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Congratulations to Mark Balmforth for successfully defending his dissertation, Schooling the Master: Caste Supremacy and American Education in British Ceylon, 1795–1855. In addition to this incredible milestone, Dr. Balmforth was awarded the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2020-2021 and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2021–2023.

The Department of Religion will not be accepting applications for the PhD program during the AY 2020-21 admissions cycle. Within a climate of ongoing cuts to the humanities and social sciences, this is not a decision that we take lightly, and making this announcement now comes with no small measure of sadness. However, given the impact of COVID-19 on academic progress, professional opportunities and more, we have decided to prioritize our current students at this moment.

The Department of Religion endorses the Statement of Principles for Teaching in the Time of a Pandemic, which was originally published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature.