CURRICULUM VITAE
Stephanie Y. Mitchem
803-466-4669
mitchesy@gwm.sc.edu
ACADEMIC PREPARATION:
Doctor of Philosophy, June 1998. Northwestern University - Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Joint Program, Evanston, Illinois.
Foci: theology, ethics, ethnography, and American history.
Master of Theological Studies, magna cum laude, St. John Provincial Seminary, Plymouth, Michigan, 1989.
Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, magna cum laude, Sacred Heart Seminary College, Detroit, Michigan, 1985.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- University of South Carolina — Columbia, South Carolina
- Associate Professor August 2005 to present
Joint appointment, Department of Religious Studies and Women's Studies Program
- University of Detroit Mercy — Detroit, Michigan
- Chair of Department of Religious Studies 2003 to August 2005
University of Detroit Mercy
Associate Professor,
Department of Religious Studies 1995 to August 2005
Teaching, undergraduate and graduate courses:
Women's Studies; Anthropology of Religion; Third World Women's Theologies, Womanist Theology; Third World Women's Theologies; Religion in the U.S; African American Studies Seminar; Latin American Liberation Theologies; Ecology and Justice.
Director of African American Studies program 2000-2003
Director of Women's Studies program, 1995-1998.
University of Detroit Mercy, Director of Student Development, 1993 - 1995.
Student personnel director. Overall student affairs office direction including budget development and oversight for one campus. Additional development of programs included: Family Fun Day, focus on commuter students; mentoring for new students; speakers' series implementation; student retreat opportunities.
PUBLICATIONS:
IN PROCESS
African Americans and Theologies of Prosperity (Pilgrim Press).
Faith, Health, and Healing Among African Americans, co-edited with Emilie M.
Townes (Praeger).
FORTHCOMING
Book:
African American Folk Healing (New York University Press)
Chapters:
"African American Women's Embodied Spirituality and Cassandra" in Women and the
Gift edited by Morny Joy (Indiana University Press)
"Finding Questions and Answers in Womanist Theology and Ethics," in
conference proceedings edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Fortress
Press).
"Religious Healing as Pedagogical Performance," in volume on teaching
religious healing, edited by Linda Barnes and Inez Talamentez (Oxford
University Press).
BOOKS
African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness (Cleveland: Pilgrim
Press, 2004).
Introducing Womanist Theology, (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2002).
CHAPTERS
"Border Disputes: Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Our Selves" in Teaching African American Religions edited by Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost
(New York: Oxford University Press,2005).
"Jesus is My Doctor: African American Women and Healing," in Religion and Healing
in America edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005).
"What Doesn't Kill You Will Make You Strong: African American Women in
Catholic Colleges," in Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work,
Living Experiences, and Social Justice edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
and Denise Leckenby (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003).
"African American Women, Healing and Reconciliation," in Gender,
Ethnicity, and Religion, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether, (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2002).
JOURNALS
"Class and Colonization and African American Women," Crosscurrents, Fall 2005.
"Coloring Outside the Lines," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Fall 2005.
"What's Love Got to Do? (and other stories of black women's sexualities),"
Crosscurrents, Fall 2004.
"Reading Womanists, Reading Ourselves," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Fall 2003.
"No Longer Nailed to the Floor," Crosscurrents, Spring 2003.
"There is a Balm: African American Women and Healing," Michigan
Family Review, Fall 2002.
"Womanists and (Unfinished) Constructions of Salvation," Journal of Feminist
Studies in Religion, Spring 2001.
"Sankofa: Black Theologies," Crosscurrents, Spring-Summer 2000.
"Barbie Insurrection: Tales from the Liberatory Teaching Front," Journal of
Women and Religion, volume 17, 1999.
REVIEWS, OTHER
Contributor, Struggle for Empowerment, CD produced for middle school children
through Wayne County Intermediate School District, February 2000.
Book Review, Fighting Words, Black Women, and the Search for Justice, P.H.
Collins, for Women's Review of Books, June 1999.
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Contemporary religious thought, with emphasis on feminist and anthropological/ethnographic methodologies
- Women in the African Diaspora.
- Postcolonialism, class, and African American religious thought and experience
SERVICE:
IN THE PROFESSION
Member, Workgroup on Constructive Theology, attending annual meetings beginning
2006.
Member of Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, American Academy
of Religion, 2005-2007.
Member, Religions, Medicines and Healings section, American Academy of Religion
beginning 2005.
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, editorial board, beginning November 2004.
Cross Currents, Contributing Editor. 2000 to present.
2001-2002, through Wabash Center, national collaboration: "Mining the
Motherlode: Teaching and Learning African American Religious Life."
1999-2000, American Academy of Religion, Lilly Foundation teaching workshop,
"Mining the Motherlode of African American Religious Life."
IN THE UNIVERSITY
Shared Governance task force, University of Detroit Mercy, 2004-5.
2001 -2004, member, University of Detroit Mercy Academic Committee on the
Status of Women.
University of Detroit Mercy Sexual Harassment prevention Contact Person, 1999-
2000.
Member of the Diversity and Liberal Learning Committee, 1996-1998.
IN THE COMMUNITY
June 2006 to present, Board member, Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands.
Summers 2004-5, Faculty with the Detroit Summer Project.
Fall 2003, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan.
Historian consultant team member for development of core exhibit.
1999-2000, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit,
Michigan. Visiting scholar.
Initiated and implemented community based "African American Women's Health
Conference, Promoting Wellness," March 1998.
PRESENTATIONS (PARTIAL LISTING)
June 2006, guest lecturer, Human Development (School of Architecture) University of Detroit Mercy.
November 2005, Respondent Bernadin Lecture, University of South Carolina.
October 2005, "Mamas, Sisters and Lovers: African American Women and
Wellness," University of South Carolina, Women's Studies Research Series.
June 2005, Panelist, "Teaching for Change" invited conference, Harvard Divinity
School.
May 2005, "Sexualities and Spiritualities," invited speaker, DePaul University,
Chicago, IL.
March 2005, "Finding Questions and Answers in Womanist Theology and Ethics,"
conference presenter, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.
June 2004, Presenter at Women's Wellsprings Conference, St. Mary College, Notre
Dame, Indiana
November 2003, "A Real Woman with a Dollar in her Shoe: African American Women
and Theologies of Prosperity" and "Testing Inequality: Losing Brown v Board,
Maintaining Race" at American Academy of Religion conference, San Antonio, TX.
October 2003, "Womanist Theology," St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana.
February 2003, "African Americans and Health," Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse
Pointe, Michigan.
January 2003, "Womanist Theology" Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
November 2002, discussant for paper, "Black Feminism and Identity Politics," Theory
Construction and Research Methodology conference, Houston, TX.
October 2002, "Construct/ing Black Women," for Georgetown University's Women's
Studies Program.
June 2002, "Tangled Roots: African American and Hispanic Catholics in Dialogue,"
Catholic Theological Society of America Conference, New Orleans, LA.
September 2001, "Jesus is My Doctor," Religious Healing in Urban America
Conference, Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions,
Boston, MA.
March 2001, "Un-essentially Yours: Black Women in Different Colors," Michigan Women's Studies Association Conference, Detroit, MI.
July 2000, "Morphing Theology," Cross Currents Conference.
June 2000, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African American Women in the Academy," National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education.
March, 2000, "African American Women, Healing and Spirituality," Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI.
GRANTS AND HONORS:
2005, College of Liberal Arts and Education research grant.
June, 2002, the Wise Woman Award from the National Association of Women in
Catholic Higher Education.
January 2002, invited participant, Louisville Institute Consultation on tenure and
promotion for minority scholars.
Summer 2001, Collegium (intercollegiate Catholic colleges' scholars) fellow.
Summer 2000, Jesuit 100 research grant, University of Detroit Mercy.
July 1999, Association of Religion and Intellectual Life, Coolidge Fellow.
Grant for the Advancement of Feminist Studies, University of Detroit Mercy,
Women's Studies, 1996.
1995 - 1997, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Fellowship.
1996 and 1997, Fund for Theological Education scholar.
REFERENCES:
Available on request.
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