First Place: 

Lex Rofes: "More than Words on a Page: An Exploration of the Jewish Kol Nidre Declaration"
 

Second Place: 

Eric Young: "Sacred Land, Sacred Community: The Interface of Catholicism and the Environmental Work of New  Orleans and East Vietnamese Americans"
 

Third Place shared by:

Benjamin Marcus: "On Religious Literacy and Easy Definitions: A Survey-Based Look at the Complexity of Religious Identity Formation and Perception"

Michael Z. Mezera: "'New Democrats: Two Contemporary Approaches to Religious Reasoning, Pluralism, and Organizing in the Public Sphere"

Honorable Mentions:

Hiroe Hu: "The Concept of Self in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Morita Therapy: The Similarities and Differences in the Therapeutic Mechanisms, Philosophies, and Methods."

Elizabeth Matthews: "Interpretations of Ahlquist v. City of Cranston: Inter-spherical Relationships and the Threat of Alienation in Public Discourse"

Matthew Peterson: "From Heaven to Earth: On the Religious and Aesthetic in Feuerbach, Wagner, and Nietzche"

First Place Shared by:

Thomas Finley (History Concentrator) for thesis titled "'A Church Where Jesus is Real'" Race, Religiosity and the Legacies of Protest Activisim in the Church of God in Christ, 1968-1989."

Joshua Schenkkan (Religious Studies Concentrator) for thesis titled "The Imaged Dead and the Ethics of Rupture: Thinking with George Bataille and Judith Butler."

Honorable Mentions:

Elizabeth Carroll (Religious Studies Concentrator) for thesis titled "Ida Robinson and the Mount Sinai Holy Church: Towards a Greater Understanding of Ida Robinson as Mother Assuming Authority in the Public Sphere."

Julia P. Elstrodt (Religious Studies Concentrator) for thesis titled "The Sacred Practice of Psychotherapy: An Argument for the Inclusiion of Spirituality in Psychology."

First Place shared by

Rachel Himes, "Christ and Crisis: Sacral Rhetoric in Late Byzantine Imperial Representation."

Thaya Uthayophas, "Law and Religion in Thailand."

Second Place

Alexander Sogo, "A Study of Roman Amulets and Ancient Healing Practices."

Honorable Mentions:

Adison Marshall, "The Voice of the Pythia: Drugs and Agency at Delphi."

William Underwood, "Atrium Church and the Trouble with Christian Speech in a Secular, Postmodern Society."

First Place:

Rachel Leiken: "'Have you got good religion?': Positioning Religion in a Landscape of Racial Justice Work."

Second Place:

Darien Acero: "Nietzsche and Dogen: A Conversation."

Third Place shared by:

Hannah Liu: "Processional Pathways: Public Assertion of Religious Identity in Late Antique Rome."

Josh Silver: "Blurring Boundaries, Clarifying Connections: World of Warcraft and the Creative Actions of its Users."

1st Place:

Joshua Kurtz (Religious Studies)
"Notes Toward an Attentivve Politics: Simone Weil and the Theory of Decreation."

2nd Place shared by

Melodi Hamiye Dincer (Religious Studies)
"I Sing the Body Electric: The Syntheist Movement and Creating God in the Internet Age." 

and Noah Williams Fitzgerel (Religious Studies)
"Whiteness, Colorblindness, and Common Experience: Resituating American Civil Religion."

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 of 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 Architecture in Ritsona, Greece." 

Joint First Place

Aaron Cooper (Religious Studies '21)
 "Terrifying Potential: Toward A Cartography of White Being"
  Advisor: Andre Willis

Keiko Cooper-Hahn (Religious Studies '21)
 "A Servant of Two Masters? Tunisia’s Claim to Both Secularism and State Islam"
  Advisor: Andre Willis  

Chihye (Naomi) Kim (English '21)
 "'An Interesting Planet': The Ecotheology of Marilynne Robinson's Fiction"
  Advisor: James Kuzner

Honorable Mention

Emily Pham (Religious Studies '21)
 "Hospital Spiritual Care in Rhode Island during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Interviews on the Chaplain Experience"
  Advisor: Jason Protass