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On Wednesday, March 24th at 7:00pm, the Emmaus Scholars Program and the Hope-Western Prison Education Program will host a virtual public lecture by Dr. Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Sattler College and author of God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America (Harvard University Press, 2020). Dr. Griffith will present his lecture, "American Christians and the Making of Modern Prison Ministry," via Zoom. The lecture is open to the public and a link will be made available closer to the date.
Aaron Griffith earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Duke University Divinity School and, before coming to Sattler, was a postdoctoral research associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He also has taught in Washington University’s Prison Education Project and Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics.
His broader academic interests include American religious history (particularly evangelicalism, African-American religions, and social reform), Christianity in the global south, and American political history. His writing has appeared in academic publications like Fides et Historia and Religions, and in popular venues like The Washington Post and Religion News Service. He has received fellowships from organizations like the Louisville Institute and the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy. Prof. Griffith is also interested in prison education and prison ministry, and enjoys teaching Bible studies and speaking on topics related to history and Christian faith at local churches.
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