Past Honors Theses Titles

2016-2017

Matthew Drew - Cum Laude: "Histories of the Secular: Medical Mindfulness Meditation in the United States"

2013-2014

Margaret Mullen Ignell - Summa Cum Laude: "Pluralizing Mature Faith"
Sarah Levenstam - Summa Cum Laude: "Finding Agency in the Shared Lexicon of Caste: A Study of the Transformation in Seepur"

2010-2011

Emily Dunn - Cum Laude: "The Americanization of Buddhist Meditation Practices as Realized in Hospital Pain Management Care, Hospice Care, and Prison Rehabilitation Programs"

2009-2010

Julia Jay - Summa Cum Laude: ""Hiding the World in the World": Environmental Ethics and the Zhuangzi"
Iain Prendergast - Cum Laude: "Divided by a Common Religion: Secularization in the United Kingdom and the United States "
Travis Proctor - Summa Cum Laude: "The Battle in the Soul: Demons, the Logos and the Purpose of Justin Martyr's Apologies "
Jonathan Salzinger - Magna Cum Laude: "The Kosher Meat Riots of 1902: A Moment of Democratic Transformation for American Jewry and Urban Political Culture"
Jessica Spencer - Summa Cum Laude: "One Flesh: The Development of a Chrisitan Sexual Ethic in 1 Corinthians"

2008-2009

Michael McEvilly - Summa Cum Laude: ""Push, or the World Will Be Deceived": Imagistic Thinking Through Humor as a Means to Maintain Indirect Communication in Kierkegaard's Attack on Danish Christendom"

2007-2008

Emily Soderberg - Summa Cum Laude: "Religion in Germany: Islam in a Christian Society"

2006-2007

Danielle M. Weiner - Magna Cum Laude: "Converting to Judaism in Northern Peru: A Quest for Spiritual and Material Betterment"

2005-2006

Anne T. Lamb - Summa Cum Laude: "Pragmatic Development and the Price of Power: The Christian Right, the GOP, and a New Era of Political Influence"

2004-2005

Chesney P. Fowler - Summa Cum Laude: ""Contrary To Popular Belief...": A Consideration of the Theology and Lifestyle of the Old Order Amish"
Callie L. Richman - Summa Cum Laude: "Did God have a Consort? Yahweh and Asherah in Ancient Israel"

2003-2004

Holly Donovan - Magna Cum Laude: "Madhyamika, The Middle Way: The Middle Way, Agnostic: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika as a Pedagogy of Liberating Agnosticism"

2002-2003

Kristen Lackritz - Summa Cum Laude: "Women in the Church: An Examination of the Roles of Women in 1 Corinthians 11 and 1 Timothy 2 From a Conservative Evangelical Perspective"

2001-2002

Joy Hougnon - Summa Cum Laude: "Jews, Gentiles, Justification, and Raiding the Icebox: An Exegesis of Romans 9-11"
David Weiner - Summa Cum Laude: "Words out of the Fire: Theophany as Polemic in the Bible"

2000-2001

Amber Stancliffe - Summa Cum Laude: "Re-narrating Christianity: John Milbank's post-secular theology"
Anuj K. Shah - Summa Cum Laude: "Pointing at the Moon: On Nagarjuna and Newton: A Contemporary Truth-View According to Madhyamika Buddhism"