The DSR's graduates for 2021


 

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

 


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