Year Student Thesis Title Award
2022 Yining Lu Debates and Practices of Humanistic Buddhism in China - Infusing the World with Love and Compassion Honors
2022 Jacqueline Topping Tracing the Westernization of Mindfulness: Americanization, Medicalization, and Corporatization Honors
2020 Lauren Bates This Land is Our Land: Medieval Jewish Travelers Assertion of Sovereignty over Sacred Spaces of Palestine Honors
2020 Susan Deutsch Goddess in the Graveyard, Witch in the Woods: Narrative Depictions of the Goddess Durga in Indonesias Templates for Female Agency Honors
2020 Leila Faulstich-Hon Building a Pure Land on Earth: Fagushan’s (法鼓山) Philosophy of Engagement Honors
2020 Sabastian Grandes Spiritual memory and imagination: a reading of García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, in light of Don Quixote Honors
2020 Xuan He Reimagining the Rural: Visions of Healing and Transformation in China’s Countryside Honors
2020 Kole Lekhutle A BODHISATTVA IS BORN: The domestication of Guan Yin in Lesotho  Honors
2020 Olivia Mitchell Catholic Social Teaching and the “Preferential Option for the Poor” in the United States’ Health Care System: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Religious Ethics in Institutional Policy Honors
2020 Caleb Turner Investigating Criticisms of Modern Hajj in the Age of Social Media Honors
2020 Varsha Vijayakumar The Looming Threat of Hindu Nationalism: Diasporic Considerations and Implications for Hindu Indian-American Political Participation Honors
2019 Naina Horning Zhu Xi, al-Ghazali and Moral Comparative Comparative Study through the Lens of Confucianism and Islam Honors
2019 Hal Juster The Music is More Ancient Than the Words: the Evolution of a Musical Black Liberation Theology and its Influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. Highest Honors
2019 Anna Lueck For the Sake of Our Children: Motherhood as Self-Conscious Performance Among Middle-Class Muslim Immigrants in Vermont Honors
2019 Miles Meijer Bibles and Ballots: The Christian Progressive Movement’s Fusion of Religion and Immigration Politics in Trump’s America Highest Honors
2019 Jonathon O’Dell A Case Study of Christian Missions Among the Lisu People of Nujiang, China Honors
2019 Lex Scott Identity Incongruity & Reconciliation: Queer and Muslim Honors
2019 Liza Tarr Democracy Under Siege: The Combative Nature of American Political Discourse, and its Metaphoric Revival High Honors
2019 Weiru Ye Uncovering House Churches in China’s Christian Heartland Highest Honors
2019 Shan Zeng Shimenawa: Weaving Traditions with Modernity - Interdisciplinary Research on the Cultural History of Japanese Sacred Rope Highest Honors
2018 David M. Dennis Pancasila vs. Syariah: The Dialectical Evolution of Official State Nationalism and Islamic Authority that Shaped and Reshaped the Foundations of the Indonesian State (1945-2005) Highest Honors
2018 Hayk Harutyunyan Heidegger: The Death of God and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity Honors
2018 Benjamin S. Karlin The Primacy of Experience and the Meaning of God: Mordecai Kaplan and the Legacy He Created Honors
2018 Emma R. Walker The Shifting Amazigh Identity of French Coliization to the Present through the Portrayal of Al-Kahina Honors
2017 Francesca M. Conde Women of the Islamic State: Social Media and Sisterhood Honors
2017 Kelsey N. Follansbee From war photograph to a museum for forgetting: A built reproduction of Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima photograph Highest Honors
2017 Alexandra K. Gimbel Akbar’s Sacred Kingship: Religious Influences And Their Visual Manifestations in Akbarnama Highest Honors
2017 Johan W. Heiser Re-thinking Mysticism: An Examination of the Transformative Path Through Language of Light and Darkness Highest Honors
2017 Maya J. Peers Nitzberg Illustrating and Unpacking the Type-Scene of Land-Woman: Examining Misogynist and Imperializing Ideologies in the Hebrew Bible Highest Honors
2017 Andrew P. Smith In suffering, a dazzling light: Jewish Historiography in the Debate over Zionism, 1837-1919 Highest Honors
2017 Kai S. Wiggins Violence, Digital, Media, Just War: Complications to Just War Doctrine in the 21st Century Highest Honors