Lauren R. Kerby is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion and a lecturer in the Department of Religion. Her first book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America (University of North Carolina, 2020), explores white Christian nationalists' stories about the United States and how they inform political behavior. She is currently working on a second book project, tentatively titled The Gospel of Rise and Grind: A History of Hard Work in America. Spoiler alert: she’s not a fan. For the last two years, Lauren has led the CCSR media team in producing public-facing scholarship on religion, and she’s written for The Atlantic and the Washington Post. Before coming to Princeton, she taught at Harvard Divinity School and Boston University. She lives in Plainsboro with her wife and two cats, who help her make good trouble wherever life takes her.