Each year the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program brings scholars in gender from around the country to enrich the experience of HDS students. 2024 Orientation offered students the opportunity to hear from the 2024–25 WSRP visiting faculty, who shared...
The Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School was delighted to host Erminia Ardissino as she presented on biblical exegesis in Renaissance Venice aimed at rehabilitating the image of Eve. Ann D. Braude, Director of WSRP and...
Zahra Moballegh is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. Her current research project is "Narrating for Love and Change: Reading Women’s Stories in Search of a Feminist Qur’anic Narrator."
Wendy Mallette delivered this lecture for Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program. Wendy Mallette is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Theology at Harvard Divinity School.
Ashley L. Bacchi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Jewish History at HDS for 2024-25.
Parvez’s 2023-24 WSRP research project examined how women become central to debates about Islamic reform and how possession becomes a site to manage gender relations and trauma.
Mehta taught the HDS course, “Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States.”
This event was sponsored by the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture, "More Babies and More Birth Control: American Jews and the Politics of Reproduction," was given by Samira K. Mehta, who is the Visiting Associate...
This lecture was given by Jessica J. Fowler (University of Montana Western), Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism, on her work, "Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy."
This lecture was given by visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam, Z. Fareen Parvez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).