Undergraduate Senior Theses Senior Theses Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Class of 2021 Class of 2020 Senior Awards Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Class of 2021 Class of 2020 George Davis Title: “The Future of Catholic America”: A close examination of one particular vision for the future of Catholicism in the swamps of southwest Florida. Advisor: Andrew Chignell 2nd Reader: Qasim Zaman Claire Donovan Title: “Spiritual but Not Religious”: Is Religion Losing Its Cool? Advisor: Eric Gregory 2nd Reader: Andrew Chignell Omar Farah Title: "My Angels Will Be Tall Black Drag Queens" Introducing a Praxis of Black Queer Scripturalectics Advisor: Wallace Best 2nd Reader: Seth Perry Benjamin Finlay Title: The Rich Man and Lazarus: A Reception History of Luke 16:19-31 in Patristic Sources Advisor: Moulie Vidas 2nd Reader: Lydia Bremer-McCollum Michael Fording Title: “In the Meantime”: Culture and American Christian Apocalypticism Advisor: Eric Gregory 2nd Reader: Wallace Best Gen Fraipont Title: Faith and healing at Lourdes: The secular performance of the medical bureau in the past and present. Advisor: Shaun Marmon 2nd Reader: Denys Turner William Hunt Title: “We Are All Children of God Just in Case You Forgot”:Reclaiming Queer Voices in Contemporary Christian Music Advisor: Bryan Lowe 2nd Reader: Nicole Turner Jackson Ikenberry Title: Party of Public Light? Buddhism, the Kōmeitō, and the Politics of Peace in Japan Advisor: Bryan Lowe 2nd Reader: Guy St. Amant Juju Lane Title: THE PAGAN PROJECT Reclaiming Heritage, Healing, and Environmental Sovereignty in Ireland Advisor: Seth Perry 2nd Reader: Lauren Kerby Kamy Loustau Title: Reading Between the Lines: An investigation into the ways that funerary accounts found in pre-emancipation slave narratives contribute to existing understandings of black slave funeral culture. Advisor: Shaun Marmon 2nd Reader: Nicole Turner Laura Mora Orenday Title: The Method of Dreams: An Analysis of the Ancient and Curious Dream Book of Raphael, the Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century Advisor: Seth Perry 2nd Reader: Tehseen Heather Samberg Title: Preaching Secularism: Religion, Maternal Health, and Identity in Contemporary Ireland Advisor: Tehseen Thaver 2nd Reader: Moulie Vidas Email this page Print this page