Tiffany L. Stanley has been named managing editor of a forthcoming online journal from the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
R. Marie Griffith, PhD, the center’s new director and the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, announced Stanley’s appointment, which was effective July 1, 2011.
Stanley had been a reporter-researcher at The New Republic magazine since August 2010 in Washington, D.C., where she will continue to be based. She had also been a correspondent for Religion News Service.
“Tiffany is the ideal person for this very significant position at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics,” Griffith says. “She is an outstanding researcher and writer, with a great deal of experience reporting on religion and politics; and her dual background in journalism and the study of American religion makes her a terrific fit for us. We are extremely fortunate to have hired her, and I am confident she’ll do an excellent job.”
The news journal — which will focus on the role of religion in public life, the political arena and the academy — will include articles and editorial pieces solicited from journalists, academics and public figures.
As managing editor, Stanley will establish the online magazine’s overall editorial direction, mission, policies and procedures.
She will also work with center staff to build and maintain relationships with magazine readers, media outlets, journalists and university constituencies, including key partners in Washington, D.C., such as the Brookings Institution.
A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude and first-honor graduate, Stanley earned a bachelor of arts in journalism and a bachelor of arts in English, both in May 2005 from the University of Georgia.
She earned a master of divinity in May 2010 from Harvard University, where she also served as an editorial assistant for Harvard Magazine.
At The New Republic, she covered a range of topics, from Obama’s faith-based outreach to the melding of the Christian Right and the Tea Party.
As a freelance writer, her articles on politics and religion have appeared in USA Today, Houston Chronicle, The Times-Picayune, The Salt Lake Tribune, Christianity Today and Beliefnet, among others.
With her journalism background and graduate studies in religion and politics, Stanley is well-suited to lead a journal that connects scholarly research to current affairs.
“The relationship between media outlets and academics is often frayed by misunderstandings and differences of purpose and style,” Stanley says. “With experience writing in the academy as well as in journalism, I plan to encourage the nuance, historical context and rigor that scholarship demands, while also keeping an eye on the accessibility that is necessary to reach readers.”
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