R. Marie Griffith
R. Marie Griffith is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, where she formerly directed the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. A historian of American religion, she is the author of several books including God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission, Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity, and Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics. Her work explores how religion, gender, sexuality, and politics intersect in American culture.
Barbara Dianne Savage is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A distinguished author and historian, she specializes in 20th-century African American history, American religious and social reform movements, media and politics, and Black women’s intellectual history. Savage has held several prestigious positions, including the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 2017. Her teaching and scholarship have profoundly shaped the study of race, religion, and public life in America.
