It’s Paul– a historian of biblical literature, decolonial thinker, & public intellectual
More About My Work: (for the Nerds only)
Trained as a scholar of literature within the humanities, my work sits at the intersection of the Bible, history, and decolonial thought.
My concern lies with questions of power and politics in the Hebrew Bible and its receptions. I began my doctoral work examining exile and the forces (empire, warfare, and geopolitics) that sustain it, and extended this inquiry to the dynamics of migration, displacement, and diaspora in ANE and contemporary contexts.
I have since narrowed my focus to questions of epistemic power and politics within exilic contexts, asking, for example, what counts as knowledge, how it is produced, and how it operates under empire. I’m currently working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Revelation as decolonial praxis: The Politics of Knowledge and the MT book of Daniel,” which also draws comparisons with postcolonial discourses on knowledge politics.
Of course, as a Ghanaian, I often draw from Africa’s knowledge banks. On that front, I am interested in colonization as depicted in African literature and its intersections with knowledge, public religious imagination, and decolonial discourses more broadly.
I have an MA & MPhil in Religious Studies from Yale University and an MDiv. from Columbia Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
Outside of the academy, I love debating soccer analytics, reviewing piano chord structures, and teaching them to my two young daughters.