Career
From 1909 through 1910, Latourette served as a traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
In 1910, he joined the faculty of Yale-China Association's Yali School at Changsha in Hunan Province; but this period of teaching was cut short in 1912 when he was forced to return to the United States for health reasons.
After recovering his health, Latourette joined the faculty at Reed College in Portland, Oregon; and from 1914 through 1916, he was a professor of history at Reed.
In 1916, he accepted a position at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. His time at Denison lasted from 1916 through 1921. In 1918, while at Denison, Latourette was ordained as a Baptist minister.
Latourette joined the faculty of the Yale University Divinity School in 1921. At Yale, he accepted appointment as the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity (1921–49), and he was later made the Sterling Professor of Missions and Oriental History (1949–53). In 1938, he was named Chairman of the Department of Religion at Yale. He took on greater responsibilities in 1946 as Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale Divinity School. From his retirement in 1953 until his death in 1968, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus at the Divinity School.
Latourette was killed at age 84 when an automobile accidentally hit him in front of his family home in Oregon City, Oregon.
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