Thomas Worcester
11th President of Regis College, Toronto
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byJoseph Schner
Personal details
BornBurlington, Vermont, U.S.
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Harvard University (MTS)
Boston College (MA)
University of Cambridge (PhD)

Thomas Worcester SJ[1] is an American academic and university administrator. He served on the faculty of College of the Holy Cross and is the 11th President of Regis College, Toronto.[2][3][4]

Biography

Worcester was born and raised in Burlington, Vermont. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1977 and received his master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and the Weston School of Theology.[2][5] He also obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.[2] He entered the Society of Jesus in 1983 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.[6]

He served on the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross for over two decades before being appointed as President of Regis College, a postgraduate theological college of the University of Toronto in 2017.[7]

Worcester was also appointed Professor of History at the University of Toronto in 2018.[8] His research focuses on the history of the Catholic Church in early modernity, especially the religion and culture of early modern France and Italy.[2][9]

Under his leadership, Regis College announced the merging of graduate facilities with the University of St. Michael's College, while retaining its separate board of governors and administration.[10]

References

  1. ^ theholycrossspire (2017-02-08). "Rev. Worcester Named President of Regis College". The Spire. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  2. ^ a b c d "Faculty Profiles - Thomas Worcester SJ". Regis College. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  3. ^ "Worcester, Thomas". www.tst.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  4. ^ Staff Writer. "Holy Cross' Worcester named president of Regis College in Toronto". Worcester Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  5. ^ "Art in the Time of Pandemic". Columbia College Today. 2020-05-12. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  6. ^ "Holy Cross professor named Canadian college president". Worcester BusinessJournal. January 25, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  7. ^ "Newsroom | Holy Cross History Professor Rev. Thomas W. Worcester, S.J., Named President of Regis College". news.holycross.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  8. ^ "Thomas Worcester". Department of History. 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  9. ^ Worcester, Thomas (2012), Rozbicki, Michal Jan; Ndege, George O. (eds.), "Across the Alps: Italian Religious Culture in French Translation", Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 193–204, doi:10.1057/9781137012821_12, ISBN 978-1-137-01282-1, retrieved 2022-05-11
  10. ^ Register, Michael Swan, The Catholic. "Regis College, St. Mike's join forces". www.catholicregister.org. Retrieved 2022-05-11.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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