Holding Master’s degrees from Harvard University (2002) and Princeton Theological Seminary (2000), he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University (2014). His research pushes beyond traditional topics in African American Religious Studies by examining the way in which African Americans construct and navigate their religious and racial identity outside a Black Church context. He is particularly interested in Comparative Religion, Atheist and Humanist Studies, and Hip Hop Religious Studies. He is presently researching and writing on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the age of religious pluralism, and Hip Hop as an indigenous religious category.