Jonathon S. Kahn, Assistant Professor of Religion

A.B., Princeton University; Ph. D. Columbia University 2003

Jonathon S. Kahn, Assistant Professor of Religion, received his A. B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003. Before coming to Vassar in 2006, he received a postdoctoral fellowship in the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Mr. Kahn teaches in the areas of religion and modern philosophy, with particular attention on the intersection of race, politics, and religion. His research has focused on illumining the place of religious moods and virtues in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois. He has published articles on Du Bois and religion in Philosophia Africana, The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois, (Northern Illinois, 2007), and The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion (MacMillian-Palgrave, 2007). He is currently working on a book project Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois (Oxford, forthcoming), which unearths Du Bois's distinctive religiosity, a decidedly black faith that is in constant tension with traditional metaphysics of African American Christianity.