Seth Emmanuel Gaiters (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at North Carolina State University.
He is a scholar of African American religious studies, with particular interest in the exploration of religion and race through Black progressive social movements and cultures in America. His interdisciplinary research and teaching trajectory engages the intersection of African American religious thought, political theology, race, African American literature, and critical theory.
He is currently completing his book manuscript, tentatively titled, #BlackLivesMatter and Religion in the Street: A Revival of the Sacred in the Public Sphere. In this project, he brings his interests to a study of #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) as a way of broadening normative notions of (Black) religiosity and elucidating the synchronicity of spirituality and social justice in Black political organizing. His scholarly work has been supported by fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Louisville Institute, Forum for Theological Exploration, and Social Science Research Council, to name a few.
Research Area: Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Pluralism
