2017 Department Awards Ceremony

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2017 Department Awards Ceremony
 

Awards

On Wednesday, April 19, the department held its annual awards ceremony at which we celebrated the accomplishments of our students and faculty over the past year. The ceremony was held in the University Room at Hyde Hall and was followed by a wonderful time of conversation over refreshments. The many recognitions we noted that day include:

Undergraduate Student Awards:

Phi Beta Kappa inductee: Morgan Ferone

Honors Theses:

  • Averyl Edwards, “Beyond a Cisgender Genesis: Reading the Creation Narratives Through a Transgender Feminist Lens”
  • Amrithaa Gunabalan, “An Unknowable Ideal: Objectivism as a New Religious Movement and the Subsequent Institutionalization of Ayn Rand’s Ideas in American Politics”

Bernard Boyd Memorial Prize: Averyl Edwards

Graduate Student Awards:

Peck Prize for Graduate Student Teaching: Joanna Smith

Religious Studies Department Summer Research Awards: Patrick D’Silva, Brad Erickson, Shannon Schorey, Joanna Smith, and Tim Smith

GSOC Peer Recognition Teaching Award: Micah Hughes

Styers-welcome

Welcome from Prof. Randall Styers

Boyd-Prize

Prof. Todd Ochoa with Averyl Edwards, winner of the Boyd Prize

books

Prof. Lauren Leve presents a summer research award to Patrick D’Silva

ABD

Joanna Smith and Isaiah Ellis presenting the coveted “ABD” mugs

books

Books published by our faculty over the past year

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