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Alumni News
Alum Spotlight: Newspaper Honors the Rev. Dr. Ann Van Cleef
January 8, 2019
The Rev. Dr. Ann Van Cleef, a 2015 graduate of Hartford Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program, was recently named 2018 Community Leader of the Year by the Suffolk Times, a newspaper that covers the North Fork of Long Island.

Faculty In The News, General HIU News
President Joel N. Lohr Sees Two New Books Published
January 7, 2019
President Joel N. Lohr is the co-author of a new, third edition of a religious studies textbook and co-editor of a “festschrift” containing scholarly essays, released last summer. Both are published with university presses.

General HIU News
Hartford Seminary Welcomes Director of Philanthropy
January 7, 2019
President Joel N. Lohr is pleased to announce that Kaaren Van Dyke will join Hartford Seminary on Feb. 1, 2019, as Director of Philanthropy.

Alumni News
Alum Morteza Rezazadeh Organizes April Trip to Iran
January 3, 2019
Morteza Rezazadeh, a graduate of the International Peacemaking Program and the Master of Arts in Religious Studies, is helping to organize a trip to Iran this April.

Student News
Peacemaker Profile: David Dwi Chrisna Damping of Indonesia
December 29, 2018
The six students in our 2018-19 class of International Peacemaking Program fellows will spend a year at Hartford Seminary studying mediation, interfaith dialogue and public speaking while earning a Graduate Certificate. We asked each of them to answer the same set of questions.

Student News
Peacemaker Profile: Haifa Souilmi of Tunisia
December 24, 2018
The six students in our 2018-19 class of International Peacemaking Program fellows will spend a year at Hartford Seminary studying mediation, interfaith dialogue and public speaking while earning a Graduate Certificate. We asked each of them to answer the same set of questions.

Faculty In The News
Professor Miriam Therese Winter's Essay Included in 'Soul Seeing' Book
December 21, 2018
Professor Miriam Therese Winter is one of a number of authors included in the book Soul Seeing: Light, Love, Forgiveness, which was released in November.

Faculty In The News
Professor Scott Thumma Quoted in Article on the Future of Churches
December 19, 2018
A series of articles in the Minneapolis Star Tribune looking at the future of organized religion in America concludes that “as society is becoming more fragmented, so will expressions of faith.”

Student News
Peacemaker Profile: Ruth Alcabes of Connecticut
December 17, 2018
The six students in our 2018-19 class of International Peacemaking Program fellows will spend a year at Hartford Seminary studying mediation, interfaith dialogue and public speaking while earning a Graduate Certificate. We asked each of them to answer the same set of questions.

Alumni News
Alum Maggie Siddiqi Has New Job with Center for American Progress
December 14, 2018
Maggie Siddiqi, who graduated from Hartford Seminary’s Islamic Chaplaincy Program in 2016, has been named the Director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative of the Center for American Progress, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced this week.