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Dan McKanan joined the HDS faculty in July 2008 as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity. On Thursday, May 7, he will deliver the lecture to inaugurate the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist...

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...

Several members of the faculty at Harvard Divinity School have recently received research grants or won awards for teaching or academic scholarship. Mayra Rivera Rivera, Assistant Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies, has received a Lilly...

Frank Moore Cross, one of the premier biblical scholars of the past century, died on October 17, 2012, in Rochester, New York. He was 91. Cross was Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught...

The students in HDS alumnus Tom Anderson’s class on social ethics at Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Weatherhead School of Management are hard-driving business leaders. They’ve been successful in a hypercompetitive marketplace that often provides...

Women religious and millennials seeking meaning have become partners through a shared passion for social justice issues, community life, and their devotion to a greater purpose. The group, Nuns and Nones, has evolved with the help of several HDS alumni...

Graduating HDS students, their families, faculty, and staff participated in the 2016 Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2016. Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, gave the faculty address. Listen...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with HDS Professor Mark Jordan, who has written extensively in the field of sexual ethics, about...

When describing himself and his academic studies, doctoral student Axel Takács makes a certain, subtle distinction: "I don't want to say I study comparative theology," he says. "To say that I am studying to become a comparative theologian is a better way...

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...

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...

Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program. His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him...