Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2021–22 academic year. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines and research areas, commonalities in religion and gender emerge.... Read more about WSRP Announces 2021–22 Research Associates

As part of the 2020-21 WSRP Lecture Series, Georgette Ledgister (Agnes Scott College), Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and African Religions, gave the lecture, “Gods, Guns, and Girls: Gender, Agency, and Spirituality in a Congolese Rebel Movement.”

While most accounts of war treat women solely as victims of violence, Ledgister's study focuses on a woman who rose to the highest ranks of the Mai-Mai Rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a gender-defying engagement with ancestral power. (...

Gathering with many others whose lives she touched, Bonnie J. Morris, PhD, (WRSP 1990-91), joined the November 23 online memorial for Connie Buchanan, beloved longtime director of the Women’s Studies and Religion Program at HDS.... Read more about Rest in Feminist Power: In Memoriam for Constance Buchanan

Constance Hall Buchanan, a former director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School who developed the program into a permanent part of the School and University, died September 16, 2020. She was 73. (Read HDS obituary.)... Read more about Video: A Service in Thanksgiving for the Life of Constance Hall Buchanan