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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...

As dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria leads an organization dedicated to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As a scholar who’s spent over 30 years on the HBS faculty, he studies human motivation, corporate...

Jonathan Walton, Professor of Religion and Society and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, offers a fresh perspective on the Bible’s overarching message of justice in his new book A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World.

Professor Caner Dagli, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, delivers a lecture as part of the Junior Fellowship Series "Religion and Nature" at the Center for the Study of World Religions.

Harvard Divinity School today announced the appointment of the first Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, a new chair that will be at the center of the School's work to educate the religious leaders of the future. Dean...

Renowned scholar of North American religious history Catherine Brekus has been named the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2014. Brekus is currently Professor in Religions in...

David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, has been named director of the School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. "Professor Little brings to...

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR).

Laura Salah Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has received funding from the Battelle Memorial Institute to organize a symposium. Scholars of diverse disciplinary training will meet for a symposium...

Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, passed away on August 3, 2019, at the age of 54. She died of natural causes. A distinguished scholar and engaging teacher, Monius taught for 17 years at Harvard Divinity School, where she specialized in...

On September 15, Donald K. Swearer delivered the 2008-09 Convocation Address: "An Ecology of Human Flourishing." Paul D. Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, delivered the Invocation; Dean William A. Graham provided welcoming remarks...

“Growing up, I always loved literature and the philosophical questions it asked about the world. Religion was the other discourse that I knew was interested in those questions,” said Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies...