works through the court tales of the book of Daniel and other Second Temple Jewish literature as early and sophisticated archives of how a dominated people theorized their own epistemic situation and organized themselves around a rival claim to “truth.”
Methodologically, I use a blend of philological and Critical Africana, as well as de/postcolonial, approaches as the lenses through which I engage my primary texts. My argument is partly that scholars of colonialism are still working to fully describe what these texts do so intelligently with epistemic elements such as revelation, dream interpretation, and scribal authority.
I earned my MDiv from Columbia Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and my MA from Yale Divinity School. I’m in my fifth year of the PhD program (Hebrew Bible/EMWAR) here at Yale.