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HDS alumnus Cameron Partridge is the first openly transgendered chaplain at Boston University.

Mark D. Jordan, a pioneer in sexual ethics and a wide-ranging scholar of the history of Christianity, theology, and gender studies, has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment in...

Shira Telushkin, a student at Harvard Divinity School, is one of 12 journalism students and early-career journalists chosen by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland...

The American Academy of Religion (AAR) has published a new set of religious literacy guidelines that propose what graduates of two- and four-year undergraduate institutions should know about religion, according to Religion News Service. The multi-year...

HDS student Zack Guiliano has been selected as a 2012 Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge.

The secular and the divine at Harvard, once so intertwined as to be indistinguishable, have drifted apart throughout the University's history.

At one time in the not-too-distant past, Mouhamadou Diagne seemed destined for a career in academia. He was enrolled as an MTS candidate at HDS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, and was on course to pursue a PhD in education. But a chance encounter with...

The history of Harvard Divinity School may not be what you think. To celebrate HDS’s bicentennial, Ann Braude, director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History, has worked for more than eight months on...

Harvard University and HDS are celebrating Interfaith Awareness Week (February 4-9) with events aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue and understanding.

Preeminent New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away Friday, November 1, in Aubonne, Switzerland, after a long illness. He was 75. Bovon was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity...

Harvard University announced today that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Professor in Religion and Society and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president...

Ronit Irshai, Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University, visited HDS on December 11, 2013.