Education

• BA, Rutgers University
• MTS, Harvard Divinity School

Profile

Maryam Sharrieff is the denominational counselor to Muslim students at Harvard Divinity School. She previously served as the Muslim chaplain at various institutions of higher learning and also teaches at Rabata, a faith-based educative organization focused on spiritual and cultural change.

Sharrieff's teaching interests involve death and dying in Islam, healing, the historical legacy of Islam in America, authority and leadership in Muslim women's scholarship and race religion.

Sharrieff has a degree in Middle Eastern studies, TV and film, and Italian from Rutgers University and a master's degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School.