Donnell Williamson

Donnell Williamson

Donnell A. Williamson, Jr. is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Religion and Critical Thought at Brown University. He is a philosopher of religion whose work focuses on the ways faith and suffering overlap and inform each other in Black American Protestantism. His teaching and research are at the intersections of modern religious thought, religious ethics, and the Black intellectual tradition, with a particular interest in the writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Søren Kierkegaard.