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For Steven Jungkeit, balance is key: balance of his twin vocations as a Congregationalist minister and a professor of critical theory and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. Bringing these two elements together has produced some interesting results, such...

Harvard University has announced that Susan Shallcross Swartz, an artist and social and environmental activist, and her husband, James R. Swartz, AB '64, have donated $10 million to Harvard Divinity School. The gift will establish the Susan Shallcross...

Angie Thurston grew up acting, writing, and making visual art in Boulder, Colorado. So, when she came to Brown University as an undergraduate, she was thrilled to study with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. But while she learned a lot...

It is the calling of her life: to bring forward what she describes as "the small voice." This is the shared voice of the abused and raped, the orphaned and marginalized. This is the voice that Elizabeth Siwo-Okundi recognizes, and that is the subject of...

Ahmed Ragab, physician, historian, and scholar of the medieval and modern Middle East, has been named the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2011. Ragab was a visiting lecturer at...

After 22 years of teaching, writing and publishing, and serving in various academic and administrative roles from Colorado to Connecticut, Jane I. Smith returned to Harvard Divinity School on July 1 to serve as its new associate dean for faculty and...

Duncan Gardner, MDiv ’14, is one of the growing number of alumni of the HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI), the first program of its kind at a divinity school associated with a major research university. He tells the inmates in the Tennessee prison...

In a short Q&A, recent HDS graduate Lucia Ruth Hulsether, MDiv '14, discusses the impact of her experiences at HDS, her work on interfaith engagement, and the meaning of "community" at HDS. What were you doing before you came to HDS? I came directly to...

How can academic institutions address the fallout from acts of terror, such as the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris? Should they? During a recent HDS forum, "Violence, Freedom of Expression and Justice," panelists raised questions about free speech...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, inaugurated last year and given annually to a small group of graduates whose lives and work exemplify the mission and values 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...

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...