Leadership

Marla F. Frederick, a professor of religion and culture at Emory University, will serve as the next dean of the Harvard Divinity School, becoming the first woman to lead the school in its 207-year history, University President Claudine Gay announced...

Marla Frederick, formerly a professor of African and African American studies and the study of religion in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of the Harvard Divinity School on January 1. A scholar of the African American...

Marla Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will become dean of Harvard Divinity School on January 1, President Claudine Gay announced Thursday.

Marla Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will become dean of Harvard Divinity School on January 1, President Claudine Gay announced Thursday. Frederick is currently the Asa Griggs Candler...

The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, the Senior Pastor of the Historic Twelfth Baptist Church (TBC) in Roxbury, Mass., has taken on a new position as president and CEO of The American City Coalition, a Roxbury-based non-profit focused on revitalizing...

“Worse still, on some issues it’s very hard to see any difference between Macron and Le Pen, especially on the visibility of Muslims. Some of Macron’s ministers have been even more excessive than she has on this matter," says HDS Visiting Professor...

On December 7, 2021, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (PES) hosted the next iteration in its series on power dynamics in emerging and alternative spiritual organizations. This event featured anthropologist Giovanna Parmigiani, historian J...

Charlotte McAdams, MTS candidate, reflects on her participation in the January Term course “The Spiritual Lives of Leaders” What is the soul of Harvard? For one icy week in January, I rose early each morning to cross the Charles River and joined 70 other...

“The skills that ministers bring to their work are the skills that business schools desire to give to their students, and that CEOs want. They want empathy, connectivity with others, active listening,” said Karim Hutson, MDiv '08.

"The Spiritual Lives of Leaders," co-taught by HBS Professors Derek van Bever, MDiv '11, and John Brown, HDS Practitioner in Residence in Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order, aimed to ignite conversations and an investigation into the deeper...