About the Event
Hosted by AAR’s Academic Relations Committee (ARC)
Two years ago, Lauren Horn Griffin joined an ARC webinar to discuss what were then recent initiatives implemented in her department to recruit new majors. Given the number of programs in which the total number of majors (or annual number of graduating majors) has now become a metric of real consequence, it’s an ideal time to have Lauren back, to update us on their successes, continued challenges, and strategies to recruit but also to retain majors as well as student interest.
This is another webinAAR in a series of Academic Relations Committee (ARC) remote sessions that are offered each month; all of these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department and each session is recorded and posted on the committee’s page at the AAR site.
Event Guidelines
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Panelist
Lauren Horn Griffin is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, holding a joint appointment in 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.
Host
Kristin Scheible is the Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities in the Religion Department at Reed College and Vice Chair of the Academic Relations Committee.
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