Elizabeth Jemison
Associate Professor of Religion
Contact
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Office: Hardin 220
Phone: 864-656-2001
Email: ejemiso@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
Elizabeth Jemison is a historian of American religion whose research centers on questions of race, gender, and politics in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christianity. Her first book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. She is simultaneously working on two book projects. One is a scholarly monograph tentatively titled, Christian Motherhood: Race and Southern Churchwomen’s Organizing during Segregation, that examines how women’s religious groups across racial lines mobilized to defend Christian motherhood with conflicting results from the 1890s through 1940s. Her second current book project is a work for popular audiences on how individuals and communities can grapple with the history of white Christian racism today. Her research has earned support at Clemson from the Humanities Hub, Lightsey Fellowship, and Faculty Development Research and outside of Clemson from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard’s Charles Warren Center. She was a member of the 2015-2017 cohort of Young Scholars in American Religion. A dedicated teacher, Jemison received the Provost’s Outstanding Junior Teacher Award in 2022, the CAAH Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2020, and the College’s Advisor of the Year award in 2019.
