Prizes & Awards
James Gardner Buttrick Prize
This is awarded annually for the best essay, written by a Smith undergraduate, on a subject in the field of religious studies.
2012 Recipients
Jennifer Eckert ’12, “Arianism, Goths, and Theoderic’s Mosaics at Ravenna”
Previous Recipents
2011: Jennifer Fernandez AC ’11, Chime Lama ’11
2010: Jaclyn Majewski ’13, Jessica McQuillan ’12, Natalie Sargent ’12, Laura Stanford ’11J
2009: Emily Floyd ’09
2008: Syretha Brooks ’08
2007: Rebekah Saidman-Krauss ’07
2006: Carolyn Creedon AC ’06
Henry Lewis Foote Memorial Prize
This is awarded annually for the best essay, written by a Smith undergraduate, on a subject in the field of biblical studies.
2012 Recipient
Natalie Sargent ’12, “Salvation and (the Lukan) Paul: A View of Acts 28”
Previous Recipents
2011: Natalie Sargent ’12
2010: Sarah Woodbury ’10
2009: Lilian Jackman AC ’09
2008: Laura Bram ’08
2007: Kathryn Fox ’07 and Rachel Rubenstein ’07
2006: Kaitlyn Webster ’08
Jochanan H.A. Wijnhoven Prize
This is awarded annually for the best essay, written by a Smith undergraduate for a course in the Religion Department or Jewish Studies, on a subject in Jewish religious thought.
2012 Recipients
Hunter King ’13, “Feminism and Jewish Renewal: Redemption, Shekhinah, and Essentialsm”
Emma Cooke ’14, “Between the Future and the Past: The Dybbuk as an Agent of Social and Societal Change”
Previous Recipents
2011: Lucy White ’11
2009: Dara Kaye ’09
2007: Chelsea Kline AC ’07 and Rachel Rubenstein ’07
2006: Stacey Baird ’06
Submissions
Prizes are typically awarded to midsized and longer papers, which exceed seven pages in length. A student competing for one or more of these prizes should submit her essay under an assumed name. With her essay she should include a sealed enveloped inscribed with her assumed name, which contains her real name, email, and phone number. One need not be a Religion major to submit a paper for a prize.
Paper submissions are accepted in April, and awards are announced prior to graduation.
Each spring there will be an announcement about submission guidelines and deadlines.
