Sanders Award
The Annual Jack T. Sanders Memorial Award
Deadline for receipt of nominations: April 15 of Spring Term
Previous winners:
2023:
Ines Beltranena, “Quarks and Honeybees”
Daphnie Metcalf, “Gideon and Micah”
2022:
Benjamin Loy, “And he was one who believed the Truth with us: The Incorporation of Sufi Figures in an 11th Century Nusayri Source”
2021:
Dominic Tomcal, “The First Shall be Last: The Disruption of Primogeniture in Genesis”
2020:
Maria Spores, “Perspectives on Serpent Handling and the Law”
2019:
Carson Hauth, “The Sanaa Palimpsest as an Intentional Political Edition”
Miriam Thielman, “Sex, Power, and Morality in Sodom and Gomorrah and the Concubine of Gibeah”
2018:
Julie Langenberg, “Purest of Pure: The Qumran Community’s Elevated Value of Purity”
2017:
Daniel Sanders, “Teresa of Avila: Mysticism Through the Eyes of William James and Evelyn Underhill”
2016:
Will Dickerson (UO ’17), “Meeting in the Field of Non-Duality: A Comparative Approach to Rumi and Ryokan”
Michelle Maujean (UO ’16), “Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Case of Naomi Goldberg”
