Marla Frederick, formerly a professor of African and African American studies and the study of religion in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of the Harvard Divinity School on January 1. A scholar of the African American religious experience and former president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Association of Black Anthropologists, she succeeds David N. Hempton, the O’Brian professor of divinity and McDonald Family professor of Evangelical theological studies, who announced in October 2022 that he planned to step down at the end of the academic year.

“Worse still, on some issues it’s very hard to see any difference between Macron and Le Pen, especially on the visibility of Muslims. Some of Macron’s ministers have been even more excessive than she has on this matter," says HDS Visiting Professor Jocelyne Cesari.

“The skills that ministers bring to their work are the skills that business schools desire to give to their students, and that CEOs want. They want empathy, connectivity with others, active listening,” said Karim Hutson, MDiv '08.