Tim Rainey received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at Emory University, where he concentrated in American Religious Cultures. His research focuses on religion, race, and economy in the Black Atlantic world and he gives particular attention to the ways corporations interacted with Black faith communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He holds a B.A. in religious studies from Morehouse College and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Selected Publications and Public Scholarship
“Breathe: A Story of Race, Religion, and Justice in South Minneapolis Told through Black Church Archives." SPIRIT HOUSE: A Crossroads Project. August 2025.
"Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Religion and Politics in North America." BRINA. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
“People and Property: Reflections on George Floyd,” Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University, 2020
To Make the Voice Heard: Howard Thurman’s Prophetic Spirituality and Recordings During the Long Sixties, Lead Curator, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, 2022.