Dan McKanan

Dan McKanan is the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, where he has taught since 2008. Previously he served as associate professor and chair of the Theology Department at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University in Minnesota. McKanan is the author of three books on religious social activism in the United States: Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States, Touching the World: Christian Communities Transforming Society, and The Catholic Worker after Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation. His writing has also appeared in many publications, including Sojourners, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, America, the Journal of Religion, Harvard Theological Review, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion, as well as in multiple anthologies.

Photo Credit, Harvard Divinity School, 2012.