For the summary of entries from January to June 2024, see the DSR Spring Roundup Newsletter.
October 2024
Congratulations to PhD candidate Mohannad Abusarah, who received the Walter G. Andrews Ottoman Turkish Translation Award from the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages. The award honours his translation of Ottoman archival documents related to late Ottoman history in Palestine.
September 2024
In September, Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts, became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for his outstanding scholarly achievements in the pioneering work he has carried out in the development of the anthropology of Christianity and the study of urban forms of religious expression. The RSC's citation notes, "A leading analyst of religion in plural cultural contexts, he has challenged conventional anthropological conceptions of the operations of ritual in contemporary societies. His internationally recognized, timely work has opened up research into Pentecostalism as a globalizing phenomenon, and introduced important new paradigms in the study of pilgrimage."
Also honoured with Royal Society fellowships were affiliate DSR faculty members Kamari Maxine Clarke and Willi Goetschel.
July 2024
In 2024, Reid Locklin was awarded an SSHRC Insight Development Grant, along with co-applicants Professors Darren Dias (Regis St Michael’s Faculty of Theology) and Christine Jamieson (Concordia). The project, Transcendental Method, Spiritual Violence & Genocide: “Turning to the Person” of Bernard Lonergan in the Context of Settler Colonialism, includes collaborators from Canada and the U.S. → Read "St. Mike’s Project Looks at Lonergan’s Connection to Residential Schools"