#  Convocation 2023 

 



 ![Stained glass window with Harvard's Veritas shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/hds2/files/10192022-hds-campus-425-2000x670px.jpg)

 

##  Convocation  
*of*

##  Harvard Divinity School

##  Harvard University

 ***at the Opening of the 208th year***

 **Thursday, September 7, 2023**   
**4 pm**  
**James Room (Swartz Hall South)**

 *Other viewing and overflow room: Sperry Room*

##    
Program

####    
OPENING MUSIC

   
*Eugene Kwong, MTS candidate, tenor saxophone  
Isaiah Briggs, MDiv candidate, drums  
Daniel Hawkins, HDS Chief Information Officer, bass  
Chris Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, piano*

####  WELCOME

   
*David F. Holland  
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Divinity  
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History*

####  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE LAND AND PEOPLE

   
*Rebecca Mendoza, Doctoral student, Committee on the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University*

####  INTRODUCING THE READERS

   
*David F. Holland  
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Divinity  
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History*

####  READING

   
Two Passages from Dogen:  
"A Dharma Hall Discourse of Dogen"  
"A verse of Dongshan remembered by Dogen"  
  
*Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, MTS candidate, Harvard Divinity School*

####  READING

   
“A Jewish Story" Retold by Rabbi Michael Gold  
  
*Ariel O’Donnell, MDiv candidate, Harvard Divinity School*

####  INTRODUCTION OF PROFESSOR HEMPTON

   
*David F. Holland  
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Divinity  
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History*

####  INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER

   
*David N. Hempton  
McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies*

####  REMARKS BY

   
*Claudine Gay  
30th President of Harvard University*

####  MUSIC INTERLUDE

   
“We shall be known” by Karisha Longaker of MaMuse  
  
*Stephanie Hollenberg, MDiv candidate, voice  
Nicole Newell, MDiv candidate, voice  
Chris Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, voice*

 Lyrics:  
We shall be known by the company we keep  
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires  
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap  
The seeds of change, alive from deep within the earth  
  
It is time now, it is time now that we thrive  
It is time we lead ourselves into the well  
It is time now, and what a time to be alive  
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love

####  DISMISSAL

   
*David F. Holland  
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Divinity  
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History*

####  CLOSING MUSIC

   
*Eugene Kwong, MTS candidate, tenor saxophone  
Isaiah Briggs, MDiv candidate, drums  
Daniel Hawkins, HDS chief information officer, bass  
Chris Hossfeld, director of music and ritual, piano*

####  RECEPTION

   
Everyone is cordially invited to attend a reception from 5–6 pm with light refreshments on the HDS Commons.

###  Speakers:

   ![Claudine Gay headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/121422_claudine_gay_220x180.jpg?itok=bJskA5Ji) 

 

**Claudine Gay** Claudine Gay became the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2023.

 Prior to becoming president, she spent five years leading Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the Edgerley Family Dean, having served previously as dean of social science from 2015 to 2018. Gay was recruited to Harvard in 2006 as a professor of government. She was also appointed as a professor of African and African American Studies in 2007. She was named the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government in 2015.

 As FAS dean, Gay guided efforts to expand student access and opportunity, spur excellence and innovation in teaching and research, enhance aspects of the FAS’s academic culture, and bring new emphasis and energy to areas such as quantum science and engineering; climate change; ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration; and the humanities. She successfully led the FAS through the COVID pandemic, consistently and effectively prioritizing the dual goals of safeguarding community health and sustaining academic continuity and progress. She also launched and led an ambitious, inclusive, and faculty-driven strategic planning process, intended to take a fresh look at fundamental aspects of the FAS’s academic structures, resources, and operations and to advance academic excellence.

 Gay is a leading scholar of political behavior, considering issues of race and politics in America. She has explored such topics as how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government and their interest in politics and public affairs; how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among Black Americans; the roots of competition and cooperation between minority groups, with a particular focus on relations between Black Americans and Latinos; and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among poor people. Gay is a dedicated educator and mentor whose courses have focused on such topics as racial and ethnic politics in the U.S., Black politics in the post-Civil Rights era, American political behavior, and democratic citizenship. She is founding chair of the Inequality in America Initiative, a multidisciplinary effort launched in 2017.

 Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Gay was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University from 2000 to 2005, and an associate professor (tenured) from 2005 to 2006. She earned a B.A. in economics from Stanford University, where she received the Anna Laura Myers Prize for best senior thesis in the department. She earned her PhD at Harvard in 1998, receiving the Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science.

 A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She currently serves on the boards of the Pew Research Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She also served as a member of the American Association of Universities advisory board on racial equity in higher education.

   ![David F. Holland headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/holland-220x180.jpg?itok=klNdEGwd) 

 

**David F. Holland** David Holland is Interim Dean of the Faculty of Divinity and the Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. Holland’s research focuses on the intersecting theological commitments and cultural changes that shaped American life from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth. His first book, *Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America*, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He has since published a brief theological introduction to the Book of Mormon and is an editor on the Oxford Handbook on Seventh-day Adventism, which is now in press.

 His research has also appeared in the *New England Quarterly, Law and History Review*, and in a variety of other scholarly collections, including a recent essay in *Secularization and Religious Innovation in the Atlantic World* by Oxford University Press. Holland is currently at work on a co-authored volume, *Ideas and Ideals in the American Past*, commissioned by Oxford and a comparative biography, *A Particular Universe: Ellen Gould White, Mary Baker Eddy and the Nineteenth Century United States*, to be published by Yale University Press.

   ![David Hempton headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/dhempton-180x220jpg.jpg?itok=Ly2PiaI0) 

 

**David N. Hempton** David N. Hempton is McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from July 2012 through August 2023. Before joining the Faculty of Divinity in spring 2007, he was University Professor and Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University; and prior to that appointment, he was Professor of Modern History and director of the School of History in Queen’s University Belfast.

 Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In recent years, he has delivered the F.D. Maurice Lectures at King’s College London, held a fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was HDS’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2008.

 In October 2021, Hempton was the featured speaker of the [Gifford Lectures](https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/gifford-lectures/archive/gifford-lectures-2020-2021/david-hempton), one of the most prestigious honors in academia. His series of lectures is titled “Networks, Nodes, and Nuclei in the History of Christianity, c. 1500–2020.” Hempton’s most recent book is *Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World* (Oxford, 2017).

   ![Rebecca Mendoza headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/rmendoza-180x220.jpg?itok=EpJMbbl5) 

 

**Rebecca Mendoza** Rebecca Mendoza's research focuses on Indigenous religious traditions of the Americas with a focus on precolonial and decolonial theory grounded in Mexico and the contemporary borderlands of Mexico and the U.S. Broadly, her scholarship centers Indigenous ontologies, material religion, and ritual survivance pertaining to kinship among humans, plants, animals, ancestors, and land. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges ancient Mesoamerican materials and cosmovision with contemporary Indigenous, Mexican, and Chicanx communities. Mendoza is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School (MDiv) and the University of Oregon (BA) with professional experience working in community organizing, advocacy, education, and storytelling. She was a 2022 Summer Pre-Columbian Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, a Graduate Student Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and in 2023 she was awarded the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

   ![Ariel O'Donnell headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/arielodonnell-180x220.jpg?itok=QmLWFIh8) 

 

**Ariel O'Donnell** Ariel O’Donnell is an MDiv candidate at Harvard Divinity School from Omaha, Nebraska. O'Donnell seeks to integrate death care and ritual, shadow healing work, creative writing, and serving marginalized communities at these crossroads. O'Donnell is grateful for the opportunity to be among community at HDS and learn from the river near her home.

   ![Elon Tettey-Tamaklo headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/elontetteytamaklo-180x220.jpg?itok=VgMOsjx1) 

 

**Elom Tettey-Tamaklo** Elom Tettey-Tamaklo is a second-year MTS candidate whose work is at the intersection of religion and human rights law, specifically in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Elom believes that there can be no just peace without the recognition of the Divine in each of us and therefore strives to call attention through religious practice and legal frameworks, to the inherent and unquestionable worth of all human beings.

###  Musicians: 

   ![Isaiah Briggs headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/isaiahbriggs-180x220.jpg?itok=rBrxhotj) 

 

**Isaiah Briggs** Isaiah Briggs is a MDiv candidate focusing on the role of music in social movements and faith communities. His work centers on bringing creative/social development programs to young people dealing with PTSD and complex trauma.

   ![Dan Hawkins headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/danhawkins-220x180.jpg?itok=pEo5aTQk) 

 

**Daniel Hawkins** Daniel Hawkins is the chief information officer at Harvard Divinity School and has served in various information technology roles across the university since he began his career at Harvard in 1997. He is also the bassist and founding member of the Boston band Pressure Cooker, which writes and performs original roots reggae, rocksteady, and ska music.

   ![Stephanie Hollenberg headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/shollenberg-180x220.jpg?itok=3NEhXRQB) 

 

**Stephanie Hollenberg** Stephanie Hollenberg is a third-year MDiv candidate exploring the intersection of music and spiritual care. She and husband Luke are growing a home in Vermont.

   ![Chris Hossfeld](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/hossfeld-rsl_staff_poster_20-21_w_xavier.jpg?itok=fpAwjVwX) 

 

**Christopher Hossfeld** Christopher Hossfeld has served Harvard Divinity School since 2017 as director of music and ritual and Instructor in Sacred Music. His professional experience spans many years as a conductor, composer, vocal performer, and lecturer in academic, church, and community settings. He has served as the director of music for Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel, for St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and for a faith community at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. In Montreal, he was the conductor and co-artistic director of Opera da Camera and co-founded One Equall Musick, a collaborative vocal ensemble.

 He composes music for many settings, from concert works to music for liturgy or film. His music has been performed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Music Garden, Jordan Hall, and at Yale and Harvard universities. He has received commissions from various ensembles, including the Rosetta Trio, the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, and the Grammy-nominated string orchestra A Far Cry. In addition to serving the HDS community, he is also the director of music at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, Massachusetts.

   ![Eugene Kwong](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/eugenekwong-180x220.jpg?itok=CHskr7Lv) 

 

**Eugene Kwong** Eugene Kwong is studying towards an MTS in Islamic Studies and contends daily with music and community in Islam.

   ![Nicole Newell headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/nicolenewell1.jpg?itok=UcKGhm38) 

 

**Nicole Newell** MDiv candidate Nicole Newell studies spiritual care, healing design, and contemplative practices at HDS. She sings with the Harvard University Choral Fellows and performs regularly in the wider community.

#####  FACULTY OF DIVINITY

 Claudine Gay, *President of Harvard University*  
David F. Holland, *Interim Dean of Harvard Divinity School, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History*  
Swayam Bagaria, *Postdoctoral Fellow of Hindu Studies*  
Melissa Wood Bartholomew, *Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and Lecturer on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging*  
Giovanni Bazzana, *Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion and Professor New Testament and Early Christian Studies*  
Ann D. Braude, *Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program*  
Catherine Brekus, *Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion (FAS)*  
Davíd Carrasco, *Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology (FAS)*  
Francis X. Clooney, *S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology*  
Benjamin Dunning, *Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity*  
Diana L. Eck, *Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society (FAS), and Member of the Faculty of Divinity*  
Cheryl A. Giles, *Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling*  
Mohsen Goudarzi, *Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies*  
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, *Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies*  
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 N. Hempton, *Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor*  
Theodore Hickman-Maynard, *Associate Dean for Ministry Studies and Lecturer on Ministry*  
Amy Hollywood, *Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies*  
Tracey E. Hucks, *Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies and Suzanne Young Murray Professor (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)*  
Terrence L. Johnson, *Professor of African American Religious Studies*  
Ousmane Oumar Kane, *Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)*  
Karen L. King, *Hollis Professor of Divinity*  
David C. Lamberth, *Professor of Philosophy and Theology*  
Jon D. Levenson, *Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies*  
Kevin J. Madigan, *Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History*  
Dan McKanan, *Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity*  
Diane L. Moore, *Associate Dean for Religion and Public Life, Religion and Public Life Lecturer in Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions*  
Jacob K. Olupona, *Professor of African Religious Traditions, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)*  
Kimberley C. Patton, *Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion*  
Stephanie Paulsell, *Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies*  
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, *Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church*  
Annette Yoshiko Reed, *Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity*  
Mayra Rivera, *Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies*  
Michelle C. Sanchez, *Associate Professor of Theology*  
Teren Sevea, *Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies*  
Charles M. Stang, *Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions*  
D. Andrew Teeter, *Professor of Hebrew Bible*

#####  MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY EMERITUS AND RESEARCH PROFESSORS

 Leila Ahmed, *Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity*  
John Braisted Carman, *Parkman Professor of Divinity, Emeritus*  
Harvey G. Cox, Jr., *Hollis Professor of Divinity, Emeritus*  
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, *Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies*  
William A. Graham, *Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS), Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor*  
David D. Hall, *Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Emeritus*  
Michael D. Jackson, *Senior Research Fellow in World Religions*  
Baber Johansen, *Research Professor of Islamic Religious Studies*  
Mark D. Jordan, *Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity*  
Peter Machinist, *Hancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages (FAS)*  
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, *Krister Stendahl Research Professor of Divinity*  
Preston N. Williams, *Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change, Emeritus*

#####  OTHERS OFFERING INSTRUCTION

 Khalil Abdur-Rashid, *Muslim Chaplain (Harvard) and Lecturer on Muslim Studies (HDS)*  
Irit Aharony, *Senior Preceptor in Modern Hebrew (FAS)*  
Ali S. Asani, *Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS) and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures (FAS)*  
Preeta Banerjee, *Instructor in Ministry Studies*

 Ran Bechor, *Preceptor in Modern Hebrew (FAS)*  
Jeremy D. Battle, *Lecturer on Baptist Polity*  
Katarina Bergh, *Instructor in Ministry Studies*

 Chris Berlin, *Instructor in Ministry Studies and Pastoral Counseling*

 Nicholas Boylston, *Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (FAS)*  
Cornell William Brooks, *Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership (HDS), Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations (HKS), and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice (HKS)*  
John P. Brown, *Practitioner in Residence in Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order*

 Raymond Carr, *Visiting Professor*   
Jocelyne Cesari, *T.J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding*  
Beatrice Chrystall, *Lecturer on Pali*  
Shaye J.D. Cohen, *Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy (FAS)*  
Richard Cozzens, *Preceptor in Arabic (FAS)*  
Brandon Thomas Crowley, *Lecturer in Ministry Studies*  
Khaled El-Rouayheb, *James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History (FAS)*  
Christopher Eldrett, *Lecturer in Spanish Translation*  
Michael Ennis, *Lecturer on Advanced Greek*  
Lewis Finfer, *Instructor in Faith-Based Community Organizing*

 Amy L. Fisher, *Instructor in United Methodist Polity*  
Gail Forsyth-Vail, *Instructor on Church Polity*

 Jessica J. Fowler, *Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24*

 Jay L. Garfield*, Visiting Professor of Buddhist Philosophy*   
K. Healan Gaston, *Lecturer in American Religious History and Ethics*  
Reebee Kavich Girash, *Instructor on United Church of Christ Polity*   
Luis Girón Negrón, *Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) and of Comparative Literature (FAS)*  
J. Gregory Given, *Lecturer on Elementary Coptic*  
Elon Goldstein, *Lecturer on Tibetan Buddhist Studies*  
Geraldine Grimm, *Lecturer on German*  
Karin Grundler-Whitacre, *Assistant Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Director of the Summer Language Program, and Lecturer on German*  
Haci Osman Gündüz, *Summer Language Program 2023, Instructor in Classical Arabic*

 Elena Herminia Guzman, *Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Religions, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24*  
Muhammad Habib, *Preceptor in Arabic (FAS)*

 Shiraz Hajiani, *Lecturer in Islamic Studies, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions*  
Gregory Halaby, *Preceptor in Arabic (FAS)*  
Judy Haley, *Summer Language Program 2023, Lecturer in New Testament Greek, and Lecturer on Intermediate Greek*

 Jay M. Harris, *Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies (FAS)*

 Julia Hintlian, *Summer Language Program 2023, Instructor in Elementary Syriac*  
Samuel B. Hogan, Sr., *Instructor in Pentecostal Church Polity*

 Nathanael Homewood, *Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity 2023-24*  
Christopher Hossfeld, *Instructor in Sacred Music and Director of Music and Ritual*

 Allison Hurst, *Summer Language Program 2023 Instructor in Elementary Biblical Hebrew*

 Alison Jablonsky, *Instructor in Ministry Studies*   
Arthur Kleinman, *Esther Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology (FAS), Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS), Professor of Psychiatry (HMS)*  
Yunus Kumek, *Lecturer on Muslim Studies*  
Robin Lütjohann, *Instructor on Lutheran Polity*  
Amr Madi, *Preceptor in Arabic (FAS)*

 Shaul Magid, *Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies*

 Dana Malhas, *Preceptor in Arabic (FAS)*  
Kerry Maloney, *Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life and Instructor in Ministry Studies*  
Peter Der Manuelian, *Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology (FAS)*

 Samira K. Mehta, *Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and North American Religions, Colorado Scholar, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24*  
S. Zahra Moballegh, *Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Islam, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24*  
Payam Mohseni, *Project Director of Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs*  
Amanda Napior, *Instructor in Ministry Studies*  
Lana Jaffe Neufeld, *Summer Language Program 2023, Lecturer on Spanish*

 Romy Neumark, *Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer of Jewish Studies (FAS)*  
Alissa Oleson, *Instructor on Lutheran Polity*  
Atalia Omer, *T.J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding and Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace, Program in Religion and Public Life*  
Giovanna Parmigiani, *Lecturer on Religion and Cultural Anthropology*

 Z. Fareen Parvez, *Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24.*

 Matthew Percuoco, *Summer Language Program 2023, Lecturer on Intermediate Hebrew*  
John R. Peteet, *Associate Professor of Psychiatry (HMS)*  
Ute Possekel, *Lecturer on Syriac*

 Michael Puett, *Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology (FAS)*

 Ashley M. Purpura*, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Theology, WSRP Research Associate 2023-24*  
David Ragland, *Lecturer on the Spirituality of Reparations*

 Hussein Rashid, *Assistant Dean for Religion and Public Life, Lecturer on Religion and Public Life*

 Julia Rhyder, *Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (FAS)*  
James Robson, *James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (FAS) and Harvard College Professor*  
Monica Stanford, *Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry and Lecturer in Ministry Studies*

 Tom Santa Maria, *Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity 2023-24*  
Cathy Seggel, *Instructor in Church Polity*  
Jeffrey R. Seul, *Lecturer on the Practice of Peace*  
Patricia Simpson, *Instructor in Ministry Studies*  
James C. Skedros, *Summer Language Program 2023 and Lecturer on Elementary New Testament Greek*   
Daniel Albert Smith, *Lecturer on Ministry Studies*  
Burns Stanfield, *Instructor in Presbyterian Church Polity*  
Liza Stern, *Instructor on Jewish Polity*

 Claire Feingold Thoryn, *Instructor on United Universalist Polity*  
Craig Tichelkamp, *Summer Language Program 2023, Lecturer on Christian Latin*   
Pascale C. Torracinta, *Summer Language Program 2023, Instructor on French*   
Laura Tuach, *Assistant Dean for Ministry Studies and Field Education*  
Regina Walton, *Lecturer on Anglican Church Polity*  
Gloria White-Hammond, *Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies*  
Terry Tempest Williams, *Writer-In-Residence*

 David Wolpe, *Visiting Scholar*

 Gina A. Zurlo, *Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity 2023-24*

#####  DENOMINATIONAL COUNSELORS

 Aisha Ansano, *Counselor to Unitarian Universalist Students*  
Jeremy Battle, *Counselor to Baptist Students*  
Chris Berlin, *Counselor to Buddhist Students*  
Amy L. Fisher, *Counselor to Methodist Students*  
Reebee Kavich Girash, *Counselor to United Church of Christ Students*  
Samuel B. Hogan, Sr., *Counselor to Pentecostal Students*  
Maryam Sharrieff, *Counselor to Muslim Students*  
Patricia Simpson, *Counselor to Roman Catholic Students*  
Burns Stanfield, *Counselor to Presbyterian Students*  
Liza Stern, *Counselor to Jewish Students*  
Kari Jo Verhulst, *Counselor to Lutheran Students*

 Regina Walton, *Counselor to Episcopal/Anglican Students*