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James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

Dr. Wylin Wilson, an HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program research associate, is a robust scholar who is deeply concerned with the ethics of her research. Wilson examines African American religions and women in the U.S., and her work often lends itself...

In a letter last weekend to the Harvard community supporting international students and faculty, President Drew Faust unveiled a plan to appoint the first full-time University-wide Muslim chaplain. Under the plan, which was the result of months of...

“Mouths don’t empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing,” wrote the twentieth-century anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston in Mules and Men, her collection of African American oral histories, sermons, songs, and folk tales...

Race and religion are among the best predictors of how Americans choose a president. Race and religion are also bases for political compromises that call into question our moral credibility on issues ranging from voting rights to police brutality. Cornell...

A message from David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School Today we announce a big step forward for Harvard Divinity School—the launch of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. At its core, Religion and Public Life (RPL) is about...

Davíd Carrasco joined the Faculty of Divinity in September 2001 as the inaugural Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Carrasco, who has been professor of the history of religions at Princeton University since 1993, is a world...

It’s finally the time of year for sun, sand, hammocks, and reading lists. Members of the HDS community shared what they’ll be reading this summer—for work and for pleasure. Simran Jeet Singh, MTS ’08, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, columnist...

HDS’s Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, was a friend and colleague of Nobel laureate and author Toni Morrison. Following Morrison's passing on August 5, 2019, Carrasco wrote a eulogy, which follows below. ♦♦♦ My...

In just a few days, 120 graduate students and early career scholars will converge at Harvard Divinity School for the second annual "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion." The conference, held October 25-26, will feature panelists from 60...

Renowned scholars of American religious history R. Marie Griffith and Leigh Eric Schmidt have been appointed to the HDS faculty, effective July 1, 2009. Griffith will be the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, and Schmidt will be the...