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HARVARD DIVINIT Y SCHOOL BICENTENNIAL DEAN’S REPORT 2016

FROM PRESIDENT DREW FAUST

THE FACULTY OF DIVINITY

TO BETTER SERVE OUR WORLD

IN MEMORIAM: HELMUT KOESTER

HDS: 200 YEARS OF NEW KNOWLEDGE, NEW VOICES, AND NEW IDEAS

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS 2015–16

CAMPAIGN UPDATE

FROM ASSOCIATE DEAN HANNAH PETERS

HDS IN THE YARD

FAITH IN LEADERSHIP

TOWARD A THIRD CENTURY OF LEADERSHIP IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION

FUNDRAISING RESULTS 2015–16

CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP

DONOR REPORT 2015–16

HDS FINANCIALS 2015–16

THE NEW WAVE

THE MODERN DIVINES

MINISTRY AND MILLENNIALS: A GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

THE DIPLOMATS

LEADERS WHO SERVE

WRITERS FIND THEIR VOICE

RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

HONOREES 2015–16

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From President Drew Faust When Harvard’s leaders established the nation’s first nonsectarian theological school in 1816, they gave it a clear mission: Harvard Divinity School would educate learned clergy. Over the next 200 years, fueled by rigorous minds and open hearts, that mission grew. Not only would the School prepare ministers to speak at the pulpit, it would produce scholars to discover knowledge. It would examine a range of traditions and explore diverse faiths. It would promote a culture of service and strive to inculcate goodness. It would create new generations of leaders, literate in religion, grounded in ethics, and passionate about social justice. As HDS celebrates its bicentennial, we see the fruits of that legacy. The School helped shape Theodore Parker, the nineteenth-century abolitionist whose words inspired Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. It was the home of Henry Cadbury, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization he co-founded and led for many years. More recently, HDS has set the standard for inclusion of women, people of color, and people of different religious traditions—both in the subjects of its teaching and research, and in the “Faces of Divinity” that populate its faculty, its student body, and the remarkable exhibit on the School’s history that graces its campus this academic year. I speak often about One Harvard and the idea that each part of the University is made stronger by the spirit and purpose of the whole. To me, the Divinity School is a part of Harvard that keeps our eye on the questions that matter. Where do we find meaning in an age of infinite information? How do we understand ourselves and our common humanity in a world that is more connected than ever but is profoundly shaped—and often shaken—by its contrasts and differences? This search for the experience of meaning and significance, as Dean Hempton puts it, is “humanity’s greatest challenge.” Harvard Divinity School aspires every day to meet that pressing challenge. Its work has never been more vital to our understanding of a complex world, to the well-being of our planet, and to the purpose of the University. Across campus, its subjects of inquiry have never felt more urgent—from the discussions of values and ethics buzzing across the Schools to the tremendous appetite at the College for answers to the complex questions of how to live a good life. For 200 years the Divinity School has demonstrated what it can do, and what it must do. As we celebrate its bicentennial, it is clear that we need HDS and the extraordinary community it creates. We need its leadership and insights. We need its humility on the path toward truth. And, most of all, we need its capacity to magnify and dedicate for the betterment of humankind the questioning soul, the curious mind, and the compassionate heart.

Drew Gilpin Faust President of Harvard University Lincoln Professor of History

“[In] the first hundred and fifty years of Harvard College . . . the study of divinity was at the center of a curriculum that was supposed to prepare students for all aspects of life.”

To Better Serve Our World At bicentennial, HDS Dean considers School’s evolving mission

On its 200th anniversary, Harvard Divinity School rests on a firm foundation— thanks largely to the leadership of its Dean, David N. Hempton. Since taking office in 2012, Hempton has helped lead the effort to restructure the University’s Committee on the Study of Religion, merged HDS’s doctoral program with that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and persuaded members of the Faculty of Divinity to devote a quarter of their teaching time to undergraduate education. In line with his vision for the School, Hempton has also tried to make HDS a leader in the study of religion at Harvard by encouraging cross-faculty initiatives with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School as well as FAS. He’s presided over the hiring of three new full professors and the promotion of six more, reinvigorating research, teaching, and scholarship at the School. Finally, Hempton has been the public face of the Campaign for HDS, which has so far raised over $30M for teaching, research, and student support. On the cusp of HDS’s third century, Dean Hempton shared his thoughts on the School’s proud past, its standing today, and the challenges and opportunities of the future.

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Harvard University was founded “to advance learning

and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.” Can you talk about the role played by the study of religion in general—and divinity in particular— in the founding of Harvard and in the University’s first 180 years before the establishment of the Divinity School?

FAS DEAN MICHAEL SMITH, DEAN HEMPTON, AND PRESIDENT FAUST

DEAN HEMPTON: Harvard College emerged from

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Fast forward to 1816.

the model of medieval and early modern universities,

Universities like Harvard are beginning to establish

suitably remade for Puritan reformers. Religion was a

separate divinity schools. What changed?

primary element of the curriculum in all areas: moral philosophy, theology, Christian doctrine, training of religious leaders—all of these things were central. But I think there’s something special about the Puritan tradition. The idea of “godly ministry”—with its attention to scripture and to serious study and to proper spiritual formation—really came out of criticism, both warranted and unwarranted, of established churches and their alleged intellectual shortcomings and pastoral mediocrity.

DEAN HEMPTON: Harvard Divinity School’s founding

is part of the move among Western universities toward the “Enlightenment project.” There’s an element of separation, an element of specialization, and an element of professionalization. At Harvard, I think these were represented by the fact that the Divinity School was situated at the edge of campus. I think it was a serious attempt to improve the training of religious leaders and ministers, but also a convenient way of allowing

So, it’s not surprising that the first hundred and

the University to separate out vocational religious

fifty years of Harvard College—from its presidents

preparation from the wider university curriculum.

through its faculty, students, libraries, and pedagogical aspirations—were really directed toward fields that had been a big part of the Puritan tradition. The study of divinity was at the center of a curriculum that was supposed to prepare students for all aspects of life.

I think the path of higher education during the late eighteenth century and going into the nineteenth century resulted in an immense and useful base of new knowledge, but the separation of vocational training from other aspects of knowledge has made it more

This kind of pedagogy was an artifact of the Puritan

difficult to think of solutions to problems in a holistic

frame of mind. The idea was that all knowledge began

way. We tend to come at them from our own particular

with conceptions of God and divine revelation. If you

vantage points. We see the legacy of that now, as

look at those great books of divinity that were written

President Faust talks about facing up to the complexity

by the seventeenth-century Puritan divines wherever

of modern problems and our inability to solve them

they showed up—especially in the more reformed

within a single discipline or even single school. So,

capitals of Scotland, the Netherlands, and New

I think one of the challenges facing universities like

England—the idea is that all we study is a reflection

Harvard going forward is how to make that enterprise

of the divine character. That’s the foundation point.

more whole again.

So you start off from there and then look at the natural world and other aspects of human life.

PRESTON N. WILLIAMS AND DEAN HEMPTON

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Although HDS was founded

in the liberal progressive tradition and beyond to

as a nonsectarian divinity school, its faculty and

other religious traditions. I encourage everyone in

students were overwhelmingly Unitarian. They were

the School’s community to come and check it out.

also all male and all white. Today, the HDS faculty

It is both an aesthetic and a learning experience.

includes 2 or 3 scholars in each of the world’s major religious traditions. Our student body is mostly female and represents around 30 different faiths and denominations. How did we get from there to here?

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Fifty years isn’t a long time

for changes as dramatic as the ones you describe. You mentioned “bumps in the road.” What challenges accompany the School’s evolution?

DEAN HEMPTON: What’s striking about the School

is just how the original opening of “nonsectarian, nondenominational” began to broaden out. It was very slow at first. We began to embrace Catholics, and then move beyond Christians to Jews, and then beyond that to other global religious traditions. At the same time, there has been an increasing diversity of race, ethnicity, and gender. That has been true of our students and our faculty.

has struggled with is how to embrace its roots in liberal Protestantism, while being open to new people and new traditions. What happens when our interest in diversity and inclusion don’t match up with our interest in the progressive tradition? How comfortable are our faculty and students with people from conservative traditions—whether they’re evangelicals,

This isn’t a triumphalist narrative. There were bumps

Catholics, Muslims, or Jews? You can argue that this

in the road. There was also resistance and limitation.

aspect of diversity is the one with which the School has

I remember when I first came to HDS, I looked at some

struggled most. In a sense, the DNA of the School’s

of the photographs of our faculty in the 1960s. We were

intellectual content goes against it.

still essentially a white male faculty club. But I think the process of opening out to diversity and inclusion has gathered speed over the past 50 years, so that now we’re at the very top end of Harvard’s graduate schools in terms of gender and racial diversity.

DEAN HEMPTON: One of the things that the School

I think the vital thing at HDS is not where one comes from, necessarily, but the willingness to engage with the other. If you’re so locked into a tradition that you don’t much care about other traditions or other perspectives, Harvard Divinity School is probably not

This is really the story that Professor Ann Braude and

the place for you. It can nevertheless be a challenging

her research associates tell brilliantly in the School’s

and fulfilling place for people with strong convictions

bicentennial exhibit, “Faces of Divinity.” It traces the

that are outside of the historic, liberal progressive

history of HDS, from our founding as a nonsectarian,

trajectory of the School, but they have to be willing to

nondenominational school, through its evolution

engage with everyone else.

“I would hate to see a future where the West, with its ever-greater proportion of people unaffiliated with any religious tradition, does not take seriously an important component of the lives of people in other parts of the world. I think that’s a recipe for disaster.”

Generally, our students are characterized by curiosity

of globalism—the ever-growing sense that, with

and willingness to engage, a willingness to think

faster communications of every kind, we are living as

and to examine their own presuppositions, as well

a global family. That family has many different religious

as engaging with other people’s presuppositions, to

traditions that we need to know about.

see which of them hold water, and which need to be revised and reconsidered. It’s not our job to weaken people’s religious or ideological convictions. It’s our job to engage in open discussion and to interrogate our own presuppositions in the same way that we interrogate those of others.

In terms of how the shift in focus has changed the School, we now think of our students in terms of three tracks, broadly defined. One is the master of divinity, which still has an emphasis on the ministry track. The master of theological studies tends to attract people on a second track—those who want to prepare for an academic career in the teaching and study of religion.

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: The other big shift at HDS

More and more, though, HDS attracts students on

in the past couple of generations has to do with the

a third track of leadership in areas where ethical

emergence of the academic study of religion. How did

knowledge or religious knowledge is vital to the career

a school created to train liberal Protestant ministers

that they’re pursuing—whether that’s leadership

become a leader in the kind of critical scholarship that

in NGOs, international relations, global health,

usually takes place at a top-flight faculty of arts and

journalism, or even business.

sciences? HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Why does the School have DEAN HEMPTON: I think there are a number of

this kind of model? What’s so valuable about our

factors. One was the formation of the Center for the

“hybrid” mission?

Study of World Religions (CSWR) in 1958, which was one of the first places to think about religion globally and in terms of multiple traditions, as both insiders and outsiders. That was a big impetus for change. A second factor was the formation of the Committee on the Study of Religion. We don’t have a religion department at Harvard, so the Divinity School has always been integrated with the teaching of religion, particularly at the undergraduate level, outside the

DEAN HEMPTON: Ironically, I think biological

metaphors can be helpful in understanding what we do at HDS. There’s a certain kind of hybridity that produces sterility, an animal that can’t reproduce or a floral system that can’t. Certain kinds of hybridity produce the opposite. They produce a whole new ecosystem of creativity.

professionalization of ministry. A third is just the rise 5

“We have to curb our ambitions for teaching, learning, and public conversation because we don’t have the right spaces. There’s so much more we could do if we had the campus resources.”

That’s the way I like to think about our professional and

Harvard and other areas of study. How does religion

academic leadership training and how we balance them.

shape business, peacebuilding, public health, and

They produce new kinds of questions and new kinds of

other professions? What do journalists, or educators,

engagement. I think this is what makes HDS so special.

or diplomats need to know about religion in order to

What we have here is an ecological system for the

serve our world better?

training of leaders that is tremendously generative.

One of our great problems as a research university is the lack of preparation we give people who will have

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: It also sounds like a system

to deal with the 84 percent of the world who regard

that’s pretty complex. What are some of the challenges

religion as a primary organizing principle of their lives.

of leading a school with this sort of mission?

That makes me nervous. I would hate to see a future where the West, with its ever-greater proportion of

DEAN HEMPTON: One big issue for me as dean is

how to move in new directions while retaining our traditional strengths. So, on the one hand, the recent promotion of Professor Mayra Rivera is important for us in terms of conceiving of religion and theological

people unaffiliated with any religious tradition, does not take seriously an important component of the lives of people in other parts of the world. I think that’s a recipe for disaster. We have already seen some of the negative consequences in our approach to world affairs.

study from a Latina perspective, while Ahmed Ragab has brought new perspectives from Islamic traditions

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: That brings up a topic that’s

on the history of science and medicine. These are

near and dear to you: religious literacy. When people

new. At the same time, we’ve recently hired a New

hear that term, they often think about the basic nuts

Testament professor, a Hebrew Bible professor, and

and bolts of a tradition. We do it differently here. Can

we’ve hired and promoted professors in American

you speak to that a little bit? What do we really mean

religious history. Those are areas where we’ve

when we talk about religious literacy at HDS?

historically been strong. Of course, even in a field like American religious history we’re trying to move beyond the Puritan New England track and teach more about new religious movements, about American Catholic history, about our borderlands history and the West. The challenge for our school is to do this well and in ways that build out from our tradition without superseding it. We want our intellectual engagement to evolve and also to spread out to other parts of 66

DEAN HEMPTON: I’m a historian. You can’t really

do much history without knowing some facts about dates and so on, but any history that stops there is just useless. What’s really important is interpretation and analysis. It’s somewhat the same with religion. You do need to know the facts, but religious literacy is really about a much deeper, wider, richer engagement

DEAN HEMPTON WITH MEMBERS OF THE HDS RACIAL JUSTICE AND HEALING INITIATIVE

with living traditions. It’s a serious treatment of text

the campus resources. I would also like to see more

and of knowledge, but also of all the ways in which

international students at HDS and to think of more

religion is enacted: rituals, beliefs, practices, values

creative ways we can educate people about global

and structures, relationships with outsiders, and

religious traditions without them having to enroll

a thousand other things. We’re not just teaching

in lengthy degree programs. In other words, we are

the algebra of religion; we’re teaching something

continually thinking of ways to expand our reach and

more dynamic and culturally sophisticated. HDS

influence within Harvard and the wider world.

has particular strengths in what we like to call “lived religion,” and religious literacy has to embrace that living complexity. We also want to rediscover some of religion’s traditions of peaceful coexistence and conflict resolution.

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: Okay, last question. You’ve

joked to prospective students that in 2016–17, HDS will be a “party school” for the first—and perhaps only— time in its history. In all seriousness, what excites you most about the bicentennial celebration?

HDS COMMUNICATIONS: As you look to the future,

where would you like to see HDS in five or ten years?

DEAN HEMPTON: I’m excited about the whole year,

really. We’ve already had an outstanding Convocation DEAN HEMPTON:

If I could wave a magic wand,

with President Faust and our speaker George Rupp,

I’d produce an environmentally friendly campus

the former dean of HDS who went on to lead Rice

that was fully up to our aspirations to be a major

and Columbia Universities as well as the International

convening space, so that we can really make the

Rescue Committee. I’ve mentioned “Faces of Divinity,”

difference we know we can make in the world. Look

our bicentennial exhibition. I think it’s going to be

at the people we’ve drawn to campus in recent

fantastic in helping answer some of the kinds of

years: Toni Morrison, Jimmy Carter, the Karmapa,

questions you’ve asked about the School and its history.

and the Sultan of Sokoto. Look at the conversations

I’m certainly looking forward to the gala celebration in

we’ve hosted on the ways religion shapes peace and

April with Marilynne Robinson’s Ingersoll Lecture and a

security, global health, the arts, human rights, and

whole set of neighborhood and musical extravaganzas.

nearly every other topic of intellectual inquiry. So often

I’m excited to get our alumni engaged again with

we have to hold these events off campus because

the School in a deep way, and to read the special

we simply can’t accommodate them here. We have

bicentennial edition of Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and to

to curb our ambitions for teaching, learning, and

celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pluralism Project.

public conversation because we don’t have the right

There are so many things. This is a year of reflection,

spaces. There’s so much more we could do if we had

aspiration, and celebration. 7

Harvard Divinity School: 200 Years of New Knowledge, New Voices, and New Ideas

1816

1826

“The theological seminary of the University” is first mentioned in the minutes of the October 18 meeting of the Harvard Corporation, signaling the founding of Harvard Divinity School.

The School dedicates its first building, Divinity Hall. “We want powerful ministers, not graceful declaimers, not elegant essayists . . . to make themselves felt in society,” declares the Rev. William Ellery Channing, the day’s featured speaker.

1838

1872

Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, urges the School’s senior class to “cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.” His “Divinity School Address” causes a furor and Emerson is not invited back to campus until 1874.

Charles Carroll Everett, HDS ’59, Bussey Professor of New Testament and Dean of the School, offers a class on East Asian religions, the first comparative religion course given in the United States.

The New Wave HDS SAILS INTO THE FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE

arvard Divinity School has long been at

Three hires in particular illustrate the breadth and

the forefront of the study of religion. From

depth of HDS’s new faculty. The theologian Myra

the New Testament scholarship of Helmut

Rivera brings philosophy, literature, and politics

Koester and Krister Stendahl to the

together to explore modernity, the Latina/o experience,

founding of the Center for the Study of World Religions

and the postcolonial world. Andrew Teeter continues

and the Women’s Studies in Religion Program, HDS

HDS’s tradition of excellence in the study of the

faculty have transformed existing areas of research and

Hebrew Bible and was named Outstanding Teacher

pioneered entirely new fields of knowledge. Now, as

by students in 2013 for his mastery in the classroom.

the School celebrates its bicentennial, HDS is acting

Ousmane Kane came to the School from Columbia

aggressively to ensure that its preeminence in critical

University in 2012, bringing expertise in Islam, Africa,

scholarship not only continues, but also expands.

and political science. Together, this troika represents

“For 200 years, HDS has been a leader in the study

the “new wave” of scholarship shaping religious

of religion,” says Dean David N. Hempton. “Today,

knowledge for the twenty-first century.

the School’s faculty is one of the few in the world world’s major faiths. As we look to our third century,

PROFESSOR MAYRA RIVERA: THE WORD MADE FLESH

HDS will increasingly draw scholars from Africa, Asia,

Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies Mayra

and Latin America—as well as Europe and the United

Rivera cares about bodies: bodies sent to war, where

States—to reflect the multireligious and complex

they are harmed; bodies relegated to slums that are

reality of the twenty-first century.”

unhealthy or workplaces that are unsafe; bodies that

Since his appointment as dean in 2012, Hempton has

are the place where flesh and blood meet spirit.

overseen the hiring of some of the country’s leaders

“My research looks at the way that seemingly abstract

in the study of religion. In 2014, for instance, HDS

concepts like transcendence, flesh, and glory shape our

lured the distinguished historian of American religion

perceptions of the world—and how those perceptions

Catherine Brekus away from rival University of

in turn shape our morals, our values, and our behavior.”

Chicago Divinity School. That same year, Mark Jordan,

Rivera approaches theology in a way that integrates

that can boast some of the top experts in many of the

a pioneer in the study of sexual ethics, gender, and theology, rejoined HDS from Washington University in St. Louis.

the poetic nature of the Christian texts she studies not only conveys information, but also enables the

The School has also acted to retain promising young

reader to have an experience that goes beyond words.

scholars as they rise to the top of their fields. In the

“Religious texts entice readers to see and feel

last two years alone, five junior faculty have received tenure, including Giovanni Bazzana, whose work focuses on the synoptic Gospels and Apocalyptic literature; Charles Stang, recipient of the 2013 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise; and David F. Holland, an expert on American religious and intellectual history. 10 10

both the philosophical and the literary. She says that

differently,” she says. “They use stories, parables, poetry, and metaphors in a way that’s often startling. That’s why I find it essential to incorporate literary approaches in my examination of religious texts—and to consider the ways that the strategies of religious writings enrich literary analysis.”

MAYRA RIVERA

Through her focus on Latina/o studies, Rivera straddles the intellectual traditions of the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean to bring the literary together with the metaphysical. It’s a stance that is methodological, but also deeply personal and political.

“I am painfully aware of the marks [that the legacy of colonialism in Puerto Rico] has left in our bodies—for many generations.” Mayra Rivera

“I learned the history of my own country first through

experimentation, testing of Agent Orange in the rain

literature, when history texts were unbelievable,” she

forest, the contamination of land around military

says. And later, under the influence of writers like Jorge

bases, and restrictions in sustenance agriculture,”

Luis Borges, Gloria Anzaldúa, Edwidge Danticat, Nicolás

she says. “And thinking about such material practices,

Guillén, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, I relearned to

I am also painfully aware of the marks they have left

take seriously seemingly fantastic stories, and to attend

in our bodies—for many generations.”

to the political impulse undergirding poetic writing.”

Through her theology, Rivera moves beyond

In her recent book, The Poetics of the Flesh, Rivera

technocratic debates about social structures, laws, and

wrestles with the legacy of colonialism on the bodies

economics to the very real impact that history and

of people in the Caribbean, including her native

policy have on the flesh and souls of human beings.

Puerto Rico.

“I was interested in ways to change our perception,

“When I think of the legacy of colonialism in Puerto

to help us sense the connections between ideas and

Rico, I tend to think about material practices—medical

materiality, between words and flesh,” she says. “In

1884

1906

Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Ephraim Emerton co-founds the American Historical Association, today “the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions” in the United States.

Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Francis Greenwood Peabody founds Harvard’s Department of Social Ethics, melding the teaching of ethics with social science and his own perspective on Christianity, which emphasizes social action. 11

“I’m trying to foster an environment in which students can have a transformative intellectual encounter with the material.” Andrew Teeter

Poetics of the Flesh, I sought to offer a way of thinking,

production attending its early interpretation, all

envisioning, and sensing bodies that would take

in relation to the development of Jewish thought,

seriously how they are shaped in relation to social

belief, and practice in the Second Temple period.

arrangements—which are always, also, material

Teeter wants to understand how these texts are

arrangements—and to take them seriously by

designed to function as communication, the

understanding them deeply, and reflecting on their

strategies of discourse and the modes of persuasion

ethical implications.”

they employ, and what the texts expect of readers, the world they project, and the claims they make.

PROFESSOR ANDREW TEETER: LISTENING TO VOICES FROM THE HUMAN PAST

“My work is about understanding early Jewish

This summer, when you and your kids were sitting

theological discourse of Second Temple Judaism take

through The Secret Life of Pets or some other

the forms of expression that it does? What do these

blockbuster, you were actually watching a pretty

forms of literary production mean, and what do they

sophisticated cultural product. The reason it may

imply for the Jewish thought of the period? These are

not have seemed that way to you is because you grew

some of the questions that drive my work.”

up with most of the film’s “cultural memes” and

“My research and teaching focus on understanding

processed them automatically. But a story that was

the poetics and formation of the Hebrew Bible and

written thousands of years ago? Not so much.

the diverse modes of literary production attending

That’s the challenge Professor Andrew Teeter takes

its early interpretation,” he says, “all in relation to the

on with his work on the Hebrew Bible. Teeter teaches

development of Jewish thought, belief, and practice

students to think in ways that differ, sometimes

in the Second Temple Period.”

strongly, from their own native intuition, textual

In the classroom, Teeter employs an innovative

competencies, and training as twenty-first-century

approach that makes use of digital and other media

readers in order to understand one of the most critical

to illuminate biblical stories written thousands of

texts of Western culture.

years ago. His use of everything from impromptu

“The Hebrew Bible is a work of immense literary

blackboard murals to mashups of pop songs has made

creativity and sophistication,” he says. “Understanding

him a favorite of students.

this literature and the thought underlying it requires

“I’m trying to foster an environment in which students

learning to attend to a variety of sometimes surprising

can have a transformative intellectual encounter

presuppositions, patterns, and communicative

with the material,” Teeter said in the wake of being

strategies. Overcoming this cultural gap poses a

named HDS’s Outstanding Teacher in 2013. “That

major challenge for us today—one that demands

means doing anything I can, whether that’s Keynote

a substantial intellectual investment to overcome.”

presentations, bringing in media, film, YouTube clips,

Teeter has invested most of his own adult life in

or chalkboard drawings. I try anything because each

research and teaching designed to bridge this gap.

thing will connect with different students.”

As a scholar, he explores the poetics and formation

While the history of the interpretation of the Hebrew

of the Hebrew Bible and the diverse modes of literary

Bible is important in its own right—whether you

encounter with scripture,” he says. “Why does the

1908

1909

The Harvard Theological Review is launched, realizing Charles Carroll Everett’s hope for a nondenominational theological journal. The HTR becomes one of the country’s leading academic journals in the study of religion.

Edmund Harrison Oxley, SB ’09, is the first African American to graduate from HDS.

Ultimately, he wants to help people learn to listen to

PROFESSOR OUSMANE OUMAR KANE: WEAVING AFRICA INTO THE TAPESTRY OF ISLAM

the voices of the human past.

Ousmane Kane, HDS’s Prince Alwaleed Bin

“This work is an encounter with the minds of persons

Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion

who are in so many ways just like us, despite the vast

and Society, wants to paint a much broader and

chasm of time, language, and cultural distance,” he says.

more accurate picture of Islam. A leader among

“It’s about appreciating the exquisite skill and artistry of

a burgeoning group of scholars in the field, Kane

this literature, whether or not it corresponds to our own

works to bring the Muslim heritage of Africa

artistic conventions or aesthetic preferences; it is about

to light.

learning to recognize the profound depth of theological

“In the West, Islam is strongly associated with the

reflection on perennial human problems and how

Middle East,” he explains. “Even in academia, most

this reflection is brought to literary expression. These

of the books published each year focus on that region.

outcomes are not only priceless rewards in their own

In fact, the Muslims of the Middle East represent

right, they also represent increasingly rare skills that are

only 20 percent of the tradition’s 1.6 billion followers

ever more urgent in today’s society.”

worldwide.”

want to understand Judaism or Christianity—Teeter says that his work is about something more as well.

WILLIAM GRAHAM, OUSMANE KANE, AND DAVID HEMPTON

1911

1914

Andover Hall is completed and dedicated by Andover Theological Seminary in fulfillment of a plan to share faculty with HDS. The plan is reversed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1926, and the building is purchased by HDS in 1935. It becomes the School’s main classroom building.

HDS establishes the doctor of theology degree, the first doctorate at Harvard in the study of religion.

To address this critical gap in religious knowledge,

Africa lecture series that brought prominent scholars

Kane in June published the breakthrough work

to campus. In 2017 and 2018, Kane hopes to make HDS

Beyond Timbuktu. The product of 20 years of

the site of two international conferences on Islamic

scholarship, the book is the first true overview of

scholarship in Africa. Finally, he is working with the

intellectual history in Muslim West Africa. Kane

School’s Office of Ministry Studies to develop a course

says that his goal was to tell the story of the process

on spiritual cultivation in Islam—perhaps as part of

through which Africa was Islamized.

a new initiative in Islamic spiritual life—for students

“During the second millennium, the Arabic language

preparing for religious leadership.

played a transformative role in West African history,” he explains. “Some Islamized people in the Sahara gradually deserted their linguistic, cultural, and ethnic identities to claim exclusive Arab identities. Others retained their African languages but used

“I want to give people a better understanding of the tradition to show that Islam is compatible with democracy and tolerance . . . . ” Ousmane Kane

Arabic script to transcribe them, chronicle history, and write poetry. Arabic as a linguistic vehicle of

“Right now I teach courses on contemporary Islam,”

knowledge transmission was as important in the

Kane says. “They include ‘Islam, Modernity and

history of Muslim peoples as Latin was in Europe.”

Politics’; ‘Religion and Political Violence in the Sahel

Africans forever changed Islam, Kane says, influencing religious scholarship and intellectual life for more than a millennium. For this reason, it’s impossible to understand the tradition without a picture of how it was shaped by its spread throughout the continent. “With the spread of Arabic literacy, African scholars developed a rich tradition of debate over orthodoxy and meaning in Islam,” Kane says. “Its rise was strongly connected to centers of Islamic learning

and North Africa’; ‘Islam in Modern West Africa’; and ‘Muslim Politics.’ In the years to come, I want to develop new courses to help provide a holistic education—particularly to our MDiv students planning a career in ministry.” At a time when “the Islamic question” is central both to domestic politics and to international relations, Kane says that it’s critical to correct misconceptions about the religion and to draw a more accurate picture of Muslims around the world.

outside of Africa. From Morocco to Egypt to the

“Those who make news with violence and who get

Muslim Holy Lands, African scholars have played

the lion’s share of media coverage represent a tiny

significant roles in the development of virtually every

minority of the more than 1.6 billion Muslims,” he

field of Islamic sciences. Islamic scholarship in Africa

says. “Yet, they have hijacked Islam. I want to give

remains just as significant today.”

people a better understanding of the tradition to

Kane is also having an impact on the School’s mission to drive the conversation on global religion and to educate men and women who devote their lives to service. Last year he collaborated with colleagues in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the Islam in

show that Islam is compatible with democracy and tolerance, that Muslim immigrants can integrate into Western societies, and that Westerners and Muslims can collaborate in a way that is mutually beneficial.” —Paul Massari

1916

1918

The Alumni Association of HDS commemorates the School’s one hundredth anniversary. “The Divinity School stands on the same academic footing . . . and enjoys the same atmosphere of freedom in research, inquiry, and exposition” as Harvard’s other graduate schools, says President Emeritus Eliot.

Around 50 theological schools from Canada and the United States convene at Harvard for the conference “Problems of Theological Education Arising Out of the War.” The gathering becomes the impetus for the transnational Association of Theological Schools. 15

The Modern Divines HDS STUDENTS AND ALUMNI SHAPE MINISTRY FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM

n December 1815, President John T. Kirkland,

In the 200 years since Kirkland’s appeal—and the

appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause,

School’s founding—HDS graduates have shaped

which human benevolence is permitted to advance”:

religious communities large and small and extended

the education of ministers at Harvard University.

their influence far beyond the pulpit. Now, as the

His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s

Divinity School embarks on a third century of leadership

“peculiar” interest in these professionals:

in religious education, its students and alumni are

“We want him not to transact our business and to

expanding ministry in ways even their visionary

receive a compensation; but to be our friend, our guide, an inmate in our families . . . to receive from him impressions on a subject, which more than all others concerns us, and with which our improvement and tranquility through life and our future peace are most intimately connected.”

forebears might not have imagined. Both women and men, they serve followers of all of the world’s major traditions—or no tradition at all. Innovative and entrepreneurial, they bring ministry out of the house of worship and into the lives of people who need its touch. Most of all, these new leaders draw on religious resources to build community, work for justice, and help people everywhere lead richer, more meaningful lives.

THE HARMONY SOUNDS GOOD TOGETHER The education of progressive Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist ministers is literally embedded in Harvard Divinity School’s DNA. The legendary Rev. William Ellery Channing actually penned the 1815 appeal that went out in Harvard President Kirkland’s name. The list of graduates from the School’s first half century reads like a “who’s who” of UU—and early American— history: the writer and social critic Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’25; the abolitionist Rev. Theodore Parker, HDS ’34; the “Saint of the West,” Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, HDS ’34. The Rev. Erik Martinez Resly, MDiv ’12, represents a new generation of HDS alumni carrying on the progressive UU tradition. As founder of The Sanctuaries, an interfaith arts community in Washington, DC, Martinez Resly ministers to devout Muslims, Hasidic Jews, Evangelical Christians, Humanists, and many others. All come together to experience art as spiritual practice and to place their creative and theological imaginations in service to REV. ERIK MARTINEZ RESLY

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social justice.

“For the people in our community—particularly folks

the composers to record the work. Now The

who didn’t grow up with any particular tradition—

Sanctuaries is partnering with local radio stations to

making art is an incredibly meaningful, transcendent,

get the work on the air and to offer any proceeds from

spiritual practice,” he explains. “We try to empower

sales of the recording to Empower DC’s campaign.

people to claim their soulful voice, to express

“It was incredibly meaningful for the residents to have

themselves and their stories creatively, and then to

people who were spiritually grounded take the time to

collaborate on projects that have a direct impact on

listen and amplify their voice,” Martinez Resly says.

the lives of people in our city.”

“What we do is about personal empowerment, but

At The Sanctuaries, Martinez Resly not only brings

personal empowerment in service of a higher cause.”

people together from different traditions, but also

Martinez Resly hopes that The Sanctuaries will continue

connects the devout with the “nones,” the burgeoning

to grow in the years ahead. The challenge is to make

group of Americans who identify with no organized

the group financially sustainable. Washington is an

religion. The community’s glue is the process of

expensive base of operations, and the artist/members

creating art, which Martinez Resly says enables all

of the community often have few financial resources

members to be authentic individuals and, at the same

of their own. Still, Martinez Resly is hopeful that the

time, have an experience together of something greater

group’s combination of diversity, creativity, and activism

than themselves.

will prosper. There is always the need for sanctuary.

“We can never fully grasp the fullness of each

“There is a certain secret sauce to the soulfulness that

other’s differences,” he says. “But when two people

people experience and embody in our community that

compose a song together, there are those moments

is magnetic,” he says. “It’s one of the reasons that we’ve

of being in sync. It’s more than just working side

been able to grow the way we have while spending

by side. There’s a sense of connection there that,

almost no money on any advertising. Just giving people

for me, is a moment of divine touch. We really need

an opportunity to tap into, to discover, and to embody

each other and we feel it in a visceral way. Literally,

that sanctuary within themselves, within one another,

the harmony sounds good together.”

and to live that in their daily lives—I think that can

Martinez Resly’s community puts the power of this

have a tremendous impact.”

experience into practice through social justice work, organizers Empower DC on a public housing

MAKING SPACE FOR MUSLIMS IN THE UNIVERSITY—AND AMERICA

campaign. Members of The Sanctuaries visited the

Celene Ibrahim, MDiv ’11, is one of a growing number

Barry Farms project in Washington’s Anacostia

of HDS alumni who pursue religious leadership in

neighborhood amid pressure to tear the development

a tradition other than Christianity—and in a setting

down and replace it with condominiums. In response

other than a house of worship. As Tufts University’s

to the complaints of residents who said that they felt

Muslim chaplain, Ibrahim works with students to

shut out of the conversation about the future of their

enhance and improve religious life on campus. During

community, a singer and a spoken word artist from

her first two years on the job that meant collaborating

The Sanctuaries created a poetic history of Barry

with other administrators, architects, and development

Farms. Residents were so touched that they urged

staff to create a well-located and dignified space

as it did recently when it partnered with community

1919

1922

The Italian historian and priest George La Piana becomes the first Roman Catholic to hold a position at the Divinity School when he is appointed an instructor in church history.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, STB ’22, represents all Harvard graduate students as one of three student speakers at the University’s Commencement. Johnson’s address, “The Faith of the American Negro,” gives an unvarnished account of American race relations and calls on Christians to work toward legal protections from the federal government. 17

“We try to empower people to claim their soulful voice, to express themselves and their stories creatively, and then to collaborate on projects that have a direct impact on the lives of people in our city.” Erik Martinez Resly

where Muslim students could pray and still keep to a tight class schedule. Thanks to her work—and to contributions from students, parents, alumni, and others throughout the university community—the space was recently finished. “It was a vital development to have a designated space for our basic, everyday religious needs,” Ibrahim says. “That moment was a milestone for the integration of Muslims into the university, but, at a larger level, what it signaled to me was the continued integration of Muslims into the fabric of America.” The students in Ibrahim’s chaplaincy are as diverse as Islam itself, hailing from China, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, northern Africa, and all across the U.S. Some are deeply devout, waking up in the “wee hours of the morning to memorize the Qu’ran.” Others have a cultural identity shaped by Islamic norms but are not particularly religious. Ibrahim’s job is to balance the needs of all. “The challenge is to make sure our community is big

CELENE IBRAHIM

enough to welcome people who are Muslim in their cultural identity as well as those who are Muslim in their religious identity,” she explains. “So, we try to integrate religion into our social events, and have a social component to our religious programming.”

“When people encounter the religious other, it awakens them to resources that enhance their own religious experience.” Celene Ibrahim

At the heart of Ibrahim’s pastoral work is spiritual direction. Here, too, there’s an enormous range of

than themselves is supporting and protecting them, the

needs and concerns. Students who grew up hearing

other concerns often work themselves out.”

the call to prayer five times a day often come for help

Ibrahim, who is also the co-director of the Center for

upholding their spiritual practice amid the different

Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education

rhythms of university life. Others have questions

(CIRCLE) of Andover Newton Theological School and

common to any young adult forming their own

Hebrew College, says that her ministry extends beyond

identity: Am I loved? Do I belong? Will I be okay?

the Muslim community. Ultimately, it’s about creating

“When you’re doing ministry in a tradition that teaches

spaces where people can encounter diversity and

that God is in charge of the universe and means well for

difference in a way that deepens their own commitments.

you, all you really have to do is help people feel that,” she

“When people encounter the religious other, it awakens

says. “Once they sink into that sense that a force greater

them to resources that enhance their own religious

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1947

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers the University’s first PhD in the history and philosophy of religion. In 1963, the program will become the Committee on Higher Degrees in the Study of Religion, overseen jointly by FAS and HDS faculty.

HDS professor Henry Cadbury, a Quaker, accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Stockholm on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization he co-founded and led for many years.

experience,” she says. “They’re called to explain why

Dharma Fellowship of Cambridge, Owens works with

and how they do things, and, in the process of

the students there to “connect their own inner wisdom

explaining, they end up seeking good answers to good

back to them.” This means shifting away from the usual

questions. They go into an interreligious encounter

day-to-day focus on the negative behavior of others—and

thinking that it will be decentering to their faith or

ourselves—and onto the goodness within us all.

identity. In fact, it anchors them even more profoundly.”

“In a teacher-student relationship, my job is actually to cut through the faults that you manifest,” Owens

RADICAL DHARMA

explains. “We get so wrapped up and distracted by the

Established with a 2011 gift from the Robert H.N. Ho

things we struggle with that we don’t know how to

Family Foundation, HDS’s Buddhist Ministry Initiative

celebrate and to nurture the things that are inherently

(BMI) has become a major draw for students from and

positive about us.”

of that tradition. In fact, there are now more Buddhists

Owens’s innovative approach to ministry integrates

at HDS than Unitarian Universalists. According to the Rev. Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, the BMI has had a profound influence on the School’s ministry studies program.

social media platforms to extend the reach and impact of his teaching. He uses Facebook and YouTube in particular to help those who feel isolated find community online. His posts are designed to start conversations with people he might not ordinarily

“We need to examine our feelings, our emotions, our trauma—as well as the ways in which each of us may help create the conditions for violence. That’s the radical dharma approach.” Lama Rod Owens “Studying pastoral care and counseling and studying chaplaincy at HDS now is very highly inflected by Buddhism, and I think that may be a permanent development,” she says. “It’s not just that we’re

meet and to create new collaborations. Owens’s use of social media started in the wake of the 2014 police shooting of African American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the unrest that followed. At the prompting of Buddha Dharma magazine, Owens engaged in dialogue about the violence with the Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, an author and Zen priest. They recorded their conversation and posted it on YouTube, where it got thousands of views.

preparing for Christian ministry and we try to

“We were very surprised at the way people gravitated

understand other people’s traditions. If you’re going to

to that video,” he says. “It was shared and viewed all

be a Christian minister, you need to know something

over the place. People felt like we were speaking to

about Buddhist practices of death and dying, Buddhist

something important.”

wisdom about mindfulness, Buddhist wisdom about

The conversation that caught fire on social media

caring, showing compassion to other beings. That, to

yielded others between Owens and Williams in

me, is very exciting.”

different locations around the country. When they

Although his serene demeanor would indicate

were finished, they collected their thoughts in a book

otherwise, third-year MDiv candidate Lama Rod Owens

released last spring: Radical Dharma: Talking Race,

is a big part of the excitement. A teacher at the Natural

Love, and Liberation.

1955

1957

The German theologian Paul Tillich comes to Harvard as University Professor, based at HDS. During his time on campus, Tillich will publish The Dynamics of Faith and work on his magnum opus, the threevolume Systematic Theology, published in 1963, one year after leaving HDS.

Emily Thornton Gage becomes the first woman to graduate from HDS. Gage was joined by the first women admitted to the School: Joyce Mann, HDS ’55; Constance Parvey, BD ’63; Letty Russell, STB ’58; and Marianka Fousek, ThD ’60.

“For me, the book was the initial articulation of how

Owens, who will finish his studies at HDS in 2017,

I have survived a social context that has been more

plans to pursue studies in social work.

violent than kind,” says Owens, who grew up African American in the deep South. “Radical dharma is about recognizing the interconnectedness of life— and therefore the part we play in everything that goes on around us. It’s about having conversations that seem impossible to have and to saying the words we have been too afraid to say out loud. And it means transforming ourselves through knowledge into the kinds of people who are capable of changing the world.”

“I will always be a spiritual teacher,” he says. “Being at HDS has taught me to translate that work, to think about it and write about it. Now I want to take that foundation to work with people formally around trauma. We need to examine our feelings, our emotions, our trauma—as well as the ways in which each of us may help create the conditions for violence. That’s the radical dharma approach.” —Paul Massari

LAMA ROD OWENS, LEFT, WITH HIS HOLINESS THE 17TH GYALWA KARMAPA AT HDS

1958

1959

Professor Frank Moore Cross publishes The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, a 196-page book that becomes one of the leading texts about the Dead Sea Scrolls and establishes him at the forefront of his field.

Helmut Koester joins the faculty. Named John J. Morison Professor in 1963, Koester becomes one of the world’s preeminent New Testament scholars, forging new connections between biblical studies and archaeology. His two-volume Introduction to the New Testament becomes a classic text for scholars, clergy, and laypersons alike. 21

Ministry and Millennials: A Growth Opportunity At a time when many see the decline in religious affiliation among young people as a crisis, Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, both MDiv ’16, see a growth opportunity. Co-authors of the study “How We Gather,” Thurston and ter Kuile say that millennials hunger for the kind of experience traditionally associated with religion—and that secular organizations like the fitness community Crossfit are proliferating to meet the need. “There are all sorts of religious elements to Crossfit,” ter Kuile said during a presentation at HDS last April. “Different workouts are named after different people—fallen soldiers or police officers—so there’s this ritualization of grief. You have a workout of the day, just like if you were saying the Lord’s Prayer in this church over here and I’m over there. There’s a sense of connection across space. [Founder] Greg Glassman talks about how he wants to shepherd a flock. It’s a real phenomenon.” Thurston and ter Kuile work to bring the resources of ministry to groups like Crossfit, the Dinner Party, Daybreakers, and many others stepping—often unconsciously—into the religious space. Last November, the two brought 50 leaders of these new secular communities together for a conference at HDS to build relationships with each other, learn skills, and share wisdom. They also brought leaders from different religious traditions into the conversation to share their own experience and best practices. The result, Thurston said last April, was that group leaders were able to move past their “knee-jerk reaction to religion.”

ANGIE THURSTON

“Over the course of the conference, leaders of the secular communities began to use, unbidden, the language of faith,” she said. “At the end of our time, we did a closing circle. Usually people would name the things they were hopeful, afraid, and proud of. Person after person replaced the word ‘hope’ with ‘faith’.” Ter Kuile, who came to HDS with an interest in activism more than in religion, said he could identify with leaders of secular groups who don’t think of what they do as ministry. After taking courses like “Introduction to Ministry Studies” and “Meaning Making,” however, he realized that the skills of religious leadership—the ability to organize a community, to speak with power, to listen, reflect, and draw on the wisdom of the world’s faith traditions—could make his work for environmental justice more effective. As HDS moves into its third century, ter Kuile says that the School is in a position to offer leaders like him the knowledge they need to work for a better world. “The people we’ve been building relationships with are doing ministry,” he said. “They would never have considered coming to Harvard Divinity School, but the core of what we offer is exactly what they need. In fact, some of the people who came to the conference last fall are applying to HDS because we’re able to have conversations that people want to have but don’t know how to. We just need to talk about what we offer in ways that people can hear.”

CASPER TER KUILE

The Diplomats HDS ALUMNI SHAPE EFFORTS FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, PEACE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

teven Simon’s warning in the January 4, 2000,

Simon, MTS ’77, is part of a group of Harvard Divinity

edition of The New York Times was like cold

School alumni helping to shape U.S. diplomacy and

water in the face of Americans still bleary-eyed

foreign policy at the highest levels. These graduates—

from partying like it was 1999. Simon, fresh

who also include the first female director of religion and

from a counterterrorism assignment in the Clinton

peacebuilding at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the first

White House, and his National Security Council

United States permanent representative to the United

colleague Daniel Benjamin wrote of a new combination

Nations Human Rights Council—carry with them a

of “religious motivation and the desire to inflict

deep understanding of the world’s major traditions and

catastrophic damage,” among extremists in the Middle

a commitment to ethics and justice. Together, they are

East. This movement, they predicted, would only

forging a new approach to international relations that

“grow and persist” even if its then little-known leader

acknowledges the central role of religion.

Osama bin Laden were arrested immediately. When Simon and Benjamin’s words proved prophetic on September 11, 2001, it illustrated the importance of religious knowledge—and the consequences of its absence—in national security and foreign policy circles.

CONFRONTING THE NEW FACE OF TERROR Simon came to the U.S. Department of State and then the White House at a time when modernization and secularization theory were still the dominant ways

“Social science tended to derogate or deride

of understanding the Middle East. These held that

the importance of religion,” he says. “People in

religion was obsolete and that the “new Middle Eastern

government just didn’t think in those terms.”

man”—technocratic, military, left-leaning—would lead his country to secularism and economic development. On academic leave at Oxford after the first Gulf War, Simon studied Salafist literature and considered its implications for Middle Eastern politics. The Islamic revivalism of the late twentieth century made it difficult for analysts to ignore religion as a force shaping popular consciousness throughout the region. Simon says that his HDS experience put him at the vanguard of a new group of diplomats looking to integrate an understanding of religion into U.S. foreign policy. “After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Clinton administration decided that they needed to have somebody working full time on counterterrorism,” Simon explains. “They pulled me by the collar and put me in that job. I and certain colleagues in the CIA were very tuned in to the evolving role of religion in Middle Eastern politics. I was sensitized to

STEVEN SIMON

it precisely because of my background at HDS. That’s 100 percent the reason.”

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As senior director of transnational threats at the National Security Council, Simon took note of troubling developments in the Middle East. Authoritarian regimes repressed political speech, only to see it go underground and resurface as religious expression. “There was a revival of Islam, which really took off as the previous model of development began to show its bankruptcy,” he says. “The mosque became the only place to express dissent because these regimes were all very repressive, for the sake of survival. Osama bin Laden was an exemplar of this sort of revivalism” Simon left the administration in 1999, but sought to return to service after the September 11

FROM LEFT: EHUD BARAK, BARACK OBAMA, AND STEVE SIMON

attacks. Unfortunately, the partisan divide in Washington left no place for someone who had served in a Democratic White House. Simon became the deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where

“I was sensitized to the evolving role of religion in Middle Eastern politics precisely because of my background at HDS. That’s 100 percent the reason.” Steven Simon

he sought to exert influence through his writing and scholarship. He collaborated again with Daniel Benjamin on The Age of Sacred Terror, which traced the roots of Salafi jihadism back to medieval times. The book won the 2004 Arthur Ross Award from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). After stints at the CFR and the RAND Corporation, Simon got the call from the White House once more in the early years of the Obama administration. His second tour on the National Security Council came at a time of profound change. As the staffer in charge of North Africa and the Middle East, Simon dealt with the revolutions of the Arab Spring, military intervention in Syria, the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, and crises between Turkey and Israel. Always in the background of all were negotiations on what would

FROM LEFT: SIMON, PREM KUMAR, DENNIS ROSS, DENIS MCDONOUGH, OBAMA

1960 The Center for the Study of World Religions, founded in 1958, dedicates the building that will be its permanent home. Featured speaker Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, soon to be president of India, urges "goodwill and understanding of the basic principles which govern the lives of the different peoples,” in his address, “Fellowship of the Spirit.”

SUSAN HAYWARD WITH 28 YOUTH PEACEBUILDERS IN DHARAMSALA, INDIA

“At HDS I came to fully appreciate my own tradition, Christianity, as kind of the divine disruptor of the world.” Susan Hayward

SUSAN HAYWARD IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, WITH MEMBERS OF THE ECUMENICAL WOMEN’S PEACEBUILDING NETWORK (GEMPAZ)

become the administration’s most significant foreign

role of religion,” he says. “That’s really sunk in.”

policy achievement: a nuclear deal with Iran.

Looking to the future, though, Simon says that it’s

“The security cabinet meets all the time, so you

critical for policy makers to understand not only the

help prepare the national security advisor and the president,” Simon says. “I staffed 40 cabinet meetings

religious overtones of conflict, but also their historical, economic, and political context. Only then can they

on just my countries, and 80 subcabinet meetings in

have a complete picture of the strategic landscape.

the White House. I traveled with Secretary of Defense

“It’s sort of like the Thirty Years’ War,” he says.

Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Clinton and,

“Religion was a huge component of that, but at the

among other things, staffed President Obama’s weekly

end of the day, the negotiation wasn’t only about

calls to [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu.

religion. It was about how to deal with each other’s

It was a whirlwind of activity.”

interests, stop fighting, and create a durable peace.”

Simon left the Obama Administration in 2012 to become executive director of the International Institute

DIVINE DISRUPTOR

for Strategic Studies (IISS) Middle East office, then

Working for durable peace is more or less Susan

returned to academia. First at Dartmouth and now

Hayward’s job description. Where Simon keeps

at Amherst College, he teaches courses on Middle

his eye on the potential for religiously inspired

Eastern history, political economy, intelligence, and

violence, Hayward, MDiv ’07, director of religion and

policy. In June, Simon published Our Separate Ways, a

peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace

book about one of the most emotionally charged issues

(USIP), leverages the power of faith communities to

in U.S. foreign policy: the U.S.-Israel relationship.

resolve conflict.

In it, he contends that rapid demographic, political,

“Through USIP’s religion and peacebuilding program,

and social changes for both countries have led to the

we work in active conflict zones around the world,

emergence of important strategic differences. To save

across myriad faith traditions,” she says. “We seek

the relationship, he says it must be “reconsecrated.”

to develop effective processes for engaging religious

“There is, in its origins, a kind of covenant between

actors and factors to advance interfaith respect and

the United States and Israel,” he says. “It originated in

cooperation, promote human rights, strengthen

sacrifice, profound on the Jewish side, but there was

security and justice, and to address the needs of those

also the United States, which destroyed Nazi Germany

living in the midst of violence.”

and then facilitated the creation of the State of Israel. If

Established by Congress in 1984, USIP is involved both

we care about that relationship, then the simple step is to restore it, or as I put it, ‘reconsecrate’ it. Our Separate Ways puts forward some ideas for doing that.”

in research and analysis and in the implementation of peacebuilding efforts around the world. Since 1989, the Institute has had programs exploring the role of

Simon is now working on a new book, “The Long

religion in conflict and peace. USIP’s first, primarily

Goodbye: The United States and Middle East from the

research-based, religion program was led by former

Islamic Revolution to the Arab Spring.” He says that

Harvard Divinity School professor David Little.

there’s been a sea change in the way that those in the

Hayward, the group’s current thematic expert in the

Foreign Service think about religion. “At this point,

area of religion, has partnered with governments and

everybody understands the powerfully motivating

international organizations on field projects in

1963 In response to the Ecumenical Vatican Council II in Rome, HDS hosts a fourday Roman Catholic–Protestant colloquium. The conference, the first of its kind at Harvard, attracts 120 theologians and features an address by Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.

Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Colombia, and Iraq. She begins

supported religious actors working to de-escalate the

her work by examining the immense complexity of the

situation and head off outbreaks of violence.

forces that influence the situation in any conflict zone.

“I went in and got to know how the various religious

Hayward arrived in Myanmar, for instance, at a time of

communities were responding to the peace process

massive social, political, and economic transformation.

and ceasefire negotiations and to the transition from

In the wake of the Saffron Revolution, where Buddhist

authoritarianism,” she says. “We helped by providing

monks took to the streets, the country was transitioning

knowledge and strategy about how to do interfaith

to democracy from nearly 50 years of military rule. The

work in a way that could truly transform the dynamics

stresses on the society manifested as tension between

of conflict, as well as the state structures that impede

Buddhists and Muslims. Hayward and her team

peace.” Hayward, who is a minister in the United Church of Christ, says that she chose the ordination path with her current career in mind. At HDS, she was impressed at the way that Christian ministry combined the prophetic voice and pastoral care—both essential to peacemaking. “There always needs to be a balance between calling out, telling truth to power, and bringing care and love to those who are living in situations of violence,” she says. “I came to fully appreciate my own tradition, Christianity, as kind of the divine disruptor of the world, achieved through this prophetic-pastoral approach.” Today, as a member of the clergy, Hayward can relate to religious actors as a colleague, rather than as an outsider looking to harness the local faith community to serve political or security interests. Most of all, the ordination path gave her the internal resources to do work that can be frustrating and challenging as often as it is rewarding. “The deepening and strengthening of my spiritual practices and commitments has not only given me a moral compass, but also internal resilience,” she says. “Most importantly, it’s given me hope that violence doesn’t have the last word, that love overcomes hate, and that putting your faith and your belief in those

SUSAN HAYWARD WITH THE DALAI LAMA

things is not a weakness, but a strength.”

1964

1965

Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith brings the study of Islam in its sociopolitical contexts to HDS as the new director of the Center for the Study of World Religions. His leadership draws a generation of young scholars who will influence the field through studies of Islam in a range of political, cultural, historical, and national settings.

Professor Harvey Cox publishes The Secular City, in which he discusses the decline of creedal Christianity and “the presence of God in all of creation.” The book becomes an international bestseller and is selected by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the twentieth century.

EILEEN CHAMBERLAIN DONAHOE

THE HEART OF HUMAN RIGHTS

and in everything I’ve done . . . . Even though there

While she didn’t pursue an ordination path, Eileen

is an individualism at the heart of the human rights

Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, shares Susan

movement, in many ways, the biggest question is

Hayward’s commitment to ethics and values.

‘How do governments get to treat their citizens?’”

She came to the Divinity School to delve deeply

As the first permanent U.S. representative to the

into philosophical and moral questions before

United Nations Human Rights Council from 2010

embarking on what’s become a 30-year career in law,

to 2013, Donahoe worked at the intersection of

international security and cooperation, human rights,

morality and pragmatic diplomacy. She and her team

and diplomacy. She says those concerns—and the

achieved concrete results on fundamental issues,

years she spent at HDS reflecting on them—continue

not by dictating right and wrong to other nations

to shape her life and work.

but by asking them to reflect on their own history

“Those questions about how society is organized . . .

and values. On the issue of freedom of assembly

about the relationship between government and

and association, for instance, Donahoe built support

citizens,” Donahoe said at HDS in 2014, “I’ve carried

with Argentina by calling to mind the protests of the

with me from those days on throughout my career

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose children had

1968

1971

HDS adds a new graduate degree, the master of theological studies (MTS), which enables students to combine theological studies with studies in a secular field chosen by the student, such as teaching, social work, or religious journalism. In the ensuing years, the MTS becomes the largest degree program at the School.

Preston Williams becomes the first tenured African American professor at HDS, and one of only a handful at Harvard. As Acting Dean of the Divinity School in 1974–75, Williams also becomes the first African American to lead one of Harvard’s graduate schools. 29

been “disappeared” by the country’s authoritarian regime in the 1970s. For Poland, it was the Solidarity movement. For South Africa, it was antiapartheid. “If they didn’t have the right to assemble and associate, then those societies would not have been transformed,” Donahoe said. “In each of these cases, you could see the light in the eye of our diplomatic counterparts. They would say, ‘Yes. That’s our value. We own that.’” At the same time, she and her team struggled with fundamental differences in values between the United States and other nations. She found herself at odds, for instance, with representatives from other cultures who believed it was their moral obligation to oppose equal protection under the law for lesbian, gay, and transgender citizens.

EILEEN CHAMBERLAIN DONAHOE

“People would stand up in Palais des Nations room 20 where we did our work in Geneva and feel very certain that they were standing up for truth and justice by not supporting LGBT rights,” she remembers. “The clash of values was just palpable.”

“At the end of the day, truth can only be told on some level in ways that are different than linear analytic thinking.” Eileen Donahoe

After serving out her term at the United Nations, Donahoe was appointed director of global affairs at

Whether at the UN or HRW, Donahoe says that her

Human Rights Watch (HRW), where she represented

work has been animated by a personal commitment to

the organization worldwide on “human rights foreign

care, service, and justice that “comes from a place that

policy, with special emphasis on digital rights,

has a spiritual and religious dynamic.” She appeals

cybersecurity, and Internet governance.” One of her

to that same energy in others in her efforts to resolve

top priorities has been narrowing the “digital divide”

conflict, build consensus, and advance human rights

between the 65 percent of the developing world that has

around the world.

no access to the internet and their online counterparts.

“There’s such resonance in that idea of getting people

“While those of us who live in the digital ecosystem

to step back and claim their values,” she says. “People

can’t remember what daily life is like without Internet

are animated by things other than the intellect. At the

connectivity or our digital devices,” she wrote on

end of the day, truth can only be told on some level in

the Human Rights Watch site in March 2016, “the

ways that are different than linear analytic thinking.

majority of people in the world have zero digital

Whether it’s literature, spirituality, or mysticism, that’s

experience . . . . These digital divides have the potential

where the truth is. That’s what really animates people

to significantly exacerbate existing global inequality

around the world.”

and lead to conditions where conflict is more likely.”

—Paul Massari

1973

1974

The Women’s Studies in Religion Program is founded, the first initiative at Harvard dedicated to the study of women and gender. That same year, Caroline Walker Bynum (right) begins as the first woman in a full-time teaching position at HDS.

Harvard College establishes the undergraduate concentration in “the Comparative Study of Religion,” overseen by the joint FAS/HDS Committee on the Study of Religion.

Leaders Who Serve HDS STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ANSWER THE CALL TO SERVICE AROUND THE CORNER AND AROUND THE WORLD

he call to service is literally in Harvard

when students engaged in prison ministry and created

Divinity School’s DNA. It’s visible in the

a Philanthropic Society dedicated to the promotion of

vision of Harvard President John Kirkland,

peace and education and to the alleviation of poverty,

considered by many to be the founder of

among other “benevolent projects of the day.”

HDS, who appealed to alumni in 1815 for support of an institution that would prepare those who “enter our houses in affliction,” and “give us light, admonition, and consolation in suffering, sickness, and the last hours of life.” It’s there in the School’s earliest years,

“Women are often not at the center of rehabilitation or reentry services, and I am passionate about changing that.” Silva Mejia

Two centuries later, HDS still empowers men and women who serve their communities, societies, and the world. For some, this means working one on one to teach writing to an incarcerated student. For others, it means heading up an NGO that works to improve the health of millions of people in developing countries. Wherever they go and however they serve, HDS students and alumni are the “boots on the ground” that make the world a better place.

EDUCATION THROUGH SERVICE Silvia Mejia came to HDS thinking she would pursue further graduate work in religion. Instead, she ended up having a life-changing experience that led her to discover her passion: serving those who were invisible to her, and to many others. “I took the course ‘Ethics, Punishment and Race,’ taught by Professor Kaia Stern. The class took place at MCI-Norfolk, a medium-security men’s prison. Half of the students came from different Harvard schools, and the other half were incarcerated students,” she said. “In the class we explored the American incarceration crisis and its religious roots, but what was most transformative about it was learning alongside people behind bars.” Mejia’s passion for service, particularly serving others through prison ministry, was brought out not only through her courses, but also through the experiential learning opportunities at HDS. The School’s Field Education Program and the Harvard Prison Education Project (HPEP)—along with Partakers and Boston University’s Prison Education Program—enables students to provide academic mentoring for those SILVIA MEJIA

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pursuing a college degree while incarcerated.

Mejia worked as a teaching assistant and co-taught a

Santos, MTS ’92, now president and CEO of the

writing course at MCI-Framingham, a women’s prison

global public health NGO IMA World Health, was

about 20 miles from Cambridge. She also mentored a

in Thailand during a time of political unrest and

student through HPEP. Her passion endured despite

uncertainty in the region, with refugee camps filled

having to allot three extra hours of time for commuting

with hundreds of thousands of Cambodian, Laotian,

and processing through security at the prison.

and Vietnamese people on the northeast Thai border

As a teaching assistant for the course “The Art

and with the first Burmese refugees who came in

of Expression: Constructing Experience through

from the West. It was a pivotal time for him, and one

Writing,” Mejia began each class with a check-in

that eventually led to HDS.

during which the students named a celebration or

“What was really important for me was to be able to

challenge that took place during their week. Lectures

put into context multiple experiences that I’ve had in

were kept to a minimum. The teachers instead posed

my life and then also give myself a good framework

discussion questions.

for what I want to do next,” he says. “The questions

“It was a rewarding experience and taught me about

I wanted to ask I was not going to get any answers to

the challenges of teaching in a carceral environment,”

at other institutions.”

she says. The combination of learning alongside incarcerated students and being a mentor to them added to the value of her HDS education. “The continuing value of what I learned at HDS was to integrate theory and practice, to understand them together, and to be a lifelong learner,” she says. Mejia says she wants to continue working with those who are incarcerated, but also to change perspectives and advocate for prison reform. She specifically wants to focus on helping women who have been incarcerated. “Women are often not at the center of rehabilitation or reentry services, and I am passionate about changing that.”

FINDING THE RESOURCES As a Volunteer in Mission with the Presbyterian Church, USA, in Thailand in the late 1980s, Rick Santos found himself in the middle of great socioeconomic and cultural shifts in Southeast Asia.

RICK SANTOS

1980

1985

Women make up the majority of students at HDS.

Margaret Miles, a historian of Christianity, becomes the first tenured female professor at HDS.

“The MTS track gave me the ability to go as broad and as wide as I needed to really understand and give context to the world in which I live . . . . ” Rick Santos

1986

1991

Professor Emeritus James Luther Adams, STB ’27, recognized as the most influential Unitarian Universalist theologian of the twentieth century, is honored with Harvard’s 350th Anniversary Medal for distinguished service to the University.

Professor Diana Eck and 25 students launch the Pluralism Project to engage with the burgeoning religious diversity in the United States. In 1998, Eck receives the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Endowment for the Humanities for her work on American religious pluralism.

The education and training Santos received at HDS

builds your inner resources,” he says. “All of that has

provided context for his experiences overseas and

contributed to creating an inner compass that has

solidified his belief that the humanitarian and

brought me where I am. That inner spiritual resource

development world was where he could best serve.

is always being challenged and tested, and hopefully

“I took a lot of religions of the world courses. I took

it is continuing to grow and guide me.”

courses on Islam. I took several courses on Buddhism,” he says. “The MTS track gave me the ability to really go

A SECOND CAREER IN SERVICE

as broad and as wide as I needed to really understand

Liz Walker was one of the most famous and successful

and give context to the world in which I live, and

TV news personalities in Boston. She spent more

where I came out of, while also grounding me in the

than two decades as a reporter, as well as being the

Christian tradition.”

first African American news anchor on WBZ-TV. So,

For Santos, like many other HDS alumni, service

when she stepped down from the anchor desk, many

is not just a vocation; it’s a calling. He views his service as a ministry in three parts: action (“working

of her peers were shocked. But Walker says it was an important step along her journey toward something

overseas in some of the most difficult places in the

greater than herself.

world, really trying to make a difference in people’s

“If you understand the idea of television news, you

lives), policy (“action without correct policy is often

don’t leave television news unless you’re fired. You

self-defeating”), and modeling a spiritual compass

don’t leave six-figure jobs, nobody does, it just doesn’t

(“being true in what you do and also how you deal

happen. So the idea of stepping out of that, it seemed

with other people”).

I was doing it on my own, but another part of me was

As head of IMA World Health, Santos travels to some

saying, ‘What are you doing?’” she says. “There was

of the poorest countries in the world, establishing partnerships and leading his organization in its mission

the feeling of being compelled . . . a feeling that it was something else I could do, it was something more

to build healthier communities. IMA sends essential

I could do.”

medicine and supplies all over the globe, targets specific

That something else took her to Sudan, led her to

diseases, works with governments to strengthen the

co-found a humanitarian organization, and eventually

infrastructure of health care, and promotes health,

to HDS.

equality, and opportunity for women in the world. The work is sometimes slow and often intense. In 2009, he lived through a massive earthquake in Haiti by surviving for 55 hours in the rubble of a collapsed hotel. Where many get burned out, Santos says that he has developed a resilience that helps him endure.

Walker, MDiv ’05, met Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv ’97, the Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies at HDS, through her church. In July 2001, Walker joined White-Hammond and others on a trip to Sudan to investigate allegations of slavery. The result was My Sister’s Keeper, an organization

“Growing up in a very traditional Catholic home,

Walker co-founded that focuses on economic and

being drawn to reformed theology and an ecumenism

educational initiatives for Sudanese women and girls.

while studying in university, exposure to Buddhism in Thailand, and then divinity school—all of that

In 2007, the organization opened a school for young women. A thousand students enrolled on the first day.

1988

1992

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, a pioneering scholar of biblical interpretation and feminist theology, is appointed Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity. In 2012 the American Academy of Religion recognizes Schüssler Fiorenza’s groundbreaking work with the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion.

Then-Senator Al Gore visits HDS for a reception and signing of his new book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. In 2007, Gore will win a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

GLORIA WHITE-HAMMOND

1998

2000

The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, ThD ’97, becomes the first Roman Catholic to lead HDS. A scholar of theology, world politics, and American society, Hehir is the chief author of the U.S. Bishops 1983 pastoral letter on nuclear disarmament, “The Challenge of Peace.”

Student Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01, spearheads the first Harvard-wide conference on Islam in America. The conference becomes an annual event that attracts scholars of Islam as well as religious and political leaders, journalists, and documentary filmmakers.

“When we were in Sudan, Gloria and I interviewed

“I never thought that anything would be more exciting

many, many, many women who had been gang raped

than television news,” she says, “but that was just

and who had just seen incredible things, but their

preparation for the work that I’m doing now.”

affect was like nothing had happened, because they

— Michael Naughton

had no choice. They had to keep going,” she says. “And I wondered how they dealt with trauma. And now, in my neighborhood, I see the same thing. I see people who have dealt with a lot of pain.” Walker is currently the pastor at Roxbury Presbyterian

“We are trying to help heal a neighborhood . . . . there’s no religious requirement. You can be anybody, but just come in.” Liz Walker

Church in an inner-city neighborhood of Boston. She describes the area in which she serves as a wonderful community but one that sees more than its share of street violence, prostitution, and drug abuse, all of which lead to trauma. To help, Walker’s church has launched multiple efforts, including a recovery program and a support group for the mothers of victims of violence. Walker works with the city, the public health commission, mental health workers, and local hospitals. She’s also just left open the doors to the church. “We are trying to help heal a neighborhood,” she says. “So we’ve decided to just open our doors and invite people in on one night a week to talk about their pain. We give you a meal. There are no requirements. There’s no religious requirement. You can be anybody, but just come in.” One of the efforts that most excites Walker is being able to help those with mental health issues. There’s a stigma attached to mental health that can get in the way of receiving treatment, she says, adding that in churches there’s a feeling that you can “pray everything away.” “Well, you know, some things you can’t pray away. God wants you to get some help, so that’s what we’re doing,” she says. While Walker’s current career may be very different from her years anchoring newscasts, she sees them as linked.

2002 William A. Graham, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion, is appointed dean of HDS. Graham is the first layperson to lead the School. During his 10-year tenure, the School becomes one of the world’s premiere centers for the academic study of global religion.

LIZ WALKER

2007 Professor Jon Levenson wins the National Jewish Book Award for Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel. Levenson holds the Albert J. List chair, established in 1988, HDS’s first professorship in Jewish studies. 37

Writers Find Their Voice HDS INSPIRES NEW LEADERS IN POETRY AND FICTION

efore he became an award-winning poet and

The poem reflects Lewis’s study of sacred literature,

Episcopal priest, Spencer Reece, MTS ’90,

mixing memories of her time in India with a myth

attended Harvard Divinity School. He took

about the Hindu goddess Parvati, who jumped into a

classes on Flannery O’Connor, the Bible,

fire to prove her purity, after which her charred body

and the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer,

fell to earth in pieces. Lewis turns the ancient story

poet, and HDS student Ralph Waldo Emerson.

about a goddess into an occasion for reflecting on the

At a reading in spring 2016 at Harvard’s Houghton

human condition:

Library, award-winning poet and HDS alumna Robin Coste Lewis frequently referred to her time at HDS and the importance of professors like the late Rev. Peter Gomes and Professor Diana Eck, for whom she worked as a research assistant.

perhaps

wracked with doubt.” Lewis’s talent for putting different source materials to new uses is on display throughout Voyage of the

C. E. Morgan, MDiv ’09, was still a student at HDS

Sable Venus, whose title poem is a collage of words

when she started writing her first novel, All the Living,

repurposed from museum catalogs. Every phrase in

about an orphaned woman who marries young and

the poem is drawn from the titles or descriptions of

moves onto a farm in Kentucky.

artworks depicting black female bodies from all of

Creative writers have been attending HDS for a long

Western art history. Lewis turns prodigious amounts

time, but why? What is the connection between writing poetry, novels, or memoir and an institution dedicated

of archival research into a commentary on race and gender that feels simultaneously historical and

to ministry training and the scholarly study of religion?

personal.

The answers are as varied as the authors themselves.

During her time at HDS, Lewis not only gained

They may come to study theology, languages, or literature in their religious contexts, or to prepare

scholarly training and opportunities for travel that eventually paid poetic dividends, but also experienced

themselves for various forms of service or ministry.

moments of personal revelation.

Whatever their individual paths, at HDS, writers keep

“The last time I was on campus was for the memorial

finding both inspiration and the tools they need for

service of Rev. Peter Gomes, who was my teacher and

unorthodox careers, which often combine writing

who hosted high tea at his house every Wednesday,”

with other callings.

Lewis explained at her reading. “I, of course, like

Coste Lewis, who won the National Book Award for

most divinity school students, eventually started to

Poetry in 2015 for her first book, Voyage of the Sable Venus, graduated in 1997 with an MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature. Explaining the genesis of a poem, titled “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari,” Lewis said, “Diana Eck recommended I go on a trip to India to teach a semester abroad program. This poem happened because of that trip.”

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embodiment is so bewildering, even God grows

have a prolonged and dramatic existential crisis. And I remember going to tea one day after shaving my head, and Peter looked at me, and he asked, ‘Are you OK?’” “I just looked at him and said, ‘Peter, do you have any idea what is going on?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘Not a clue, darling.’ But he said it with a tone of joy, as if to say, ‘And that’s the point.’”

PHOTO: AMANDA SCHWENGEL (HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE)

ROBIN COSTE LEWIS

Even if definitive answers are elusive, writing imaginatively about “what is going on” can help people find their way through the most difficult parts of life. The novelist Chris Adrian, MDiv ’11, came to HDS with an MD in pediatric oncology and an MFA in

“[Professor] Diana Eck recommended I go on a trip to India to teach a semester abroad program. This poem happened because of that trip.” Robin Coste Lewis

fiction, looking to ground himself in philosophical and

a fairy queen and king adopting a human child who

theological thought about suffering.

later contracts leukemia.

Such a research interest might seem surprising, but

Asked how her time at HDS related to the writing

it made sense for Adrian as a doctor who works with

of fiction, C.E. Morgan replied: “The best education

children affected by cancer. His novels, too, examine

mirrors the best books in that they both investigate the

death and disease, but with the help of surrealism.

fundamental questions: Why are we here? How should

The Children’s Hospital, for instance, is set in a

we use our time? How do we limit suffering, our own

medical facility that floats away when the world floods,

and others’? How do we make meaning? An HDS

becoming a new Noah’s Ark. The Great Night imagines

education is a plunge into what matters most.”

2009

2010

Karen King, one of the world’s leading scholars of early Christianity and author of What Is Gnosticism? becomes the first woman to hold the Hollis Professorship of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in North America.

His Emminence Alhaji Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar IV, the leader of 150 million Muslims in and near Nigeria, comes to campus to deliver the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture, titled “Islam and Peace-Building in West Africa.” 39

Morgan’s recently published second novel, The Sport of Kings, takes on large topics like race, gender, and history through the lens of horse racing. In startling, carefully hewn prose, Morgan’s books pursue the “moral beauty” she said she came to HDS to learn about. Unsurprisingly for a writer interested in thorny ethical questions, Morgan has also said that the earliest stories to impact her were the stories of the Old and New Testaments. HDS provides ample opportunities to study these and other sacred books from diverse traditions, like the Hindu texts that inspired Coste Lewis. The importance of analyzing such texts, not only as philosophical or sacred documents, but as literature, was emphasized by HDS professor Mayra Rivera in a talk at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities in fall 2015. “Getting at some of the most fascinating aspects C. E. MORGAN

of religious texts requires attention to their use of language,” Rivera said. “These texts seek to entice readers to see differently by putting to words what they deem ultimately inexpressible, making visible the invisible. For this they use stories, parables, poetry, and startling metaphors in attempts to push language to its limits. And thus the importance of literary approaches.” Aspiring writers at HDS can also study more recent texts that are explicitly or imaginatively indebted to different spiritual traditions. This past spring semester, Rivera taught a course on Caribbean poetics, a genre that often uses religious language and images, and Professor Davíd Carrasco taught the fiction of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, which he sees as sharing themes of apocalypse. For the poet Spencer Reece, communing with his spiritual-literary ancestors is crucial. When he came to HDS, he wanted to be like George Herbert, the seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet. Later,

CHRIS ADRIAN

when Reece’s first book of poetry, The Clerk’s Tale,

2011

2012

The inception of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative enables students not only to study Buddhism, but also to prepare for service and ministry in Buddhist settings.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison visits HDS and delivers the Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality on the topic “Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination.”

won the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize, he decided to go on a pilgrimage to the Kentucky monastery where the Catholic monk and writer Thomas Merton had lived.

“An HDS education is a plunge into what matters most.” C.E. Morgan becoming an Episcopal priest, teaching creative

Reece treasured the time he had at HDS to study

writing at a girl’s orphanage in Honduras (the subject

theology, sacred texts, and spiritual writers, though he

of a documentary called Las Chavas, of which James

jokes about living in a dormitory on Divinity Avenue.

Franco is an executive producer), and his current

“That street was one of the few dead ends in

position as chaplain to an Episcopal bishop in Madrid,

Cambridge, and that seemed rather ominous and

Spain. His dream of becoming a poet-priest like

humorous to me at the time.”

George Herbert has been realized.

It proved to be anything but a dead end for Reece,

Of his twin vocations, Reece said, “Writing poetry and

though. His winding path has included divinity

prose is very interior and, for the most part, solitary.

school, working in retail, publishing two volumes

Being a priest is about people, people, people. I think

of poetry (The Clerk’s Tale and The Road to Emmaus),

the two balance me out.”

2014 Saying “I don’t know of a more important, single human rights cause that anyone can undertake,” President Jimmy Carter visits campus and issues a call to action to improve the lives of women and girls around the world.

Unlike Reece, current HDS student Kassi Underwood has long felt a calling to be a writer, but she only recently came to see how that profession might relate to ministry. For years, she has written creative nonfiction about her own life for publications like The New York Times, New York Daily News, and Al Jazeera America. Next year, HarperOne will publish her memoir, May Cause Love: My Humbling, Heartbreaking, Hugely Satisfying Search for Enlightenment After Abortion. In the course of writing about very personal, sometimes controversial issues like abortion, would get in touch about their own struggles, sometimes putting her in a difficult position as a stranger’s only confidant. “At first,” Underwood said, “I denied the need for

KASSI UNDERWOOD

formal preparation, but certain encounters shook me out of denial, like emails from pregnant girls who hadn’t told anyone but me and didn’t know what to choose.” She also realized that her identity could make it difficult to give advice to people who did not have the same experiences as she did.

PHOTO: ADRIEN BISSON

addiction, and faith, Underwood found that readers

“The spiritual tool of storytelling that was so liberating for me could result in backlash for another person. So I’m here at HDS to become a responsible accidental minister.” Kassi Underwood

“What healed me might harm another person. For example, as a white cis-woman, I can publish an essay about my abortion without experiencing racism or transphobia. The spiritual tool of storytelling that was so liberating for me could result in backlash for another person. So I’m here at HDS to become a responsible accidental minister.” PHOTO; LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD

As Underwood continues her studies, she will be joining her story to those of Robin Coste Lewis, Chris Adrian, C. E. Morgan, Spencer Reece, and even Ralph Waldo Emerson: a tradition of poets, essayists, and novelists who came to HDS for different reasons, but who all found here what they needed. —Walter Smelt

SPENCER REECE

2016 At Convocation, HDS launches its year-long bicentennial celebration with remarks on the School’s multireligious character and on its future from Dean Hempton, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, and former dean George Rupp.

Recent Faculty Publications Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Associate Professor of African American Religions ELECTRIC SANTERÍA: RACIAL AND SEXUAL ASSEMBLAGES OF TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of co-presence in the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel.

Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus A HARVEY COX READER Throughout his career of over 50 years, Harvey Cox has shown a knack for identifying key trends as well as new variations on abiding themes, especially the message of Jesus and the meaning of faith in an ever-evolving culture. From his reflections on his Baptist roots to an inspiring essay, “Why I Am Still a Christian,” this volume opens a fascinating window on the religious questions of our time.

Ousmane Oumar Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences BEYOND TIMBUKTU: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MUSLIM WEST AFRICA Highlighting the significant breadth and versatility of the Muslim intellectual tradition in sub-Saharan Africa, Ousmane Kane corrects lingering misconceptions in both the West and the Middle East that Africa’s Muslim heritage represents a minor thread in Islam’s larger tapestry. West African Muslims have never been isolated. To the contrary, their connection with Muslims worldwide is robust and longstanding.

Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies ACUTE MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER ESSAYS: MYSTICISM, HISTORY, AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION Acute Melancholia and Other Essays deploys spirited and progressive approaches to the study of Christian mysticism and the philosophy of religion. Ideal for novices and experienced scholars alike, the volume makes a forceful case for thinking about religion as both belief and practice, in which traditions marked by change are passed down through generations, laying the groundwork for their own critique.

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought TEACHING BODIES: MORAL FORMATION IN THE SUMMA OF THOMAS AQUINAS In Teaching Bodies, Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches morals, namely, through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the gospels, and the sacraments.

Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies THE LOVE OF GOD: DIVINE GIFT, HUMAN GRATITUDE, AND MUTUAL FAITHFULNESS IN JUDAISM The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one ever fulfill such a requirement? The Love of God places these scholarly and existential questions in a new light.

Matthew L. Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies CORMAC MCCARTHY AND THE SIGNS OF SACRAMENT: LITERATURE, THEOLOGY, AND THE MORAL OF STORIES Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways.

Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC HOSPITAL: MEDICINE, RELIGION, AND CHARITY The first monograph on the history of Islamic hospitals, this volume focuses on the under-examined Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. By the twelfth century, hospitals serving the sick and the poor could be found in nearly every Islamic city. Ahmed Ragab traces the varying origins and development of these institutions, locating them in their urban environments and linking them to charity networks and patrons’ political projects.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity 1 PETER: READING AGAINST THE GRAIN 1 Peter is a religious document written a long time ago and in a culture and world that is quite different from our own. However, as a biblical book it is a part of Christianity’s sacred scriptures. This guide to the letter keeps both of these areas, the cultural-social and the ethical-religious, in mind. It offers help for understanding the letter as both a document of the first century and as sacred scripture that speaks about the religious forces that have shaped Christianity and Western culture. In short, this guide seeks to enable readers to read “against the grain.”

Charles M. Stang, Professor of Early Christian Thought OUR DIVINE DOUBLE What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that each person has a divine counterpart, twin, or alter ego, and the eventual eclipse of this idea with the rise of Christian conciliar orthodoxy.

Mayra Rivera, Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies POETICS OF THE FLESH In Poetics of the Flesh, Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the “body” and “flesh.”

Honorees 2015–16 The 2016 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB ’68 Memorial Honors

CYNTHIA L. G. KANE, MDIV ’96, lieutenant commander in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, is currently stationed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Newport News, VA. Her formal ministry has included posts as a hospital chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and ministry internships at the First Parishes in Concord and Bedford, MA. She was ordained by the latter in 1997. She was the first official chaplain at Ferry Beach, Saco, ME. After completing a CPE residency at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, HI, she was invited to serve as director of the Campus Ministry Program for Unitarian Universalist Students in the Joseph Priestly District of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Commissioned to the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy in August 2001, she completed chaplain school in Newport, RI, and then reported to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD, where she also was assigned to the USMC Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) and Arlington National Cemetery. A graduate of Tulane University and the University of San Diego, as well as HDS, she has received numerous awards, including the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. She served aboard USS John C. Stennis, Bremerton, WA, from 2004 to 2006, and was sent on individual augmentation to the Joint Task Force Command overseeing detainee operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2005–06. Her following tours were as deputy director, Spiritual Fitness Division, Navy Region Southwest, San Diego, CA, and then plank-owner command chaplain, USCG Sector Northern New England, Portland, ME. VALARIE K. KAUR, MTS ’07, is a lawyer, filmmaker, activist, entrepreneur, and Sikh thought leader. She has made awardwinning films and led national campaigns to advance progressive issues: racism and profiling, gun violence, immigration detention, solitary confinement, net neutrality, LGBTQ equality, and hate crimes against Muslims and Sikhs. She is a regular television commentator on MSNBC and opinion contributor to CNN, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Hill, and The New York Times. She founded the Groundswell Movement of 200,000+ members, the largest multifaith online organizing community in the United States. A prolific public speaker, she has addressed audiences at

the White House, the Pentagon, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and on more than 250 U.S. college campuses; she was the first Sikh to deliver Stanford’s baccalaureate commencement address and the College of St. Benedict’s commencement address. As a senior fellow at Auburn Theological Seminary, she often preaches on “revolutionary love” as a political and moral force that can dismantle structures of injustice. She has traveled with the U.S. State Department as a keynote speaker throughout Myanmar, aiding its transition from dictatorship into democracy. She has reported on the military commissions at Guantanamo and clerked on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is also a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, where she founded the Yale Visual Law Project to train law students to make films that change policy. She is currently the Media and Justice Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, where she co-founded Faithful Internet and advocates for Internet freedom. BETSEE PARKER, MDIV ’85, is a philanthropist, Episcopal priest, international public health and civil rights advocate, preservationist, arts and education patron, and owner of several award-winning show horses. She is a leader of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), a collaboration of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, the United Nations Development Programme, and Millennium Promise to end extreme poverty throughout the world. At MVP, she has supported the creation and adoption of sustainable development models in Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Togo, and Sierra Leone, among other nations, and has helped improve the lives and health of thousands of people in Africa. Prior to joining MVP, she worked with first responders and pathologists as part of the recovery effort after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. She also served as head chaplain of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and as a leader of the multifaith chaplaincy team at Ground Zero. A longtime owner of show horses that compete at the highest levels, she has several times been named Owner of the Year by the United States Equestrian Foundation. She has been awarded honorary doctorates of humane letters from the State University of New York and from Niagara University. In addition to international development, her philanthropy extends to educational institutions, the arts, and youth in U.S. equestrian events, among other causes.

ALTON B. POLLARD III, MDIV ’81, is Dean and Professor of Religion and Culture at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. He also holds degrees from Fisk University (BA) and Duke University (PhD). His previous faculty appointments include St. Olaf College; Wake Forest University; Emory University, where he served as director of black church studies at Candler School of Theology and chair of American religious cultures in the Graduate Division

Past Recipients of the Gomes Honors The Gomes Honors were instituted by the AAC in 2013 to honor exceptional HDS graduates across diverse fields and vocations. 2013

REZA ASLAN, MTS ’99

SUSANNAH HESCHEL, MTS ’76

THE VENERABLE TENZIN PRIYADARSHI, MTS ’03

SARAH SENTILLES, MDIV ’01, THD ’08

RONALD F. THIEMANN (POSTHUMOUSLY)

2014

EILEEN CHAMBERLAIN DONAHOE, MTS ’84

ELIZABETH A. EATON, MDIV ’80

SIMON XAVIER GUERRAND-HERMÈS, MTS ’93

PETER J. ISELY, MDIV ’88

of Religion; and various visiting lectureships throughout the United States and Africa. He is editor of The Black Church Studies Reader with Carol B. Duncan; author of Mysticism and Social Change; a new edition with introduction of W. E. B. DuBois, The Negro Church; and Helpers for a Healing Community: A Pastoral Care Manual for HIV/AIDS in Africa; editor of How Long This Road with L. Henry Whelchel; consulting editor for the multivolume Papers of Howard Thurman; and former associate editor of the journal Black Sacred Music. He is principal investigator for a Lilly-funded national research project, “Equipping the Saints: Promising Practices in Black Congregational Life.” An ordained Baptist minister, he has served congregations in Tennessee (AME), Massachusetts, and North Carolina.

WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, AM ’70, PHD ’73

2015

SHAUN CASEY, MDIV ’83, MPA ’89, THD ’98

CHARLES W. COLLIER, MTS ’73

JANET COOPER-NELSON, MDIV ’80

RAKESH RAJANI, MTS ’91

LEILA AHMED

PRESTON N. WILLIAMS, PHD ’67, who retired in June 2002, became Harvard Divinity School’s Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change in 1971. He has taught previously at four historically black colleges: Johnson C. Smith University, Knoxville College, North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University), and Lincoln University. He has served as associate chaplain at Pennsylvania State University and Protestant chaplain at Brandeis University. Prior to coming to Harvard Divinity School, he was the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor at Boston University School of Theology. In his years at Harvard, he has served in various capacities beyond his professorial role: He was acting dean of the Divinity School in 1974–75, and the acting and first director of Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute from 1975 to 1977. He was president of the American Academy of Religion, 1975–76, and president of the Society for Christian Ethics, 1974–75. From 1998 to 2008 he was the director of the Summer Leadership Institute, a program that brought religious leaders from urban settings to Harvard for two weeks of intensive classes on community development. His fields of interest are Christian ethics, social and economic justice, human rights, and African American experience. He is an ordained Presbyterian USA minister.

AISHA BELISO-DE JESÚS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIONS Professor Aisha Beliso-De Jesús’s Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columbia University Press, 2015) won the 2016 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions. Given each year, the award goes to an academic book that exemplifies the ethos and mission of the Journal of Africana Religions, an interdisciplinary journal that publishes scholarship on African and African diasporic religious traditions. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research, Beliso-De Jesús’ book examines the vibrant religious world of Santería practitioners—one shaped by the travel and the meeting of spirits, deities, priests, and practitioners across local and national boundaries.

Faculty Award

The Faculty of Divinity DREW GILPIN FAUST, President DAVID N. HEMPTON, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity LEILA AHMED, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity GIOVANNI BAZZANA, Professor of New Testament AISHA M. BELISO-DE JESÚS, Associate Professor of African American Religions ANN D. BRAUDE, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program

AMY HOLLYWOOD, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies

AHMED RAGAB, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion

MICHAEL D. JACKSON, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions

MAYRA RIVERA RIVERA, Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies

BABER JOHANSEN, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies

DUDLEY C. ROSE, Associate Dean for Ministry Studies and Lecturer on Ministry

MARK D. JORDAN, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought

MICHELLE C. SANCHEZ, Assistant Professor of Theology

OUSMANE OUMAR KANE, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (FAS), and Counselor to Muslim Students

ELISABETH SCHÜSSLER FIORENZA, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity

KAREN L. KING, Hollis Professor of Divinity

CATHERINE BREKUS, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

DAVID C. LAMBERTH, Professor of Philosophy and Theology

DAVÍD CARRASCO, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America (HDS and FAS)

JON D. LEVENSON, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies

EMILY CLICK, Assistant Dean for Ministry Studies and Field Education and Lecturer on Ministry

PETER MACHINIST, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages

FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions

KEVIN J. MADIGAN, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History

DIANA L. ECK, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society (FAS)

DAN MCKANAN, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity ANNE E. MONIUS, Professor of South Asian Religions

MARK U. EDWARDS, JR., Advisory Member of the Faculty of Divinity and Senior Adviser to the Dean

DIANE L. MOORE, Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions

FRANCIS SCHÜSSLER FIORENZA, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies

LAURA S. NASRALLAH, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

CHERYL A. GILES, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling

JACOB K. OLUPONA, Professor of African Religious Traditions, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)

WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS)

KIMBERLEY C. PATTON, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion

JANET GYATSO, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs CHARLES HALLISEY, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures DAVID F. HOLLAND, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History

STEPHANIE PAULSELL, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies MATTHEW L. POTTS, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies

CHARLES M. STANG, Professor of Early Christian Thought D. ANDREW TEETER, Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament JONATHAN L. WALTON, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church (FAS), and Professor of Religion and Society (HDS)

MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY EMERITI JOHN BRAISTED CARMAN, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion, Emeritus HARVEY GALLAGHER COX, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity ARTHUR JAMES DYCK, Research Professor of Ethics and Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, Emeritus (Chan School) DAVID D. HALL, John A. Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History PAUL D. HANSON, Florence Corliss Lamont Research Professor of Divinity HELMUT KOESTER, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus RICHARD REINHOLD NIEBUHR, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Emeritus RALPH BENAJAH POTTER, JR., Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus PRESTON NOAH WILLIAMS, Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change

In Memoriam: Helmut Koester Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on New Year’s Day, 2016, at age 89. Koester was a leading scholar in the history of Christianity, New Testament exegesis and theology, the religions of the ancient Roman world, and archaeology. Koester was assistant professor at the University of Heidelberg (1956–59) when he came to Harvard to join the faculty as a tenured associate professor. He was named John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies in 1963 and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1968. He retired in 1998 but continued to be active in advising and teaching until 2014 and in research and writing until his death. Koester was editor of Harvard Theological Review from 1975 until 1999. His lengthy bibliography includes Trajectories through Early Christianity (1971, with James M. Robinson); History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age (1982); History and Literature of Early Christianity (1987); Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development (1990); From Jesus to the Gospels (2007); and Paul & His World (2007). In addition to authoring numerous books and articles, Koester was editor of the Encyclopedia of Archeology in the Biblical World and editor of many volumes in the Hermeneia commentary series. The list of Koester’s publications cannot adequately communicate the breadth and impact of his work. From the beginning of his career, his interest in the New Testament was developed alongside research into noncanonical texts, resulting from his ability to ground the texts of the New Testament within a broad context of literary and documentary works. “Helmut Koester was a man of tremendous intellectual breadth and generosity,” said Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. “He forged connections between archaeologists and scholars of the New Testament, creating interdisciplinary connections before the term was even popular. Those intellectual connections resulted in life-long collegial connections and friendships into which he drew his own students.”

Faculty Promotions 2015–16 GIOVANNI BAZZANA: PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT In the last decade, Giovanni Bazzana’s work has become increasingly focused on the interplay between papyrology and New Testament studies, in particular to the potential broadening of the scope of historical analysis and comparison to the wider Jewish and GrecoRoman contexts. Bazzana’s recent book, Kingdom and Bureaucracy: The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q (Peeters Publishers, 2015), deals with the administrative backdrop of the Sayings Gospel Q and with its implications for the ideological construction of the discourse around the basileia of God. DAVID HOLLAND: JOHN A. BARTLETT PROFESSOR OF NEW ENGLAND CHURCH HISTORY A renowned scholar of American religious history, David Holland casts a broad and inclusive net in understanding the deep intellectual, theological, and cultural currents driving New England church history. He is the author of Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2011), which offers a new perspective of the matter of cultural authority in a democratized society, the tension between subjective truths and communal standards, a rising historical consciousness, the expansion of print capitalism, and the principle of religious freedom. Professor Holland is the latest accomplished faculty member to be named to the chair, which was previously held by R. Marie Griffith and David Hall.

MAYRA RIVERA: PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND LATINA/O STUDIES Mayra Rivera’s work in religious studies engages key Christian themes in relation to current philosophy and theories of gender, coloniality, ethnicity, and race. She is affiliated with the Committee on Ethnicity Migration Rights, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), and American Studies (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences). Her most recent book, Poetics of the Flesh (Duke University Press, 2015), explores the connections among theological, philosophical, and political metaphors of body and flesh. ANDREW TEETER: PROFESSOR OF HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT Andrew Teeter’s research centers on the modalities, techniques, aims, and motivations of early Jewish biblical interpretation, particularly as it intersects with the textual development of the Hebrew scriptures (with emphasis on innerbiblical interpretation, composition history, canon formation, ancient biblical translation, and the exegetical literature of so-called rewritten Bible). His most recent book, Scribal Laws: Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period (Mohr Siebeck, 2014), examines the degree to which early Jewish scribes deliberately altered scriptural texts for legal-exegetical purposes. In 2013, Teeter was nominated by students and named Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE

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From Associate Dean Hannah Peters Thomas Hollis never went to Harvard Divinity School. In fact, he lived and died three generations before HDS was founded. But few people have had a greater impact on the School, Harvard University, and American higher education as a whole. Hollis was a wealthy London merchant who knew something of religious intolerance. As one of the most prominent Baptists in England, Hollis often found himself and his family at odds with the orthodoxy of the Church of England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He had heard through relatives and others of the liberties enjoyed by his fellow Baptists in New England, and of the college in Cambridge where religious liberalism was on the rise. He struck up a correspondence with the leadership there—themselves clergy—and in 1719 made what was then a major gift for “the use of pious young Students for the Ministry instructed at [Harvard] Colledg.” Hollis was far from done. In 1721 he established the Hollis Professorship of Divinity—the first professorship in any American college. Six years later, Hollis founded the Professorship of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy. These gifts helped to secure Harvard’s future when the University was still young and to shape higher education throughout the New World. The chairs Hollis funded emphasized the importance of scholars who were experts in their fields, rather than teachers of general knowledge. They also set the standard for the kind of philanthropy that has made American universities global leaders in education and research. And by creating a path for those of unorthodox religious beliefs to join the Harvard faculty, Hollis’s gift made possible the founding in 1816 of the nation’s first nonsectarian divinity school: HDS. Thomas Hollis’s legacy is visible at HDS today in the work of Karen King, one of the world’s leading scholars of early Christianity and the first woman to occupy the Hollis Professorship of Divinity. And it is also faithfully represented by the School’s supporters—our amazing alumni, whose contributions include not only their donations to HDS, but also the work they do every day to make the world a better place; and others who, like Hollis, never attended HDS but who believe deeply in our mission to advance understanding of all the world’s major religious traditions. This year, as we celebrate the School’s bicentennial, we also mark with gratitude the support of donors like you who enable HDS to illuminate, engage, and serve the world. Thanks to you, as the late Rev. Peter Gomes, STB ’68, wrote, “Harvard Divinity School has never wasted an opportunity to take itself beyond its own expectations.” With you at our side, we never will. Thank you for being our partners and our stewards.

Hannah Peters Associate Dean for Development and External Relations

To illuminate, engage, and serve

HDS in the Yard The Divinity School is deeply involved in the education of undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Here are some of the ways that HDS is making a difference in “the Yard”:

Over

150 HDS courses available for cross-registration to undergraduates and to students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Nearly

90 courses offered jointly with FAS.

HDS faculty teach

50%

of religion courses designed specifically for undergraduates.*

HDS faculty teach

1/3

of Freshman Seminars on religion.

(*Does not include General Education or Freshman Seminars)

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Faith in Leadership HACKETT GIFT PUTS HDS AT CENTER OF HARVARD’S EFFORT TO EDUCATE ETHICAL, RELIGIOUSLY LITERATE LEADERS

t’s hard not to be astonished by the sheer breadth

to establish the Hackett Family Fund for One Harvard

of Jim Hackett’s achievements. He attended the

and a lecture fund at the Center for the Study of

United States Air Force Academy, where he flew

World Religions named in honor of Hackett’s late

jets and was qualified as a glider pilot. He has an

father, Hugh.

MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked as a field hand on an oil rig in the Texas panhandle. He’s led several global energy companies. He served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and was a graduate school professor at Rice University for seven years. He and his wife are philanthropists who’ve given millions to support health care, education, and the arts. He speaks Russian. He sounds almost like the character in a popular commercial: “The World’s Most Interesting Man.” Maybe it’s no surprise, then, that Hackett, MTS ’16, has also long harbored an interest in religion and theology. Still, many of his colleagues were shocked when the CEO stepped down in 2013 as head of the multibilliondollar Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to enroll at Harvard Divinity School. The newly minted HDS graduate says that his decision reflected a lifelong passion for valuesbased leadership. “My mission is to change how we discuss and pursue spiritual values, not just secular ethics,” Hackett said in 2015 of his decision to come to Harvard. “HDS has helped me in many ways in that regard, including with my plans to write a book on faith and leadership, and to teach undergraduates at Rice University or the University of Texas about religion, spirituality, and ethics.” Hackett’s already putting that mission into action. Inspired by his experience at HDS, he turned his interest in faith and leadership into an extraordinary act of philanthropy: a $2M gift to the School in 2016

HDS Dean David N. Hempton says that the Hackett Family Fund, which will support “teaching and research of religion and ethics by HDS faculty,” particularly at Harvard College, will go a long way toward educating ethical, religiously literate professionals in all fields. “Knowledge of religion—and devoted men and women who draw on the vast resources of the world’s traditions—can yield more effective efforts to build peace and security, work for human rights, improve public health, and make lasting progress on many other critical challenges facing leaders today,” Hempton said. “Jim and Maureen’s extraordinary gift will support the work of HDS faculty, who teach 50 percent of undergraduate religion courses and who advise over 80 percent of Harvard’s doctoral students in the field. We are deeply grateful.” Hackett is remarkably humble for someone so successful—and so generous. It may come from his upbringing in what he describes as a pretty “normal” middle-class family in Illinois. His father was a devout Roman Catholic, but Hackett describes his mother as “skeptical of organized religion.” The combination of perspectives resulted in Hackett’s passion for his faith—and for interrogating it. “My father looked for almost any excuse to receive the Holy Eucharist and to attend Mass and pray,” he says. “But Mom’s ‘doubting Thomas’ approach certainly helped me to explore comparative religions throughout my life.”

To illuminate, engage, and serve

“An integration of the sacred and secular is a competitive advantage in business— not necessarily at all times, but in most, and certainly over the span of one’s career, and most importantly, one’s lifetime.” Jim Hackett Hackett followed in the footsteps of his father, a pilot

president, and CEO of Ocean Energy, COO of Devon

in the Army Air Corps, when he decided to attend the

Energy Corporation, and, finally, chairman of the

Air Force Academy. He was on track to fly jets until a

board and CEO of Anadarko.

sudden deterioration of his eyesight during his junior

Perhaps it’s the HDS influence, but when Hackett

year forced him to let go of his dream. He finished college at the University of Illinois and embarked on a career in energy to utilize his Russian language skills. Soon after came an MBA from Harvard Business School and engineering studies at Boston University and the University of Houston. When he was done with his education, Hackett took a leadership position at an energy company but realized before long that he was not “technically qualified” for the job. So, in his early 30s, he left the office of an executive to work for two years in the field and in several engineering disciplines—experience he says proved “critical” to his eventual positions as chairman,

speaks of his career, he sounds more like a philosopher and a theologian than the stereotype of a hard-driving businessman. “Energy became interesting to me because it provided one of the four pillars of physical existence—the other three being water, air, and food,” he says. “Other than nurturing our souls, I can’t imagine another field of education that is more important and accessible—in terms of information—than studying these four pillars of existence in some depth.” Aside from his personal faith and lifelong interest in theology, Hackett says that two events—one big, 55

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To illuminate, engage, and serve

“Businesses ought to be human spaces, where one’s spirituality can be owned as part of exhibiting one’s authentic leadership, but without imposing the same spiritual and religious beliefs on others.” Jim Hackett one small—made him think seriously about divinity

support of faculty enabled him to pursue his interest

school. One was the collapse of Enron, a disaster that

in integrating spiritual values and secular ethics.

he attributed to “a failure in leadership” among people

“Professor Michelle Sanchez, Father Frank Clooney,

he knew well. The other was a curious interaction with a fellow alumnus at a Harvard Business School reunion who told Hackett that he “read the Bible every day, but didn’t believe in God.” Hackett says that both interactions made him see the need to reverse the disintegration of spiritual and secular values in the modern business world, “The HBS alumnus in particular taught me something fundamental with his comments,” Hackett says. “He felt the Bible was a ‘survival manual’ for business. I believe a spiritual understanding of the Bible or any other great religious scripture should inspire one’s whole life and not become simply a competitive tool in a narrow secular setting. I think this alum was trying to do good and take inspiration from great works of moral philosophy. But, after a good deal of reflection, I don’t believe I could be convinced to depend on him to steer a business properly before or during a crisis.” Hackett enrolled at HDS as a special student in 2013, and then began full time in the School’s master of theological studies program in 2015. He says that it didn’t take long to recognize that he wasn’t in Houston anymore. “On the first day of orientation, one of my classmates invited me to meditate with her,” he remembers. “She told me to close my eyes and hold onto her hands and we imagined another world together for 20 minutes. I have never done that with anyone before or since. I thank her for having an open heart and showing me the way.” At HDS, Hackett explored the lessons that religion and theology offer to leaders—whether of congregations, communities, or multinational corporations. He says that the flexibility of the School’s curriculum and the

Associate Dean Emily Click, and Professor Catherine Brekus aided me in my quest to learn more about the intersection of capitalism and moral precepts,” he says. “I am grateful to each, and to the professors that educated me in other essential areas of religious understanding at the Divinity School.” The alumnus now of two of Harvard’s graduate schools, Hackett enthusiastically supports crossfaculty collaboration and President Drew Faust’s goal of “One Harvard.” He says that the aim of the Hackett Family Fund is to keep HDS—and Harvard—in a “preeminent academic position.” “A major academic university must be diversified enough to gain and keep its reputation,” he says. “That fact often leads to selected schools within the same university having to indirectly support the good work of other less prosperous schools. One Harvard—and President Faust, particularly—is best equipped to make decisions on which schools should get the proper direct and indirect support.” Hackett says that he still plans to write a book on faith and leadership, though as a first-person narrative rather than as a “how to” business book. He says that he hopes to encourage business leaders to look at their professions as “sacred missions.” “Businesses ought to be human spaces, where one’s spirituality can be owned as part of exhibiting one’s authentic leadership, but without imposing the same spiritual and religious beliefs on others,” he says. “An integration of the sacred and secular is a competitive advantage in business—not necessarily at all times, but in most, and certainly over the span of one’s career and, most importantly, one’s lifetime.” —Paul Massari

THE CAMPAIGN FOR HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL

Toward a Third Century of Leadership in the Study of Religion HDS is poised to have an even larger impact on scholars and

RENEWING THE HEART OF THE HDS CAMPUS

leaders in the years to come. The establishment last year of the

Harvard Divinity School has enormous capacity to bring

Hackett Family Fund for One Harvard (see preceding story) will

scholars, leaders, and students together for critical discussions

strengthen the teaching of religion at Harvard College. This year,

of global religion and its influence on virtually every area of

the Campaign for HDS looks to extend the School’s ability to

human activity. But just as the School’s mission has expanded

bring religious knowledge to future leaders in all fields with the

over 200 years beyond its original ambition to investigate

establishment of new professorships and the revitalization of its

“Christian truth,” it has also exceeded the limitations of its

campus.

beloved but aging campus. In a word, the School’s teaching,

DEEPENING SCHOLARSHIP AND CURRICULUM

learning, and meeting spaces must evolve.

Harvard Divinity School seeks to add world-class scholars who

For the last 100 years, Andover Hall has been the heart of

will teach undergraduate- and master’s-level courses and provide

the School’s campus. Today, Andover must be reimagined to

leadership for our doctoral programs, which produce many of

emphasize its importance as a convening place for faculty,

the leading scholars and teachers in the study of religion. They

students, and global citizens who advance knowledge of all major

will also inform and enrich numerous academic fields across the

religious traditions and work for a better world. This means a

University, conveying the significance of the subjects to future

facility with modern conference spaces; technology that enables

generations of students, scholars, and religious leaders in the

collaboration with scholars and leaders around the world; and

following fields:

communal spaces that encourage people of all faiths to meet,

•

African American Religions: Race is a charged and often

study, worship, and bridge the divides of religion and culture.

divisive issue in the United States—perhaps more so today

Additionally, if the School is to educate ethical leaders to

than at any time in the last 50 years. It is critical for HDS

address the moral imperative of our time—environmental

to add a scholar who can analyze its impact not only on

sustainability—HDS must demonstrate its own commitment

religion, but also on politics, culture, and social power. To

to the issue. The renewal of Andover Hall would dramatically

explore black life and intellectual traditions through the lenses

enhance programming and the student experience without

of theology, philosophy, history, literature, and the social

building new space or enlarging the School’s environmental

sciences, the School seeks to establish the Professorship in

footprint. And the School’s ambitious vision includes

African American Religions.

transforming the campus’s center for teaching and learning

Hebrew Bible: The texts we know today as the Hebrew Bible

into a “net zero” energy consumer by creating a building that

were written over nearly a millennium and have profoundly

would generate more energy than it consumes.

shaped the religious life of faith communities for 2,500

Andover Hall’s renewal would improve the building, but more

years or more. They have served as a foundation not only

importantly, it would improve the quality of the experience of

for the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also for much of

those who rely on it. Its revitalization would enrich the process

Western civilization’s philosophy, ethics, art, literature, and

of learning, broaden the range of resources that support that

music. To formally recognize the significance of the study,

learning, and transform the ways the people of Harvard Divinity

interpretation, and legacy of the Hebrew Bible, secure its

School engage the world and each other. For this critical

lasting prominence at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), and

project—and to ensure a third century as the nation’s leading

augment existing resources in Jewish and Christian studies,

divinity school—HDS needs all the support, energy, and ideas

HDS seeks to establish the Professorship in Hebrew Bible.

of our alumni, friends, and advocates.

To illuminate, engage, and serve

Fundraising Results 2015–16

CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP

Between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016, HDS alumni and friends

Thomas M. Chappell, Campaign Co-Chair Ramakrishna Sudireddy, Campaign Co-Chair Susan S. Swartz, Campaign Co-Chair

committed over $5 million in new gifts and pledges. The School received $5.8 million in cash contributions. Around 1,200 donors gave $630,000 to The HDS Fund, which provides support for the School’s

$10M and over

core teaching and research activities and advances new initiatives.

Susan Shallcross Swartz and James R. Swartz, AB ’64

Special leadership gifts this year also advanced undergraduate

$5M and over

teaching in religion, the Religions and the Practice of Peace initiative,

Anonymous

the Religious Literacy Program, and the indispensable resources of Andover Harvard Theological Library.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL

$2M and over James T. Hackett, MBA ’79, and Maureen Hackett The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation John C. Whitehead, MBA ’47

$1M and over T. J. Dermot Dunphy, MBA ’56

The Campaign for HDS

$500,000 and over

$30.5M 61%

Miles R. McKey, AB ’50, BD ’58, and Mary Ellen McKey George E. Rupp, PhD ’72, and Nancy F. Rupp Society for Promoting Theological Education Anonymous (2)

has achieved or

of of the goal.

Over

2,000

$100,000 and over

individual supporters have

contributed to the Campaign for HDS

5 6,000

over the past Over

years.

gifts have been made.

Three new faculty positions have been endowed in— Christian Studies

Rosalie and Thomas W. Anderson, MTS ’98 Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91, and Albert J. Budney, Jr., MBA ’74 Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 Michelle R. Clayman Ford Foundation Ronnie Friedman-Barone, EdM ’85, and Joseph Barone Lynda M. Goldstein Barry J. Hershey, LLB ’67 Arlene Hirschfeld Historical Society Edward Hopkins Charity Ralph M. James, MBA ’82, and Janice James Yvonne E. Leonard Trust H. Bruce McEver, MBA ’69, MTS ’11 R. Jeffrey Pollock, MTS ’71, and Martha Brandt Pollock Rita S. Schneider R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton Anonymous (3)

Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding

DONOR REPORT 2015–16 Harvard Divinity School is pleased to thank everyone who supported the School with contributions of time and resources in fiscal year 2016. Your gifts during the Campaign for HDS have enabled the development of innovative new programs and continue to ensure the stability and progress of the School year after year. DEAN’S COUNCIL In addition to their wisdom and time, Dean’s Council members provide unrestricted, immediateuse financial support for the School’s highest priorities, including student financial aid, teaching and research, and campus and community. For their vision, dedication, and philanthropy, we are deeply grateful. Jim Anathan, MDiv ’03 Rosalie and Thomas W. Anderson, MTS ’98 Jerry H. Baker, BD ’71 Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91 Nancy L. Cahners, MTS ’03 Thomas M. Chappell, MTS ’91 Michelle R. Clayman Katherine Anne Collins, MTS ’11 Lynda M. Goldstein Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS ’93 Arlene Hirschfeld Ralph M. James, MBA ’82 Robert A. Jones Kurt A. Keilhacker, MTS ’07 Sanford P. Keziah III, MTS ’88 Jonathan J. Ledecky, AB ’79, MBA ’83 David A. McCreery, AB ’85 Rachel Fell McDermott, MDiv ’84, AM ’86, PhD ’93 Alonzo L. McDonald, Jr., MBA ’56 H. Bruce McEver, MBA ’69, MTS ’11 Betsee Parker, MDiv ’85 William J. Rainer R. Thomas Stanton (Chair) Ramakrishna Sudireddy Susan Shallcross Swartz Derek C. M. van Bever, MBA ’88, MDiv ’11 Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy, MTS ’94, and John H. DeVoy III, AB ’93 M. Withgott

ALUMNI/ALUMNAE COUNCIL The AAC works with alumni volunteers and School leadership to create community among HDS alumni, build bridges between alumni and the HDS campus, and connect Divinity School alumni with the University-wide Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86 H. Bernard Campbell II, MTS ’88 John D. Coggin, MTS ’11

Richard A. Coutinho, MTS ’94, LLM ’02 Quardricos B. Driskell, MTS ’08 Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10 (2016 Vice-Chairperson) Susan O. Hayward, MDiv ’07 Gregory Kimura, MDiv ’93 Sejal H. Patel, MTS ’14 Mary Roodkowsky, MTS ’77 Margaret R. Rose, MDiv ’79 Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell, MTS ’13 S. Joshua Thomas, MTS ’02 (2016 Chairperson) Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy, MTS ’94 (School Appointed Director to the HAA) Gloria E. White-Hammond, MDiv ’97 (School Appointed Director to the HAA)

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL The HDS Leadership Council is a group of supporters of the School who are ambassadors for HDS to communities throughout the world, and who provide annual leadership support of $1,000 or more. The Council gathers annually in Cambridge each spring. Bonnie Adkisson and Dave Adkisson, MTS ’75 Shakeeb A. Alam, MBA ’03 Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86 Katherine Buechner Arthaud, MDiv ’86 Sanjay D. Banker, MBA ’00 Henry C. Barkhorn III, MBA ’75 Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 (Chairperson) Charles E. Bennison, Jr., BD ’68, ThM ’70 Joan R. Bennison Edward B. Berninger, MBA ’55 James Russell Bird, MDiv ’73 Cynthia Bland Biggar, MDiv ’04 Rev. Rebecca M. Blodgett, MDiv ’89 Timothy B. Blodgett Katherine S. Borgen Joseph D. Brain, SM ’62, SM ’63, SD ’66 Judith B. Brain, MDiv ’91 Catherine A. Brekus, AB ’85 H. Peers Brewer, BD ’60 Kelly Bulkeley, MTS ’86 Nancy Burkett Randall Keith Burkett, MTS ’69 Matthew Burt, MDiv ’01 Patricia M. Byrne, EdM ’77 Ling Chai, MBA ’98 Hung Cheng Jill Tsui Cheng, AB ’67, MTS ’72

James Thomas Chirurg, MBA ’69 John Davis Coggin, MTS ’11 Charles Whitney Collier, MTS ’73 Patricia B. Collins William J. Collins Jr. Janet M. Cooper Nelson, MDiv ’80 Charles A. Coverdale, MBA ’71 Shirley E. Coverdale, MBA ’76 Neal H. Deunk, AB ’66 Richard C. Donnelly Alice W. Erickson, MTS ’76, MDiv ’00 Suzanne Farver, ALM ’08 John H. Ferguson Edward Fraioli Karen Ann Fraioli, MDiv ’93 Jonathan Akin French, AB ’61 Mona Ibrahim French Sarah B. Gant, MDiv ’92 William Loren Gary, MDiv ’86 James F. Gehrke, MDiv ’90 Charles L. Glerum Byron J. Good, BD ’69, PhD Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, AM ’69, PhD ’77 Barbara Graham, EdM ’81, EdD ’89 William Graham, AM ’70, PhD ’73 Celeste Grynberg Jonathan Chase Guest, MDiv ’77, ThM ’82 Victoria Alford Guest, MTS ’78, MDiv ’82 Akhil Gupta James T. Hackett, MBA ’79, MTS ’16 Maureen Hackett Ray A. Hammond II, AB ’71, MD ’75, AM ’84 Michael J. Hauan, MTS ’86 Barbara L. Hayes Samuel L. Hayes III, MBA ’61, DBA ’66 Cornelia Cannon Holden, MDiv ’03 Mary-Ella Holst Janice James Ralph M. James, MBA ’82 Wayne Lee Jones, AB ’98, MTS ’00 Raymond A. Kahng, MDiv ’96, ThM ’98 Carol L. Kennedy Paul D. Kennedy, BD ’61 Alicia M. Kershaw Patricia Sugrue Ketchum Robert Holyoke Ketchum, BD ’64 Sanford P. Keziah III, MTS ’88 Ron Kilgard, AB ’71, MTS ’75 Karen L. King Judith Lydiard Kinley, MTS ’93, MDiv ’04 Hilary K. Krane Charles Thomas Lelon, AB ’86, MTS ’89, MBA ’94 Jack P. Lewis, STB ’47, PhD ’53 Lewis L. Lloyd, MPA ’75 Rosemary Suozzi Lloyd, MDiv ’03 Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr., AB ’52, MBA ’54 Robin W. Lovin, BD ’71, PhD ’78 Thomas M. Mackall, MDiv ’84 Robert A. Maginn, Jr., ALM ’81, MBA ’83 William Muir Manger, Jr. Paul Brian Massari, AB ’90, ALM ’14 Kyle V. Maxwell, STB ’61 Mary Ellen McKey

WITH GRATITUDE

Miles R. McKey, AB ’50, BD ’58 James M. McKinney, MTS ’06 Jo Anna McKinney Randy Meech, MTS ’00 Karen L. Meeker, MDiv ’94 Brian Melendez, AB ’86, JD ’90, MTS ’91 Clarence F. Michalis, SB ’44 Cora B. Michalis Eugene Jeff Miller, BD ’68 James C. Miller, MBA ’65 Shirley A. Miller Shawn Monaghan Stephen J. Nelson Alexandra C. Nichols John D. Nichols, Jr., AB ’53, MBA ’55 Richard R. Olmsted, MDiv ’86 Patsy Palmer, MTS ’83 Sejal H. Patel, MTS ’14 Daniel A. Phillips, AB ’60, MBA ’63 Diana W. Phillips, MDiv ’82 Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS ’85 Carol Perlee Plumb, LLM ’72, HLS ’71 Martha Brandt Pollock R. Jeffrey Pollock, MTS ’71 Amy and Martin Post Brad Prunty, MTS ’80 Guy C. Quinlan, AB ’60, JD ’63 Mark Rauch Patricia Rauch Christopher R. Reaske, AM ’64, PhD ’68 Mary K. A. Reaske Joanne W. Reierson Lars Andreas Reierson, AB ’87, AM ’87 David Rich, MTS ’05 Lisa Rich Bonnie Roche *Deceased

Margaret H. Rodgers Robert B. Rodgers II, MBA ’93, MTS ’12 John S. Rolander, MDiv ’75 George E. Rupp, PhD ’72 Nancy F. Rupp Tony Russo Cheryl J. Sanders, MDiv ’80, ThD ’85 Richard Santos, MTS ’92 William Russell Savage, MDiv ’93 Barbara B. Scolnick, AB ’62 Michelle P. Scott, JD ’72 Jeffrey R. Seul, MTS ’97, LLM ’01 Robert N. Shapiro, AB ’72, JD ’78 Rachel Mercy Simpson Suzanne Skees, MTS ’92 Rosemarie C. Smurzynski, MTS ’80 Thomas V. Smurzynski, LLB ’66 Bjorn Sorenson, MTS ’02 Jan L. Steinbrenner W. Lowell Steinbrenner, MTS ’87 Brita Stendahl* John K. Stendahl, AB ’70 Charles R. Stith, ThM ’77 Arline Conan Sutherland, MDiv ’89 Jeff Sutherland John L. Thurman, MTS ’81 Diane Troderman Helen Moore von Oehsen William Henry von Oehsen III, MTS ’84 William C. Voss, AB ’59, MBA ’61 Gloria Elaine White-Hammond, MDiv ’97 Esther K. Whitfield, AM ’98, PhD ’01 Hilary A. Winter, MTS ’81 Jay T. Youngdahl, MDiv ’07 Craig B. Zaehring, BD ’66, ThM ’74

BICENTENNIAL PARTNERS We are grateful to Leadership Council members who generously doubled their support of The HDS Fund during the Campaign for HDS, in honor of the HDS bicentennial. We are pleased to honor these donors as Bicentennial Partners. Edward B. Berninger, MBA ’55 Charles Whitney Collier, MTS ’73 Janet M. Cooper Nelson, MDiv ’80 Charles A. Coverdale, MBA ’71, and Shirley E. Coverdale, MBA ’76 Charles L. Glerum Samuel L. Hayes III, MBA ’61, DBA ’66, and Barbara L. Hayes Miles R. McKey, AB ’50, BD ’58, and Mary Ellen McKey Patsy Palmer, MTS ’83 Jeffrey R. Seul, MTS ’97, LLM ’01, and Esther K. Whitfield, AM ’98, PhD ’01 Rosemarie C. Smurzynski, MTS ’80, and Thomas V. Smurzynski, LLB ’66 Arline Conan Sutherland, MDiv ’89

WITH GRATTITUDE Harvard Divinity School is deeply grateful to the following individuals and organizations who have made gifts, pledges, or other philanthropic commitments in support of the School between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016. Their generosity expands opportunities for our vibrant community of students and scholars of religion. We extend special thanks to those loyal supporters who contribute to HDS year after year. Individuals

DONOR REPORT 2015–16 who have contributed for at least 5, 10, 15, or 20 consecutive years are recognized with an indicator after their names. $2 million and over James T. Hackett, MBA ’79, MTS ’16 Maureen O. Hackett $1 million and over T. J. Dermot Dunphy, MBA ’56 John C. Whitehead, MBA ’47* 20 Anonymous $500,000 and over Anonymous $250,000 and over The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation $100,000 and over Rosalie and Thomas W. Anderson, MTS ’98 15 Albert J. Budney, Jr., MBA ’74 10 Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91 20 H. Bruce McEver, MBA ’69, MTS ’11 Society for Promoting Theological Education $50,000 and over Association of Theological Schools in the United States & Canada Akhil Gupta Janice James Ralph M. James, MBA ’82 5 $25,000 and over The Dean’s Fund consists of annual gifts of $25,000 or more, which enable the dean to pursue new opportunities for students and faculty as they arise. Kristian Halvorsen Kurt A. Keilhacker, MTS ’07 Jonathan J. Ledecky, AB ’79, MBA ’83 Yvonne E. Leonard Trust Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr., AB ’52, MBA ’54 Elizabeth P. and David A. McCreery, AB ’85 5 R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton 10 Brita Stendahl* John K. Stendahl, AB ’70 James R. Swartz, AB ’64 5 Susan Shallcross Swartz 10 V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation M. Withgott Anonymous $15,000 and over Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 20 Edward Hopkins Charity Germeshausen Foundation IMA World Health Amy and Martin Post 5 Diane Troderman 5 Anonymous 15

$10,000 and over Edward B. Berninger, MBA ’55 15 Nancy L. Cahners, MTS ’03 Katherine Cheney Chappell 15 Thomas M. Chappell, MTS ’91 15 Michelle R. Clayman 20 El-Hibri Foundation Drew Gilpin Faust Lynda M. Goldstein 5 John Grim Harvard Club of Boston Foundation Alicia M. Kershaw 10 A. G. Leventis Foundation Jack P. Lewis, STB ’47, PhD ’53 Amb. Alonzo L. McDonald, Jr., MBA ’56 20 Suzanne McDonald James Chris Miller, MBA ’65, and Shirley A. Miller Daniel A. Phillips, AB ’60, MBA ’63 10 Diana W. Phillips, MDiv ’82 15 David Rich, MTS ’05, and Lisa Rich Arline Conan Sutherland, MDiv ’89 5 Jeff Sutherland Mary Evelyn Tucker Derek C. M. van Bever, MBA ’88, MDiv ’11 Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy, MTS ’94, and John H. DeVoy III, AB ’93 15 $5,000 and over Katherine Buechner Arthaud, MDiv ’86 Jerry H. Baker, BD ’71, and Cassandra Baker 10 Henry C. Barkhorn III, MBA ’75 5 Rev. Rebecca M. Blodgett, MDiv ’89 20 Timothy B. Blodgett Katherine S. Borgen 20 Kelly Bulkeley, MTS ’86 Fay Chandler* 15 Suzanne Farver, ALM ’08 Charles L. Glerum Celeste Grynberg Sanford P. Keziah III, MTS ’88 15 Victoria Keziah Hilary K. Krane F. S. McDermott Rachel Fell McDermott, MDiv ’84, AM ’86, PhD ’93 Brad Prunty, MTS ’80 5 Bonnie Roche Tony Russo Michelle P. Scott, JD ’72 10 William C. Voss, AB ’59, MBA ’61 10 Anonymous $2,500 and over Charles E. Bennison, Jr., BD ’68, ThM ’70 5 Joan R. Bennison 5 Charles Whitney Collier, MTS ’73 20 Patricia B. Collins William J. Collins Jr. Janet M. Cooper Nelson, MDiv ’80 5 Charles A. Coverdale, MBA ’71 5 Shirley E. Coverdale, MBA ’76 Edward Fraioli 10 Karen Ann Fraioli, MDiv ’93 10 Sarah B. Gant, MDiv ’92 5

IN HONOR Gifts were received in honor of: Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 Caroline W. Berninger, MDiv ’87 Ann D. Braude John B. Carman Katherine Anne Collins, MTS ’11 Harvey Gallagher Cox, PhD ’63 Arlene Hirschfeld Erica Rose Long, MDiv ’16 Lucjan Mordzak Sage Moses, MDiv ’16 Bernadette C. Perrault Dudley Corwin Rose, MDiv ’83 Tovah M. Wax Preston N. Williams, PhD ’67 IN MEMORY Gifts were received in memory of: Raymond George Biggar, MAT ’53 J. Lawrence Burkholder, AM ’61 Frank Moore Cross, Jr., AM ’57 William R. Crout, BD ’58, AM ’69 Frank K. Flinn, BD ’66 Edward Gates, STM ’53 Dieter Georgi, AM ’69 Peter John Gomes, BD ’68 Alan Holliday, MTS ’83 Marie M. Hunter William R. Hutchison, AM ’68 Gordon D. Kaufman, AM ’63 Helmut H. Koester, AM ’59 Danilo S. B. Krstic, ThD ’69 Chalmers MacCormick, AM ’53, PhD ’59 Paulette Massari James N. McCutcheon, ThM ’60 Samuel Howard Miller, Jr. Deborah Narcini Antanaitis, MTS ’77 Wilfred Smith, AM ’64 Harold S. Spear, AB ’48, MBA ’51, DBA ’62 Brita Stendahl James Tanis

Barbara L. Hayes Samuel L. Hayes III, MBA ’61, DBA ’66 5 Arlene Hirschfeld 20 Mary Ellen McKey Miles R. McKey, AB ’50, BD ’58 James M. McKinney, MTS ’06 5 Jo Anna McKinney 5 Brian Melendez, AB ’86, JD ’90, MTS ’91 Stephen J. Nelson Patsy Palmer, MTS ’83 5 Joanne W. Reierson Lars Andreas Reierson, AB ’87, AM ’87 10 George E. Rupp, PhD ’72, and Nancy F. Rupp 10 Richard Santos, MTS ’92 10 Barbara B. Scolnick, AB ’62 5 Jeffrey R. Seul, MTS ’97, LLM ’01, and Esther K. Whitfield, AM ’98, PhD ’01 Charles R. Stith, ThM ’77

WITH GRATITUDE $1,000 and over Bonnie Adkisson and Dave Adkisson, MTS ’75 Shakeeb A. Alam, MBA ’03 Ann Beha Architects, Inc. James Russell Bird, MDiv ’73 5 Cynthia Bland Biggar, MDiv ’04 5 Judith B. Brain, MDiv ’91, and Joseph D. Brain, SM ’62, SM ’63, SD ’66 Catherine A. Brekus, AB ’85 H. Peers Brewer, BD ’60 Nancy Burkett Randall Keith Burkett, MTS ’69 5 Matthew Burt, MDiv ’01 Patricia M. Byrne, EdM ’77 5 Ling Chai, MBA ’98 Hung Cheng Jill Tsui Cheng, AB ’67, MTS ’72 James Thomas Chirurg, MBA ’69 10 John Davis Coggin, MTS ’11 5 Neal H. Deunk, AB ’66 5 Richard C. Donnelly 15 Alice W. Erickson, MTS ’76, MDiv ’00 15 John H. Ferguson 20 Jonathan Akin French, AB ’61 Mona Ibrahim French William Loren Gary, MDiv ’86 James F. Gehrke, MDiv ’90 5 Byron J. Good, BD ’69, PhD 20 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, AM ’69, PhD ’77 William Graham, AM ’70, PhD ’73, and Barbara Graham, EdM ’81, EdD ’89 Jonathan Chase Guest, MDiv ’77, ThM ’82 5 Victoria Alford Guest, MTS ’78, MDiv ’82 Ray A. Hammond II, AB ’71, MD ’75, AM ’84 Michael J. Hauan, MTS ’86 Cornelia Cannon Holden, MDiv ’03 Mary-Ella Holst Wayne Lee Jones, AB ’98, MTS ’00 Raymond A. Kahng, MDiv ’96, ThM ’98 Carol L. Kennedy Paul D. Kennedy, BD ’61 5 Patricia Sugrue Ketchum 5 Robert Holyoke Ketchum, BD ’64 5 Ron Kilgard, AB ’71, MTS ’75 Karen L. King Judith Lydiard Kinley, MTS ’93, MDiv ’04 5 Charles Thomas Lelon, AB ’86, MTS ’89, MBA ’94 Lewis L. Lloyd, MPA ’75 5 Rosemary Suozzi Lloyd, MDiv ’03 10 Robin W. Lovin, BD ’71, PhD ’78 20 Thomas M. Mackall, MDiv ’845 Robert A. Maginn, Jr., ALM ’81, MBA ’83 William Muir Manger, Jr. Paul Brian Massari, AB ’90, ALM ’14, in memory of Paulette Massari Kyle V. Maxwell, STB ’61 10 Randy Meech, MTS ’00 Karen L. Meeker, MDiv ’94 Clarence F. Michalis, SB ’44 10 Cora B. Michalis Eugene Jeff Miller, BD ’68 Shawn Monaghan 5 Alexandra C. Nichols 5 *Deceased

John D. Nichols, Jr., AB ’53, MBA ’55 5 Richard R. Olmsted, MDiv ’86 Sejal H. Patel, MTS ’14, and Sanjay D. Banker, MBA ’00 Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS ’85 5 Carol Perlee Plumb, LLM ’72, HLS ’71 Martha Brandt Pollock R. Jeffrey Pollock, MTS ’71 10 Guy C. Quinlan, AB ’60, JD ’63 10 Patricia Rauch Christopher R. Reaske, AM ’64, PhD ’68 Mary K. A. Reaske Margaret H. Rodgers Robert B. Rodgers II, MBA ’93, MTS ’12 John S. Rolander, MDiv ’75 Cheryl J. Sanders, MDiv ’80, ThD ’85 5 William Russell Savage, MDiv ’93 10 Robert N. Shapiro, AB ’72, JD ’78 Rachel Mercy Simpson Suzanne Skees, MTS ’92 5 Rosemarie C. Smurzynski, MTS ’80, and Thomas V. Smurzynski, LLB ’66 20 Bjorn Sorenson, MTS ’02 5 Jan L. Steinbrenner W. Lowell Steinbrenner, MTS ’87 John L. Thurman, MTS ’81 5 Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. Helen Moore von Oehsen William Henry von Oehsen III, MTS ’84 Gloria Elaine White-Hammond, MDiv ’97 Hilary A. Winter, MTS ’81 5 Jay T. Youngdahl, MDiv ’07 Craig B. Zaehring, BD ’66, ThM ’74 20 Anonymous $500 and over C. Cleveland Abbe, MDiv ’75 20 Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86 Brenda Andrews, MTS ’81 10 Josephine S. and Louis J. Appell, Jr., AB ’47* 10 Caroline Arms 5 Myron Anthony Arms, MTS ’69 10 Becky L. Bailey-Bradley Eric M. Berger, MPA ’03, MTS ’03 Phyllis A. Bird, ThD ’72, BF ’79 20 Albert L. Blackwell, BD ’65, PhD ’72 5 Michael L. Bradley, MDiv ’90 Denise Kimber Buell, MDiv ’90, PhD ’95 Kim M. Burse 5 Raymond M. Burse, JD ’78 5 James R. Cauley 10 Elizabeth Ruth Constable, MDiv ’06 Sidnie White Crawford, MTS ’84, PhD ’88 20 Mark E. Cushing, MTS ’80 5 Marian F. Earls, MD, MTS ’78 10 Anthony Elson H. Edward Everding, Jr., ThD ’68 10 Dennis Y. Fong Gilbert and Kaufmann Family Foundation Catharine Wilder Guiles, AB ’59 Susannah Heschel, MTS ’76 Harry Heyden Hoehler, STB ’54 5 Judith L. Hoehler, STB ’58 5

Harry M. Hutson, Jr., MTS ’71 S. A. Johns, MTS ’79 Theresa L. Jones Cynthia Kittredge, MDiv ’84, ThM ’89, ThD ’96 5 Paul S. Kraske, JD ’96 Iain S. Maclean, ThD ’96 William C. McCahill, Jr., MDiv ’72 Ying Pu McCahill Susan R. McCaslin, MTS ’74 20 Patricia E. Cleary Miller, AB ’61, BF ’94 Thomas L.P. O’Donnell, AB ’47, LLB ’49 20 Truman E. Parker, MDiv ’76 Estate of Constance F. Parvey Mary Pollard 5 Russell Pollard 5 Suzanne Goldstein Priebatsch, MTS ’74 Richard Kirkpatrick Rees, MTS ’94 5 William E. Robertson, Jr., MDiv ’80 Olin C. Robison 10 Margaret R. Rose, MDiv ’79 5 Susan G. Ryder Robert L. Schaibly, BD ’71 Stacy Ann Swann, MTS ’97 Diane D. Teichert, MDiv ’96, and Donald K. Milton, MIH ’85, DPH ’89 Bartholomew J. Tortella, MD ’79, MTS ’79, and Maureen F. Fitzpatrick, JD 5 Priscilla L Webster 1967 Revocable Trust Betsy & Gary Weimer, MTS ’71 20 Raymond C. Y. Yee 20 Anonymous up to $500 Reinhold Abele Paulette Abney-Walker 5 Valerie Ann Abrahamsen, MTS ’79, ThD ’86 Joel H. Abrams, AB ’90 5 David James Ackerman, MDiv ’93 James Stokes Ackerman, ThD ’66 William J. Acquario Betty C. Adam Robert Lazenby Adams, MDiv ’59 5 Chris Alburger, MDiv ’15 Elizabeth Hulsman Alcaide, EdM ’62 Kenneth S. Allison, AB ’67 10 Andrea La Sonde Anastos, MDiv ’85 George C. Anastos Alan R. Anderson, SB ’42, IA ’43 Carol B. Anderson 5 Frederick Clifford Anderson James Anderson Mary E. Anderson W. William Anderson, LLB ’59 10 Warren Anderson Barry Andrews 5 Susan R. Andrews, MDiv ’74 5 Christy Marie Cummings Aneja, MDiv ’08 Bradley and Christopher Antanaitis, in memory of Deborah Narcini Antanaitis, MTS ’77 John P. Applebee, MTS ’79 David C. Aquilina, MTS ’77 Dianne E. Arakawa, MDiv ’78 Joel Ario, MDiv ’78, JD ’81 15

DONOR REPORT 2015–16

Jane Arnold, ALB ’85, MTS ’92 5 Zita Arocha Maksim Astashinskiy, MTS ’11, EdM ’12 5 Harold W. Attridge, Jr., PhD ’75 Mary F. Bachmann Winston T. Bachmann, SB ’49 10 Nathlie A. Badian 5 Moussa Bagate Nelson E. Bailey, DMD ’63 Olga Bailey Alice E. Bair, AB ’64 Leif K. Bakland, PD ’73 Adele Baluk, AM ’68 20 Brady Banks, MDiv ’05 Peter R. Barclay Cornelia B. Barnes Jennifer E. Barrett Siegal, MDiv ’05 5 Joseph A. Bassett, BD ’66 5 Blanche S. Bast and Robert C. Bast, Jr., MD ’71 5 Rebecca Anne Bates, MTS ’93 10 Rebecca Jane Bates, MTS ’90 Jordana Schuster Battis, MDiv ’05, and Seth Battis, EdM ’07 5 George E. Battit Judith Anne Lovell Battit Maxine C. Beach, MTS ’85 Steven Beardsley, MTS ’00 George S. Bebis, ThM ’57 Rosalie F. Beckett Lloyd E. Beebe Manuel Cuneta Belino, MTS ’92 Malcolm H. Bell, AB ’53, LLB ’58 Michael S. Bell, EdM ’96, MTS ’97 5 Nancy Greene Bell Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., AM ’61, PhD ’63 Kazimierz Bem 5

Mary M. Bennett Sheldon W. Bennett, MDiv ’86 15 Walter Bennett Constance L. Benson, MDiv ’80 Nancy Jean Benson-Nicol, MDiv ’01 Chandler Benton, BD ’60 Suzi E. Benton Pierre Raschid Berastain, AB ’10, MDiv ’14 Paul J. Bergsma Caroline W. Berninger, MDiv ’87 Louis E. Bertoni, BD ’58, ThM ’60 Ernest M. Berube, MTS ’97 5 John Wilson Betlyon, MTS ’73, PhD ’78 Darrel and Polly Bigham George Bilon 10 James A. Birdsall 10 Mark J. Bitgood, AB ’87, MTS ’91 Elizabeth Q. Bjorkman 5 Henry C. Bjorkman 5 Marian Willard Blackwell Rebecca S. Blair, MTS ’79 Richard F. Bland, MTS ’04 5 John P. Blessington 15 Patricia M. Blessington 5 Alice Bloch Lee Ann Bluemel, MDiv ’94 Harrison Austin Blum, MDiv ’12 Karen M. Blum, LLM ’76 5 Florence M. Bobleter David Bogdan 5 Kelsey Rice Bogdan, MDiv ’09 5 Mitchell V. Bogen, MTS ’92, EdM ’94 Nancy Bohannon 5 Richard A. Bohannon, AB ’54 5 Paul Richard Bohr, AM ’68, BD ’71 5 Thomas P. Boland, Jr., MDiv ’94

Arthur S. Bolster, Jr., AM ’47, PhD ’54 5 Elizabeth W. Bolster 5 Charles R. Bomgren Frederick O. Bonkovsky, PhD ’71 David R. Borden, AM ’67 Bruce M. Bowen, ThM ’71 20 Loyce C. Bowen David Harold Bowles, MTS ’73 10 Virginia K. Bowles 5 Anne Bowman 5 Robert K. Bowman, MBA ’63 10 Glenn W. Boynton 20 Rose W. Boynton 10 Paul D. Braden, BD ’70 15 Michael Bradford Dorothy J. Brandt Philip H. Brandt, AB ’66 Julie Brantley Thomas H. Brantley, JD ’75 Jane Brawley Fobel, ThM ’85 5 William S. Brinkley, MBA ’70 Benjamin J. Broadbent, MDiv ’98 Sarah Brockmann, MDiv ’94 Charles W. Brockwell, Jr., BD ’62 15 Mary Ann Brockwell 5 William H. Brower III Jeffrey Brown, BD ’73 20 Kirk Frederick Brown Lori DiPrete Brown, MTS ’88, SM ’88 Sarah M. Brownsberger, MTS ’85 Bill Bruneau, MAU ’74 Jack E. Brush Sigurd Franklin Bryan Bronson Howell Bryant, BD ’58 20 Kirby K. Bryant, Jr., MD ’56 5 Shirley Borden Bryant

WITH GRATITUDE

EMERSON CIRCLE With deepest gratitude for their unwavering loyalty and the immeasurable impact they have had through their support, HDS recognizes the 2015–16 members of the Emerson Circle. These individuals have contributed to the School for 20 or more consecutive years. C. Cleveland Abbe, MDiv ’75 Adele Baluk, AM ’68 Robert L. Beal, AB ’63, MBA ’65 Phyllis A. Bird, ThD ’72, BF ’79 Rev. Rebecca M. Blodgett, MDiv ’89 Katherine S. Borgen Bruce M. Bowen, ThM ’71 Glenn W. Boynton Jeffrey Brown, BD ’73 Bronson Howell Bryant, BD ’58 Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91 Stuart G. Carpenter, AM ’56, PhD ’58 Michelle R. Clayman Charles Whitney Collier, MTS ’73 David M. Corwin, AM ’68, JD ’71 Herbert J. Coyne Sidnie White Crawford, MTS ’84, PhD ’88 Wallace Finley Dailey, AB ’62, AM ’63 E. Randolph Daniel, ThM ’64 Ian T. Douglas, EdM ’82, MDiv ’83, PhD Patrick C. Duffy, MBA ’76 John D. Elder, BD ’60 Francis T. Fallon, ThD ’74 John H. Ferguson Kendel Elizabeth Fesenmyer, MTS ’94 Doris C. Freitag John B. Glore Byron J. Good, BD ’69, PhD Royal A. Govain William T. Green, Jr., AB ’56, MD ’60 Jess O. Hale, Jr., MTS ’82 Constance A. Hammond, MDiv ’85 Suzanne L. Hamner and W. Easley Hamner, MArch ’67 Reginald L. Hannaford, AB ’54, EdM ’61 J. Michael Hartenstine, AB ’74 Robert A. Hastings, AB ’57, MBA ’59

William M. Buchholz, AB ’67 Wilfred F. Bunge, ThD ’66 Katharine Burnett, PhD ’77 Martin Buscher Brian R. Butler, BD ’69 Ruth A. Butler, BF ’79 10 Gregory Butter Andrew L. Caesar, Jr., MDiv ’90 Laurie Larson Caesar, MDiv ’92 Mark J. T. Caggiano, AB ’89, MDiv ’08 5 Neville G. Callam, MTS ’80 Peter A. Callaway, BD ’69 5 Holly S. Cameron, MDiv ’96 Bernie Campbell, MTS ’88 Patrick C. Campbell, MTS ’73 Jennifer Davis Carey, AB ’78, EdM ’79, EdD ’95 Robert J. Carey Jr., AB ’77 Betty Carpenter 5 *Deceased

Arlene Hirschfeld Ruth C. Hoffman Elizabeth Oakley Hutchins, MDiv ’94 Steven R. Johnson, BD ’68 Milton E. Jordan, MDiv ’74 John M. Keith, Jr., MDiv ’63 Arthur David Levin, AB ’54, MBA ’60 Jian Rong Liu, MTS ’96 Robin W. Lovin, BD ’71, PhD ’78 Susan R. McCaslin, MTS ’74 Amb. Alonzo L. McDonald, Jr., MBA ’56 Donald W. McKinney, AB ’48, STB ’52 Reb McMichael, MTS ’85 Frederick H. Morris, MDiv ’64, MBA ’68 Ralph Neibart, LLB ’49 Thomas L.P. O’Donnell, AB ’47, LLB ’49 John R. Packard, AB ’52, LLB ’55 L. Allen Parker, AM ’67, EdD ’71 David Milton Powers, BD ’67 Bobette Reed Kahn, MDiv ’76 Judith H. Robbins, MTS ’96 Norman C. Sabbey, AB ’67 Alexander M. Santora H. Richard Schumacher, JD ’58 William M. Schwartz, AB ’75 Byron E. Shafer, PhD ’68 Donald W. Shriver, Jr., PhD ’63 Rosemarie C. Smurzynski, MTS ’80 Rebecca L. Spencer, MDiv ’80 J. Mark Taylor, MTS ’78 Betsy & Gary Weimer, MTS ’71 John C. Whitehead, MBA ’47* Daniel F. Wilhelm, MTS ’94 Harold F. Worthley, STB ’54, STM ’56, ThD ’70 Raymond C. Y. Yee Craig B. Zaehring, BD ’66, ThM ’74

Catherine Yvonne Carpenter, MDiv ’85 Stuart G. Carpenter, AM ’56, PhD ’58 20 Anne Carty 5 John J. Carty, MBA ’55 10 Beverly A. Carver, EdM ’57 R. Cassels-Brown 10 Charles P. Caviness 5 Joan G. Caviness 5 Maria Cedargren 10 Central Congregational Church (Providence, RI) Gail Chang Bohr Christopher L. Chase, BD ’70, PhD ’78 Troy T. Chen Robert A. Chesnut, BD ’62, PhD ’74 10 Richard Chrisman John Christel Edward N. Clarke, SM ’47, MES ’48 5 Vivian C. Clarke

Niki K. Clements, MTS ’07 Barbara Clemmons, BD ’71 Arvilla Cline, AM ’49 Claire Clivaz Barbara J. Coates 5 Ernest W. Cockrell, BD ’63 5 Jill Shirk Cockrell Alan M. Cody Donald J. Cohen Helen Lutton Cohen, MDiv ’80 5 Cynthia Col, MTS ’97 Raphael N. Colard, MDiv ’72 Mary Barry Condon, MTS ’91 Anissa M. Conner, ALM ’10 5 Rona Harris Conrad, AB ’54 James Copeland 5 Gordon L. Coppoc, PhD ’68 James C. Corby, AB ’67 5 Nancy H. Corcoran, MTS ’91 David M. Corwin, AM ’68, JD ’71 20 Christal Costello, MDiv ’02 Charles Edgar Courtney, Jr., BD ’60 Richard Ashok Coutinho, MTS ’94, LLM ’02 Robert A. Cowie, AMP ’77 Herbert J. Coyne 20 Jeanine Coyne Louis J. Cozolino, Jr., MTS ’79 Allys Palladino Craig 5 Malcolm A. Craig, AB ’67 10 David C. Crane, MTS ’83 Sandra J. Crawford, EdM ’85, EdM ’07 10 Emma Richards Crossen, MDiv ’10 Steve J. Crump 15 Christopher C. Dahl, AB ’68 5 Frances M. Dahlberg, AB ’63 Barbara Ritter Dailey 10 Wallace Finley Dailey, AB ’62, AM ’63 20 Alexander S. Daley, AB ’57 5 Robert Carleton Dallery, MTS ’98 E. Randolph Daniel, ThM ’64 20 Terry W. Daniel Adrianne Nagy DaPonte, MDiv ’94 5 Maitreyi Bordia Das, MTS ’91 Udaibir Saran Das Donald L. Davidson, ThM ’81 5 Susan P. Davies 10 Charlotte de Lissovoy Werner de Saeger, MTS ’11 Elizabeth A. Deasy, MDiv ’91 Carol L. Delaney, MTS ’76 Edward DesMaisons, MTS ’02 Chinnappan Messia Devaraj, OFM Jeffrey DeVido, MD, MTS ’03 Lenore M. Dickinson 10 Darcy Turner Dingle, BD ’65 Daniel Dion, MTS ’09 Rita Dixon, EdD ’72, MDiv ’78 Rosina Berry Dixon, AB ’64 5 Sharon K. Dobbins Alberson, MTS ’87, and Ramsey B. Alberson 5 Jay Dobek Carolyn J. Dodson-Ching, MTS ’05 Mia Wechsler Doron, MTS ’81

DONOR REPORT 2015–16 Ian T. Douglas, EdM ’82, MDiv ’83, PhD 20 Quardricos Bernard Driskell, MTS ’08 Gail I. Duffy 5 Jennie A. Ozog Duffy, SM ’73 Patrick C. Duffy, MBA ’76 20 Robert T. Duffy Charles Wilton Eddis, STB ’52 Frank Egloff, MD ’47 Gerald Leon Ehly, BD ’57 Ruth R. Ehly Jacob Eichhorn, PhD 15 Mary W. Eichhorn John D. Elder, BD ’60 20 Caleb Iyer Elfenbein, MTS ’01, and Tina Iyer Elfenbein, MTS ’01 5 Jesse P. Elison, MTS ’02 Marion S. Ellis Leigh H. English, MTS ’82 Eldon Jay Epp, STM ’56, PhD ’61 ElDoris B. Epp 5 Natalee K. Ernstrom, EdM ’84 10 Peter D. Erskine, AB ’60 Casely B. Essamuah, MDiv ’95 Robert W. Evans Lee C. Everding Daphne Eversley Walter V. L. Eversley, AM ’74, PhD ’76 A. Joseph Everson Robert B. Ewald III, BD ’64 5 Thomas L. Faix, EdM ’60 Francis T. Fallon, ThD ’74 20 Molly Baer Farneth, MTS ’07 M. Charles Faux, MBA ’54 Gregory Alan Fayer, MTS ’92 Mimi Fayer John J. Feeney, Jr., MTS ’75 15 Billie Loit Fenton Fred Fenton, AB ’58 5 Faith V. Ferre, MDiv ’76 Kendel Elizabeth Fesenmyer, MTS ’94 20 Jennifer Fey, MDiv ’04 Karen E. Fields, AB ’66, BF ’83 First Parish Church of Weston Raymond R. Fletcher, Jr., LLB ’56 5 Daniel Flores, MTS ’04 5 Mark Fobel 5 Roland J. Follis Michael G. Fonner, MDiv ’78, ThD ’98 Benjamin Walter Foote, MTS ’08 5 Thomas C. Fordham, MTS ’93 5 David P. Forsberg 5 Andrew C. Forsyth, MTS ’09 5 Gary Fountain Melissa Evans Fountain William L. Fox, MDiv ’78 5 Georgia A. Frank, MTS ’87, AM ’92, PhD ’94 Robert M. Franklin, MDiv ’78 Susan Frederick-Gray, MDiv ’01 Arthur Merrimon Freeman III, AB ’63 10 Linda Freeman 5 Doris C. Freitag 20 Rabbi John Friedman Bradley Allen Froslee, MDiv ’99

Amy Furth, MTS ’74 James J. Gallagher, MBA ’66 Jocelyn Gardner Spencer, MDiv ’10 5 Betsy Aldrich Garland, MDiv ’90 15 Edward R. Garrison, MPH ’75, SM ’76 John G. Garrity, MDiv ’83 Marion M. Gates Joan B. Gaul 5 Stuart C. Gaul, LLB ’51 10 Richard R. Gay 5 Gerald T. Geer, AB ’72 Alice L. Geisert Theodore C. Geisert, JD ’52 Ronald L. Geisman, BD ’71 Gillian A. Geraty 5 Lawrence T. Geraty, PhD ’72 5 John Eric Gibbons, MDiv ’80 Charlotte H. Gibson 5 Ernest W. Gibson III, LLB ’56 15 Laura L. Giddings, MDiv ’91 Laura-Jean Gilbert 10 Omega J. Gilbert Stewart L. Gilbert, MD ’74 Joanna B. Gillespie Elizabeth Gilmore 10 Norman Lee Gindlesperger, BD ’62 Miriam and Owen Gingerich, AM ’53, PhD ’62 Penelope B. Gipson Robert E. Gipson, AB ’67 Christopher J. Glick Silvia P. Glick, MTS ’87 John B. Glore 20 Nathaniel Goddard, AB ’57 Michael Edward Goetz, EdM ’15 5 Beth Goodrich Ari Michael Gordon, MTS ’10 Royal A. Govain 20 Edwin H. B. Gozonsky, MBA ’54 Duane G. Grage C. David Grant, AM ’80, PhD ’81 Debra Anne Graves, MDiv ’81 Dorothy W. Green 5 Paul Augustine Green, Jr., MAT ’60 William T. Green, Jr., AB ’56, MD ’60 20 Emily Greenberg Frances Wise Grenley, MTS ’72 Stephen A. Greyser, AB ’56, MBA ’58, DBA ’65 10 Warren Frederick Groff Geraldine R. Gross, SM ’75 5 Cornelius J. Guiney III, AB ’64 Eileen Mary Clarke Guiney J. Ryan Gunsalus Elizabeth H. Guonjian, MDiv ’90 5 William Vincent Guy, MDiv ’60, MAT ’63 Mary Jane Haemig, JD ’81, MTS ’81, ThD ’96 Ellen L. Hafer, MTS ’69 Tammy M. Haldeman, MTS ’87 Jess O. Hale, Jr., MTS ’82 20 Rebecca Hale 5 Debra M. Haluska, MTS ’82 10 Constance A. Hammond, MDiv ’85 20 Suzanne L. Hamner and W. Easley Hamner, MArch ’67 20

Pauline Thielman Hannaford, AB ’53 5 Reginald L. Hannaford, AB ’54, EdM ’61 20 Maryanne Hannan 10 Robert J. Hansman, AB ’51 5 Christopher Justin Hanson, MDiv ’10 Paul D. Hanson, PhD ’70 Ralph V. Harder, AB ’70 5 Alice Dunn and Gordon Hardy Dr. Michael J. Harrison, AB ’54, and Dr. Ann Tukey Harrison 5 J. Michael Hartenstine, AB ’74 20 Harris L Hartz, AB ’67, JD ’72 Robert A. Hastings, AB ’57, MBA ’59 20 Gary C. Hauze, MDiv ’73 5 Mark A. Haverland, MDiv ’76, MPA ’92 Eldon R. Hay Susan O. Hayward, MDiv ’07 5 Valerie Heinonen Thomas E. Helm, BD ’68 Virgina Christenson Helm David N. and Louanne Hempton Samuel David Herring, MDiv ’99 Carolivia Herron, BF ’89, HDS ’97 Lee Edward Hershon Dorothy S. Herzog, EdM ’59, and John D. Herzog, AMT ’53, PhD ’68 5 John Hickey, MDiv ’02 10 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, AM ’93 Earl W. Hildebrandt, AB ’60 10 Mary F. Hill, MTS ’87 10 Hilary Martin Himan, MDiv ’01 Ann Himmelberger Jean Hall Hinckley, AB ’57 5 Suzanne Q. Hodge, MTS ’82 Kurt H. Hoelting, MDiv ’77 10 Ruth C. Hoffman 20 Paul Evans Holbrook, MDiv ’74, ThM ’76 Timothy Holder, MDiv ’97 Lucile J. Holliday 5 Allen Hollis, AB ’53, STB ’56 10 Joanna Phillips Hollis Susan Tower Hollis, PhD ’82 Holly B. Holmes Lincoln Holmes, AB ’71, MDiv ’78 5 Rex D. Hopper, Jr., AB ’48, MBA ’51 Linda T. Horciza, EdM ’64 David M. Horst, MDiv ’99 5 Daniel D. Hotchkiss, MDiv ’80 10 Susan Hotchkiss Sarah E. Houck, AB ’41 John B. Hougen, MDiv ’73 Richard C. House, MAT ’71 5 Arda J. Hovnanian, MDiv ’91 10 Marilyn Hromatko Wesley V. Hromatko Jie Huang Barry Wayne Hubbard, AB ’59 David P. Hubner, MDiv ’74 Michael Hubner, MTS ’73 Kathy A. Huff, MDiv ’98 Sandra Hulse Marion A. Humphrey, MDiv ’78 5 David H. Hunter, LLB ’67 10

WITH GRATITUDE

David L. Hunter, JD ’78 15 Rodney M. Hunter, MDiv ’78 Margaret D. Hutaff, MDiv ’72, ThM ’74 5 Elizabeth Oakley Hutchins, MDiv ’94 20 David C. Hutchinson Merrillann Hutchinson Nancy Sue Hutton, MTS ’05, AM ’09, ThD ’15 Cynthia N. Ikuta, MDiv ’82 Bruce Overman Inglis, ThM ’69 15 Caroline Patterson Inlow, MDiv ’99 5 The Reverend Professor Olushola Isinkaiye, MDiv ’93 5 Elenora Giddings Ivory, MDiv ’76 Beverly Gleason Jaques, MAT ’54 5 Christine M. Jaronski, MDiv ’96 Richard C. Jensen, JD ’77 Kwang Song Jeon, ThM ’06 Fang Jing, MTS ’01 5 Anne M. Johnson, MTS ’06 Rev. Dr. Bruce J. Johnson, MDiv ’82 Harriet Johnson 15 Milna I. Johnson Steven R. Johnson, BD ’68 20 Keith E. Jones, MDiv ’69 Robert C. Jones, MD ’43 Kathy S. Jordan Lisa Jordan, MTS ’90 15 Milton E. Jordan, MDiv ’74 20 William T. Joyner Annette Brinton Thomas Kaier 5 Edward J. Kaier, AB ’67 5 Everett R. Kalin, ThD ’67 Renata Kalnins 10 Margaret C. Kalton Michael C. Kalton, PhD ’77 Mrs. Charles C. Kao

*Deceased

Charles C. L. Kao 10 Bentzil M. Kasper Mel Kawakami, MDiv ’74, ThM ’87 James F. Kay, MDiv ’72 Barbara Driver Keast, MDiv ’88 10 Calvin L. Keeler, AM ’53 Emily Keeler Alhadeff, MTS ’06 Larry G. Keeter, BD ’65, ThM ’66 George Harry Kehm, ThM ’57, ThD ’67 John M. Keith, Jr., MDiv ’63 20 Rilla C. Keith 5 Richard Allen Kellaway, BD ’61 Sarah Jane Keller, MTS ’08 Jonathan R. Kelley, MDiv ’79 5 Patricia H. Kelley, AM ’77, PhD ’79 5 Scott Ketcham 5 Rev. John S. Kidd, MDiv ’75, Merrill Fellow ’97, and Dr. Katherine M. Kidd, AM ’75 Howard Lee Kilby 15 Mark Christopher Kiley, MTS ’77, PhD ’83 Angela Kim Chin-Tai Kim, AM ’60, PhD ’65 Jason I. Kim Sung-Hae Kim, ThM ’76, ThD ’81 5 Youngju Kim, MDiv ’09 Bruce A. Kimball, MDiv ’78, EdD ’81 15 Gregory Kimura, MDiv ’93 B. Diane King Edwin King Giovan Venable King, MDiv ’83 5 Lisa J. King, MDiv ’93 5 Sandra C. King Stoddon G.N. King, MDiv ’73 Barbara R. Kingston 5 Eric Kirkegaard, MDiv ’97 Cheryl L. Klein, MDiv ’84

Stephen B. Klots, MDiv ’89 Douglas T. Koch, BD ’71 Alan L. Kolp, BD ’70, PhD ’76 15 Letitia Ann Kolp Sarah B. Kotchian, EdM ’77, and Robert O. Nellums, MBA ’78 5 Donald C. Kraus 5 Jane E. Kromm, MDiv ’76 5 Ernest F. Krug III, AB ’68 Eliezer Krumbein, SB ’47 Daniel A. Kueper, MTS ’88 Umang Kumar, MTS ’12 Katherine Kurs, MDiv ’86 Eric Lacktman, AB ’65 10 Susan J. LaGaipa, MDiv ’94 Fei Lan, MDiv ’99 H. Darrell Lance, AM ’65, PhD ’71 5 Yehezkel T. Landau, AB ’71, MTS ’76 Lynne F. Landsberg, MTS ’76 15 Dermot A. Lane Katherine M. LaRiviere, MTS ’90 John E. Larkin, Jr., AB ’62 Marlin Lasater Lynn Laur Gail D. LeBow, EdM ’89 Thomas L. Leclerc, ThD ’98 C. Nicholas Lee, PhD ’64 Jaikoo E. Lee, MDiv ’68 Mollie Lee Nancy V. Lee Robert Lee, PhD ’74* Susan H. Lee, MDiv ’88 5 Jennifer Wiley Legath, MTS ’99 Gloria Frank Leiderman, PhD ’53* P. Herbert Leiderman, MD ’53 Colin L. Leitch, MDiv ’90 5

DONOR REPORT 2015–16 Elizabeth B. Lemons, MTS ’88, AM ’91, PhD ’97 10 Joe H. Leonard, Jr., BD ’67 Virginia G. Leonard, BD ’65 Karyl J. Leslie, MDiv ’83 Arthur David Levin, AB ’54, MBA ’60 20 Roberta Wintersteen Levin (Mrs. Arthur D.) 5 Thomas Malcolm Levinson, MTS ’99 Edward Y. Liang, MD ’56 5 Linda H. Lieurance Ronald Lee Lieurance, BD ’57 Ivan H. Light, AB ’63 C. Lloyd Lipscomb, MDiv ’61 15 Bing D. Litonjua Anne Haviland Littlefield, MTS ’92 15 Prescott Littlefield Jian Rong Liu, MTS ’96 20 Lily C. Liu 5 James Londis Mrs. James Londis James R. Loney Carol H. Longsworth Eric R. Lorey, MDiv ’91 5 Michael Thomas Lott, MDiv ’12 Sylvia Stallings Lowe 5 Bruce Arnold Lyon, MTS ’08 Chopo Ma, AB ’68 5 Elisabeth MacCormick 10 John MacIver, AB ’45* Jean E. MacRae, MTS ’73 Diana G. MacVeagh Temba L. J. Mafico, ThM ’73, AM ’77, PhD ’79 David W. Maher, AB ’55, LLB ’59 5 Jill Carlotta Armagnac Maher, AB ’55 Rebecca Makar, MTS ’02 Donna S. Makishima, MTS ’84, EdM ’85

James F. Marrin, MTS ’69 Gerald Edward Martau, EdM ’67 Ernest Oliver Martin, MDiv ’52 Patricia Summerlin Martin William Martin, BD ’63, PhD ’69 5 Kelly Murphy Mason, AB ’92 Dean Masouredis, AB ’74 Mark Stephen Massa, ThD ’87 Christopher R. Matthews, ThM ’86, ThD ’93 10 James E. Mauch, MAT ’59, EdD ’64 Catharine Eglin Maxey David W. Maxey, AB ’56, LLB ’60 Charles D. Mayer, MDiv ’82 5 Joyce Mann Mazur, AB ’53 5 Jeffrey H. McArn, MDiv ’84 Judith Anderson McBride S. Dean McBride, Jr., BD ’61, PhD ’69 Michael W. McCann, BD ’71 5 Gwen Marian McCarter, MTS ’08 Millington F. McCoy, HRPBA ’63 10 W. David McCoy 5 Janet McCutcheon Claire Kingman McDonald Lee C. McDonald, PhD ’52 Graham S. McFarlane, MBA ’73 Thomas W. McGill, MTS ’90 Donald W. McKinney, AB ’48, STB ’52 20 Julie E. Ledeboer McKinney J. Sherman McLaughlin, AB ’54, JD ’57 Marilyn C. McLaughlin 10 Thomas C. McLaughlin, AB ’61 5 Mary Alice McLean, MTS ’93 William L. McLennan, Jr., JD ’75, MDiv ’75 Sheila McMahon, MDiv ’02 Reb McMichael, MTS ’85 20

Gordon McMullan 15 Walter B. Mead 10 Mary Louise Meadow Rev. Jacqueline Meadows Jane H. Means Ronald Daniel Means, EdM ’59 10 Clement Mehlman Horace Lenkliner Melton, AB ’75 5 Gayle E. Merrithew, MTS ’87 Donald L. Metz, BD ’60 5 Mary Haywood Metz, AB ’60 R. Blake Michael, MDiv ’72, AM ’75, PhD ’79 Donald E. Miller, PhD ’62 5 Edmund McCormick Miller, BD ’63* Evar L. Miller, MAT ’66 5 Gordon C. Miller Mary Ann S. Miller 5 Patrick Dwight Miller, PhD ’6410 Mrs. Jerrold K. Milsted Jerrold K. Milsted, MPA ’72 Nelson H. Minnich, PhD ’77 5 Robert Mirak, PhD ’65 15 Catherine C. Misey Robert J. Misey, LLB ’52 Joan Louise Mitchell, MTS ’87 5 Carl E. Moll, Jr., MDiv ’70 Lawrence B. Moore, STB ’51, STM ’52 Marian Moore 5 Walter Lane Moore, Jr., ThD ’67 10 Ursula Healy Moran, AB ’83, MBA ’87 Ilyse Rian Morgenstein Fuerst, MTS ’07 Charles J. Morris, Jr., MDiv ’83 Frederick H. Morris, MDiv ’64, MBA ’68 20 Karl F. Morrison Stewart P. Moss, MDiv ’78 5

WITH GRATITUDE Diane Mowrey, MDiv ’87 Cornelius J. Moynihan, Jr., LLB ’64 Kirsten Mueller 5 Reisa A. Mukamal, EdM ’81 Wayne Muller, MDiv ’85 Gwyneth MacKenzie Murphy, MDiv ’91 Daniel R. Murray, JD ’70 5 Alexander T. Naughton, MTS ’81 Pablo A. Navarro Joseph Lee Nelson, Jr., ThM ’61 Kurt P. Nemitz, ThM ’85 Mera L. Neufeldt Rebecca Neumann, MTS ’05, and John Neumann, AB ’01 5 Scott David Newnow Teng Kuan Ng, MTS ’13 Kenneth A. Nickolai, MPA ’89 Steven M. Niemi, AB ’75, and Janet L. Niemi Andrea Gage Nienow Constance S. Ranee Niles, MTS ’92 Samuel Nixon, Jr., MDiv ’91, SLI ’01 5 Kesaya E. Noda, MDiv ’87 Lona B. Norris 5 Wilfred G. Norris, PhD ’63 10 Sheila E. Nutt, MTS ’96 5 Richard H. Olmsted Laurence M. Olszewski, ThM ’77 5 Courtney A. O’Malley 10 Joanne P. Orlando, MDiv ’78 Ruth K. Overdier, MTS ’88 Debra C. Packard John R. Packard, AB ’52, LLB ’55 20 Frederick J. Pagnani, JD ’57 Gerasimos Pagoulatos, MTS ’93 David A. Paige Dorothy R. P. Palmer 5 Alec A. Pandaleon, LLB ’59 Dolores Pantoja Paula Salonen Paquette, MTS ’84 5 David B. Parke 15 L. Allen Parker, AM ’67, EdD ’71 20 Steven Parker, MTS ’79 Gerald M. Parsons H. Roy Partridge, Jr., MDiv ’88 Richard W. Patt 5 Bobbi A. B. Patterson, MDiv ’77 5 Joe S. Patterson William Brown Patterson, Jr., AM ’54, PhD ’66 A. Rand Peabody and Sally Peabody, MPA ’91 Charles R. Peck, AB ’67 Johanna Peck Leonard W. Peck, Jr., AB ’70 10 William Jay Peck, PhD ’62 Linda M. Pedelty, MDiv ’96 Kenneth Levon Perkins, MTS ’10 Liya Perkins Mary Elizabeth Perry Ralph B. Perry III, AB ’58 Janet S. Peterman, MDiv ’79 10 Hannah and Cameron Peters 5 Barbara Ann Peterson, MDiv ’86 5 Jeannie R. Peterson, MTS ’88 Nancy Law Phifer *Deceased

Robert W. Phifer, AB ’69 5 Craig Arnold Phillips, MDiv ’79 Jeffrey L. Phillips, MDiv ’84 5 Melinda Phillips, MTS ’05 10 Marguerite Pool Phillips Gerald S. Pierce, BD ’68 Anne Pirie Oriol Pi-Sunyer, AM ’57, PhD ’62 10 Letty Cottin Pogrebin David Charles Pohl 5 Jackson E. Pope 5 Carol A. Potter, MDiv ’83 Daniel E. Power, AB ’51 Elizabeth D. Power David Milton Powers, BD ’67 20 Colm Prendergast 5 Rena Prendergast, MTS ’94 5 Darwin L. Price, MDiv ’70 Richard E. Price, Jr. Steven Priest, MTS ’88 Theodore Pulcini, AB ’76, ThM ’82 James R. Pusey, AB ’62, PhD ’76, and Anne Wang Pusey, AB ’69 Nessa Quille Eliza R. Ragsdale 5 Brendan W. Randall, AB ’88, EdM ’07, MTS ’09, EdD ’18 5 Mark Rauch Eloise L. Rayford Bobette Reed Kahn, MDiv ’76 20 David C. Reeves, PhD ’71 5 Sarah Drew Reeves, BD ’66 5 Sharon L. (Minchen) Regan, MTS ’98 15 M. D. Rehm, ThD ’68 Marc B. Rehm, MTS ’78 5 Delroy A. Reid-Salmon, MDiv ’91 Arnold Eugene Reif, MTS ’93 5 Charles A. Reinhardt, STB ’52 Susan Maxwell Reisert, MDiv ’92 Ryan James Renoud, ThM ’11 Alayne M. Retherford Charles V. Retherford, AB ’49, JD ’52 Jewel Jurovich Reuter Royal William Rhodes, PhD ’79 R. Eugene Rice, BD ’60, PhD ’70 Sandra Cheldelin Rice W. Temple Richie, BD ’68 Jennifer L. Rike Peter W. Riola Curtis Rising, MTS ’01 David D. Robbins, AB ’59 Judith H. Robbins, MTS ’96 20 Martha Robbins, ThD ’88 Charlotte M. Robinson 5 Edgar A. Roca Purna Rodman, MTS ’80 Diana Rodum William R. Rogers Joy L. Roller, MTS ’78 Mary Roodkowsky, MTS ’77 Professor John P. Rooney, JD ’58 Gene S. Rosen, AB ’66, LLB ’68 Jonathan Rosenbaum, PhD ’78

Fred Rosenberg, AB ’41, MBA ’43 Cathy Ellen Rosenholtz, AB ’87, MDiv ’91 Joann Abrams Rosoff, AB ’52 Sidney D. Rosoff, JD ’52 Robert H. Rout, JD ’52 Stephen Rowe Richard L. Rubenstein, STM ’55, PhD ’60 10 Ernest H. Rubinstein, MTS ’79 5 Anna Kerstina Rudberg Speiser, MDiv ’08 5 Douglas W. Ruffle, MDiv ’76 Barbara Louise Ruggiero, MTS ’77 Nancy Cirillo Ruggiero Jon L. Saari, AM ’65, PhD ’73 Norman C. Sabbey, AB ’67 20 Patricia Sabbey Nurjehan Saju, MTS ’04 Alisa Sakai, MTS ’01 Helmar Sakenfeld Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, BD ’65, PhD ’71 10 Richard J. Saley, PhD ’81 15 Frank L. Samson III, MTS ’00 Estate of Emilie T. Sander Anne L’Hommedieu Sanderson, EdM ’88 Ian Sanderson Faith Ford Sandstrom, ThM ’86 Alexander M. Santora 20 Lois D. Saunders Jack Sawyer, MDiv ’85 Anne M. Johnson, MTS ’06 Robert S. Scherr, MTS ’01 15 John E. Scheub, AB ’66 10 Teena Scheub Andrew B. Schlesinger, AB ’70 5 Carl D. Schneider, PhD ’73 Edward P. Schneider, MBA ’70 Robert Schoen, PhD ’63 10 Daniel N. Schowalter, MDiv ’84, ThD ’89 J. B. Schramm, MDiv ’90 5 Alison K. Schuler, AB ’69, JD ’72 H. Richard Schumacher, JD ’58 20 Katherine W. Schumacher 5 A. Wayne Schwab 5 William M. Schwartz, AB ’75 20 Allan Scudamore Kim and Fay Ann Sebaly Rebecca L. Sechrist, MDiv ’92 Gilbert R. Seely, AB ’50 Ann Braden Seigel, MTS ’83 5 Sanford Seltzer Barbara Sessions 5 Sterling D. Sessions, DBA ’62 5 Byron E. Shafer, PhD ’68 20 Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell, MTS ’13 Hershel Shanks, LLB ’56 Leo Shatin, PhD ’51 5 Anthony Shaw, AB ’50 Richard C. Shelain Barry G. Shelley, MDiv ’85 Martha Carroll Sherman, MTS ’93 Henry H. Shigekane, LLB ’54 D. Douglas Shipman, MPP ’01, MTS ’01 Richard M. Shohet, MAT ’61, EdD ’71 Donald W. Shriver, Jr., PhD ’63 20

DONOR REPORT 2015–16 Peggy Ann Leu Shriver Stephen R. Silver, ALM ’03, MDiv ’06 5 Betty C. Simms George R. Simms, MTS ’85 Patricia A. Simon, MTS ’88 Russell F. Sizemore, AM ’83, PhD ’87 5 James C. Skedros, MTS ’87, ThD ’96 George A. Skokan, AB ’58 Jill H. Small Geoffrey A. D. Smereck, AB ’75 5 George P. Smith J. Andy Smith III, BD ’68 5 James D. Smith III, ThM ’77, ThD ’86 10 Jeremy Smith, MTS ’03, MBA ’05 Linda K. Smith 5 Llewellyn Parsons Smith, BD ’67 Richard G. Smith, STM ’50 Wendy M. Smith, MTS ’70 5 James Smitherman Kerala Johnson and Richard Snyder 5 Joan Susan Soble, AB ’77 10 Charlotte H. Sommers, MDiv ’84 5 John W. Sondheim Kasumi Sonoyama, MTS ’03 Dillman Baker Sorrells, MDiv ’87 Nicole M. Sotelo, MDiv ’05 Nancy L. Spear Scott A. Spence, MTS ’95 Rebecca L. Spencer, MDiv ’80 20 Curtis H. Springer 5 St. Charles Church Harry C. Stafford Standish Congregational Church, UCC Timothy J. Stein, MDiv ’96 10 Judith Grace Stetson, MAT ’60 David K. Stevenson R. M. Stineman Robert H. Stockman, MTS ’82, ThD ’90 Libbie Deverich Stoddard, MDiv ’79 Allison Stokes, ThM ’97 Nathan Alan Stoltzfus, MDiv ’84, AM ’88, PhD ’93 Edgar Stone, MTS ’00 5 Robert A. Stough 5 Ronald Arthel Stover, MDiv ’97 Carole S. Straughn, MAT ’65 Harold Kent Straughn, BD ’66 Deborah Strecker 5 Robert Strecker 5 Marvin R. Strunk, MBA ’47, MOC ’45 Derald W. Stump James T. Sugrue 5 Donald G. Sukosky, ThM ’58 Faith V. Sullivan, MDiv ’05 5 Vincent M. Summers James H. Swartz Meghan T. Sweeney, MDiv ’99 5 David A. Swickard, AM ’69, PhD ’75 10 Kristine E. Swickard Lee Taft, MDiv ’99 5 Shulamit Tova Taubes, MDiv ’09 Sarah K. Taylor Peck, MDiv ’07 Andrew Lawrence Taylor, MDiv ’09 J. Mark Taylor, MTS ’78 20

J. Alton Templin, PhD ’66 Dameron J. Terry, MDiv ’13 Roopal Thaker, MPP ’05, MTS ’05 Diane M. Thoman Elizabeth Hanes Thomas, MTS ’73 15 Ritchie Thomas S. Joshua Thomas, MTS ’02 5 Peter W. Thoms, MDiv ’86 Bonnie Bowman Thurston Thomas Arnold Timberg, AB ’64, AM ’72, PhD ’73 J. Terry Todd, Jr., MDiv ’86 Mariah Furness Tollgaard, MDiv ’09 Carol J. Tomer, MDiv ’87 10 Edmund Toomey Joan Toomey Rodney Torbic John T. Townsend, STM ’53, ThD ’59 10 Mary Rust Townsend, AB ’56 5 Robert G. Trache, MDiv ’77 5 Martin P. Trimble, MTS ’84, and Colette De Marneffe Marguerite M. Trocme Weare Cheryl Coyne Ullyot James R. Ullyot, AB ’62, MBA ’66 Bruce B. Ungar, JD ’78 15 Phyllis H. Ungar 10 Benjamin D. Unger, SB ’94 Clara Beth Speel Van de Water, MTS ’74 15 Paul Van de Water 5 Carol C. Vasaly 5 Dorothy H. Vetter George B. Vockroth, AM ’51 Marilyn R. Vockroth Peter von Au Steven M. Vose, MTS ’06 William C. Wadland Robert E. Wagoner, PhD ’68 5 Dorothy W. Waldron Michael W. Walker, MTS ’83 10 Susan Hull Walker (Muesse), MDiv ’82 5 Ernest Wallwork, MBA ’61, PhD ’71 Seamus Walsh Albert Barnsdall Walton, Jr. Dennis Ward Ashley Weare, AB ’52, MBA ’5410 Roger Weaver Philip R. Webb, MDiv ’96 Rita Wegner, MTS ’95 J. Kendrick Wells III, AB ’64 Caroline A. Westerhoff John H. Westerhoff III, BD ’58 5 Maureen Wheat, MDiv ’94 Priscilla Felisky Whitehead, MDiv ’84 5 Warren G. Whitlock, Jr. Mary Jane Noonan Whitstock, AB ’54 5 Daniel F. Wilhelm, MTS ’94 20 Cynthia Wilkerson, MDiv ’01 15 Nathan Scott Harris Williams, MDiv ’06 Samuel Keel Williams, PhD ’72 5 Douglas J. Williamson, MTS ’79 Carolyn R. Wills David Wood Wills, PhD ’75 15 Andrew M. Wilson, AB ’72, MTS ’80, PhD ’85

Charles A. Wilson, MDiv ’72 Charles Lewis Wilson, BD ’64 10 John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., MTS ’81, EdM ’82, EdD ’85 Lauren Wilson 5 Robert G. Windsor, MDiv ’87 Robert E. Winfrey, MTS ’92 Doug Wingo, MTS ’85 James A. Winship, MDiv ’73 5 Thomas D. Wintle 15 Virginia J. Wise, EdM ’94, and Kevin N. Wilkins, MBA ’92 5 Alan W. Wolff, AB ’63 5 Helene N. Wolff, MDiv ’85 5 Gary L. Wolfstone, JD ’72 5 Katherine L. Wood, MDiv ’81 Barbara L. Worthley, AB ’56 Harold F. Worthley, STB ’54, STM ’56, ThD ’70 20 Alison Mossler Wright 5 Conrad E. Wright, AB ’72 10 Daniel S. Wright, MDiv ’72, HDS73 10 Margaret T. Wright, MDiv ’76 10 Mary B. Wright 10 Richard E. Wright, MPA ’68 Ines Wu, MDiv ’06, JD ’09 Lara D. Wulff, MTS ’96 Ann Dargis Wyatt, EdM ’75 John Wyatt Jonathan G. Ying, MTS ’94 Francis Ching-Wah Yip, ThD ’04 John K. Yost, MDiv ’62 Linda B. Yost Malcolm Clemens Young, MDiv ’94, ThD ’04 5 Joel H. Zaiman Dina G. Zelleke Dehai Zhang, MTS ’96 Anonymous (28)

JAMES LUTHER ADAMS SOCIETY We gratefully recognize the following individuals as current members of the James Luther Adams Society, which honors alumni and friends who have pledged their support to HDS through life income plans, bequests, gifts-in-kind, or other planned gift arrangements. Norman O. Aarestad, MD ’59 Valerie Ann Abrahamsen, MTS ’79, ThD ’86 Amy Adler Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86 Alan R. Anderson, SB ’42, IA ’43 Rosalie and Thomas W. Anderson, MTS ’98 Marie Alba Bacchiocchi, MDiv ’93 Daniel Ray Bacon, MDiv ’78 Jerry H. Baker, BD ’71, and Cassandra Baker Paul S. Barru, STB ’63 Sara J. Barru S. Scott Bartchy, BD ’63, PhD ’71 Steven S. Baxter, ThM ’77 Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., AM ’61, PhD ’63 Alfred Bloom, PhD ’63 Dorothy Nell Bloom Kimberly A. Boykin

WITH GRATITUDE

Judith B. Brain, MDiv ’91, and Joseph D. Brain, SM ’62, SM ’63, SD ’66 Nancy L. Breuer Albert J. Budney, Jr., MBA ’74 Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91 Nancy Burkett Randall Keith Burkett, MTS ’69 North T. Cairn, MTS ’83 Katherine Cheney Chappell Thomas M. Chappell, MTS ’91 Trisha F. Cheroutes John T. Chirban, ThM ’76, ThD ’80 Barbara Clemmons, BD ’71 Tania Maria Suzette Condon, MTS ’93 Lisa A. Connelly, MTS ’81 Patricia Cooper Janet V. Crisler Cheryl Lynn Crupi, MTS ’93 Amy Davidson E. Bonnie Devlin, MDiv ’90 William L. Driscoll, EdM ’01 T. J. Dermot Dunphy, MBA ’56 Alice W. Erickson, MTS ’76, MDiv ’00 Jeffrey Edward Fiddler, STB ’67 Elizabeth O. Foglino Ronnie Friedman-Barone, EdM ’85 Kenneth D. Fuller, MDiv ’72 Max D. Gaebler, AB ’41, STB ’44 Carolyn C. George, MDiv ’77 Neil W. Gerdes, BD ’68 Patricia Hollander Gross, AB ’63 Jess O. Hale, Jr., MTS ’82 Constance A. Hammond, MDiv ’85 Firmon E Hardenbergh, AB ’52, MD ’56 Juan A. Hardessen, MBA ’99 R. Stanley Hastings II, ALB ’85

*Deceased

Gary C. Hauze, MDiv ’73 Lee Edward Hershon John Hickey, MDiv ’02 Arlene Hirschfeld David P. Hubner, MDiv ’74 Michael Hubner, MTS ’73 Kathy A. Huff, MDiv ’98 Marion A. Humphrey, MDiv ’78 Elizabeth Oakley Hutchins, MDiv ’94 Sonja Torstenson Jacobson Robert A. Jones John M. Keith, Jr., MDiv ’63 Canon Brian S. Kelley, EdD ’76 Rev. John S. Kidd, MDiv ’75, Merrill Fellow ’97, and Dr. Katherine M. Kidd, AM ’75 James M. Knott, Sr., AB ’54 Spencer Lavan, BD ’62 Warren W. Lewis, BD ’65 John C. Lore, Jr., MTS ’80 Brian James Mahan, MTS ’76 Carl Harris Marbury, PhD ’68 Ann E. Marmesh, MTS ’87 Kyle V. Maxwell, STB ’61 Thomas W. McGill, MTS ’90 Mary Ellen McKey Miles R. McKey, AB ’50, BD ’58 Angela J. Merkert, MTS ’93 William B. Mersereau, Jr. Leon Messerlian James C. Miller, MBA ’65 Shirley A. Miller Carl E. Moll, Jr., MDiv ’70 John H. Morgan John E. Morson, MDiv ’01 Jonathan V. Newton, JD ’94 Ann K. Richards Nitze, AB ’66

William A. Nitze, AB ’64, JD ’69 Thomas E. Nutt-Powell, MTS ’70 Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS ’85 Christy M. Ponticelli, MTS ’89 Joseph Richard Preville Gregory T. Prymak, MTS ’86 Guy C. Quinlan, AB ’60, JD ’63 Joseph F. Roccasalvo, PhD ’78 Renate S. Rose, MDiv ’80 George E. Rupp, PhD ’72, and Nancy F. Rupp William Russell Savage, MDiv ’93 Robert L. Schaibly, BD ’71 Paul R. Schloerb, AB ’41 Rita Schneider George R. Simms, MTS ’85 Jan Skalicky, MTS ’00 Richard G. Smith, STM ’50 Wendy M. Smith, MTS ’70 Raj Srinivasan, MPA ’67 Diane M. Stanbro Harold Kent Straughn, BD ’66 Mark W. Strong, MAR ’95 George Brewer Thomas Peter W. Thoms, MDiv ’86 Richard P. Unsworth, ThM ’63 Judith B. Watson Priscilla Felisky Whitehead, MDiv ’84 Doctor Christopher Ian Wilkins, MTS ’93 Leland Wilkinson, AB ’66, BD ’69 Donald Lester Williams, MTS ’95 Dean Walter Worthington, MTS ’98 Jonathan G. Ying, MTS ’94 Anthony J. Zangara, MPH ’62 Anonymous (20)

Financials 2015–16 Endowment Value ($M)

Endowment Distribution ($M) $28.2

$27.7 $656.6

$628.1 $552.6 $456.6

2008

$639.3

$25.2 $609.0

$23.7 $22.2

$570.6

$23.3

$24.4

$25.3

$26.3

$527.6

$477.6

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Revenues

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Expenses

65% ENDOWMENT

48% COMPENSATION

19% TUITION & FEES

20% FINANCIAL AID

4% CURRENT USE GIFTS & GRANTS

2% SUPPLIES

12% OTHER REVENUE TOTAL REVENUE $43.071 MILLION

16% OTHER 8% SPACE 4% DEPRECIATION 2% DEBT SERVICE TOTAL EXPENSES $39.980 MILLION

[Harvard Divinity School] has never wasted an opportunity to take itself beyond its own expectations. . . . The tensions between Athens and Jerusalem, the Academy and the Church, the particular and the plural, the practical and the scholarly, have been creative tensions, requiring that the school renew and redefine itself in each generation. And in that very process has been both its continuity and its hope.” —THE REVEREND PETER J. GOMES, STB ’68