Aaron Griffith

Aaron Griffith is a historian of American Christianity. His work focuses on evangelicalism, religion and American politics, and religion and criminal justice. His first book, God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America, was published in 2020 by Harvard University Press and won the 2022 "Best Book in History & Biography" award from Christianity Today. He is currently at work on a book on the religious history of American policing.

Griffith was a postdoctoral fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis from 2018 to 2019 and a public fellow in the Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative at the Public Religion Research Institute from 2021 to 2023. He is the recipient of the 2021 Emerging Public Intellectual Award, hosted by Redeemer University, and a Louisville Institute Doctoral Fellowship and Project Grant. He has published articles in journals such as Religions and Fides et Historia, and he writes regularly for popular audiences in publications such as TIME, Christianity Today, and Religion & Politics. Griffith has also taught at Whitworth University, Sattler College, and the Prison Education Project at Washington University in St. Louis.