Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion,government,and service. It also caters to students from other Harvard schools that are interested in the former field. HDS is among a small group of university-based,non-denominational divinity schools in the United States.
Robert Peter George is an American legal scholar,political philosopher,and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation,civil liberties,philosophy of law,and political philosophy.
Ruth Simmons is an American professor and academic administrator. Simmons served as the eighth president of Prairie View A&M University,a HBCU,from 2017 until 2023. From 2001 to 2012,she served as the 18th president of Brown University,where she was the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution. While there,Simmons was named best college president by Time magazine. Before Brown University,she headed Smith College,one of the Seven Sisters and the largest women's college in the United States,beginning in 1995. There,during her presidency,the first accredited program in engineering was started at an all-women's college.
Bruce L. Gordon is a Canadian philosopher of science (physics),metaphysician and philosopher of religion. He is a proponent of intelligent design and has been affiliated with the Discovery Institute since 1997.
James Robert Russell is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern,Iranian and Armenian Studies. He has published extensively in journals,and has written several books.
Eugene F. Rivers III is an American activist,and Pentecostal minister based in Boston,Massachusetts.
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University,the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes,including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
Vincent Gordon Harding was an African-American pastor,historian,and scholar of various topics with a focus on American religion and society. A social activist,he was perhaps best known for his work with and writings about Martin Luther King Jr.,whom Harding knew personally. Besides having authored numerous books such as There Is A River,Hope and History,and Martin Luther King:The Inconvenient Hero,he served as co-chairperson of the social unity group Veterans of Hope Project and as Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at Iliff School of Theology in Denver,Colorado. When Harding died on May 19,2014,his daughter,Rachel Elizabeth Harding,publicly eulogized him on the Veterans of Hope Project website.
Upinder Singh is an Indian historian who is a professor of History and Dean of Faculty at Ashoka University. She is the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (History).
Arthur C. Brooks is an American author,public speaker,and academic. Since 2019,Brooks has served as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow. Previously,Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of thirteen books,including Build the Life You Want:The Art and Science of Getting Happier with co-author Oprah Winfrey (2023),From Strength to Strength:Finding Success,Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life (2022),Love Your Enemies (2019),The Conservative Heart (2015),and The Road to Freedom (2012). Since 2020,he has written the Atlantic’s How to Build a Life column on happiness.
William James Abraham was a Northern Irish theologian,analytic philosopher,and Methodist pastor known for his contributions to the philosophy of religion,religious epistemology,evangelism,and church renewal. Abraham spent most of his career in the United States and was the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University and was a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Abraham was associated with the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church and was a proponent of canonical theism,a church renewal movement that looks to the canons of the ancient ecumenical church as a source for renewing mainline Protestant churches.
For the Canadian writer and editor,see Nancy Bauer.
Catherine Lowman Wessinger is an American religion scholar. She is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi,S.J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans where she teaches religious studies with a main research focus on millennialism,new religions,women and religion,and religions of India. She served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff and has been cited for her expertise concerning the Branch Davidians and other apocalyptic groups.
Margo Humphrey is an American printmaker,illustrator and art teacher. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Stanford after earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts in printmaking. She has traveled in Africa,Brazil,the Caribbean,and Europe and has taught in Fiji,Nigeria,Uganda,and the University of Maryland. As a printmaker,she is known for her "bold,expressive use of color and freedom of form",creating works that are "engaging,exuberant and alive." Her work is considered to be "in the forefront of contemporary printmaking."
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg is an American film and television producer known for co-producing and co-writing the Peabody Award-winning documentary series Time:The Kalief Browder Story in 2017. In 2016,she co-created End Time Girls Club,an end time-apocalyptic web series on YouTube.
Imani Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race,law,literature,and African American culture. She is currently the Henry A. Morss,Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women,Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University,a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute,and a columnist for The Atlantic. Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America:A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. In October 2023,she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Jacqueline Morreau was an American artist.
Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic administrator who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Gay's research addresses American political behavior,including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.
Kathryn Alexander is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University.
Jacqueline Ilyse Stone is an emeritus professor of Japanese religion in the department of religion at Princeton University and a specialist in Japanese Buddhism,particularly Kamakura Buddhism,Nichiren Buddhism from medieval to modern times,and deathbed practices in Japan. Stone has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
