The department’s talented students have received Fulbright and NEH grants and have gone on to study religion at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Brown, Chicago, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara, among other top schools. Each year the department acknowledges the top undergraduate and graduate students in the program for their special level of accomplishment.
Awarded annually to the Outstanding Graduate Student(s) in Religious Studies
2003 Thomas Atwood
2004 Kyoko Claire Murata
2005 Matthew Ryan McWhorter
2006 Gregory T. Keeter
2007 Jeannie Alexander & Anthony R. Byrd
2008 James Dennis LoRusso