Sean Capener

Sean Capener is a postdoctoral fellow in Historical Studies. Straddling two eras of intellectual history, his main area of research is the conjunction of race, religion, and economy in medieval and modern philosophy, with a particular focus on Latin Scholasticism and its reception and repudiation in modernity. His work examines the role of the Atlantic slave complex in reshaping the contours of Christian and European philosophy and political theology. He holds MA degrees in both Cultural Studies and Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University, and a Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Toronto. He is currently writing a monograph drawing on his research into the notions of slavery and 'selling time' in both 13th-century Parisian scholasticism and post-Kantian German philosophy.

Sean has recently taught courses on religion and power in the postcolony, secularism, and 'capitalism as religion'; in Winter 2022 he is teaching Introduction to Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth.