Student Thesis/Project Titles
2021-22
Niyafa Boucher, Body Positivity: The Secular Reform Movement for Christian Body Discipline Ideals (Senior Project)
Lauren Eskra, ¡°We¡¯re Not Like Other Churches¡± Identity Formation and Community Construction in a French Evangelical Church (Thesis)
Paul Flores-Clavel, The Impact of Exodus: Exploring African American & Central-American Identity Formation Through Historical and Literary Analysis
Zeke Hodkin, Catechisms and the Court: Evaluating the Relationship Between Supreme Court Justices, Evolving Catholic Teachings on Capital Punishment, and Modern Jurisprudence
Yining Lu, Debates and Practices of Humanistic Buddhism in China - Infusing the World with Love and Compassion (Senior Project)
Jacqueline Topping, Tracing the Westernization of Mindfulness: Americanization, Medicalization, and Corporatization (Senior Project)
2020-21
Laura Friedrich, ¡°Written to be Remembered and Authored to Inspire: Collective memory and a new female model from the late ancient narratives of Perpetua and Thecla¡± (Senior Thesis)
Sara Santiago, ¡°Faith in Prisons: The Transformative History and Potential of Religious Leaders in the American Prison System¡± (Senior Project)
Ashley Tonini, ¡°Mount Eskel is Singing: Development of Divine Connection in Mormon Fantasy Novels¡± (Senior Thesis)
Lucy Weiss, ¡°Examining Religion at Middlebury: Missionaries, Discourse, and Courses Over the Years¡± (Senior Thesis)
2019-20
Lauren Bates, This Land is Our Land: Medieval Jewish Travelers¡¯Assertion of Sovereignty over Sacred Spaces of Palestine (Senior Project)
Susan Deutsch, ¡°Goddess in the Graveyard, Witch in the Woods: Narrative Depictions of the Goddess Durga in Indonesia as Templates¡± (Senior Project)
Leila Faulstich-Hon, Building a Pure Land on Earth: Fagushan¡¯s (·¨¹Äɽ) Philosophy of Engagement (Senior Project)
Sebastian Grandas, ¡°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.¡± (Senior Project)
Xuan He, Reimagining the Rural: Visions of Healing and Transformation in China¡¯s Countryside (Senior Project)
kOle Lekhutle, A BODHISATTVA IS BORN The domestication of Guan Yin in Lesotho (Senior Project)
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¡± (Senior Thesis)
Caleb Turner, Investigating Criticisms of Modern Hajj in the Age of Social Media (Senior Project)
Varsha Vijayakumar, The Looming Threat of Hindu Nationalism: Diasporic Considerations and Implications for Hindu Indian-American Political Participation (Senior Project)
2018-19
Chris Diak, Transcendental Generative Grammar: A Chomskyan Reading of the ³§±è³ó´Ç?²¹±¹¨¡»å²¹&²Ô²ú²õ±è;(Senior Thesis)
Ben Freedman, Turn of Heart, Turn of Phrase: Qur¡¯anic Translations in Japanese (Senior Thesis)
Connor Freeman, Semper Reformanda: Peter Berger’s Sociology of Religion and its Application to the Evangelical Lutheran Church America (Senior Thesis)
Naina Horning, Zhu Xi, al-Ghazali and Moral Education: A Comparative Study Through the Lens of Confucianism and Islam (Senior Project)
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. (Senior Thesis)
Anna Lueck, ¡°For the Sake of Our Children¡± Motherhood as Self-Conscious Performance Among Middle-Class Muslim Immigrants in Vermont (Senior Project)
Miles Meijer, Bibles and Ballots: The Christian Progressive Movement’s Fusion of Religion with Immigration Politics in Trump’s America (Senior Thesis)
Mehek Naqvi, ¡°MEMES AND MUSLIMS: Examining the Conflation of Religion and Culture Among Second-Generation, Muslim-American Youth.¡± (Senior Project)
Jonathon O¡¯Dell, A Case Study of Christian Missions Among the Lisu People of Nujiang, China (Senior Project)
Lex Scott, Identity Incongruity & Reconciliation: Queer & Muslim (Senior Project)
Liza Tarr, Democracy Under Siege: The Combative Nature of American Political Discourse, and its Metaphoric Revival (Senior Thesis)
Weiru Ye, Uncovering House Churches in China¡¯s Christian Heartland (Senior Thesis)
Shan Zeng, Shimenawa: Weaving Traditions with Modernity ¨C Interdisciplinary Research on the Cultural History of Japanese Sacred Rope (Senior Thesis)
2017-18
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) (Thesis)
Hayk Harutyunyan, Heidegger: The Death of God and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity (Senior Project)
Benjamin S. Karlin, The Primacy of Experience and the Meaning of God: Mordecai Kaplan and the legacy He Created (Senior Project)
Emma R. Walker, The Shifting Amazigh Identity from French Colonization to the Present through the Portrayal of al-Kahina (Senior Project)
2016-17
Francesca M. Conde, Women of the Islamic State: Social Media and Sisterhood (Thesis)
Kelsey N. Follansbee, From war photograph to a museum for forgetting: A built reproduction of Rosenthal¡¯s Iwo Jima photograph (Thesis)
Alexandra K. Gimbel, Akbar¡¯s Sacred Kingship: Religious Influences and Their Visual Manifestations in Akbarnama (Thesis)
Johan W. Heiser, Re-Thinking Mysticism: An Examination of the Transformative Path Through Language of Light and Darkness (Thesis)
Karma Lama, The Paradox of Purity and Pollution: Examining Ecology and Religion along the Ganges River (Thesis)
Maya J. Peers Nitzberg, Illustrating and Unpacking the Type-Scene Of Land-Woman: Examining Misogynist and Imperializing Ideologies in the Hebrew Bible (Thesis)
Andrew P. Smith, ¡°In suffering, a dazzling light¡±: Jewish Historiography in the Debate over Zionism, 1837-1919 (Thesis)
Matthew B. Sptizer, Conceptualizing the Non-Conceptual: Language at its Limit in Buddhist Thought (Thesis)
Kai S. Wiggins, VIOLENCE, DIGITAL MEDIA, JUST WAR. Complications to Just War Doctrine in the 21st Century (Thesis)