From December 2023 onwards, contributions to the academy and the community: achievements including fellowships, grants, awards, fellowships and appointments.
April 2024
- Kevin O'Neill will serve as the next Dean of Arts and Vice-Provost at U of T's Trinity College, providing leadership for academic programs and advancing the academic mission within the College, the Faculty of Arts & Science and the University of Toronto. He will oversee the College’s undergraduate academic and co-curricular programming, including the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program, the College’s upper year programs offered in partnership with the Faculty of Arts & Science (Ethics, Society & Law and International Relations) and the Faculty of Medicine (Immunology), as well as Trinity’s academic sustainability programming – part of the Integrated Sustainability Initiative – in partnership with the School of the Environment. As Vice-Provost, the Dean is responsible for formulating plans and policies, building research capacity across the institution and acting on behalf of the Provost, as required. The Dean of Arts also represents the College in the wider academic community at the University of Toronto and contributes directly to the work of the Faculty of Arts & Science through membership on university committees. → Read Trinity's announcement
- Two faculty member promotions to celebrate, effective July 1, 2024: Historian of Christianity in the Department of Historical Studies at UTM Kyle Smith is promoted to Professor, and Alexander J. B. Hampton becomes Associate Professor, a well-deserved recognition of his research and teaching excellence.
- PhD student Ridhima Sharma was awarded the highly competitive Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation Grant from by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. She was also awarded a U of T Environmental Humanities-International Doctoral Cluster award for travel to the University of Oxford for her research over the summer of 2024.
February 2024
- Alumna Tamara Cohen (PhD, 2023) was awarded the Ludo Rocher Post-Doctoral Fellowship for her project “Non-Dual Śaivism and the Mokṣopāya” and becomes a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia in fall 2024.
January 2024
- Ariel Peckel, PhD alumnus (2022) and former postdoctoral fellow, was awarded the Hume Society’s Hume Studies Essay Prize for his paper, “Hume beyond Theism and Atheism.” His essay was unanimously ranked first by all members of the prize panel.
December 2023
- Congratulations to DSR alumnus Khenpo Kunga Sherab (PhD, 2023), who has been elected to the American Academy of Religion's Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit steering committee.