Jonathon Kahn is professor of religion, Africana, and American studies at Vassar College. His teaching and writing interests are at the intersection of race, religious ethics, and politics. He is the author of Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois (Oxford). His current work explores formations of the secular, including a 2020 essay in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, "When the Westboro Baptist Church Came to Vassar College."