Rebecca A. Wilcox

Rebecca A. Wilcox is a fifth year PhD candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary concentrating in Religion and Society. Her dissertation is entitled “Shadows of Death: Black Religion and Flights Toward Life” where she engages Black religion, political theory, and critical Black studies to explore the coterminous nature of blackness and death, to demonstrate how flights toward black life seek to move blackness toward the modern political subject of life, that is overdetermined by anti-death/antiBlack anxieties. Wilcox is from the Bronx, New York where she was raised by her mother and siblings, who serve as the pulse for her commitment to critical Black thought.

Select Publications:

Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering

“How the University De-Radicalizes Students, Professors, and Social Movements”: A Conversation With Joy James and Rebecca Wilcox