The prize honors the memory of Richard Katz, a promising young religion student who, along with his fiancée, died in an automobile accident the winter before his graduation in 1967. In his memory, his family established an award to be given to an outstanding graduating major in religion each year.
Katz Award Winners
2022: Luca Del Deo, Joanne Ha, Jieyu Liu
2021: Bridget Cohen, Jade Lau, Stephen Seo
2020: Lydia Beyer, Zoe Beard
2019: Dionis Mucollari, Sharon Sethna
2018: Hannah Needleman
2017: Kalina Fridrich, Koreena Geisler-Wagner
2016: Kristen Gast, Jaimie Dingus
2015: Talia Leonard, Andrea Say
2014: Abigail Clauhs, Rebecca Kreshak, Levi Mastrangelo
2013: Mallory Morales, Monsura Sirajee
2012: Benjamin Austin, Alec Nicholson
2011: Christine Anderson, Keith Esposito, Katherine French, Katherine Taylor
2010: Lianna Hamilton
2009: Allison Hartnett, Christopher Lee, Shari Rabin
2008: Erin Dickey, Allison Palm
2007: Anna Magazinnik, Maura Jacob, Timothy Gutmann
2006: Melissa Vise
2005: Kelilah Miller, Jessica Elliot, Jessica Mack
2004: Anastasia Piliavsky, Elizabeth Jeffers Taylor, Emily Sandusky, Elizabeth Churchill
2003: Rachel Kohl, Nathaniel Berndt, Abraham Friedman
2002: Jennifer Singletary, Larisa Dzwonczyk
2001: Elizabeth Davidson, David Sulewski, Atara Tatelman
2000: Marcello Illarmo, Reepa Kadakia, Brenda Levy and Susan Moon
1999: Cemile Kavountzis, Nili Schiffman, Shari Brown
1998: Shira Seri, Mona Bhatt, Sean McClung
1997: Robert St. Hilaire, Duy An (Grace) Tran
1996: Craig Nathan Clark, Kristen Kathleen Vagliardo
1995: Jennifer McPeak, Jay Rosenbaum, Sarah Shangraw
1994: Keith E. McNeill III
1993: Laura Zimmerman, Maria Monroe-Devita
1992: Diana Chyung, Shoshee Larkey, Francis Martinis, Stephen Rashbaum
1991: Gary Lombardo, Ruslana Zitserman
1989: Robert J. Locker, Cynthia Margulis
1988: Karen M. Silverblatt
1987: Andrew Lopatin, Lisa Berch
1986: Rebecca Irelan, Lisa Gayle Seideman, Byron Lam
1985: Paul Minor, Neil Schechter
1984: Ron Paul Lahti, Stuart R. Samuelson
1983: Kay Rabinowich, Charles Ryu
1981: Kathleen M. Sheehan, David M. Hollander
1979: Lisa Kaplan
1978: Robert Cameron
1977: Edith Siegel
1976: Susan J. Milamed
1975: Linda Mines Elliott
1974: Ronald E. Wheatley, Lucinda King
1973: Ira Korinow
1972: Joel Grishaver
1971: Mark Levin
1970: Edward A. Biggs
1969: Eric Blomberg
1968: Kenneth Klaristenfeld