Editor's Note: Janeen Green, an HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant and first-year MTS student, describes her experience with the seasonal weather of the Boston/Cambridge area as a Floridian and offers tips to prospective students on how to prepare for the winter, in which this will be her first time seeing snow!
An Interview with MRPL Alum — Rev. Kev
Master of Religion and Public Life alumni and career minister-activist Rev. Kevin Kitrell Ross shares his decades-long journey to Harvard Divinity School. Rev. Kev also recounts his rhythms of daily life during his time at HDS, and he offers his personal wisdom to prospective students considering divinity school.
A Week in the Life of an HDS First-Year Student: Lexi Kallaher
by Lexi Kallaher, MTS '24 Editor’s Note: While no two students will have the same experience in graduate school, we hope this snapshot of how Lexi Kallaher balances her time will be a helpful illustration of graduate student life as you’re considering HDS or newly admitted. For the previous posts in this series, see posts... Continue Reading →
Pretending to Be Someone Else While at HDS
Kelley Woehl, MDiv '25, shares how dressing up in a Halloween costume gave way to new opportunities for community building during her first year at HDS.
Classroom in Action: Exploring the Moral Imaginary in Black Women’s Fictional Literature
HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant, Sarah Adegbite, shares what it's like to take a class with HDS visiting scholar and womanist theologian Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, PhD.
Law School vs. PhD Program: How to Choose?
by Margaret Hamm, MTS '21 Editor's Note: In this post, recent Master of Theological Studies alum Margaret Hamm discusses attending law school after divinity school, and she shares about her road back to Harvard for her PhD in religion. Lots of HDS students consider either going to law school or getting a PhD after graduation,... Continue Reading →
Meet the HDS Admissions 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants – Alexandra (Lexi) Kallaher
Editor’s Note: Lexi is one of the 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants in HDS Admissions. She is a first-year MTS student at HDS with an area of focus in Religion, Ethics, & Politics. She is studying conflict resolution and religious public policy issues.
Meet the HDS Admissions 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants – Janeen Green
Editor’s Note: Janeen is one of the 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants in HDS Admissions. She is a first-year MTS student at HDS with an area of focus in Religion, Ethics, & Politics. She is studying storytelling, a tool of narrative ethics, as an ethical practice used by women of various cultural and religious traditions to deliberate over the moral tensions that shape their experiences.
Meet the HDS Admissions 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants – Sarah Adegbite
Editor’s Note: Sarah is one of the 2024-2025 Graduate Assistants in HDS Admissions. She is a first-year MTS student at HDS with an area of focus in African and African American Religious Studies. She is studying imagination and creativity in black Christian communities. Tell us a little bit about yourself. What do you want the HDS community &... Continue Reading →
DivEx in the Eyes of Two Past Participants (Continued)
Editor's Note: In this second installment of our series (see the first post here), two current HDS students who previously participated in the Diversity and Explorations program reflect on their time as a "DivExer" and share about how the program prepared them for further graduate study. The DivEx program runs from September 17 - 19,... Continue Reading →