Gregory L. Cuéllar

Gregory Cuéllar holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. He holds a Master’s degree in Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Bachelor’s from Texas A&M University, Kingsville. A major focal point in his research lies at the intersections of religion, migratory aesthetics, borderlands and postcolonial trauma. He is currently researching the social, political, and ethical contours of religious services provided within state contracted family detention facilities. He is the author of the monograph, Voices of Marginality and several articles on Hebrew Bible and migration in the context of the U.S. Mexico borderlands. In terms of advocacy work, he is the co-founder of a refugee artwork project called, Arte de Lágrimas (Art of Tears). Through a traveling art exhibit of original children’s art, this project engages both the politics and the lived experiences of Central American migration to the United States.