Austin was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1971 and received her doctorate in theology from Harvard in 1981. She has since been the director of the Erikson Center at Cambridge Hospital and has taught in the Divinity School, the Medical School and the undergraduate concentration in religion within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
"She has been in and out of the Harvard community for many years," Gomes said. "She is well acquainted with the Harvard community, and she is a well-known quantity within that community."
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