Marla Frederick, a professor at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, will succeed longtime dean David Hempton at Harvard starting Jan. 1.
The move marks a return of Frederick, who served on the Harvard faculty for 16 years as a professor in the Department of African and African American Studies.
“I am thrilled to welcome Marla back to Harvard,” Harvard University President Claudine Gay said in an email to Harvard Divinity School students and alumni. “I am confident that Marla’s leadership qualities, her academic stature, her wide-ranging curiosity, her collaborative mindset, and her thoughtful and caring approach to all she does will combine to make her an excellent new dean.
Harvard Divinity School, the first nonsectarian theological institution in the country, was established in 1816. For the 2022-23 school year, it enrolled 333 full-time students in five degree programs. It has 34 full-time faculty,
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