Acknowledgements 

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Fall 2025 Team

Alexander Kwan – Undergraduate Student/Organizer - Editor

Zach Lekic – Undergraduate Student – Editor

Nabeel Al Jahan – Graduate Student – Editor

Axel Brett – Graduate Student – Editor

Madeline Gauthier – Undergraduate Student – Editor

Gerry Newbury – Undergraduate Student – Editor

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On behalf of the committee, we want to say thank you to everyone who had a hand in making

this edition possible. To our fellow students, we were just super excited to see the number of

submissions grow over each semester. We are nothing but thankful for you allowing us to review,

edit, and put out your work for others to see and be used as examples. We are humbled to be the

outlet to showcase this work. A special thanks to the team that have taken on this task to read and

review the work. The time and effort you volunteered helps ensure that we highlight quality

work. The commitment to this project will never go unacknowledged as truly we could not do

this without you.

To the readers, we thank you for engaging in this collection and the work both your fellow

students and editing team. As always, we hope that this collection is used as examples of the

quality of work that comes out of the faculty and helps inspire others to continue researching and

writing to further enrich the study of History and Religious Studies.

– News Blast from the Past Fall 2025