Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the U.S., even into slave states like Virginia, as an itinerant preacher from the early 1820s through 1840.... Read more about HDS Researcher Uncovers a Long-lost Rebellious Evangelicalism
Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2018–19 academic year.
WSRP 2017–18 Research Associate Avital Davidovich-Eshed, PhD (Bar Ilan University), Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies and Judaism, delivers her talk, "Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture."
Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) 2017-18 Research Associates discuss their research and share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender.
Though Taylor Petrey did his doctoral work on ancient Christian debates about the resurrection, this last year he found himself teaching a course at HDS on the 200-year-old tradition of Mormonism—a newcomer, by the standards of world religions.... Read more about At the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Mormonism
Between 1970 and 1985, HDS changed from an almost exclusively male institution into a school with a majority of women students and a commitment to gender analysis. A panel of those who propelled the women’s studies revolution follow its reverberations into the twenty-first century during a discussion that took place during HDS's bicentennial celebration.... Read more about Video: The Women’s Studies Revolution
Their research spans history, religions, and academic fields, and next year, five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects.
Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship.... Read more about The Groundbreaker
