Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities. She is the host of the weekly American Campus Podcast, author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), and co-editor of the forthcoming edited volume “Decolonizing the Campus” 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.