Jalen Baker

Jalen Baker is a PhD student in the Department of History and Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, with a concentration in Religion in the Americas. He holds a BA in Sociology from Bates College and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Jalen also serves as an Assistant Pastor at Jacob’s Well Community Church in North Brunswick, New Jersey. His research focuses on twentieth-century Black evangelicalism, the construction of Black evangelical identity, and the relationship between race, theology, and institutional religion in American Christianity. His dissertation examines the National Black Evangelical Association (NBEA) and the ways Black Christians created evangelical spaces, institutions, and theological frameworks that addressed the realities of Black life while reshaping the meaning of evangelicalism in the United States.

Committee: Heath Carter, Melana Laudig, Keri Day, Jemar Tisby