Anthony Scott

Anthony "Tony" Scott is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, where he deploys a Cold War humanism to investigate how Buddhism acted as a vector for discourses and debates about deimperalization leading up to and after Burmese independence. His broader research profile includes projects on the relationship between religious literature, political power, and meditation in South and Southeast Asia, the visual aesthetics and optical rhetoric of Buddhist saints in the twentieth century, and on deconstructing the settler-colonial metanarratives underlying the history of palaeontology and geology in his natal home of the Alberta badlands. Tony has taught courses on Buddhism and Asian Studies at the undergraduate and graduate level, studied in India, Japan, and China, and is active in the intersection between academic research, labour, and decolonizing the classroom.