Undergraduate excellence in Religions & Theology. Congratulations to
Chloe McDowell for the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek; to
Isaac Asplin for the Wellington Scholarship for Hellenistic Greek or Greek Testament; to
Madeleine Joyce for the Brandon Memorial Prize (Undergraduate) for the best work in Comparative Religious Studies (dissertation title: ‘Transgressing Representations: Is the Devadasi System More Than an Exploitative Tradition?’); to
Philippa Dennis as one of two students sharing this year’s Philip Alexander Prize in Jewish Studies for the highest undergraduate grade in Jewish studies (dissertation title: ‘Is Consent Implied in the Biblical Narration of the Sexual Encounters of Bathsheba, Tamar, and Dinah?’); to
Eve Small for the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies (dissertation title: ‘A Study into the Discursive Representations of Palestinian Women within
The Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies from 2012-2020’); to
Amy Cribb Price for the Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western religious studies (dissertation title: ‘From Subjugation to Hegemony: An Investigation into the Role of the Male Gendered Body within Hindu Nationalist Discourse’); and to
Jordan Fleary for the Religion and Social Responsibility Dissertation Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in R&T that explores a social or ethical challenge at the intersection of religion and social responsibility (dissertation title: ‘“Darkness Lingers in the Wake of Slavery”: An Exploration of How Racism manifests as Intergenerational Trauma Among Black Women in the US’).
