Ruth Marie Griffith (born 1967) is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at

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and the former John A. Bartlett Professor at

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. Griffith majored in political and social thought as an undergraduate at the

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before getting her PhD in the study of religion from

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