Honors Theses
| 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 (·¨¹Äɽ) Philosophy of Engagement | Honors |
| 2020 | Sabastian Grandes | Spiritual memory and imagination: a reading of Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez¡¯ 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 |