I’m currently writing about the politics of epistemic production under imperial domination, asking how subjected communities build the interpretive apparatus that enables them to survive, resist, and ultimately outlast the powers that dominate them.

I work through 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 interact with my primary texts, and the argument is partly that what these texts do with revelation, dream interpretation, and scribal authority is something scholars of colonialism and resistance are still working to fully describe. The ancient world got there first.

Working on my PhD at Yale University, where I have an MA & MPhil in Religious Studies. I also received an MDiv. from Columbia Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. I was born in Ghana!