The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award was established in 1979 by the Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...

 Alumni/ae Association "to honor among its graduates one who exhibits a passionate and helpful interest in the lives of other people, an informed and realistic faithfulness, an embodiment of the idea that love is not so much a way of feeling as a way of acting, and a reliable sense of humor." Rabbi Martin Katzenstein, ThM

THM

THM, Thm or ThM may refer to:*In the context of automobiles, a GM automatic transmission called the Turbo-Hydramatic.*In the context of nuclear power plants, for tons of heavy metal.*These Hopeful Machines...

 '58, who was Acting Dean

Dean (education)

In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...

  of Students when he died in 1970, was passionately involved with the school for many years.

Past recipients

• 2009: Lynne Landsberg, MTS '76
• 2008: Mary E. Hunt
  Mary E. Hunt
  Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is a feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA...
  
  , MTS '74
• 2007: John Rugge, MTS '69
• 2006: Joe R. Feagin, BD '62, PhD '66
• 2005: Bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
   William B. Oden
  William B. Oden
  William Bryant Oden is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988. He was born 3 August 1935 in McAllen, Texas. He is married to Marilyn Brown Oden, the author of over eight books. They have four children and four grandchildren....
  
  , BD '61
• 2004: Elyn MacInnis, MDiv '77
• 2003: Dr. Oscar Allan Rogers, STB '53
• 2002: Paul D. Kennedy, STB '61
• 2001: Archbishop
  Archbishop
  An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
  
   Iakovos, STM '45
• 2000: Carl R. Scovel, STB '57
• 1999: Archie C. Epps III, BD '61
• 1998: Letty Mandeville Russell, STB '58
• 1997: Richard Unsworth, ThM '63
• 1996: Janet Cooper Nelson, MDiv '80
• 1995: Victor H. Carpenter, Jr., Merrill Fellow '74, BD '75
• 1994: Scotty McLennan
  Scotty McLennan
  The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. — better known as "Scotty McLennan" — was born on November 21, 1948, son of William L. McLennan and Alice Polk Warner. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, professor, published author, public speaker and senior administrator at Stanford University...
  
  , MDiv '75
• 1993: Samuel McMurray Keen, STB '56, ThM '58
• 1992: Charles G. Adams, BD '64
• 1991: Ruth B. Purtilo, MTS '75, PhD '79
• 1990: Yehezkel Landau, MTS '76
• 1989: Henry C. Gregory, III, ThM '68
• 1988: Harry H. Hoehler, STB '54; Judith L. Hoehler, BD '58
• 1987: James Luther Adams, STB '27
• 1986: Ralph Lazzaro, STB '40, STM '41
• 1985: Professor Amos N. Wilder, '30
• 1984: Jack Mendelsohn, STB '45
• 1983: Professor C. Conrad Wright, HDS Faculty
• 1982: Professor John B. Carman, HDS Faculty
• 1981: Elinor (Bunn) Thompson
• 1980: Henry V. Richardson, STB '32