Lauren Horn Griffin (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies and the Department of History at Louisiana State University.
Her current book project, #Trad: Manufacturing Tradition in an Age of Hyperconnectivity, uses a variety of traditionalist Catholic aesthetics online as examples of how algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram and TikTok increasingly shape discourses around “white Western civilization” and “traditional” gender norms. Her article in Journal of Media and Religion (September 2024), “How #Trad Catholics Challenge Current Constructions of Christian Nationalism” was named one of the Top Ten Articles in Digital Religion Research in 2024 by the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Cultural Studies. She is the author of Fabricating Founders (Brill, 2023) and the editor of Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion (Equinox, 2025). Her public-facing work has appeared in The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, and The Conversation. She contributed a piece on Catholic participation in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack for the Smithsonian Museum’s digital archive of January 6, Uncivil Religion. She also produced a podcast episode, “Trads: Manufacturing Tradition in Catholic Churches in New Orleans,” through the University of Virginia’s Race, Religion, and Democracy Lab.
Research Area: Racial Justice & White Supremacy
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- Bluesky: @laurenhorngriffin.bsky.social
