Christopher Driscoll

Christopher Driscoll, PhD (Rice University, 2015) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Lehigh University. Some of his research interests include race, religion, identity, culture; climbing, technological innovation, and humanist and existential thought. He is co-founder of the American Academy of Religion’s Critical Approaches to Hip Hop and Religion Group and a contributing editor for The Marginalia Review of Books. His first monograph, White Lies: Race and Uncertainty in the Twilight of American Religion was published in 2015 with Routledge. White Lies blends philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies to “sight, cite, and site” white American religion in practice, while it also engages many of the ongoing challenges of and to (both academic and social) critical whiteness studies and area studies more generally. Find him online at shadesofwhite.org.