Awards

The Harvard Alumni Association announced that HDS Professor Preston N. Williams, PhD ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, was the first tenured African American faculty member...

Dean David Hempton has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Hempton, who is also the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, was admitted along with 28...

Zach Davis, MTS '19, was recently awarded the Chandler Award for Excellence in Student Religion Reporting by the Religion News Association, the premier journalism association for people who write about religion in the news media. He was honored for his...

For the fourth year in a row, Harvard has been named one of the world’s best schools for the study of divinity, theology, and religious studies by the influential  QS World University Rankings. The School rounds out a 2020 top three that includes the...

“From his days as a Camphill volunteer coworker to his ongoing work raising consciousness of Camphill’s vital contributions to humanity and environmentalism, Professor McKanan has done much to advance communities where people of all abilities are embraced...

The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97 and Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies, is one of this year's Harvard Alumni Association Award recipients, recognized for her outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni leadership and...

HDS students Mary Balkon, Aric Flemming, and Jade Sylvan deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 10, 2019. The competition winner was Jade Sylvan. In addition, Isaac Martinez, the Massachusetts Bible...

Jacob Olupona, HDS Professor of African Religious Traditions, was awarded the 2018 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. The award recipient is selected by the American Academy of Religion’s Committee on the Public Understanding...

Jacob Olupona, HDS Professor of African Religious Traditions, has won the 2018 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. In announcing the award, Alice Hunt, executive director of the American Academy of Religion, noted that “the...

Professor Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's book Ephesians won first place in the Scripture: Academic Studies category at the 2018 Catholic Press Association Awards. "This book presents a excellent study of Ephesians with a strong feminist perspective," the...