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Giving Thanks and Going Forward

June 10, 2015

Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew L. Potts was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Graduating Class on May 27, 2015. Below are his remarks, as prepared for delivery: It's a great honor to stand in...

A Nurturing Partnership

June 09, 2015

Harvard Divinity School's membership in the Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium (HTIC) may be young, but it is already having tremendous impact as HDS's first HTIC fellow, Roberto Mata, graduated last month. Mata received a master of divinity...

Reclaiming Harvard's Divinity

June 02, 2015

Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, was selected by her student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2015. The following remarks were delivered by Bartholomew at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28. Like many of you, throughout my time here...

Recent Grad Finds Healing in the Classroom

June 01, 2015

At one time in the not-too-distant past, Mouhamadou Diagne seemed destined for a career in academia. He was enrolled as an MTS candidate at HDS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, and was on course to pursue a PhD in education. But a chance encounter with...

Ready to Change the World

May 28, 2015

It's one thing to apply, be accepted to, and attend Harvard. It's another to do that while writing a successful book and helping shift the public discourse around health care. That was the demanding path of Lauren A. Taylor, who arrived at Harvard...

HDS Alum One of Five Harvard Overseers Elected

May 28, 2015

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. One of the five newly elected Overseers is John Silvanus Wilson Jr., MTS '81, the president of Morehouse College...

Video: 2015 Diploma Awarding Ceremony

May 28, 2015

Congratulations to the class of 2015, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28, 2015. Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, was selected by her peers to deliver the student address. You can read the full text of it here.

Video: 2015 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving

May 27, 2015

Graduating HDS students, their families, faculty, and staff participated in the 2015 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving on May 27, 2015. Matthew Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, gave the faculty address.

Finding Strength in Community

May 26, 2015

On Wednesday, May 27, a new Harvard Commencement tradition took place. Latino/a students from across the University gathered for the first Harvard Latin@ Graduation Ceremony on the eve of Commencement to celebrate their accomplishments with friends and...

Growing as a Scholar at the CSWR

May 22, 2015

Shaireen Rasheed has been a visiting scholar for the 2014–15 academic year at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, where she has worked on a manuscript that explores the ethical concept of sexuality, Islam, and the war...

For One HDS Grad, the Surreal Made Real

May 22, 2015

Lydia Bremer had an unusual and lofty aim in her first year as a Harvard Divinity School student. "I made it my goal my first year to try and study in as many of the libraries as possible, and I reached a pretty substantial sum of them," said the master...

Getting Out What You Put In

May 20, 2015

Cody Musselman will graduate from HDS on May 28 with a master of theological studies degree. Originally from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she has been an active member of the HDS student body during her two years at the School. In a brief Q&A, Cody talks...