Stephanie Mitchem

Stephanie Y. Mitchem (born 1950) is an American scholar of religious studies and African American studies. Her teaching and research focuses on the African-American religious experience, womanist theology, and the religions of the African diaspora.

Mitchem was the first woman to graduate from Sacred Heart Seminary in her native Detroit and has served as the chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of four books, an edited volume, and several scholarly articles. Provided by Wikipedia