John H. Lenihan

Research Interests

John Lenihan is a cultural historian who includes religious thought in his teaching of modern U. S. cultural-intellectual history and has taught a special-topics course on film and Christianity.  His research addresses cinematic representations of religion in the ancient world in Hollywood epics that were particularly fashionable and politically nuanced in the 1950s.

Areas of Speciality

• Modern U.S.
• Cultural and Intellectual History