Professor Jennifer DeSilva appointed Vice-Principal of Woodsworth College

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Jennifer DeSilva as Vice-Principal of Woodsworth College effective October 24, 2024. 

Jennifer Mara DeSilva is an associate professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) at Woodsworth College and Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Toronto and her MA from the University of Warwick (U.K.) in 2002. From 2010 to 2023, she taught at Ball State University (U.S.), where she was tenured in 2015 and promoted to full professor in 2022. She is the author of a monograph, The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466–1528 (Brill, 2022), and the editor of four volumes of essays (2010, 2015, 2019, 2020). She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles and chapters, as well as one of three editors of the Sixteenth Century Journal (since 2019).

Professor DeSilva’s research explores the global early modern period (1300–1700 BCE) and illustrates group and individual identities, and asks how model behaviours are disseminated, upheld, and overturned. Her teaching focuses on the use artifacts and archives, and the combination of historical methods and digital platforms. She teaches undergraduate courses in the Digital Humanities Minor, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the VicOne Program.

Please join us in congratulating Professor DeSilva in this new role at Woodsworth College.