Tag: Emory University

  • Nation & World

    Marla Frederick named next dean of Harvard Divinity School

    Marla Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will become dean of Harvard Divinity School on Jan. 1, President Claudine Gay announced Thursday.

    4 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Studying the Civil War, finding shared values

    High school students grapple with national issues by collaborating about Civil War themes to develop a new type of theater experience.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The path to fighting injustice

    Lillian Langford, graduating with degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, plans to use her experience working in international law and human rights and her experience at Harvard to continue fighting injustice.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Of art and the Civil War

    Harvard joins with three other universities and five theaters in the National Civil War Project, a multiyear collaboration that will use the arts to re-imagine America’s transformative conflict of 150 years ago.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Max R. Hall, writer and editor, 100

    Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age. Until his retirement, Hall was editor at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, social sciences editor at Harvard University Press, and editorial adviser at Harvard Business School.

    2 minutes