{"id":11230,"date":"2023-06-09T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11230"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:24:57","slug":"james-howard-hill-jr-2","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/james-howard-hill-jr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"James Howard Hill, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"mark72yb1r05g\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">James<\/span><span>\u00a0Howard Hill, Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He holds a B.A. from Criswell College, an M.T.S. from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He teaches courses and conducts research in American religions and public humanities, with particular attention to Black study, religion and the politics of popular culture in the United States, political theory, Black political thought, modernity, ecology, coloniality, and conceptual methodologies in the study of religion. His work approaches American religions as a public and ethical question, examining how religious meanings are produced, governed, and contested through social, political, and economic realities that function as racial projects. Across his teaching and writing, he is attentive to forms of religious life that exceed dominant frameworks of legibility while remaining central to public life in the United States. Hill is the author of two forthcoming books, The Michael Jackson Cacophony (University of Chicago Press) and The Haunted Fantastic: On Vocation, Faith, and Critical Hope (Fortress Press). He is a 2024 inductee into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. His scholarship has received recognition and support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Louisville Institute, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the Forum for Theological Exploration, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, the Crossroads Project, and the Mellon Cluster Research Fellowship in Comparative Race and Diaspora Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22101,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11974,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11230\/revisions\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}