diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5439fd9..c91b922 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ requests = "^2.22.0"
 requests-futures = "^1.0.0"
 stem = "^1.8.0"
 torrequest = "^0.1.0"
-pandas = "^1.0.0"
+# pandas can likely be bumped up to ^2.0.0 after fc39 EOL
+pandas = ">=1.0.0,<3.0.0"
 openpyxl = "^3.0.10"
 exrex = "^0.11.0"