Courses

Each WSRP research associate designs and teaches a one-semester course related to the associate's research project. An annual session during fall orientation provides students with the opportunity to learn about each course from the visiting scholars themselves. The 2012-13 courses are:

Gemma Betros
HDS 2110: Power, Politics, and the Female Religious Life
Spring 2013, Monday noon-2 pm

Kristin Bloomer
HDS 2163: Altered States: Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Other Dangerous Crossings
Fall 2012, Monday noon-2 pm

Judith Casselberry
HDS 2109: Black Women and Global Pentecostalism
Fall 2012, Monday 2-4 pm

Hauwa Ibrahim
HDS 2108: Women, Justice, and Sharia in Nigeria
Spring 2013, Friday noon-2 pm

Lori Pearson
HDS 2209: Gender, Authority, and Domination in Modern Theologies and Theories of Religion
Fall 2012, Tuesday 2-4 pm

Zilka Spahic Siljak
HDS 2167: Women, Spirituality, and Peace
Spring 2013, Friday noon-2 pm

Please see the links on the right for information about other courses on religion and gender at the Divinity School, Harvard University, and through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.