Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities. She is a frequent commenter on podcasts, radio, and TV. Shepherd hosts the weekly American Campus Podcast and is author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and two forthcoming books, Inventing the Liberal University (University of Chicago Press) and Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press) co-edited with John R. Legg.
Shepherd has been named by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as part of its Class of 2024 leading women in the field of higher education. Her work and commentary have been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, New York Times, BBC News, Times Higher Education, Sky News, Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, NPR, POLITICO, Slate, Vox, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, News Nation, The Hill, The Conversation, and other US and international outlets.
Shepherd is a community scholar affiliate of Indiana University and the Society for US Intellectual History.
In addition to research and writing, she enjoys teaching Pilates and practicing yoga. She lives with her husband and their dogs in South Mississippi.
Shepherd can be reached at shephell@iu.edu and across social media at @llassabe.
