# News & Events ## expand\_more [### WSRP Announces 2025–26 Research Associates ](/news/2025/06/04/wsrp-announces-2025-26-research-associates) June 04, 2025 The Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School is pleased to announce the appointment of the 2025-26 research associates and visiting faculty. ![Carriage House](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-06/09192022-WSRP-11%20thumb.jpg?itok=13E2Xax6) [### Video: The Sibyl: Reclaiming the Power of an Ancient Persona ](/news/2025/03/26/video-sibyl-reclaiming-power-ancient-persona) March 26, 2025 Ashley L. Bacchi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Jewish History at HDS for 2024-25. ![sibyl](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Screenshot%202025-04-24%20152319.png?itok=VajWXd5a) [### Video: Jill Johnston’s Born-Again Lesbianism: Feminist and Trans Histories ](/news/2025/03/04/video-jill-johnstons-born-again-lesbianism-feminist-and-trans-histories) March 04, 2025 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. ![born again](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Screenshot%202025-03-20%20162954.png?itok=2StN5fB1) [### Video: Narrating for Love and Change: Reading Women’s Stories in Search of a Feminist Qur’anic Narrator ](/news/2024/12/03/video-narrating-love-and-change-reading-womens-stories-search-feminist-quranic) December 03, 2024 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." ![narrating for love and change](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Screenshot%202025-04-24%20155110.png?itok=uhEJyykm) [### Video: Eve’s Innocence: Women’s Biblical Exegesis in Renaissance Venice ](/news/2024/10/10/video-eves-innocence-womens-biblical-exegesis-renaissance-venice) October 10, 2024 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... ![Eve](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Screenshot%202025-05-07%20162111.png?itok=JIgPU8bi) [### Video: Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference ](/news/2024/08/29/video-ethical-scholarship-gender-religion-and-difference) August 29, 2024 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... ![Ann Braude](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Screenshot%202025-03-19%20145050.png?itok=zHHNdJaA) [### Research Associate Z. Fareen Parvez Explores ‘Women, Trauma, and the Islamic Sciences of Healing’ ](/news/2024/07/03/research-associate-fareen-parvez-explores-women-trauma-islamic-sciences) July 03, 2024 *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.* ![Z. Fareen Parvez](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/Parvez-Interview-900.jpg?h=11ca3714&itok=3EkWgfi3) [### WSRP Research Associate Samira Mehta on ‘Contraception and Sexuality in Tri-Faith America’ ](/news/2024/06/28/research-associate-samira-mehta-contraception-sexuality-tri-faith-america) June 28, 2024 Mehta taught the HDS course, “Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States.” ![Samira Mehta](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-06/Samira-V2-WSRP-News.jpg?itok=3iSbA8KU) [### Research Associate S. Zahra Moballegh on 'Narrating for Love and Change' ](/news/2024/06/21/research-associate-s-zahra-moballegh-narrating-love-change) June 21, 2024 Moballegh specializes in philosophy and Islamic thought. ![ S. Zahra Moballegh is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam and a 2023-24/2024-25 WSRP Research Associate. / Courtesy photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2024-06/Zahra-WSRP-Interview-900.jpg?itok=5odqgEOF) [### WSRP Announces 2024–25 Research Associates ](/news/2024/06/17/wsrp-announces-2024-25-research-associates) June 17, 2024 Five new Research Associates will join returning scholar S. Zahra Moballegh at the HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program and will work on book-length projects during the 2024–25 academic year. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines and... ![WSRP logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2024-01/WSRP-3840x1650_0.jpg?itok=VnNpYkmH) [### ‘Feminism, Faith, and Divine Otherness’: Ashley Purpura Discusses Year-long Project at Harvard Divinity School ](/news/2024/05/20/feminism-faith-divine-otherness-ashley-purpura) May 20, 2024 Purpura analyzes Orthodox Christian constructions of gender in relation to religious ideals of patriarchy and the formation of religious identity in ritual contexts. ![Ashley Purpura](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-06/Ashley-Purpura-WSRP-900.jpg?h=731e6f41&itok=T9wY9afT) [### Video: The Passions of Aisha: Women, Trauma, and Jinn Possession in Morocco ](/news/2024/04/04/video-passions-aisha-women-trauma-and-jinn-possession-morocco) April 04, 2024 This lecture was given by visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam, Z. Fareen Parvez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). [Z. Fareen Parvez](/people/fareen-parvez) ![Fareen Parvez](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-06/Fareen_Parvez.jpg?itok=PcaBj03t) Show morerefresh