2017

Undergraduate Research Prize: Elena van Stee – Calvin College, "Karl Rahner: Sources and Soteriology" 

Graduate Student Research Prize: Baiju Markose – Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, "Celebrating ‘Hybridity’ and ‘Memory’: Subaltern Religious Sensibilities in India"

Marion McFarland Award for Best Research Paper in the Area of Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability: Baiju Markose – Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, "Sacred Grove: Re-claiming a Subaltern Paradigm for Ecological Restoration"

2016

Undergraduate Research Prize: Madeline Ewbank, Northwestern University, "Lessons from The Butterfly Mosque": Fundamentalist Islam and the Legacies of Colonialism"

Graduate Student Research Prize: Matthew Rosebrock, Fuller Theological Seminary, "From Words to Images to Words: The Reciprocal Relationship between Martin Luther and Lucas Cranach the Elder"

Marion McFarland Award for Best Research Paper in the Area of Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability: Sarah Werner, University of Florida, "Sustainability and Peace: North American Mennonite Urban Agricultural Initiatives"

2015

Undergraduate Research Prize: Andrew Ellison, Augustana College, "Unraveling Theories of Secularization, Rational Choice, and Individualization"

Graduate Student Research Prize: Willa Swenson-Lengyel, University of Chicago, "Dum Spiro Spero: Hope as a Ground of the Moral Life"

Marion McFarland Award for Best Research Paper in the Area of Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability: Michael Haycock, Alexandria, Virginia, "The Beasts May Think of Heaven: Toward a Mormon Theology of Non-Human Animals"

2014

Undergraduate Research Prize: Abby Kulisz, Youngstown State University, "Male Projection and the Female Body in Buddhism"

Graduate Student Research Prize: Andrew Meland, University of Missouri, "Neither Critics Nor Caretakers:  Robert Orsi and Russell McCutcheon in The Epistemic Loop"

Marion McFarland Award for Best Research Paper in the Area of Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability: Cybelle T. Shattuck, "Taking Root: Integrating Environmental Initiatives into Congregational Identity"

2013

Undergraduate Research Prize: Grace Koleczek, Augustana College, “Religiocultural Remembrance of Medieval Toledo: Spain’s Period of ‘Tolerance’”

Graduate Student Research Prize: Adam Miller, University of Missouri, “Charisma as Discourse: An Analysis of Swami Vivekananda’s Discursive Activity”

Marion McFarland Award for Best Research Paper in the Area of Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability: Christopher Porter, Loyola University, Chicago, “Creation’s Nature: Examining How a Thomistic View of the Common Good—Instead of a Culture of Consumption’s Perspective—Better Attends to Planetary Care”