06 July 2022

Student Prizes, 2021-22

Undergraduate excellence in Religions & Theology. Congratulations to Leela Boyton-Salts for the Philip Alexander Prize in Jewish Studies for the highest undergraduate grade in Jewish studies (dissertation title: ‘Purity and Whiteness: How do American Jews Disrupt the Concept of Whiteness in the 21st Century?’); to Rachel Vasilescu for the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek; to Justin Freeman for The Brandon Memorial Prize (Undergraduate) for the best work in Comparative Religious Studies (dissertation title: ‘The Apocalypse according to QAnon’); to Madeleine Mcleod-Clarke and Rhea Howard, who are jointly awarded this year for the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies (dissertation titles: ‘Judging in Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind (1970): The Key to “the Banality of Evil”’; and ‘Religious Education: Relevant to Today or Relic of the Past?’); to Ghulam Habiba for the Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western religious studies (dissertation title: ‘Rumi De-Islamicised & Demystified’); and to Amy Mcgonagle for the Religion and Social Responsibility Dissertation Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation that explores a social or ethical challenge at the intersection of religion and social responsibility (dissertation title: ‘Conflicting Identities: Queering and Reconciling Identity in Northern Ireland’).