Celebrating the newest DSR graduates! Congratulations to our graduating classes of spring and fall 2021.
Fall 2021 Graduates
• U of T Convocation: Thursday, November 18, 12:00 pm • Watch
• DSR Graduation Celebration: Friday, November 19, 2:00 pm
PhD
- Joud Alkorani. "Dubai Detours: Being Muslim after the Islamic Revival and Arab Spring" (Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier, Committee Members: Nada Moumtaz, Michael Lambek)
- David Belfon. "Jewish Geographies: Spatial Narratives of Orthodox Jewish Leavetakers in Toronto” (Supervisor: Simon Coleman, Committee Members: David Novak, Ken Green)
- Sean Capener. "The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt” (Supervisor: Ruth Marshall, Committee Members: Lawrin Armstrong, Bob Sweetman)
- Andrew Erlich. "Contextualizing Medicine and its Roles in Seventeenth-Century Tibet” (Supervisor: Frances Garrett, Committee Members: Amanda Goodman, Luther Obrock)
- Nika Kuchuk. "Genealogies of Transnational Religion: Translation, Revelation, and Discursive Technologies in Two Female Gurus of Esoteric Vedanta” (Supervisor: Srilata Raman, Committee Members: J. Barton Scott, Bhavani Raman)
- Joel Richmond. "Al-Ghazālī’s Moral Psychology: From Self-Control to Self-Surrender” (Supervisor: Walid Saleh, Committee Members: Deborah Black, Shafique Virani)
MA
- Amelia Brownridge. “The Enduring Exile, Sapiential Redemption and the Book of 1 Baruch” (Supervisor: Judith Newman)
- Zhinan Jiang. “Buddhist Authority and Cosmological Evidence in the Candasuriyagatidīpanī”, (Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich)
- Rajni Khelawan. “Gender and Ritual among Fijian Hindu Women” (Supervisor: Srilata Raman)
- Aaisha Salman. “Radio Memory: Post-Partition Radio and Muslim Becoming in Pakistan” (Supervisor: J. Barton Scott)
- Kate Stoehr. “‘The Culture of the Soil’: Agriculture, Improvement, and Settler Colonial Landscapes of Nineteenth Century Manitoulin Island” (Supervisor: Pamela Klassen)
- Tenzin Tsundue. “Paradox of Empowerment: Psychological underpinnings before entering the Tantric path” (Supervisor: Frances Garrett)
Undergraduate
- Specialist in Religion
- Brooke O'Rourke
- William Yong
- Major in Islamic Studies
- Saad Shafiq
- Major in Religion
- Alice Le Blanc
- Samana Sajan
- Paige Storey
- Zhuoran Zhang
- Minor in Religion
- Veronica Andric
- Alanna Aucoin
- Adelle Findlay
- Zachary Laengert
- Xuejing Li
- Sylvia Lorico
- Grey Spafford
- Joshua Su
Spring 2021 Graduates
PhD
- Brian Carwana. "Evangelicals, the Liberal State, and Canada’s Family Values Debates: The Struggle to Shape Selves" (Supervisors: Simon Coleman and Joseph Bryant, Committee member: Phyllis Airhart)
MA
- Mohannad Abusarah. "Moral Universality and Particularity in Pre-Modern Uṣūl al-Fiqh" (Supervisor: Mohammad Fadel)
- Christina Gousopoulos. "The Decline of Late Antique “Paganism” Revisited: A Sociological Take on Cultic Decline in Mediterranean Antiquity" (Supervisor: John Kloppenborg)
Undergraduate
- Specialist in Christian Origins
- River Hobel
- Specialist in Religion
- Mary Catherwood
- Mayadevi Murthy
- Osama Omar
- Major in Islamic Studies
- Tania Hossain
- Major in Religion
- Sarah Andrews
- Mark Debono
- Emily Doucette
- Ruveyda Durmus
- Jared Ecker
- Joanna Faisman
- Ryan Francis
- Faith McPhee
- Susan Meggs
- Evan Outram
- Elyssa Jane Plaza
- Hannah Spracklin
- Abbigayle Weber
- Albert Yang
- Minor in Religion
- Anusha Ali
- Shadman Aziz
- Laviniya Balachandran
- Daniel Bertuzzi
- Hui Ming Cao
- Sibel Ismail
- Muhammad Kabir
- Sofia Kouts
- Marybelle Labao
- Florence Latabu
- Phil Lee
- Ana Morales Melendez
- Tinny Nguyen
- Mattea Powell
- Jennifer Rammler
- Sabrina Salehi
- Amaran Sivananthan
- Hana Takagi
- Chu Wang