From December 2023 onwards, contributions to the academy and the community: achievements including fellowships, grants, awards, fellowships and appointments.
April 2024
- Effective July 1, 2024, DSR faculty member Alexander J. B. Hampton is promoted to 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.