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Bernard Faure Named Member of the 2020 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Bernard Faure for being named a member of the 2020 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 26, 2020

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January 15, 2021

Ilona Gerbakher Receives 2020-2021 Fulbright Award

Ilona Gerbakher has won the 2020-2021 Fulbright Award to Morocco, in order to undertake ethnographic fieldwork for a portion of her dissertation entitled, "Medieval Texts, Modern Tellings: Medieval Sufi Handbooks and the formation of the Moroccan Sufi Self." 

January 07, 2021

Departmental Statement on Race and Racism

There is perhaps nothing more central to the history of race and racism in the modern world than the diverse set of ideas, institutions and practices that are brought together under the name of “religion.” In truth, it is impossible to think about religion without already thinking about race. This is as true today as it ever was.

November 19, 2020

Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice, Benjamin Fong

Read this brilliant and insightful piece from PhD-alum Benjamin Fong on racial justice and education -- an important reminder that the work of promoting racial justice does not end in the classroom: Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice. 

September 22, 2020

Mark Balmforth Successfully Defends Dissertation and Awarded Postdoc Position

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.

September 02, 2020

Fall 2021 PhD Admissions Announcement

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. Pausing PhD admissions for one year will allow us to provide a more robust set of resources to them during these challenging times. We look forward to resuming PhD admissions next year and to welcoming a new cohort of doctoral students in the Fall of 2022. In the meantime, we invite you to stay engaged with the Department of Religion via the online programs that we will host in the year ahead.

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