Meet our Majors

2011 Summer URG Winners

Allison Manley, “Buddhist Themes in Contemporary America: Adapting Buddhist Jataka Tales into Contemporary Short Stories” (Faculty Advisor: Brian Bouldrey)

Kaitlin Meyer, “Body Image among Jewish Women” (Faculty Advisor: Renee Engeln-Maddox)

Other News and Awards

Three of our Majors have been selected to present research projects at this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium. Emily Raymond and Lewis
Wallace will present their honors theses. Makoa Kawabata was selected for the Undergraduate Research Symposium to present his research paper from the Advanced Senior Seminar in Theories of Religion.

Kawabata has also won an Undergraduate Research Grant to turn his paper theorizing religion and practical identity into an article-length academic monograph for journal publication in the Journal for the Study of Method and Theory of Religion. Makoa also directs his own NU TV television program about zombies called, "(Un)dead Seriously."

Sasha Bayan K. has a double major in Guitar Performance and Religious Studies and was selected for the URG to study Flamenco in Sevilla.

Caroline Perry received an Undergraduate Research Award for her project, "The Ethics and Moral Theology of Forgiveness in Intimate Partner Violence: A Feminist Approach." Perry has also recently been invited to join the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Religious Studies Photos

April 15, 2011