Walking around with the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown one day in early October, it was easy to understand why he had been dubbed "Mr. Mayor" at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod... Read more about Go-To Guy for the Displaced

Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness and A History of God, delivered the 2005 Ingersoll Lecture on November 10, 2005.... Read more about Is Immortality Important?

Jocelyne Cesari was Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at HDS for the 2004-05 academic year and has served as a research associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since spring 2001.... Read more about Q&A With Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Democracy

William A. Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of North Carolina on Sunday, May 9, 2004,at commencement exercises in Chapel Hill.

Graham, a Chapel Hill native, graduated summa cum laude from UNC in comparative literature in 1966. He went on to receive master's and doctorate degrees in the comparative history of religion and Islamic studies from Harvard, where he has been on the faculty since 1973....