-Roetzel Family Fellowship
-Religious Studies Honors Program
Proposal for Honors in Religious Studies
2020-2021 Honors Theses
Sophie Freedman
Punishment, Divine Justice, and Incarceration: Tracing the Impact of Protestant Christianity from Enlightenment to the Present
Tess Mueller
How Hurt Fades
Kat Lewis
Tale of Two Judiths: Queering the Book of Judith with the Works of Judith Butler
2019-2020 Honors Theses
Sam Knego
The Catholic Spirit: Charisma and Liberation in Late 20th Century Brazilian Catholicism
Autumn DeLong
Making Home: Spirituality Through Migrants’ Eyes
Ethan Levin
To Bloom in Empty Space: An Introduction and Commentary on the Petichta to Esther Rabbah
Sophia Jones
Written in Ink, Written in Spirit: 2 Corinthians 3 and Pauline Interpretation
Abe Asher
(Re-)Making the State: Religious Zionism, Religious Violence, and Israel in the 21st Century
Samuel Ryckaert
Chasing Tonpa Shenrab’s Horses: Religious Education and Cultural Transmission in the Global Tibetan Exile Community
2018-2019 Honors Thesis
Maude Quinn
Meditation & Mystics: Secularism and Contemplative Practices in the Twin Cities
2016 Honors Thesis
Molly Wallace
The Persistence of Gnosticism: Credit and the Apocalypse
2014 Honors Theses
Gordon Christen
Roosevelt, Boy Scouts, and the Formation of Muscular Christian Character
Marni Schreiber
South Asian Muslim Health Outcomes in Great Britain: The National Health Service and the British National Imaginary
2013 Honors Theses
Mollie Beebe
Teaching Outside the Margin: Sexual Health Education and the Politics of Sexual Shame
Max Edwards
Dealing with Desire: The Transformation of Hasidic Asceticism
Rebecca Hornstein
When Kashrut is not “Kosher”: The Post Postville Struggle Over Eating, Ethics and American Jewish Identity.
Sara Sandmel
Bathing Women: Ritualized Bodies, Feminism and Jewish Menstrual Purity
2011 Honors Thesis
Daniel Rocklin
Dueling Dualisms: Christian Theology in Response to Global Climate Change
2010 Honors Thesis
Ryland Patrick Witzler
Ali Shariati: Red Shi’ism and Revolution in Iran
2009 Honors Theses
Elizabeth Baer
Working the System: The Role of Islam in Student Negotiations of a Midwestern Charter School
Elliott Niblock
Rethink Orthodoxy and Heresy: The Transgression of Peter Waldes
-Live It Fund
The Live It Fund empowers entrepreneurially-minded students an opportunity to live out their definition of global citizenship by proposing innovative solutions to problems and opportunities they identify. Students can work solo or in teams of two. Summer funding can be provided up to $7,000 and projects can be completed locally, nationally or internationally.
January 2022
Yosan Worota ’23
Fre is a project aiming to increase Eritrean refugee students’ retention in higher education by addressing structural barriers.