Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. Its purpose is to train graduate students in either the practice of a religious ministry or the academic investigation of religion. Even though Harvard was founded in 1636 as a Puritan institution, the Divinity School dates from 1816, when it was established as the first non-sectarian divinity school in the United States. For most of its early history, the school was unofficially associated with the Unitarian church. Today its students and faculty come from a variety of religious backgrounds. Its current dean, William A. Graham, is a secular scholar of Islamic history.

Women's Studies in Religion Program

The Women's Studies in Religion Program promotes critical inquiry into the interaction between religion and gender. Every year the program offers fellowships to five scholars, offering them the opportunity to teach a class of their design and to take advantage of Harvard's resources, as well as to share their research and experiences with the fellows in an interdisciplinary environment.

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