Elisabeth Griffith

Elisabeth Griffith earned her PhD from The American University and an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College. She has been a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia Teachers College. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and professional journals and is currently teaching courses in women’s history and is currently teaching at the Smithsonian Associates and at Politics & Prose. She is the author of In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which was the inspiration for Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, Not For Ourselves Alone, and Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020.