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On Monday, September 18, inside Memorial Hall's Sanders Theatre, Harvard Divinity School held its 191st Convocation. In front of about 200 Divinity School community members, including faculty, staff, students, and alumni, Davíd Carrasco, the Neil L...

Cornell William Brooks, former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will serve as Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership at Harvard Divinity School for the 2019-20...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. How I've...

For a week in late January 2010, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after the 2009 coup, in which the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelya, was ousted by the country's...

New bag count data taken by Harvard University Operations Services shows that Harvard Divinity School captures 70 percent of its refuse for recycling or composting. This figure leads all University faculties and was announced in the February Recycling...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2015–16 by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and the Henry Luce Foundation. Paulsell's...

Harvard Divinity School has announced recipients of the two awards that are presented each June on its Alumni Day. At a luncheon held here on June 6, 2001, the First Decade Award will be given to Rick Santos, a Program Director for Church World Service...

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...

Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on New Year’s Day, 2016, at age 89. Koester was a leading scholar in the history of Christianity, New Testament exegesis and...

Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Potts has been driving over 75 miles from Falmouth, Massachusetts—where he lives with his family and...

The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Acting Dean David Holland on March 16, 2021. Dear members of the HDS community, I want to begin this note by offering my gratitude for the resiliency and resolve the members of our community...

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...