Marlon Millner

Marlon Millner is a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University in religion and African American Studies. Millner works at the intersection of critical social theory, Black studies, religious studies, and political philosophy. An interdisciplinary scholar, Millner examines the intertwined relationship of Christianity and colonialism in forging modernity and racial hierarchy. His work has been published by The Syndicate Network, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, and The Journal of Black Religious Thought. He is currently working on a book project: The Birth of American Pentecostalism, Biopolitics, Blackness and Spirit Baptism.

Dr. Millner received his B.A. from Morehouse College, his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. 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. He blogs at www.humuse.me, or follow him on X @MarlonMillner.