Jeremy
Hamilton-Arnold is a Master of Arts in Religion candidate at Yale
Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music with a
concentration in Visual Art and Material Culture. Prior to Yale, Jeremy
earned an M.A. in Art and Religion from the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley, CA. His scholarship explores how stresses of, and desires
for, modernity influence bodies—especially religious bodies—as they
construct and maintain social identities through image-building,
material-handling, and spatial-navigation.
Jeremy plans to continue into doctoral work in 2016. Current research
projects include: reading celebrity and race in a print of the
18th-century Mohegan minister, Samson Occom; the American Indian
Movement’s 1970 occupation and re-signification of Mount Rushmore; the
spectacle of terror at the “defunct” Eastern State Penitentiary's annual
haunted house event; and the perception of light at a James
Turrell-designed Quaker meeting house.
Research
Interests: material religion, civil religion, spatial practice,
cultural appropriation, spectacle, art, National Parks
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