
Writer | Professor | Philosopher | Theologian
BOOKS
Logos and Time: Rhetoric, Heidegger and Rahner (Wipf and Stock, Forthcoming)
The Philosophy of Christology: From the Bultmannians to Derrida, 1951-2002 (Wipf and Stock, 2022)
Existential Theology: An Introduction (Wipf and Stock, 2020)
A Theologian’s Guide to Heidegger (Wipf and Stock, 2019)
Heideggerian Theologies: The Pathmarks of John Macquarrie, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, and Karl Rahner (Wipf and Stock, 2018)
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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Heidegger’s Unsaid Nietzsche
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Untranslated Heidegger
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“‘To Enact a Postmodernism of Resistance’: The Transgressive Thought of bell hooks and the Interdisciplinarity of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy.” USAbroad: Journal of American History and Politics 6, 2023
“‘The One Who Decides on the Exception’: The Sovereign and Sovereignty in Slavoj Žižek’s Political Theology after Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 15(1), 2021
“The Existential Demands of Race: Dialogues in Theological Anthropology.” Journal of African American Studies 24(2), 2020
“‘Right Step (Albeit in the Wrong Direction)’: Žižek on Heidegger’s Nazism and the Domestication of Nietzsche.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(1), 2020
“Dialectics and Hegelian Negation in Slavoj Žižek’s Enjoy Your Symptom: Fighting the Fantasies of Trauma, Identity, Authority, and Phallophany.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 13(2), 2019
“Between Activism, Religiosity, and the Public Sphere: The Intellectual Insurgency of bell hooks.” Journal of African-American Studies 23(3), 2019
“The Meaning of the Epistemological Situation: Reading Douglass Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed with Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 12(3), 2018
BOOK CHAPTERS
“If ‘God Wills It’: Pope Urban II, Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade” in Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean. Ed. Jeanette Fregulia (Forthcoming, Taylor and Francis, TBD)
“Hooks, Bell (1952-2021).” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2022): 1-4
“The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment - Commentary on Sessions IX and X.” Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference. Eds. Jonathan Dickstein and Gautam B. Thakur (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 99-119
“Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream.” Critical Insights: Richard Wright. Ed. Kimberly Drake. (Grey House/EBSCO, 2019): 56-71
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Adam Clayton Powell” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“The Black Star Line” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Fair Housing Act” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Negritude” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Great Compromise (Tilden vs. Hayes)” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Alexander Crummell” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Economic Justice” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“The Chicago Defender” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Negro World” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Reparations” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“John Brown” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Martin Luther King Jr.” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Coretta Scott King” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“The Black Family” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Spring 2023)
“Black Education in Antebellum North” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 27-29
“American Baptist Church and Slavery” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 5-8
“Christianity in the Antebellum South” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 45-48
“The Whig Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 212-215
“The Democratic Party in the Antebellum Era and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 59-63
“Lincoln, Class, Race, and Slavery” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 128-131
“The Republican Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 174-176
“Radical Republicans” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 171-174
“The Democratic Party in the South” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 57-59
“Lincoln and Reconstruction” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 125-128
“Booker T. Washington and the Atlantic Movement” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 249-252
“Decline of Harlem Renaissance” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 97-98
“World War I and the Black Experience” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 261-264
“Diversity in Higher Education” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 4: Post Civil Rights to the Present. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 113-115
OTHER BOOKS
Systems of Onto-theology: Toward a Heideggerian Method (Pathmarks, 2018)
The Effectiveness of Classroom Seating Arrangements: A Study of Students and Teachers (Pathmarks, 2018)