Announcing Public MRPL Final Presentations

April 12, 2022
Master of Religion and Public Life, MRPL Final Presentations 2022 with headshots of ten MRPL candidates

Join us in witnessing and celebrating the inaugural cohort of Master of Religion and Public Life candidates as they present their final projects that engage the complexity of religion within their vocations. The final project is shaped in consultation with Dr. Diane L. Moore, the faculty instructor of the Religion and Public Life Seminar, MRPL candidate peers in the seminar, and the students' faculty advisor. MRPL candidates promote a robust and capacious understanding of the power of religion in human experience and contemporary global affairs. 

See the full line-up of presentations.

Click on the name of a MRPL candidate for information about their final presentation and a link to register below: 

  • Maggie Rogers, April 17, performance at Coachella (available on YouTube
  • Ans Irfan - April 18, Conceptualizing Religion as a Meta-Structural Determinant of Health
  • Erica Williams - April 26, Set it Off Symposium: Introducing the Foundations of a Movement to End the Dehumanization, Destruction, and Death-Dealing of Poor Black Women in America  
  • Meagan Clark - May 2, Evangelicals Facing East: An American Orthodoxy 
  • John Camardella - May 2, Reimagining Religion in the Public School Classroom 
  • Ellie Duke - May 4, Extraordinary Life
  • Susan Weaver - May 9, Access to Gender-Affirming Care: Challenges of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act 
  • Sarah Pearson - May 10, Manufacturing the Clerical Predator: How the Catholic Hierarchy Creates and Maintains a Culture of Abuse 
  • Alejandra Villegas - May 11, Conjuring Heaven in Hellish Places  
  • Phillip Picardi - May 11, Is Jesus Kinda Hot?  
  • Eric Isaacson - May 12, Masterpiece Cakeshop and "Hostility" to Religious Belief  

Please direct any questions to rpl@hds.harvard.edu