Religion students Kirill Lepekhin and Keith Garrett recently recieved University of Toronto Undergraduate Excellence awards to conduct summer research projects under the supervision of DSR faculty members.
Kirill is an international student from Russia, majoring in Religion and Islamic Studies. His interests include New Testament studies, Qur’anic studies, and recently the Philosophy of Religion. He is in his 4th year and will graduate this June.
Keith Garrett will research a project titled “Story Nation and Supernatural Resources” with Pamela Klassen. Keith’s work will support the work of the Story Nations digital humanities project. Story Nations will produce a digital edition of a missionary’s diary of his 1898 visit to the Ojibwe of the Rainy River and an audio-visual version of the diary, and is produced in consultation with the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre of the Rainy River First Nations in northwestern Ontario. The website will launch in October 2017.
Keith is now entering his fourth year at U of T, double majoring in Economics and History. Keith has previously done archival research on seditious libel cases in Eighteenth Century England. For the Story Nations project, Keith also already helped format a reader friendly version of Frederick Du Vernet’s diary.
The University of Toronto Excellence Award program is funded by the Vice-President Research and Innovation. The $6,000 award funds 14 weeks of research during the summer term.