WSRP

As a Research Associate at HDS's Women's Studies in Religion Program, S. Zahra Moballegh hopes to uncover a woman's narrative voice and is looking closely at how we develop a conception of God in order to do so.

Elena Herminia Guzman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Diaspora Studies and a 2023-24 WSRP Research Associate.

Dr. Xhercis Méndez's research focuses on the constitution of the sex/gender binary as it intersects with science, religion, and practices of colonialization throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. In an interview, Méndez, WSRP Research Associate for...

As an interdisciplinary scholar of African arts, Dr. Elyan Hill’s research interests include festival arts, religious materiality, Black feminisms, and embodied renderings of the domestic and transatlantic slave trades in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia, and...

Based on a lifelong study of Hinduism in her hometown, the global city of Bangalore, India, Dr. Tulasi Srinivas seeks a new way of understanding everyday modern, sacred life. Focusing upon the anthropology of wonder, beauty and grace, her work forges new...

Dr. Jordan Katz is a historian of early modern Jewry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Judaism at HDS, and a Women’s Studies in Religion Program Research Associate for 2022–23.

Dr. Kinitra Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She is Associate Professor and the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies at Michigan State University and a 2022-23 Research Associate in...

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program, was among those who paid tribute to Kate Holbrook, MTS '01, the late writer, historian and champion of Latter-day Saint women’s history at a recent symposium in Utah.

The Past, Present, and Future of the Women's Studies in Religion Program The history of women at Harvard Divinity School is relatively brief, but the Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP)—founded in 1973—has ensured that the roles of women and gender...