Department of Religious Studies

Congratulations to this year's the Bishop McVickar Prize Winners!

Religious Studies is pleased to announce the winners of this year's McVickar's Prize!

1st Place: Sienna Lotenberg (History)
"'Blessed is She Who in the Beginning Gave Birth': An Intellectual History of the Brown Women's Minyan and the Student Pioneers for American Jewish Feminism."

2nd Place: Samuel B. Hainbach (Religious Studies)
"Sacred, Patriotic, Public: The Zionism of Abba Hillel Silver."

3rd Place: Katherine Chu (History)
"British Protestant Missionaries in Interwar Egypt: Uneven Encounters in Imperial Contexts"

Honorable Mention: Clemencia Garcia-Kasimirowski (History of Art & Architecture)
"Reshaping the Refugee Camp: Makeshift Islamic Architectures in Ritsona, Greece"

The McVickar Prize is given annually for best senior thesis of high quality and academic worth from any concentration, on any topic related to the study of religion.  The prize was instituted in 1909 by the Rt. Rev. William Neilson McVickar, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Dioceses of Rhode Island (1898-1910), in memor of his sister, Miss E. C. McVickar.