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Religious Studies
In its Honors Program the Religious Studies program awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2017-18
- Brittany Acors, "Children of the Bible: American Protestantism, "A Formula of Agreement," and the Twentieth-Century Ecumenical Movement" (Highest Honors)
Alexander Angelov + Marc Raphael, Christopher Grasso
2016-17
- Meghan Downey, "Complicating Care: Relationship Building in New Student Orientation" (High Honors)
Annie Blazer + Patton Burchett, Sarah Menefee
- Abigail MacMillan, "How Some Islamic Monarchies Use Religious Ideology to Maintain Domestic Control and Exert Regional Influence: a comparative study of Morocco and Saudi Arabia" (Honors)
- Paul Stein, "Is Q Necessary? A Source, Text, and Redaction Critical Approach to the Synoptic Problem" (High Honors)
Michael Daise + Alexander Angelov, Barbette Spaeth
2015-16
- No Honors students this year
2014-15
- Somayah Allibhai-Mawani, "Discovering What Lies Below: the Exploration of William & Mary’s Crypt Under the Chapel" (High Honors)
Mark McLaughlin + Annie Blazer, Carl Lounsbury and Elizabeth Mead
2013-14
- Andrew Anderson, "Democratic Activism and Partitioned Space in Online Muslim Communities" (High Honors)
Tamara Sonn + Jonathan Glasser, John Eisele
- Lindsey Neimo, "Faith-Based Foundations of Social Justice: Where Learning and Life Converge" (High Honors)
Marc Lee Raphael + Anne Blazer, Inga Carboni - Zachary Woodward, "Discordia in Concordia: The Two-Step Development of the Post-Gratian Gloss and the Emergence of a New Era in Canon Law" (Highest Honors)
John S.Morreall + Philip H. Daileader, Nicholas S. Popper
2011-12
- Catherine Robey, "Madness, Reason, and Truth: An Examination of Two Philosophical Debates" (Honors)
Jacob Goodson + Christopher Adkins, Ravi Gupta, Michael Luchs
2009-10
- Jessica Lowe, "Sacramental Exclusivity: Exploring the Bohemian Reformation and the
comtemporary Episcopal Church through Thomas Luckmann's The Invisible Religion" (High Honors)
Michael Daise + Maureen Fitzgerald, Kathleen Jenkins - Jeremy McMahan, "From a Land in the West: An Examination of the Possibility of Persian Influence on the Tibetan Bon Religion" (Honors)
Kevin Vose + Chrystie Swiney, Melissa Kerin
2008-09
- Virginia Irby, " 'For Yours is the Kingdom of God': A historical analysis of liberation theology in the last two decades and its significance within the Christian tradition" (High Honors)
JohnMorreall + Julie Galambush, Tracy Arwari
2007-08
- Corinna Hann, "'Get back to where you once belonged': The Beatles, Post-Colonialism, and Religion" (High Honors)
Maureen Fitzgerald + Kevin Vose, Tom Payne - David McClendon, "Plugging into Worship: How Contemporary Christian Music Is Impacting Church Musicians" (Highest Honors)
Maureen Fitzgerald + Michael Daise, Kathleen Jenkins - Natasha Mikles, "I'm Not a Monk, but I'm a Bodhisattva: Green Gulch Farm and the Explosion of Zen Buddhism in America" (High Honors)
Kevin Vose + JohnMorreall , Kathleen Jenkins - Coury Shadyac, "Jihad: A Contemporary Perspective with Historical Foundations" (Honors)
Tamara Sonn + JohnMorreall , Abdul-Karim Rafeq - Katherine Willson, "Breaking the Silence: South African Muslim
Reponses to HIV/AIDS and a Theology of Compassion" (Highest Honors)
Tamara Sonn + JohnMorreall , Jonathan Glasser, Brad Weiss
2006-07
- Nadim Bawalsa, "Palestinian Christians: Emigration, the Occupation, and Political Islam" (Highest Honors)
Tamara Sonn + Michael Daise, Abdul-Karim Rafeq - Kerry Casey, "Typology in the Letter to the Hebrews and Melito of Sardis' On Pascha" (Highest Honors)
Michael Daise + Tamara Sonn, Naama Zahava-Ely - Joanna Greer, "'For Christ's Sake': The Re-Invention of Paul's Fool in Thirteenth-Century Latin Christianity" (Highest Honors)
Alison Beach + JohnMorreal , Jennifer Taylor - Christopher Heaney, "What to Make of a Fair: The Minjar Mela of Chamba, India" (High Honors)
Kevin Vose + Suzanne Bessinger, Chitrakehka Zutshi
2005-06
- Megan Vail, "Music of the Gods: The Intersection of Music and Religion in the Indian Tradition" (Honors)
Richard Mann + Kevin Vose, Anne Rasmussen
2004-05
- Patrick Comstock
Hans Tiefel + JohnMorreall , Alan Fuchs - Megan Castellan
Tamara Sonn + Marc Raphael, Abdul-Karim Rafeq - Christopher Gegenheimer
JohnMorreall + Alison Beach, Brad Weiss - Katherine Ketcham
Tamara Sonn + Marc Raphael, Christy Warren - Justin McIntosh
Marc Raphael + JohnMorreall , Ron Schechter - David Smith
Maureen Fitzgerald + Marc Raphael, Charles McGovern