James H. Hill, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University.
He teaches and researches 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, while remaining attentive to forms of religious life that exceed dominant frameworks of legibility yet remain central to public life in the United States. He is the author of The Haunted Fantastic: On Faith, Vocation, and Critical Hope (Fortress Press, forthcoming February 2027) and The Michael Jackson Cacophony (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). He holds degrees from Criswell College, Southern Methodist University, and Northwestern University.
Research Area: Pluralism and Democracy
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