The Annual Jack T. Sanders Memorial Award

Deadline for receipt of nominations: April 15 of Spring Term

Click here for more information on how to apply.

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”

Arabic Studies Minor, Sara Golestaneh, wins Gilman Scholarship to study Arabic in Jordan

This Spring, Sara Golestaneh received a Gilman Scholarship to study Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Jordan during the summer of 2016. She is currently a senior at the University of Oregon minoring in Arabic Studies. In the future, she plans to study immigration law and use Arabic to assist families as they emigrate to the United States. You can read about her experience this summer, and tips for others planning to study abroad in Jordan, at https://saraginjordan.wordpress.com