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The 2019 William James Lecture will be presented on May 1, 5:15 pm, by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages, and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His talk, “ The Planet: An Emergent...

It’s finally the time of year for sun, sand, hammocks, and reading lists. Members of the HDS community shared what they’ll be reading this summer—for work and for pleasure. Simran Jeet Singh, MTS ’08, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, columnist...

The following essay was written by the Founding Students of The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative. On June 5, 2020, Jamie Dimon was photographed kneeling in front of a local bank alongside branch employees, posed in solidarity with the Black Lives...

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...

Harvard Divinity School today announced a $25 million gift from artist and philanthropist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz, AB '64. The gift—the largest in the School’s 200-year history—will enable HDS to move forward on...

Something much more formidable than coal has come from Pennsylvania's dusky anthracite region. For former Proctor & Gamble and Exxon (later ExxonMobil) executive Edward B. Berninger, MBA '55, growing up in the hardscrabble communities of Scranton's...

Stephanie Paullsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On October 14, she spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦ The first time an adult man grabbed a...

What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...

At a faculty meeting on April 7, 2014, HDS professors Karen L. King and David D. Hall presented the following 'Memorial Minute' to pay tribute to their late friend and colleague. New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away...

"It's pretty difficult to see how you can understand anything about contemporary human affairs without understanding their religious dimensions," said Diane Moore, founder and director of HDS's Religious Literacy Project.

HDS students develop a deep and intellectually rigorous understanding of the world’s religious traditions and the ways in which they shape the lives of people everywhere. They learn to bridge divides of faith, culture, gender, and more by participating...

Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members will be in San Diego, California in late November to present during the 2019 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings. The conference, which takes place November 23-26...