
David Holland is the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School and a member of Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion. A scholar of American religious history, he casts a broad and inclusive net in understanding the deep intellectual, theological, and cultural currents driving New England church history. David Holland is the author of Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America, published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in 2013. Prior to that he taught in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and in 2011, he was named the Nevada professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Holland earned a BA in history from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD from Stanford University.