Advisory Board and Executive Council

World religions faculty at Harvard provide invaluable guidance in the direction of the CSWR. The Executive Council, composed of Harvard faculty, meets monthly with the CSWR director when the University is in session to consider and make program and policy recommendations. A larger Advisory Board includes a more diverse membership of religion faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), representatives from other Harvard programs, and advisers from outside the University. It helps to connect the CSWR to those entities.

Leila Ahmed 
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity (HDS) 

Ali Asani
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures (FAS)

John Berthrong 
Associate Professor of Comparative Theology and Deputy Director of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston University

Davíd Carrasco
Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America (HDS and FAS)

Francis Clooney, S.J.* 
Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology (HDS)

Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies (HDS and FAS)
and Director, Pluralism Project 

Marla F. Frederick
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion (FAS)

Charles Hallisey
Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies (HDS)

Michael D. Jackson* 
Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions (HDS)

Thomas A. Lewis
Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University

Peter Machinist
Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages (HDS and FAS)

Anne Monius*
Professor of South Asian Religions (HDS)

Jacob Olupona
Professor of African Religious Traditions (HDS) and Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)

Parimal G. Patil
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities (FAS)

Kimberley C. Patton
Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (HDS) 

Stephanie Paulsell
Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies (HDS) 

Michael Puett*
Professor of Chinese History (FAS)

Ronald Thiemann 
Bussey Professor of Theology (HDS)

Monica D. Toft 
Associate Professor of Public Policy (KSG) and Assistant Director of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at the Weatherhead Center

Tu Weiming
Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies
and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute (FAS)

* Member of the Executive Council