Hector Kilgoe

Hector Kilgoe studies religion, race, and politics in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular interest in Black nationalism, formations of Black and other identities, and narratives and rhetoric associated with ideas of affective belonging, kinship, and citizenship as they relate to systems of power. Hector received his Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies in 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Master of Theological Studies degree in African and African American Religious Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where he was a junior fellow in the Science, Religion, and Culture Program, and his BA in Religious Studies, with minors in Jewish Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. His intellectual interests also include affect theory, science fiction, media studies, and queer theory.