Quincy D. Newell | |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Amherst College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA, PhD) |
Employer: | University of Wyoming |
Occupation: | Religious studies scholar |
Website: | https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/Quincy-Newell |
Awards: | American Society of Church History's 2018 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize[1] 2017 Best Article in Mormon Women’s History prize (Mormon History Association) |
Quincy D. Newell (born 1976) is an American historian of the nineteenth-century American West especially as it involves the religious experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. She is associate professor at Hamilton College,[2] [3] a member of the executive committee of the Mormon History Association,[4] and co-editor of the journal Mormon Studies Review (2019 -)[5] In 2015, Newell presented the 21st Leonard J. Arrington Lecture at the Utah State University: "Narrating Jane: Telling the story of an early African American Mormon woman."[6]