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 at the Smithsonian Associates and Politics & Prose. She is the author of In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady...See more

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 at the Smithsonian Associates and Politics & Prose. She is the author of In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton , which was the inspiration for Ken Burns's PBS documentary, Not For Ourselves Alone . The Wall Street Journal called In Her Own Right "one of the five best books on women's history," and O, the Oprah Magazine recommended it for women's history month in 2020. See less