The School of Religion is pleased to announce that Dr. Ryan Anningson will be the Baker Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020-2022. Dr. Anningson received his PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Waterloo joint program in Religious Diversity in North America. His research focuses on the roles of race in the transmission of Buddhism to North America. His book Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization: The United States and the Asian “Other”: 1899-1957 is forthcoming from Routledge Press in their Critical Buddhism Series.