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Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at HDS, is the recipient of the alumni professional achievement award from McDaniel College. Carrasco graduated from McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College with a bachelor’s...

This conversation was presented on August 27, 2020, by the HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program, which brings five scholars in gender from around the country each year to enrich the experience of HDS students. The research associates shared their...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for his recent book, The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011). The award is presented to the author of...

Javad Hashmi spent the last decade of his life becoming a doctor, having recently completed medical school and residency. However, he admits that his "true passion" is, and always has been, theology. An emergency room doctor and fellow at the Center for...

Harvard Divinity School joins the rest of the religious studies community in honoring the life of Inés M. Talamantez, Professor of Native American Religious Traditions at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Talamantez, once a visiting...

A group of Divinity School students and staff exchanged differing opinions on the Massachusetts referendum questions on charter school expansion and the legalization of marijuana during a "Religion in the News" event at the Center for the Study of World...

Harvard University President Drew Faust announced today that David Hempton will become dean of Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1. Hempton, the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, succeeds...

Kera Street, MTS ’10, PhD candidate in the study of religion, and former DivEx participant now explores digital media, religion, and where and how they intersect.

Under the auspices of RPL, programs come together to promote a just world at peace Yaseen Hashmi, MTS ’21, didn’t expect an epiphany when he joined students from HDS and six of Harvard’s other graduate schools for a January-term course in Israel and...

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, discusses the Spiritualism movement in America during the nineteenth century, and how it helped bring women—and reformist ideas—into the public sphere.

Marla Frederick, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Religion, discusses her recent publication, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global. Listen iTunes SoundCloud

Their research spans history, religions, and academic fields, and next year, five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects.