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Quincy D. Newell
Born 1976 (age 47–48)
Nationality American
Alma mater Amherst College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA, PhD)
Occupation Religious studies scholar
Employer University of Wyoming
Awards American Society of Church History's 2018 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize
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, a member of the executive committee of the Mormon History Association, and co-editor of the journal Mormon Studies Review (2019– ) 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."

Books

  • Constructing lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic colonists, 1776-1821 (University of New Mexico Press, 2009)
  • New perspectives in Mormon studies: Creating and crossing boundaries (Eric F. Mason & Quincy D. Newell, eds.; University of Oklahoma Press, 2013)
  • Your sister in the gospel: The life of Jane Manning James, a nineteenth-century black Mormon (Oxford University Press, 2019)
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