Faculty

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Ryûichi Abé

Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

Leila Ahmed

Victor S. Thomas Research Professor in Divinity (HDS) Emeritus

Ali S. Asani

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Swayam Bagaria

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies

Giovanni Bazzana

Professor of New Testament

Anya Bernstein

Professor of Anthropology

Courtney Bickel Lamberth

Director of Undergraduate StudiesLecturer in the Study of Religion

Ann. D. Braude

Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program

Catherine Brekus

Chair, Committee on the Study of Religion (on leave, 2025-2026)Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America

Francis X. Clooney

Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology

Shaye J.D. Cohen

Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

Harvey Cox

Hollis Professor of Divinity

John Duffy

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Philology and Literature

Benjamin Dunning

Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of DivinityProfessor of New Testament and Early Christianity

Diana Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society

James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus

Brian FitzGerald

Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion

Marla Frederick

Dean of the Faculty of DivinityJohn Lord O’Brian Professor of DivinityProfessor of Religion and Culture

Luis M. Girón-Negrón

Interim Chair 2025-2026, Committee on the Study of ReligionWilliam R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Mohsen Goudarzi

Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies

William A. Graham

Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorMurray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

Ahmad Greene-Hayes

Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies

Janet Gyatso

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

David Hall

Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History Emeritus

Charles Hallisey

Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture

Helen Hardacre

Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Emerita

Jay M. Harris

Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies

David N. Hempton

Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorAlonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies

David F. Holland

John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History

Amy Hollywood

Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies

Tracey Hucks

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies Suzanne Young Murray Professor (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)

Baber Johansen

Research Professor of Islamic Religious Studies

Terrence L. Johnson

Professor of African American Religious Studies

Mark D. Jordan

Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor of Christian Thought

Ousmane Oumar Kane

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society (HDS) EmeritusProfessor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (FAS)

Karen L. King

Hollis Professor of Divinity

Arthur Kleinman

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and SciencesProfessor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social MedicineProfessor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

James Kloppenberg

Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus

David C. Lamberth

Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Therese Lautua

College Fellow in Indigenous Religions

Jon D. Levenson

Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies (HDS)

Charles Lockwood

Lecturer in the Study of Religion

Peter Machinist

Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Emeritus

Kevin J. Madigan

Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History

Dan McKanan

Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity

P. Oktor Skjaervø

Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus

Jacob Olupona

Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and SciencesProfessor of African Religious Traditions in the Harvard Divinity School

Kimberley C. Patton

Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion

Irene Peirano Garrison

Pope Professor of the Latin Language and LiteratureClassics Director of Graduate Studies

Felipe Pereda

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish ArtDepartment of History of Art + Architecture Director of Graduate Studies

Matthew Potts

Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church

Michael James Puett

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and AnthropologyHarvard College Professor

Julia Rhyder

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Mayra Rivera

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies

James Robson

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations;Harvard College ProfessorWilliam Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Chair, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), 2019-20

Michelle C. Sanchez

Director of Graduate StudiesProfessor of Theology

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza

Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies

Martha Selby

Sangam Professor of South Asian StudiesSouth Asian Studies Director of Graduate Studies

Teren Sevea

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

Charles M. Stang

Professor of Early Christian ThoughtDirector of the Center for the Study of World Religions

David Stern

Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew LiteratureProfessor of Comparative Literature

D. Andrew Teeter

Professor of Hebrew Bible

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Eugene Wang

Abby Aldrich Rockerfeller Professor of Asian ArtBuddhist Art of Asia; Chinese Art, Architecture, and Media StudiesFounding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab

Preston N. Williams

Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus

Annette Yoshiko Reed

Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

Raúl Zegarra

Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies

Malika Zeghal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life