Faculty News and Research

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West will return to teaching African and African American Studies 10: “Introduction to African American Studies” this semester.

HDS Professor Jonathan Walton will co-teach a new class this semester, "Martin Luther King Jr. and the Question of Conscientious Citizenship."

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 this year. While his name and his contribution to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are revered, some wonder if Dr. King’s legacy is in jeopardy amid a resurgence of racism, xenophobia, and hate...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies at HDS, will deliver Mercer University’s 28th annual Harry Vaughan Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion Lectures. She will present three lectures on...

Members of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) community expressed surprise and sadness at the passing of Lamin Sanneh, a renowned expert on global Christianity and African religion. Sanneh, the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology. On January 6, 2019, he delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are his remarks. ♦♦♦ When I was a child, our family would always...

A student exhibition at Andover-Harvard Theological Library probes the ties and tensions between Christianity and slavery during American bondage.

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, discusses the Spiritualism movement in America during the nineteenth century, and how it helped bring women—and reformist ideas—into the public sphere.

HDS Professor Giovanni Bazzana led his students on a journey exploring Jesus Christ as a man beyond—and before—the writings of the New Testament.

"We can only pray that people of all three faith traditions reach deep into their traditions to find how God wants us to live together in peace ...," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney.