{{Short description|American Jesuit, academic and university administrator}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Thomas Worcester | office = 11th President of Regis College, Toronto | status = | term_start = 2017 | term_end = | predecessor = Joseph Schner | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Burlington, Vermont, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = | spouse = | education = Columbia University (BA)<br />Harvard University (MTS)<br>Boston College (MA)<br>University of Cambridge (PhD) }} '''Thomas Worcester''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=SJ}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=theholycrossspire |date=2017-02-08 |title=Rev. Worcester Named President of Regis College |url=https://hcspire.com/2017/02/08/rev-worcester-named-president-of-regis-college/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=The Spire |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Faculty Profiles - Thomas Worcester SJ |url=https://regiscollege.ca/staff-directory/faculty-profiles-thomas-worcester-s-j/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Regis College |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Worcester, Thomas |url=https://www.tst.edu/directory/faculty/worcester-thomas |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=www.tst.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Staff Writer |title=Holy Cross' Worcester named president of Regis College in Toronto |url=https://www.worcestermag.com/story/news/2017/01/25/holy-cross-worcester-named-president-regis-college-toronto/10925393007/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Worcester Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
== 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-12 |title=Art in the Time of Pandemic |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/minds/art-time-pandemic |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Columbia College Today |language=en}}</ref> He also obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.<ref name=":0" /> He entered the Society of Jesus in 1983 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2017 |title=Holy Cross professor named Canadian college president |url=https://www.wbjournal.com/article/holy-cross-professor-named-canadian-college-president |access-date=May 11, 2022 |website=Worcester BusinessJournal}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newsroom {{!}} Holy Cross History Professor Rev. Thomas W. Worcester, S.J., Named President of Regis College |url=https://news.holycross.edu/blog/2017/01/25/holy-cross-history-professor-rev-thomas-w-worcester-s-j-named-president-of-regis-college/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=news.holycross.edu}}</ref>
Worcester was also appointed Professor of History at the University of Toronto in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-07 |title=Thomas Worcester |url=https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/thomas-worcester |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Department of History |language=en}}</ref> His research focuses on the history of the Catholic Church in early modernity, especially the religion and culture of early modern France and Italy.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Worcester |first=Thomas |title=Across the Alps: Italian Religious Culture in French Translation |date=2012 |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012821_12 |work=Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness |pages=193–204 |editor-last=Rozbicki |editor-first=Michal Jan |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137012821_12 |isbn=978-1-137-01282-1 |access-date=2022-05-11 |editor2-last=Ndege |editor2-first=George O.|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Register |first=Michael Swan, The Catholic |title=Regis College, St. Mike's join forces |url=https://www.catholicregister.org/item/33656-regis-college-st-mike-s-join-forces |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=www.catholicregister.org |language=en-gb}}</ref>
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