The Russell Lowell Jaberg Award For Academic Excellence recognizes outstanding achievement by a graduating religion major
Jaberg past winners
2012
Tanya Azuaje
The runner ups were Jaime Drucker, Krista Schumacher, and Marion Paige
2013
Jordan Kassabaum
The runner ups were Michala Lee and Stefani Broome
2014
co-winners Richard Batchelor and Casey Miller
The runner up was Rachel Deloach
2015
Susan Imes
The runner up was Alexa Rossi
2016
Angelica Lauver
The runner up was Alison Ruby
2017
None given
2018
Austin Young
The runner up was Malcolm Devers
2019
co-winners Michaela Kastin and Samantha Manausa
2020
Stevens Borowsky
2021
Emily Braley
The runner up was Erica Penley
2022
Alex Keiser
The runner up was Ashtyn Kelley
2023
Shiri Abramson
The Russell Jaberg Award is given annually to the top graduating senior (or seniors) in the Department of Religion. The nominating procedure for this award is as follows:
- a group of top students are identified by GPA
- nominations from among this group are solicited from faculty
- top nominees are asked to submit up to 20 pages of their best written work (can be more than one piece)
- Judges should be whoever is teaching the senior seminar that year plus whoever taught the junior seminar the previous year. This means that there will be two faculty who have likely had the nominees in their classes.
- Eligible students are those graduating that spring or the following fall.
- The selection process is administered by the Undergraduate Coordinator.
- The award includes a financial component, which may be divided.