2015 Gomes Honors

Charles Collier, MTS ’73, is a longtime philanthropic advisor at Harvard, an advocate for Alzheimer's Disease research and treatment, and now a 2015 Gomes Honoree.

Throughout her academic career, Leila Ahmed, HDS's Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, has labored to understand the history of women and gender in Islam. Her scholarship has earned her the admiration of her colleagues. Her candor and skill as a...

Rakesh Rajani, MTS ’91, grew up in the African nation of Tanzania. As a young man, he returned home from college during breaks and noticed an uptick in children living on the streets. Day after day he saw them harassed, even beaten. He vowed not to stay...

Janet Cooper Nelson got the call late one night. The Rev. Paul Santmire, ThD '66, chaplain of her Wellesley College congregation, left a message with her husband that he needed to meet right away. She was tired after a long day at work, but Santmire said...

While at HDS, Casey found the resources to think deeply about lived religion and civil society Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important...