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Bernard Greenwald was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and at Yale University. He has been a professor of studio arts at Bard College for 32 years. In the latter part of his career, he has taught writing as...

New and old spots across Harvard's campus encourage pause and reflection for religious and mindful communities alike.

Preeminent New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away Friday, November 1, in Aubonne, Switzerland, after a long illness. He was 75. Bovon was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity...

As the director of Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation and senior lecturer of business administration, Derek van Bever, MBA ’88, MDiv ’11, makes management education his ministry. In so doing, he draws on his HDS experience and...

Only two years after its launch in April 2014, the Campaign for HDS is already having an impact on every aspect of the School's mission. New professorships enable HDS to extend its expertise in the study of the world's religious traditions and the ways...

Robert Franklin is worried about America. He sees distance, mistrust, and division in society eroding the foundations of U.S. democracy. A student of political science, Franklin understands that changing demographics, geographic isolation, identity...

The course of my entire adult life changed on a single day in October 2015, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was then an academic sojourner, dislodged into a temporality of ever-changing...

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...

Earlier this month, I was one of six Harvard Divinity School students sitting in the United Nations’ Security Council chamber listening to delegates from countries around the world talk about how faith and religion were both causes and solutions to peace...

As U.S. deputy secretary of state from 1985 to 1989, the investor, diplomat, and philanthropist John Whitehead saw that religion was the thread that connected many of the diplomatic challenges he faced around the world. He believed deeply in the...

Sevea studies the role of spirit mediums in the South and Southeast Asian Islamic world Teren Sevea grew up in a “universe of miracle workers.” They were in shrines, in cemeteries, in homes, and coffee shops, and, of course, on the streets of Southeast...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton launched the Campaign for Harvard Divinity School on April 4, 2014, with an address that laid out a bold vision that builds on the School's tradition of religious education, service, and scholarly excellence. What follows is the...