Quincy D. Newell is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College. She has published several books and essays on the experiences of religious and racial/ethnic minorities in the American West. Among other honors, Newell received the 2018 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize from the American Society of Church History and the 2017 Best Article in Mormon Women's History prize from the Mormon History Association for her work on Jane James.

Winner of the Best Biography Book Award from the Mormon History Association

"Bound to engage both scholarly and non-specialist audiences, Your Sister in the Gospel would be an especially useful text in undergraduate classrooms, given that Newell's appendix includes five of her key primary sources for readers to investigate for themselves." -- Melena Laudig, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

"Quincy D. Newell puts a human face to the priesthood and temple ban of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her seminal study of Jane Manning James, a black Latter-day Saint.... Newell's work is a wonderful reminder of what can be accomplished with limited sources. But, more importantly, she provides a model of how to write about the lived religion of marginalized voices and how to include them into our narratives, whether it be that of a black Mormon woman like Jane Manning James or marginalized voices in other faith traditions. For this effort, and more, we are in her debt. Newell has done historians of Mormonism and Religious Studies a great service." -- Matthew L. Harris, Church History

"Your Sister in the Gospel is a must-read ... The book is free of jargon, which makes it accessible to a wide readership, without sacrificing quality or buying into easy conclusions." -- Carter Charles, BYU Studies Quarterly

"Quincy D. Newell's new book Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon is a unique and valuable addition to the fields of both Mormon Studies and nineteenth-century American History." FairMormon