Student Awards

Established in memory of former professor in the Stanford Religious Studies department Lawrence Berman (1929-1988), this is awarded for the best essay written by an undergraduate student in a Religious Studies class:

• 2021-22 Asha Ravi,  "Borders of Identity, Displacement, and Geographic Fracture in Artistic Responses to India’s Partition." 
• 2019-20 Arman Kassam, "A Shared Exodus: Analyzing the Multi-confessional Consumption of Abraham Ortelius’ Map of Palestine."
• 2018-19 Paritosh Kanoria, "A Granite God in an Ocean of Milk."
• 2017-18 Michal Leibowitz, "Beyond Symbolism: Tefillin as the Creation of Loving Bodies."
• 2016-17 Michal Leibowitz, "Signs and Symbols: Interpreting Eternal Light in Jewish, Christian, and Secular Spaces."
• 2014-15 Justin Brinkley, “The New Perspective on Paul: Rethinking the Judaism of Paul’s Day and the Identity of God’s People.”
• 2013-14  Jenna Leonardo, “YouVersion’s Bible App: The role of design in digitally mediated religious experience.”
• 2012-13  Tae Shin Lee,  “Diotima’s Speech as Apophasis: a Holistic Reading of the Symposium.”

The Howard M. Garfield Award is granted to the graduating student in Religious Studies who, through scholarship and/or service, illuminates and exemplifies those humane ethical values common to the world’s diverse religious traditions:

• 2022 Hannah Kunzman
• 2021 Alexander Lam
• 2020 Asher Faris
• 2019 Matthew Parent
• 2018 Tristan Navarro
• 2015 Mauricio Antunano
• 2014 Zoe Wolford; James Daniel (Jimmy) Fowkes – posthumous award
• 2013 Johanna (Hanni) Hanson