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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recently announced the selection of 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013. Among them are Harvard doctoral candidates in history Philippa Hetherington and Caroline Spence, as well...

Hugh Turner, MTS '09, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Turkey in Cultural and Intellectual History, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. Turner is one of...

Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, has been named one of seven Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2011-12. The announcement was made in February by the Association of Theological Schools. In his year-long Luce project...

Vittorio Falsina was born in Brescia, Italy, on October 11, 1962. At the age of 12 he entered training with the Xaverian Missionary Fathers order. A skilled musician, he helped to lead the choir of his school. He was also a gifted pianist. Falsina...

The Journal of Law and Religion presented its 15th annual Lifetime Achievement Award to William A. Graham, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, at the journal's 21st annual...

Douglas L. Gragg has been appointed the new librarian of Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Gragg comes to HDS from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where, since 2005, he has been director of library and information technology services and...

Jeremy D. Battle, Willie D. Francois, Helen J. Kim, and Alissa J. Oleson, master of divinity students at Harvard Divinity School, have been recognized as young leaders who demonstrate exceptional gifts for ministry by The Fund for Theological Education...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) today announced the opening of the nomination process for the 2015 cohort of recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors. Inaugurated in 2013 and given annually, the award honors a small group of graduates...

Mark U. Edwards, Jr., a former professor of the History of Christianity at HDS from 1987 to 1994, and acting dean of the School for eight months in 1990-91, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs and special programs. He took over from...

Annemarie Schimmel, Professor Emerita of Indo-Muslim Culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, died on Sunday, January 26, in a hospital in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 80. Professor Schimmel, a world-renowned scholar of Islam...

Visiting Professor Ahmed Toufiq presented the lecture "The Friday Sermon: Searching for a Modern Speech in Orthodox Islam" on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, in the Sperry Room of Andover Hall. His lecture was the first public event in the expanding program in...

The celebrated New Testament scholar Giovanni Bazzana has accepted an appointment to the Faculty of Divinity as Assistant Professor of New Testament. Bazzana, who currently serves as a sessional instructor in the Department for the Study of Religion at...