{"id":21,"date":"2023-07-11T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:28:51","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Religious Studies offers three awards each year.<\/p>\n<h2>Outstanding Senior in Religious Studies<\/h2>\n<p>This Outstanding Senior in Religious Studies award recognizes the contributions and achievements of the leading undergraduate in the program.<\/p>\n<h3>2024-25 Award Winner<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Joshua Kim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Past Award Winners:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2023-24 William Romero<br \/>\n2022-23 Jaret Rushing<\/p>\n<h2>Vanderbilt Arabic Student of the Year<\/h2>\n<p>The Vanderbilt Arabic Student of the Year is recognized for their achievements in the study of Arabic.<\/p>\n<h3>2024-25 Award Winner<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sana Fatah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Past Award Winners:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2023-24 Collins Agyeman and Farshad Ghanbari<\/p>\n<p>2022-23 Josephine Dal<\/p>\n<p>2021-22 Catherine Delafield<\/p>\n<p>2020-21 Wisam Mustafa<\/p>\n<p>2019-20 Mary Tezak<\/p>\n<p>2018-19 Cecilia Quach &amp; Max Bernstein<\/p>\n<p>2017-18 Fiona Bultonsheen<\/p>\n<h2>Religious Studies Undergraduate Language Prize<\/h2>\n<p>The Religious Studies Undergraduate Language Prize is awarded to the most promising student in language study.<\/p>\n<h3>2023-24 Award Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/27145659\/Wang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/27145659\/Wang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandy Wang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Award Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2022-23 Henry Yusem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Religious Studies offers three awards each year. Outstanding Senior in Religious Studies This Outstanding Senior in Religious Studies award recognizes the contributions and achievements of the leading undergraduate in the program. 2024-25 Award Winner Joshua Kim Past Award Winners: 2023-24 William Romero 2022-23 Jaret Rushing Vanderbilt Arabic Student of the Year The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-headline-img.php","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}