Originally from northeast Ohio, Bo Chamberlin graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor's in economics. As a student, he led the Amnesty International chapter at Ohio State and helped to organize several state-wide human rights conferences, protests, and other initiatives. After graduation, he worked on Connecticut's successful campaign to abolish the death penalty and taught English and literature at a Jesuit-run high school in the Federated States of Micronesia, where he became interested in issues of decolonization, cultural reclamation, and the history and memory of genocide. Coming back to the United States to study as a Jesuit novice (seminarian) he began investigating the history of Jesuit involvement in the enslavement of African people, which contributed to his departure from the Jesuits and his pursuit of a second bachelor's in Black Studies from Cleveland State University, after which he completed a Master's degree at Temple. His research focuses on Afrocentric criticism of the culture of white supremacy. He is particularly interested in intellectual history and the legacy of racial metaphor in religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Black Studies and Z Magazine. He is the recipient of the Molefi Kete Asante award for Afrocentric scholarship.

Faculty Advisor: Amari Johnson