2013

• Marah Bragdon, “Charisma, Religion and Politics: Billy Graham and Imam Khomeini’s Incorporation of Religious Traditions and Political Action”
• David Cole, “A chromatic linguistics, towards a literal philosophy of language (Or, how to have an idea and not just a correct one)” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Brian Cropper, “Narrative strategies shared between Islam and Christianity: Reclaiming a Historical Multi-Religiosity through Textual Interdependence”
• Natalie Malter, “Celebrating 125 years of ‘Earnest Inquiry’: The Legacy of the Gifford Lections on Religion, Science, and Natural Theology”
• Morgan Rutter, “Electronic Evangelicalism: Entertaining or Mere Entertainment?”

2012

• Margot Clifford, “The Irrelevance of Inequality: Reframing Women’s Liberation in Egypt through Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Robert Deans, “Nietzsche, Philosophy & Mythology: The role of myth in Nietzsche’s Brith of Tragedy”
• Elana Freeman, “Emptying the Path of Awakening”
• Katilin Kelly, “The Technology of Womanhood: The intersection of Iranian gender reassignment surgery, Heidegger, and Dworkin”
• Max Levine, “Dying in the Open: Love and the Ethical in Judaism and Post-Modernity”
• Andrea Loh, “Jewish Theological Responses to God After the Holocaust: The Evaluation of God’s Nature and God’s Actions”
• Lily Rowen, “The Evolution of Buddhism and ‘Religion’ in Ireland” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Lindsey Streeter, “Abd-al-Rahmann III, Francisco Franco, and Alfarabi: An Account of Religion and its Affect Within the Spanish Political Arena”
• Krishnaveni Subbiah, “Issues Surrounding Hindu Arranged Marriages in India: Is there a solution?”

2011

• Jeff Eamon, “Antiterrorist Financing Policies’ Impact on Islamic Charitable Giving and the Reshaping of American Muslim Identity” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Agne Jomantaite, “On the Concept of Hospitality: Thinking with Kant, Schmitt, Levinas, and Derrida” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Amelia Frey, “All Hail the King of Pop”
• Kayla Furman, “God and Nature in Kabbalah: Impervious or Vulnerable to Disruption?”
• Emma LaFleur, “The Location of the Land of Topsy-Turvey: the Japanese and theJesuits in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Aaron Landman, “An Exegesis of Sayyid Qutb’s Historical Methodology as Articulated in Milestones”
• Emily Long, “Pure Sex: The sexualization of virgins in Christianity as a means to affirm patriarchy”
• Natalie Monterrosa, “Highlighting Difference and Sustaining Conflict: The Rhetoric of Storytelling in Northern Ireland During ‘The Troubles’”
• Akasham Pace, “The Unfinished Work of Photography”
• Emily Painter, “Obesity: Weight Beyond Body”
• Ian Powell, “Hearts versus Minds: Struggles between Scientific Atheism and Religion in the Soviet Union, 1917-1990”
• Rob Riccardi, Untitled or “The Rise of Western Zen and the Emergence of American Environmental Consciousness in the 1960’s” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Thomas Rodrigues, “‘All Communication Participates in Suicide’: A Bataillean Investigation of Charity” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps

2010

• Rachel Deitch, “Behind the Religious: An Examination of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Charismatic Authority in the Islamic Revolution”
• Hannah Dreitcer, “Embracing a New Spirit: Resistance and Gender in the Development of Indigenous South African Christianities”
• Joe Hernandez, “Heidegger and Thinking: Recollecting the Divine”
• Riley Hooper, “In the Native Landscape is the Preservation of the World: A Look at Worldviews of Nature through the lens of the American Lawn”
• Harrison Taylor, “God in a Mall, Eternity in a Bottle: A Study of Consumerism and American Religion”
• Alex Wolf, “On Redemption – A Genealogy in Five Parts”

2009

• Erin Conley, “Battle of the Sexes: Re-evaluating Women’s Leadership Role in Christian History”
• Mallory Nezam, “The Sacred and the Ugly: The limitations and implications of the intersection of secular and sacred perspectives on pollution in the river Ganga”
• Jacqueline Herrlin, “Do-it-Yourself Islam: PuNk RocK as a Means of Cultural Adaptation for Muslims in the West”
• Maya Varga, “Feeding the Soul: Reconciling Christian Faith with Overeating”
• Ahuva Zaches, “CONCESSIONS” or “The Relationship Between Sexuality and the Pursuit of Holiness: A Comparative Exploration of Virginity, Marriage, and Contraception in Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism”

2008

• Ryan Bowen, “The Ethics of Santería: Spiritual Resistance to Oppression in the Americas”
• Kevin Chaves, “Through Religion to Being and Time: Uncovering the Religious Foundations of Heidegger’s Authenticity” Awarded the Kairos award for Best Senior Religious Studies Comps
• Nathaniel Crawford, “Jane Leade: Envisioning a Divine Feminine Order”
• Pete Delgado, “The Role of Women in Puritan Society”
• Brooke Holmes, “The First Amendment—A Historical Analysis of the Political, Social, and Judicial Climates that Continue to Shape Religious Freedom”
• Katie Osborne, “Christian Ethics: Woman and Abuse”
• Jeff Pecaro, “A Critique of Politics and Amnesia in Bio-Atheism”
• Jessica Rutiz, “For Jesus? Defining a Jewish Identity in 21st century America”
• Nathan Schradle, “Reclaiming the ‘Mystery’: A New Philosophical Paradigm for Understanding the Mysteries of Mithras”
• Sophia Simonian, “The Impact of Religion during Teenage Development”
• Amanda Tonkovich, “Imagining Jesus: Power of the Icon”

2007

• Sam Betty, “Beyond Life: America’s Infatuation with the Near Death Experience and the Afterlife”
• Leah Concannon, “[Divine] Justice: From the Gallows to the Penitentiary”
• Noah Glusenkamp, “Naturalized Karma and Naturalized Rebirth: Towards an Understanding of Food and Future”
• Eric Haynie, “Developing an Understanding of Love and Compassion in Contemporary Religious Thought”
• Whitney Lewis, “Spiritual Poverty and Righteous Revolution: Liberation Theology an the Process of Critical Reflection”
• Sam Mowe, “Wandering and Pilgrimage in the Buddhist Tradition”
• Ben Swift, “Christianity and the Construction fo Race within the American Identity”

2006

• Simyona Bryant, “Martin Luther King Jr.: A Faithful Advocate of Nonviolent Revolution for the Disinherited”
• Timothy Maes, “A New Piety: Historically Locating the Contemporary Megachurch”
• Rebecca Shellock, “A Reformation of Femininity: Hildegard of Bingen’s Redefinition of the Feminine in her Texts, Art, and Life”
• Sam Sinkin, “Fundamental Change: A Re-Evaluation of Existence, Truth, and the Way Through the Five Mindfulness Trainings”

2005

• Julian Allen, “No Longer a ‘So-Called Negro’: The Creation and Development of the Nation of Islam’s Black Muslim Identity”
• Tycho Bergquist, “Religion and Spirituality: The Natural Tie of Mainstream and Avant-Garde Music Toward Social Progress”
• Erica Booth, “Death and The Afterlife: A Comparative Analysis of Buddhist and Christian Thought”
• Lauren Constancio, “Contemporary Bioethics from a Buddhist Perspective”
• Ana María Garay, “The Sisterhood of Our Lady of Good Death and Glory: Exploring the Dimensions of Death and the Virgin Mary as Symbols of Freedom for an Afro-Brazilian Confraternity”
• Heather Kanny, “Islamism and Social Justice in Egypt: The Rise of Ikhwan and the Simultaneous Creation of an Islamic Transnational Identity”
• Stephanie Langlais, “Compromising through Translation”
• Colin Maloney, “The Emergence of Christianity and the Baha’i Faith”
• Dallin Wilson, “From Qumran to Cumorah: Sources of Latter-Day Saint Attraction to the Dead Sea Scrolls”