New Faculty Appointment

Charles Stang, HDS professor and CSWR director

Stang Discusses the CSWR’s ‘Peculiar Alchemy’

January 16, 2018

On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism in Eastern Christianity, Stang recently discussed his vision for the CSWR, which in 2018 will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding.
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Todne Thomas

New Faculty Members Excited to Share, and Build, Knowledge

September 26, 2017

“It’s almost surreal,” said Todne Thomas, Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS and the Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “Seeing faculty whose work I’ve been reading over the years and finding out that they’re just down the hall, there is a kind of positive surreal quality to it, even as you’re trying to find your way into the new culture.”

Todne Thomas

Todne Thomas Named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS, Radcliffe

April 18, 2017

Todne Thomas, an anthropologist who specializes in religion, race, and kinship, has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1.... Read more about Todne Thomas Named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS, Radcliffe

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