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John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis
Marie Griffith is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She served for 12 years (2011-2023) as the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and the editor of the Center’s journal, Religion & Politics (now ARC). Her research focuses on American Christianity, including the changing profile of American evangelicals and ongoing conflicts over gender, sexuality, and marriage. Before moving to Washington University, she served as professor of religion and director of the women and gender studies program at Princeton University, and later as the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard.
Griffith is the author or editor of seven books, including God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission; Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity; Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics; and Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History. Her current project, titled Bankrupt: Clergy Sexual Abuse, Institutional Power, and Trauma in American Christianity, explores abuse, coverups, and attempts at restitution across a range of Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian contexts in recent U.S. history.
Griffith is a frequent media commentator and public speaker on a range of current issues pertaining to religion and politics.
