George Anthony is a doctoral student in the Study of Religion, specializing in African American Religions and History. His research interests span the interstitial spaces of Africana religious thought, Black Atlantic religions, and New Religious Movements and engage questions of gender and sexuality, intellectual history, ethics, and aesthetics. He is particularly interested in examining the Afrodiasporic cultural and religious imagination in the United States, analyzing esotericism both as a meaning‑making technology and a discursive method of religio‑racial identity formation and political resistance. More specifically, his work seeks to historicize the theosophical and metaphysical orientations situated within the Afrocentric/Black consciousness movement from the late twentieth century to the present, investigating how the critiques and practices of these countercultural formations inform postmodern Africana religio‑spiritual lifeworlds that emerge within urban and digital communities.
George earned an MPhil in Theology (Christian Ethics) from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and completed studies in comparative religion and social anthropology at the University of Manchester as an English‑Speaking Union Luard Morse Scholar. He received his BA in History and Religion with a minor in Leadership Studies from Morehouse College, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa as valedictorian of the Class of 2023.