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Preston Williams has often been first: the first tenured African American member of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty; the first African American president of the Society of Christian Ethics; the founding director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois...

Constance Buchanan, a former director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School who developed the program into a permanent part of the School and University, died September 16, 2020. She was 73. A faculty member and associate...

Benjamin Perkins is an HDS alumnus, a vice president for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), and an ordained minister. As if that wasn't enough, Perkins, MDiv '00, began serving in July as a member of the Fenway Health...

Harvard Divinity School is pleased to announce that E.J. Dionne, the distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed columnist, will join the School for the 2017–18 academic year as a William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor...

by Jonathan Beasley Episcopal priest and theological scholar the Rev. Matthew L. Potts , MDiv '08, has been named Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2013. Potts works at the intersection of the practices...

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...

On a recent autumn afternoon in a packed Braun Room on the HDS campus, Anna Sun, a 2018–19 research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS, spoke about her research project this year, titled, “Women in Prayer: Gendered Religious Life...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Anne Monius about her fall 2017 class “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures”—an...

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...

Todne Thomas, an anthropologist who specializes in religion, race, and kinship, has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for...

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 an era of rapid change in religious identity and practice, institutional leaders across America ask “to what are we faithful?” As affiliation declines and new communities emerge, we are torn between loyalty to what has been and a desire to be part of...