Language Study

One of the added benefits of this year's Summer Language Program (SLP) being held exclusively online due to the worldwide pandemic was that it became relatively easy for special guests to join class sessions. For example, in Karin Grundler-Whitacre's...

When Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, began to sing in his native Muscogee language in the main hall at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology this past October, it was a testament to the survival of his community and culture through centuries of...

Though Harvard’s many serene campuses can be fairly quiet during the summer, such is not the case at Harvard Divinity School. In early June, students flock to HDS to participate in the Summer Language Program (SLP), an intensive, two-month program that...

Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, has dedicated his life to revitalizing his ancestral tongue and the cultural identity it sustains. An indigenous Maskoke, for more than a decade he has been teaching his native language to college and high school students and...

Richard Grounds, executive director of the Euchee/Yuchi Language Project, who will deliver the Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice at the Center for the Study of World Religions, discusses the current danger of extinction for many...

"By the end of this week, I'll have you translating Goethe." This was the promise that Karin Grundler-Whitacre, director of the HDS Summer Language Program and lecturer on German, made to us on the first day of class. We looked back at her, incredulous....

The HDS Summer Language Program is an eight-week, intensive program in language study designed specifically for the curriculum in theological and religious studies and taught with a focus on translation and reading comprehension in a foreign language...

Harvard Divinity School students will have a new teaching tool at their disposal this fall. In addition to classes in Coptic, classical Arabic, and biblical Hebrew, students will be able to take a course in Spanish that is designed to help their day-to...

When HDS Professor Andrew Teeter was in college, he uncovered a fascination with the Hebrew Bible. He poured himself into his study of ancient Greek and Hebrew, even taking a summer job working the graveyard shift so he could resuscitate dead languages...