From January 2026 onward, including books and articles, as well as podcasts and media coverage of faculty research. For the summary of entries from June to December 2025, see our 2025 December Roundup DSR Newsletter.
February 2026
PhD candidate Anusha Rao’s book, How to Love in Sanskrit (HarperCollins India 2024) was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award in Poetry 2025. A US edition is scheduled for release in Fall 2026 (Liveright | W.W. Norton).
Affiliate faculty member Michael Lambek has two recent publications:
- “De la possession à la cohabitation.” In Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Agnès Kedzierska-Manzon, eds. Possession: représentations, pratiques, intérpretations (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, Vo. 211). 2026. Turnhout Belgium: Brepols. Pp. 363-81.
- “Les Techniques élémentaires de la vie religieuse.” In Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, et Sébastien Pautet, eds. Techniques et Religions: Cultures techniques, croyances, circulations de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Techne: Global Matters, Vol. 14). 2026. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. Pp. 21-39.
Simon Coleman is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion (Oxford University Press). The book includes the chapter ”The Study of Indigenous Religions in North America” by Pamela Klassen and her former PhD student (and now associate professor at the University of San Diego) Meaghan Weatherdon.
Jeremy Schipper co-authored “On the Root גאל II: ‘To Diminish’” in Vetus Testamentum 76 (2026): 133-156. (This article is an open access publication.)
January 2026
Anna Shternshis featured on CBC Radio One’s Metro Morning , talking about the mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, as well as rising violent attacks on Jewish communities in many places, including Canada. >> Listen
Shternshis's essay, "Yiddish," appeared in The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies (p. 414, Eve Krakowski, Leora Batnitzky, & Steven Weitzman (Eds.), Princeton University Press, 2025).
Affiliate faculty member Stephen Scharper's piece, "Replace fear with love this Christmas," appeared in the Toronto Star. Scharper also participated in a CBC Radio One’s Ideas program, “'Gospel and the Landscape': Inventing Environmental Ethics,” which examined the legacy of pioneering environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston III (1932-2025).