 Preston WilliamsPreston
Williams, Ph.D., has been the Houghton Professor since 1971. He came to HDS
after having been a professor of social ethics at Boston University for five
years. Before that, as a Presbyterian minister, he was the Protestant chaplain
at Brandeis University. In his years at Harvard, he has served in various
capacities beyond his professorial role: He was Acting Dean of the Divinity
School in 1974-75, and acting director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute from
1975 to 1977. Since 1998 he has been director of the Summer Leadership
Institute, a program of the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life that
brings religious leaders from urban settings to Harvard for two weeks of
intensive classes on community development. His teaching has centered on
Christian ethics and the black American experience, especially as reflected in
the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. He is the author of many articles and books,
and is an editor-at-large for The
Christian Century. He has been a guest professor and speaker at
institutions around the world, including Nagoya University in Japan in 1996
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