Associate Professor in the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Harvard Divinity School)
Andover Hall, Room 502
617-496-3395
Office Hours:
Wed., 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Kimberley Patton, Associate
Professor in the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, received
her A.M. and Ph.D. in Religion and Archaeology from Harvard University
and her A.B. in the Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard College.
Her dissertation was entitled When the Gods Pour Our Wine: A Paradox of
Ancient Greek Iconography in Comparative Context.
Her research interests include
ancient Greek religion and archaeology; history of world religion; comparative
mythology; the interpretation of dreams; ritual studies,especially sacrifice;
and the iconography of religions.
Professor Patton has given
papers entitled "Sacred Time as Sacrificial Offering", Comparative
Religion: Contemporary Challenges and Responses", and "A Paradox
of Attic Iconography." She is the co-editor of A Magic Still Dwells:
Comparative Religion in the Postmdoern Age (Berkeley, 2000). Forthcoming
publications include The Religion of the Gods: The Paradox of Divine Reflexivity
(Oxford Press, 2002) and The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine
Pollutions and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Harvard University press,
2000).
She was an elected participant in The Lilly Foundation/American Academy of Religion Workshop in teaching religion (1993-94), received a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1991-1992), is a Cambridge Chapter member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Received three Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education.
Divinity 106. Realms of Power: Animals in Religion: Seminar
Religion 1027. Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Prof. Patton's page at the Divinity School