#  Stephanie Sears 

Lecturer on Spiritual Care

 

 

 



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## Education

- BA, Spelman College
- MTS, Emory University Candler School of Theology
- PhD, Emory University

## Profile

Stephanie Sears is a practitioner and theorist of decolonial spiritual care whose research centers on the religion of Africana women through the critical lenses of womanist and Black feminist thought.

Sears was recently the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Just Futures Award. She serves as an Interfaith America Liaison, and her professional associations include the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the American Academy of Religion.

Sears was previously Associate Professor of Africana Women’s Studies and Religion at Clark Atlanta University, where she taught since 2014, while simultaneously teaching a variety of psychology courses and conducting the Lee Arrendale State Prison for Women Program at Life University.

## Courses

View [HDS courses taught by Stephanie Sears](https://my.harvard.edu/instructor/101810925275815247?q=&school=HDS&term=All&sort=relevance&page=1) in my.Harvard.

[All Harvard courses](https://my.harvard.edu)

## Selected publications

- "Black Women, Mental Health, and the Underlying Trauma Covid-19 Triggers"
- "Braver Even Still: Black Women Reclaiming Embodied Spiritual Power”
- *Dysregulated Lives: Black Women and Womanist Dimensions of Ritual and Healing* (Under review), Duke University Press

## Support

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- ## Affiliation
    
     [Faculty](/affiliation/faculty)
- ## Alpha Grouping
    
     [P-T](/alpha-grouping/p-t)
- ## Faculty Type
    
     [Faculty of Divinity](/faculty-type/faculty-divinity)