Research and Teaching Awards

2023

Eric Hoenes del Pinal received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowship

William Sherman received a Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies Fellowship

William Sherman received a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Translations and Editions Grant

2019

Kent Brintnall received a Henry Luce Foundation Grant

Eric Hoenes del Pinal received an American Academy of Religion Collaborative Grant

2018

Kent Brintnall and Joanne Maguire received a Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Grant

2015

John Reeves received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

Joanne Maguire received a National Endowment for the Humanities “Enduring Questions” Course Development Grant

2014

Eric Hoenes del Pinal was a funded participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty

2023

Eric Hoenes del Pinal: Honorable Mention for the Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion

2020

John Reeves: Alumnus-in-Residence, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

2018

Jeffrey Meyer, Emeritus: Silver Winner in 30th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards by the Independent Book Publishers Association for A Call to China

2017

William Sherman: Pirzada Dissertation Prize from the Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

2015

Alexandra Kaloyanides: Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, Columbia University Press

John Reeves: Graduate Medallion, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

2018

David Clausen, Finalist for the College Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty Member

2017

Ashley Bryan, Recipient of the College Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty Member

2016

Joanne Maguire, American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Teaching

Barbara Thiede, Finalist for the College Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-time Lecturer

2015

Joanne Maguire, North Carolina Board of Governors Teaching Award

Janna Shedd, Recipient of the College Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty Member

2013

Kent Brintnall, Bonnie Cone Early-Career Professorship in Teaching

2012

Joanne Maguire, Recipient of the Bank of America Teaching Award

1998

James Tabor, Finalist for the Bank of America Teaching Award

1996

Edward St. Clair, Recipient of the Bank of America Teaching Award

1993

Ronald Gestwicki, Finalist for the Bank of America Teaching Award

1969

Loy Witherspoon, Recipient of the Bank of America Teaching Award