Marla F. Frederick, PhD, began her tenure as Harvard Divinity School’s eighteenth Dean on January 1, 2024, and was celebrated ...

Giovanna Parmigiani is an anthropologist of religion and a scholar of Contemporary Paganisms. Her work is firmly grounded in ethnographic and auto-ethnographic practices, and her primary interests are ...

David Holland serves as the Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. In July 2024, he became HDS associate dean for faculty and academic affairs. His research ...

Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, began teaching at Harvard in 1988, having previously taught at the University of Chicago and at Wellesley College. His work concentrates on ...

Amy L. Fisher is the Director of the Interfaith Center and the University chaplain at Suffolk University in Boston. She is an ordained elder in the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church.

“We need a more capacious sense of collectivity that can only emerge when we are willing to honor our stories and tell the truth about injustices that have shaped both environmental devastation and ...

Prayers service at Harvard's Memorial Church is conducted each weekday morning in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. A ...

View HDS courses taught by Stephanie Paulsell in the my.harvard Course Search. Also view FAS courses taught by Stephanie Paulsell. (HDS students: for jointly offered ...

The Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI) at Harvard Divinity School—the first of its kind at a divinity school within a research university in the United States—trains future Buddhist religious ...

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Research Professor of Divinity, has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions ...

Mayra Rivera is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University. Rivera works at the intersections between philosophy of religion, literature, and theories of ...

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza came to HDS in 1986, having taught previously at the University of Notre Dame, Villanova University, and the Catholic University of America. His primary interests are in the ...