Imani-Sheila Newsome

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Assistant Professor of Theology

B.A.  Virginia Union University
M.Ed.  University of Vermont
M.Div.  Boston University

For a number of years, Dean Newsome has served in higher education as a professor, academic counselor, and consultant.  Her research interests include the womanist idea and spiritual disciplines, and the role of African-American women in church and mission history.  Reverend Newsome, who previously served as Associate Dean of Marsh Chapel, the Church at Boston University, was raised in the Church of God in Christ and ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  Reverend Newsome recently became a member of the United Methodist Church. 

Dean Newsome is the Director of the Project for African American Religious Research and Education.