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Dean's Welcome

Dean William A. GrahamWelcome to this website, which is designed to provide an accurate, accessible, and timely portrait of Harvard Divinity School.

We are proud to trace our origins and mission back to the early days of American history. But we believe that it is just as crucial at this time to show how HDS—a nonsectarian school of theology and religious studies, based within a major research university—is serving a global future.

I hope that as you explore these electronic pages, you will quickly detect our commitment to produce scholars and leaders, across the academic fields and the professions, who are rigorously educated with a particular eye to the broad range of the world's religious traditions. I hope you are struck, as well, by our concern with helping students reflect on, and practically confront, the many issues raised by religion in both history and contemporary life.

Finally, I hope that you will recognize the HDS community as an inclusive, outward-turning community, within which intellectual ideals and the ideals of social awareness and participation naturally inform one another.

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William A. Graham
Dean, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity

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