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Books on Repeat

Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, shares the piece of literature he has reread the most, and what about it that keeps him coming back.
Books

Immersed in the World’s Currents

Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

James Comey: The Fall of a Niebuhrian

Former FBI director James Comey's story illustrates Reinhold Niebuhr’s conviction that historical events tend to refute our illusions, writes K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History.
James Comey

The CSWR Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is Parkman Professor of Divinity and outgoing director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, which he has led since July 2010. Matthew Weinstein, a second-year master of divinity degree candidate, spoke to...
Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Why France Fears Islam

Jocelyne Cesari is a Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics at HDS. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Birmingham (England)...
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HDS Student Named 2017 Newcombe Fellow

Jennifer Quigley, a ThD candidate, has been named one of 21 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2017 at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for...
Jennifer Quigley

Video: In Conversation: The Bicentennial Gomes Honorees

Alumni/Alumnae Council Chairperson Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, moderated a discussion with this year's Gomes Honorees about their time at HDS, their views on the importance of School, and their work in the world. The panel was part of HDS's...
Bicentennial Gomes Honorees

American Democracy Redux

Langdell Hall on the campus of Harvard Law School overflowed with more than 250 students on the first day of Professor Cornel West and Professor Roberto Unger’s “American Democracy” class. It was nearly 20 years ago when the two legendary professors...
HDS professor Cornel West

Bringing Honeybee to Scale

Katherine Collins, MTS ’11, is on the move again. In 2008, Collins left her position as the head of equity research at Fidelity Investments, where she oversaw assets of over $20 billion, to come to HDS and develop the ethical foundation she saw as...
Katherine Collins, MTS '11