People

Khadija Ali Amghaiab

2020-2021 Research Associate

Khadija is a second-year Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Islamic Studies. Specifically, she is interested in Islamic philosophy and theology and the development of American Islam. She graduated from Belmont...

Ellie Ashby

Research Associate

Ellie Ashby is a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard Divinity School, where she focuses in Christianity and American religious history. She has a particular interest in the relationship between theology as belief and theology as practice...

Emily Chaudhari

2021-2022 Research Associate

Emily is a first-year Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Comparative Studies. She is particularly interested in interfaith relations and the interplay between religion, economics, and politics. At HDS, she hopes...

Iris Cheng

Research Associate

Iris is a junior at Harvard College concentrating in Social Studies and Economics. Within Social Studies, her primary research interests lie at the intersection of religion, politics, and education – particularly in relation to secularism and civil...

Diana L. Eck

Director, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, and Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard University

Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Diana L. Eck is founder and director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. She serves on the Committee on the Study of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is also a member of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, a member...

Emily Farnsworth

2020-2021 Research Associate

Emily is a second-year Master of Theological Studies student, focusing on Religions in the Americas. She is especially interested in the religious history of women in America and the relationship between religion and culture. As an undergraduate, she...

Maggie Goldberger

2022-2023 Research Associate

2021-2022 Research Associate

Maggie is a second-year Master of Theological Studies student, focusing on Religions in the Americas. She is particularly interested in investigating intersecting (and often conflicting) indigenous, immigrant and nationalistic narratives of the United...

Margaret Hamm

2020-2021 Research Associate

2019-2020 Research Associate

Margaret Hamm is a second-year Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Religions of the Americas. Specifically, she is interested in the intersections between religion, gender, and the law in modern America. She...

Kate Hoeting

2020-2021 Research Associate

Kate is a second-year Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Gender and Sexuality. She is interested in the intersections of reproductive healthcare and religion, especially in social movements that challenge the...

Nadia Milad Issa

2021-2022 Research Associate

2020-2021 Research Associate

Nadia is a first-year Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School, focusing on African and African American Religious Studies. Specifically, they are interested in continuing their work on Spiritual Reparations in Regla de Ocha-Ifá...

Rudy Lu

2024-2025 Research Associate

Rudy Lu (she/her) is a Master of Theological Studies student focusing on researching and documenting the religious lives in contemporary China and Taiwan from an anthropological perspective. She holds a BFA in Media and Arts from Duke Kunshan University...

Rudy Lu

2024-2025 Research Associate

2023-2024 Research Associate

Rudy Lu (She/Her) is a Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School, focusing on Religion, Ethics, and Politics. Her current research delves into the transnational network of Tibetan Buddhism, with a particular emphasis on Taiwanese...