Awards, Honors, and Financial Aid

The John and Williemay Cheek Award is presented each year to the outstanding senior major in the department. A book award is also presented to the outstanding graduating senior/s in the department. Students who major in Religious Studies are not thereby prevented from receiving federal or state need- based financial aid.

Marci R. Nelson

The winner of the John and Williemay Cheek award for the 2003-2004 year is Marci R. Nelson.  Marci is a double major in Religious Studies and Anthropology/Sociology.  Her Honors Thesis titled: "The Pineapple Story: Exploring the Use of Narrative in Evangelical Missions" earned her the Edmund and Kathleen Jenkins Award at the Honors Convocation in April 2004.

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The winner of the John and Williemay Cheek award for the 2000-2001 year was Heather Schmidt.  Heather was a double major in biology and religious studies.  Heather wrote a Religious Studies Departmental Honors Thesis titled: "Sinful Thoughts: An Exegetical Study of Genesis 3 and the Place of the Reason-Faith Dichotomy in the Three Biblical Religions."