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Centre for the Study of Religion

Isabelle Cochelin

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Europe
  • History of medieval childhood
  • History of monasticism
  • History of Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800)
  • History of Poverty (1000-1500)
  • History of servants and service (1000-1700)
  • Medieval history
  • Medieval social history
  • Old age in the medieval period
  • Religion and Society
  • Youth in the medieval period

Office: +1 (416) 978-7414
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: isabelle.cochelin@utoronto.ca
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Mark McGowan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Catholic Church (Canada and the world)
  • Catholic education in Canada
  • History of Christianity
  • History of Ireland and its Diaspora
  • Immigration and Canada
  • Religion and Communications
  • The Irish in Canada
  • The Vatican

Office: 416-926-1300
Mobile: 647-771-1865
Website
Email: mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
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Nicholas Everett

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Ancient and Medieval History
  • Britain and Ireland
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Early medieval Europe
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Europe
  • Food
  • History of Italy
  • History of medicine
  • History of pharmacy
  • International relations
  • Italian churches
  • Medicine
  • Medieval
  • Medieval manuscripts and Latin philology
  • Mediterranean and Middle East
  • Ojibwe and Native North American Medicine
  • Religion and Society
  • Saints' lives
  • Social
  • State, Politics, and Law

Office: +1 (647) 988-8370
Languages: English,Italian,Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Website
Email: n.everett@utoronto.ca
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Ruth Marshall

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizenship, state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
  • Continental philosophy of religion
  • Continental political philosophy
  • Pentecostalism, radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
  • Post-colonial theory, African Studies
  • Religion, politics and public life
  • Religious conflict and violence
  • Secularism and democratic theory
  • United States Politics - the Religious Right since the 1970s, the rise of the alt-right, the MAGA movement, QAnon, the Trump years and party politics
  • United States Religion - evangelicals and race, White Christian nationalism, theocracy, dominionism, reconstructionism, Christian cults, QAnon and its Christian roots and networks

Office: 416-978-0241
Mobile: 416-839-9295
Website
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online