Roy Whitaker
On Sabbatical (Spring 2025)
Office: AL-670 | Email: [email protected]
Dr. Roy Whitaker obtained a master’s degree at Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. As a scholar of contemporary religion, Dr. Whitaker’s current research interests include new, emerging, and alternative forms of religiosity and spirituality in Black America.
Dr. Whitaker enjoys hiking, tennis, half-marathons, and live concerts.
- Philosophy of religion
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Hip hop religion and philosophy
- Comparative religions and religious pluralism
- “World Religions” (REL-S 101)
- “Hip Hop and Religion” (REL-S 356)
- “African American Religions” (REL-S 581)
“Black Secular Humanism and Its Significance for Contemporary Methodologies in Religious Studies” in Nova Religio, vol. 27, no. 2 (November 2023).
“Diaspora Sound: The Movement of Transnational Hip-Hop (Freestyle Remix)” in Amir Issaa’s This Is What I Live For: An Afro-Italian Hip-Hop Memoir.
“Through space and rhyme: How hip-hop uses Afrofuturism to take listeners on journeys of empowerment” in The Conversation.
“MLK’s vision of social justice included religious pluralism – a house of many faiths” in The Conversation.