Marlon Millner
Marlon Millner is a visiting assistant professor of religion and a visiting assistant professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Millner works at the intersection of critical social theory, Black studies, and political philosophy. He formerly served as Director of the Center for Black Studies at Northern Illinois University.
His current work re-examines the emergence of early-twentieth-century American Pentecostalism through the lens of Foucauldian biopolitics and Black feminist and Black queer thought. He has curated work on Black and womanist theology on The Syndicate Network. And his published articles include “Dis/parity: Blackness and the (Im)possibility of a Pentecostal (Political) Theology,” for Pneuma: The Journal for the Society for Pentecostal Studies, and a contribution to Tracing Contours: Reflections of World Mission and Christianity. In fall 2024, he will teach courses on The Black Atlantic, A Religious Interpretation (First-Year Seminar), and Biopolitics, Blackness and Spirit Baptism: The Birth of American Pentecostalism.
Millner earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in religious studies. His dissertation re-examined the early 20th century American Pentecostal movement. Millner broadly focuses on Christianity and colonialism and their intertwined relationship in forging modernity and racial hierarchy. He studies the development of the category of religion and the development of racial Blackness through European conquest and global expansion. Marlon also studies the legacies of these critical terms in development of contemporary critical theory and theories and social practices of secularism, gender and sexuality.
Address: Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
His current work re-examines the emergence of early-twentieth-century American Pentecostalism through the lens of Foucauldian biopolitics and Black feminist and Black queer thought. He has curated work on Black and womanist theology on The Syndicate Network. And his published articles include “Dis/parity: Blackness and the (Im)possibility of a Pentecostal (Political) Theology,” for Pneuma: The Journal for the Society for Pentecostal Studies, and a contribution to Tracing Contours: Reflections of World Mission and Christianity. In fall 2024, he will teach courses on The Black Atlantic, A Religious Interpretation (First-Year Seminar), and Biopolitics, Blackness and Spirit Baptism: The Birth of American Pentecostalism.
Millner earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in religious studies. His dissertation re-examined the early 20th century American Pentecostal movement. Millner broadly focuses on Christianity and colonialism and their intertwined relationship in forging modernity and racial hierarchy. He studies the development of the category of religion and the development of racial Blackness through European conquest and global expansion. Marlon also studies the legacies of these critical terms in development of contemporary critical theory and theories and social practices of secularism, gender and sexuality.
Address: Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
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