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DSR Lecture Series: A conversation with guest speaker and alumna Daigengna Duoer

March 12, 2025

The Martin Arno Memorial Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship

March 11, 2025

A new scholarship will support graduate students while honouring the memory of Martin Arno, a PhD student in the Department for the Study of Religion (DSR) who passed away in 2022.

The Venerable Dayi Shi and Dr. Jennifer Bright. (Photo courtesy of the Buddhist College of Canada)

DSR alumna Jennifer Bright named first Wutai Shan Venerable Dayi Professor

March 05, 2025

The inaugural Wutai Shan Venerable Dayi Professor in Buddhist Spiritual Care at Victoria University's Emmanuel College will be Dr. Jennifer Bright, an assistant professor of Buddhist spiritual care and counselling since 2023 and PhD alumna of the Department for the Study of Religion (2017).

DSR alumna Mona Tokarek LaFosse appointed by Victoria and Emmanuel Colleges

March 04, 2025

Victoria and Emmanuel Colleges have jointly appointed Dr. Mona Tokarek LaFosse to the new position of Assistant Professor of New Testament and Sacred Literature Studies. Dr.

DSR Lecture Series: Q&A with Mona Oraby, inaugural guest speaker

December 11, 2024

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Ontario's first endowed chair in Sikh studies is established at UTM

October 09, 2024

UTM establishes Ontario's first endowed chair in Sikh studies, propelling study of Sikhism at U of T

Postdoctoral fellow Chris Miller on the growing popularity of green burial

September 13, 2024

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Roads from the DSR: Alumni Stories – Brian Carwana, PhD 2021

August 13, 2024

Brian Carwana (PhD, 2021) studied “Evangelicals, the Liberal State, and Canada’s Family Values Debates,” arriving at the DSR via venture capitalism and a chance meeting that completely changed his career direction.

Roads from the DSR: Alumni Stories – Annie Heckman, PhD 2023

July 30, 2024

Annie Heckman is a 2023 PhD graduate of the DSR, where she studied monastic law in Tibetan Buddhism, completing a dissertation titled “Reassembling Discipline: Bu ston Rin chen grub’s Collection of Incidents Involving Nuns from the Vinaya.” Prior to her arrival at the DSR, she was an art professor at De Paul Unive

Roads from the DSR: Alumni Stories – Patrick Stange, PhD 2022

July 16, 2024

Patrick Stange graduated from the DSR in 2022 and is now based in Nova Scotia. Born and raised in Southern California, he completed his bachelor’s degree at UC Santa Cruz and came to the University of Toronto to attend graduate school at the Department for the Study of Religion.

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