R. Marie Griffith
WSRP Research Associate 2002–03
Home institution
Princeton University
Research project
Born Again Bodies: American Christianity and Disciplines of the Flesh
This project traces religiously motivated body practices, particularly pertaining to dietary regimen, in modern American history. It investigates the complicated alliances between Christian piety and cultural ideals of gender, race, and ethnicity in somatic terms.
WSRP lecture
Don't Eat That: Gendered Appetites and Erotic Abstinence in American Protestantism
Course
HDS 2379: Gender, Discipline, and the Body in American Religion and Culture: Seminar (Fall 2002)