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.

Susan Abraham
Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies (HDS)

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

Ann Braude
Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program (HDS)

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 Frederick 
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion (FAS)

Janet Gyatso 
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (HDS)

Charles Hallisey
Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies (HDS)

Robert Hefner
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

Michael Jackson
Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions (HDS)

Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry (HMS)

Smita Lahiri
Associate Professor of Social Anthropology (FAS)

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)

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

Michael Puett*
Professor of Chinese History (FAS)

Jonathan Schofer
Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics (HDS)

Jane I. Smith
Senior Lecturer in Divinity and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs (HDS)

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

Stephen B. Young
Global Executive Director, Caux Round Table

* Member of the Executive Council