Heather Curtis
Heather Curtis (Col ’91 CM)
Heather D. (Maw) Curtis (Col ’91 CM) was appointed Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in the Department of Religion at Tufts University, where she also holds appointments in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; the Department of History; the Civic Studies Program; and the International Relations Program. She is the author of two books on American Religious History, and is currently working on a religious biography of Ida B. Wells. In addition, she serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Tufts University Prison Education Initiative. She lives in Needham, Massachusetts with her husband Clark, and two sons – Jonathan (18) and David (15).
Heather Curtis (Col ’91 CM)
Heather D. Curtis (Col ’91 L/M) published Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals & Global Aid (Harvard University Press, 2018). The book examines the crucial role popular religious media played in the extension of US philanthropy at home and abroad from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Curtis is an Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University. She is also the director of the American Studies Program and an affiliated faculty in history, international religions and the Tisch College of Civic Life.