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Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion will lose two of its top leaders next year, when Chairman Robert A. Orsi and Director of Undergraduate Studies Thomas A. Lewis will join the faculties of Northwestern and Brown Universities, respectively...
...Orsi, the Warren professor of the history of religion in America, has accepted a chaired position in religious studies and a joint appointment in history at Northwestern. He said he is leaving primarily because the Divinity School did not offer—or seriously consider offering—a faculty position to his wife, Christine Helmer, a senior scholar there...
...Committee composed of only 19 faculty members will increase conversations with the Divinity School to help develop the new requirement, Orsi said. Eight of the 19 members are faculty members at the Divinity School...
...believe that to respond in good faith to this initiative, we can’t just substitute the same old classes,” said Orsi, who is also the Warren professor of history of religion in America at the Divinity School. “We will be asking Divinity School professors to craft new classes...
Since the release of the general education report, there have not been conversations about the College’s “Reason and Faith” requirement at Divinity School faculty meetings, according to Orsi...