Daniel McKanan is a senior lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, occupying a chair named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Faculty Director for the school’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. His scholarly work focuses on religious and spiritual movements for social transformation in the united states and beyond, with an additional focus on the Unitarian Universalist tradition and the Anthroposophical movement, which was founded by Rudolph Steiner in the early 20th century.

 Professor McKanan is the author of six books, including Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition; Eco-alchemy: Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism; and most recently Camphill and the Future: Spirituality and Disability in an Evolving Communal Movement. He is also deeply involved in the training of Unitarian Universalist ministers and scholars and has served as board chair of the International Communal Studies Association. 

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