My research starts from a suspicion: that religion and economics are not separate domains brought together by modern secularization, but categories that co-produced each other through centuries of colonial encounter. My doctoral dissertation, “Debt, Guilt, and Coloniality: On the Economics of Christian Salvation,” traces how theological notions of redemption are articulated by economic notions of debt, shaping the very systems that frame economic activity today.

This work sits at the intersection of economic theology, religious ethics, decolonial and postcolonial thought, and intercultural studies. Funded by three consecutive Louisville Institute fellowships, it has been presented at the American Academy of Religion, the Canadian Theological Society, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches. It does not stay on the page: I carry these questions into the classroom at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, where teaching ethics through colonial history and economic structures keeps the research honest and tests it against the students who push back on it.