Alexander Rocklin received his PhD in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago. His work examines the politics of the category religion in the interactive making of Hinduism, Islam, and Afro-Atlantic religions in the colonial Caribbean. His first book, The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad, coming out in spring of 2019 from the University of North Carolina Press, looks at the role of the category religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian indentured laborers and the production of Hinduism in Trinidad. His current research project analyzes the co-production of the categories race and religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a series of case studies of various individuals passing as “Hindu” in and between the circum-Caribbean region, the US, and beyond.