Mary Gerhart
Professor of Religious Studies
1972-2005

Mary Gerhart came to Hobart and William Smith in 1972 as a professor in the Religious Studes Department. While at HWS, Gerhart's courses cross-listed with women's studies and other interdisciplinary areas such as the minor, the Sacred in Cross-cultural Perspective. Gerhart taught courses such as "The Religious Imagination," "The Question of God/Goddess: Metaphoric and Philosophical Origins" and "Conflict of Interpretations." As a scholar, Gerhart and her colleague, the late Professor Emeritus in Physics Allan M. Russell received a Science and Religion Course Prize Award from the John Templeton Foundation in 1999. Professor Emerita Gerhart also published numerous books, including "Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious Understanding" and "New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion."After her retirement, Gerhart continued to work with the late Professor Russell, including bi-disciplinary writing and lecturing in science and religion. She is currently writing on three thinkers: Hypatia of Alexandria, Hildegard of Bingen and Simone Weil.
DFA RECIPIENTS
2019
2018
2017
Maureen Flynn P'09, P'12, P'16*
2016
Ann B. Oaks '74, P'84, P'85, P'89
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Joseph N. Abraham, L.H.D. '81*
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
Eugene F. Murphy P'74, L.H.D. '90*
2001
Kenneth Carle P'82, P'84, P'90
2000
Benjamin P. Atkinson, L.H.D. '86*
Lindsay A. J. Lafford P'65, P'71, L.H.D. '87*
1999
1998
Theodore Tellefsen Odell '20, Sc. D.'67*
1997
Charles Delamater Vail '59, L.H.D.'04*
Joseph H. McDaniels, LL.D. '11*
1996
1995
1993
William Pitt Durfee, LL.D. '22*
Walter Hetherington Durfee '08, Sc.D. '59*
1992
Edward E. Griffith, L.H.D. '88*
1991
Milton Haight Turk, LL.D. '38*
Kathryn Dapp Cook, L.H.D. '84*
1990
Hamilton Lanphere Smith, D.Sc. 1900*
* deceased