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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

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

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic Theological 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
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