The Center for the Study of Religion is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Savko Undergraduate Research Grant and Best Undergraduate Essay awards.

Michelle Sdao, a third-year History major, received the research award to fund her travel to the 2017 National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University, where she presented her work on intra-Christian polemical tactics during Late Antiquity and the Reformation, including their origins, motives, and implications.

Dillon Sampson, now a recent graduate with a B.A. in Religious Studies, received the award for Best Undergraduate Essay for his research thesis “A Most Savage Art: Hegemony, Ideology, and Human Sacrifice.”

Please join us in congratulating these outstanding young scholars on their work!