Dr. Tomeka Jacobs'Â Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theology | Scholar-Practitioner | Ordained Minister
Dr. Tomeka C. Jacobs is a scholar and educator working at the vital intersection of neuroscience, practical theology, and decoloniality. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is deeply rooted in the "displaced lands" of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Osage people (Kentucky), which informs her "ecocosmological" framework—a study of the co-creative, imaginative, and open-relational fluidity between the earth, the cosmos, and the spirit. Dr. Jacobs brings a unique analytical and empathetic lens to spiritual care, informed by her background in science as a chemist and her love for physics. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), she has extensive experience serving in Level 1 Trauma Centers. Her clinical and spiritual expertise includes: Trauma-Informed Chaplaincy: Specialized care in Cardiac, Oncology, Complex Care, and Adolescent Psychiatric units; Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction: As a spiritual companion/director and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner, she integrates contemplative modalities to help individuals unburden personal systems and foster decolonial healing; Neuroscience & Contemplative Practice: As a former Research Fellow with the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, she explores how neuroscience and mindfulness can transform human reactivity into spiritual presence through ancestral and ecocosmological connection.
| CONTACTÂ Tomeka | Email: [email protected]Â |
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Publications:
- Ecocosmological Spirituality of Southern Queer Black Women: (Re)Membering and Reconnecting Identity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).
- “Integrative Spiritual Care for Minoritized Women in the United States Towards a Theology of Hope and Ethic of Wholeness Mediated through Critical Consciousness and Spiritual Practice,” Review & Expositor, 121(3-4), 165-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346373251332868 (April 2025).
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- “Uncovering the Black Mystique: An Investigation of Black Mysticism,” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 30, no.1, July 2024.
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