Student Prizes, 2023-24

Undergraduate excellence in Religions & Theology. Congratulations to Edie McGregor for the Philip Alexander Prize in Jewish Studies for the highest undergraduate grade in Jewish studies (dissertation title: ‘Revelations of Marginalised Matriarchs: An Intersectional Rereading of Sexual Violence in the Hebrew Bible’); to Athur Chughtai for The Brandon Memorial Prize (Undergraduate) for the best work in Comparative Religious Studies (dissertation title: ‘Educating Islam: An Investigation into the Nurturing of Secure Social Identity within Secular and Islamic Secondary Schools in Britain and its Effect on the Academic  Performance of British Muslim Students, Using Islamic Secondary Schools in Bradford as a Comparative Example’); to Maya Okorodudu for the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies (dissertation title: ‘Divine Femininity: Empowering Discourse or Insidiously Sexist Content’); to Luke Hankins for the Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western religious studies (dissertation title: ‘Terms of Marxist and Economic Anthropology, why has Hezbollah emerged as a political and economic anti-imperialist organisation?’); to Zachary Allen 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: ‘"The Light Shining in the Dark": Youth Groups, Structural Violence and Meaning’); to Kira Sharaz for the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek; and to Matthew Mace for the award of the Wellington scholarship for Hellenistic Greek or Greek Testament studies.