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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...

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...

The following essay was written by Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, to mark the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 23 people and injured 23 others. When I was seven...

A day or two after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalist Monique Parsons, MTS '91, was glued to her television set, watching the major news organizations' coverage of the events. At some point, one of the anchors asked, "Why do they hate...

More than 100 new graduate students arrive on campus for Orientation starting August 27. For some, it’s the start of their graduate studies. For others, it’s a new chapter in their life. The 2019-20 incoming class includes approximately 130 students who...

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...

Jared Oubre, MTS candidate, spent much of his summer in 2013 with children who live on the streets of Managua, Nicaragua. The recipient of a Dana McLean Greeley International Internship from HDS's Center for the Study of World Religions, Oubre says he...

Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

The destruction of one of the world’s great civilizations. The slaughter of thousands of indigenous people—and the enslavement of thousands more. These atrocities were the consequence of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519. Yet Davíd Carrasco...

The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, died on January 2. Monson led the church for nearly 10 years, enabling a rise in the ranks of female Mormon missionaries and displaying an openness to scholars of...

Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday in the United States after Christmas, with Americans spending an estimated $6 billion annually. But while most people are familiar with the origins of the Christmas story, the background of...

Harvard Divinity School celebrates and honors the distinguished career of Professor Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, who, in July 2021, retired from full-time teaching at HDS and now serves as the Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic...