Eliza Griswold

Position
Director, Program in Journalism; Lecturer, Humanities Council; Ferris Professor of Journalism
Bio/Description

Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, translator, and poet. She is the director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism, where she oversees the undergraduate program, develops new curricular offerings, and collaborates with campus partners in planning University-wide programs and events. Griswold has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades, where she has extensively covered religion, politics, and the environment. She has written and translated several books of nonfiction and poetry, including her latest “Circle of Hope:  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church,” which was short-listed for the National Book Award.