Nicholas Terpstra | |
Office: | Provost of Trinity College, Toronto |
Order: | 16th |
Predecessor: | Mayo Moran |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Alma Mater: | McMaster University (B.A.) University of Toronto (M.A.) University of Toronto (Ph.D.) |
Occupation: | Professor Historian Administrator |
Website: | Nicholas Terpstra |
Term Start: | July 1, 2024 |
Nicholas Terpstra is a Canadian historian and academic.[1] He is the 16th and current chancellor of Trinity College, Toronto, having succeeded Mayo Moran in 2024.[2] He has been the vice president of the Renaissance Society of America,[3] and is an internationally respected scholar of the Renaissance period.[4] As a professor of history at the University of Toronto, his research is multidisciplinary, interacting with gender, religion, economics, and more.[5]