Elizabeth L. Jemison is a professor, author, speaker, and teacher who writes about how the history of American Christianity affects us today. She writes and speaks regularly to community groups and congregations. An award-winning teacher, Jemison is Associate Professor of Religion at Clemson University, where she has taught since 2015.

Her current book project brings together her academic expertise on the history of Christianity and race in the U.S. South with her own family's complicated ties to that history. Her first book, Christian Citizens, Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South, was published in 2020 by University of North Carolina Press and has been reviewed more than 20 times.

Elizabeth Jemison holds degrees in Religion from Harvard and Princeton Universities. She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with her husband and three young children.