Past Recipients of the Pew Research Grant
| Year of Summer Research | Name | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Randall Bush | Christian Studies | “Good and Bad Difference…” |
| 1996 | David McClune | Music | “An Annotated Survey of Original Clarinet Concertos…” |
| 1996 | Bevalee Pray | Business | “Ethics, Morality, and Professionalism” |
| 1996 | John Harris | English | “The Electronic Mind…” |
| 1997 | David Gushee | Christian Studies | “The Moral Life in Christian Homiletics” |
| 1997 | Terry McRoberts | Music | “The Piano Works of Toru Takemitsu” |
| 1997 | David Thomas | History | “Frontier Religious Commitments: Religious Participation in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, 1830-1860” |
| 1998 | Bobby Rogers | English | “We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told: The Practice and Theory of the Long Poem” |
| 1998 | David Thomas | History | “To Seek, Suffer, and Trust: Ascetic Devotion in a Modern Church” |
| 1999 | Karen Mulder | Art | “The Heidelberg Heiliggeistkirche Controversy” |
| 1999 | Paul Munson | Music | “The Aesthetics of Liszt’s Late Music” |
| 2000 | Terry McRoberts | Music | “Messiaen’s Piano Music: A Journey of Birdsong and Faith” |
| 2000 | Terry Lindley | History | “Southern Baptist Response to the Vietnam War” |
| 2001 | Lee Benson | Art | “The Trinity as Proclaimed by Triptych Architecture and Altars” |
| 2001 | George Guthrie | Christian Studies | “Commentary on the Use of the Old Testament in Hebrews” |
| 2001 | Brad Green | Christian Studies | “God and Creation in the Thought of Colin Gunton” |
| 2001 | Matt Lunsford | Math | “The Ideas of Evariste Galois: Recovering Motivation in Abstract Algebra Through the Exploration of Original Sources” |
| 2002 | Wayne Wofford | Biology | “A Critical Examination of the Evidence for the Chemical Evolution of Life” |
| 2002 | Tony Chiareli | Sociology | “The Forging of Political Resource Communities” |
| 2002 | Kina Mallard | Communication Arts | |
| 2003 | Mark Dubis | Christian Studies | “New Creation: Exploration and Implications of a Biblical-Theological Motif” |
| 2003 | David Malone | English | “Versions of Love: Stories about Love, Loneliness, and Irony at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century” |
| 2004 | Troy Riggs | Math | “The Origins of Hypothesis Testing: Recovering Scientific Reasoning in Statistical Pedagogy” |
| 2004 | Gene Fant | English | “Reading Christianly or Christians Reading? In Search of a Unified Theory of Christian Literary Criticism” |
| 2004 | Mark Dubis | Christian Studies | “First Peter in Recent Research” |
| 2004 | Terry McRoberts | Music | “Années de Pèlerinage, Deuxième Année—Italie: An Informed Lecture Recital” |
| 2005 | Mark Dubis | Christian Studies | “A Semantic and Structural Analysis of 1 Peter 1:1-2:10” |
| 2005 | Hal Poe | Christian Studies | “The Problem of Love” |
| 2005 | David Gushee | Christian Studies | “The Sanctity of Life: An Evangelical Exploration” |
| 2005 | Gavin Richardson | English | “The Byzantine Anastasis: The Transfiguration of Romanitas” |
| 2006 | Theresa L. Blakley | Social Work | “The Anatomy of Trauma and Faith” |
| 2006 | J. Daryl Charles | Christian Studies | “Retrieving Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things” |
| 2006 | Kevin Cooney | Political Science | “How the Powerful Think: Foreign Policy Making in Democratic Japan” |
| 2006 | Matt Lunsford | Mathematics | “Substitution Groups and Remarkable Subgroups” |
| 2007 | Theresa Blakley | Social Work | “The Trauma of Faith” |
| 2007 | Karen Martin | Languages | “Challenging Borders: The Demarcation of Space and Place in Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits Trilogy” |
| 2007 | Darin White | Business | “Ethical Behavior and Christian Religiosity in Business Relationships: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective” |
| 2007 | George Guthrie | Christian Studies | "Letter and Spirit: Discourse Analysis of a Pauline Conundrum” |
| 2008 | Judy Leforge | History | “The 19th Century Civil Rights Movement: The Black Church and Biblically-Inspired Activism” |
| 2008 | Brad Green | Christian Studies | “Understanding and the Cross—The Life of the Mind in Light of Christ and the Cross” |
| 2008 | David Austill | Business | “In the Development of American Law Have Jurists and Legislatures Moved Away from Christian Traditions and Virtues? Maybe Not” |
| 2008 | Mark Dubis | Christian Studies | Baylor Handbook on the Greek Text of 1 Peter |
| 2009 | Haifei Li | Computer Science | A PHP-based Web Frontend for a Molecular Dynamic Computational Software Package |
| 2009 | Matt Lunsford | Mathematics | Mere Maths: A Look at the Role of Mathematics in the Apologetic Writings of C.S. Lewis |
| 2009 | John Netland | English | Theorizing Faith, Culture, and Identity in the Fiction of Shusaku Endo |
| 2009 | Micah Watson | Political Science | Evangelical Political Thought and the Bible |
| 2010 | Shawn Okpebholo | Music | Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess, an Opera |
| 2010 | Stephen Carls | History | Weaving Together a Textbook on Twentieth-Century Europe: Wars from 1914 to 1945 and Religion throughout the Century |
| 2010 | David Thomas | History | Modern Christian Understandings of History |
| 2010 | Mark Bolyard | Biology | Regeneration of African Mahogany from Leaf Cultures |
| 2011 | Brad Green | Theology & Missions | Covenant and Command: Works, Obedience, and Faithfulness in the New Covenant |
| 2011 | Judy LeForge | History | Converted, Sanctified, and Called to Preach: Nineteenth Century Black Women Preachers |
| 2012 | Justin Barnard | Theology & Missions | In the Teeth of the Evidence: C.S. Lewis's Religious Epistemology |
| 2012 | Jason Crawford | English | Allegory and the Secular: The Limits of Literary Modernity |
| 2012 | Daniel Slater | Business | CEO Christian Values and Corporate Social Performance |
| 2012 | Roman Williams | Sociology | God's Global Professionals: International Students, Evangelical Christianity, and the Power of a Calling |
| 2013 | Keith Bates | History | Mainstreaming Fundamentalism: John R. Rice and the Reengagement of American Culture |
| 2013 | Brad Green | Theology & Missions | Reformation Commentary on Scripture |
| 2013 | Ben Phillips | Education | Determining the Cognitive Strategies of High-Performing Test-Takers on a College Readiness Math Assessment |
| 2014 | Jason Crawford | English | Shakespeare's Secular Voices |
| 2014 | Jennifer Gruenke | Biology | Explaining the Brain: A Biological Argument Against Reduction of the Mind to the Brain |
| Spring 2016 | Karen Martin | Language | Not Valid for Spain, Not Equal in America: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War |
| Spring 2016 | Lunawati Bennett | Pharmacy | Synergistic Effect of Antioxidants and Antineoplastic for Treatment of Certain Cancers |
| Spring 2016 | Randall Bush | Theology & Missions | God, Morality, and Beauty: An Investigation into the Conflicts and Intersections between Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of Evil, and Trinitarian Doctorine |
| Fall 2016 | Jeremy Blaschke | Biology | Tapeworms in Eden: Exploring Christian Thought, Scientific Tradition, and Modern Phylogenetics on the Origin of Parasitism |
| Fall 2016 | Richard Addo | Pharmacy | Stability of Compounded Amlodipine Besylate Suspension (1Mg/mL) in Oral Mix and Oral Mix SF |
| Fall 2016 | Nita Mehr & Theresa Blakley | Social Work | Meaning Making after Sudden Violent Loss |
| Fall 2016 | Mary Anne Poe & Phillip Ryan | Social Work & Intercultural Studies | An Exploration of Campus Racial Climate at Union University |
| Fall 2016 | Georg Pingen | Engineering | Simulation and Design Optimization of Microfluidics Using Extended Hydrodynamics |
| Fall 2017 | Jason Crawford | English | Shakespearean Tragedy: A Geneological Poetics |
| Fall 2017 | Jan Wilms | Computer Science | Using Domain-specific Heuristics to Search for Optimal and "Interesting" Paths in a Genealogy Tree |
| Fall 2017 | Hal Poe | Theology & Missions | Young Jack Lewis: The Formation of C. S. Lewis, 1909-1917 |
| Fall 2018 | Blake Watkins | Pharmacy | The Development of a Rapid, Efficient, and Economical Means of Preparing Biologically Active Molecules as Drug Candidates |
| Fall 2018 | Phil Davignon | Sociology | The Culture of Death in Everyday Life: Exploring the Roots of Secularization |
| Fall 2018 | Jay Beavers | English | The Prophetic Imagination in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy |
| Fall 2019 | Jeremy Blaschke | Biology | Using Theology and Science to Explore the Origin and Diversification of Parasites |
| Fall 2019 | Aaron Hardin | Communication Arts | The 13th Spring |
| Fall 2019 | Emily Lean | Business | Helping Others Pull Up their Bootstraps: How the History of the Protestant Work Ethic has Informed Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Fall 2020 | Lunawati Bennett | Pharmacy | Effects of Vitamin C in Triple Negative Breast Cancer TNBC Cells |
| Fall 2020 | Jason Crawford | English | Sacred Comedy |
| Fall 2020 | William Thiefelder | Biology | Regulation of the Thyroid Hormone Activator Deiodinase-2 in Macrophages during Inflammation |
| Fall 2021 | James Kerfoot & Michael Schiebout | Biology | A Multilevel Approach to Investigate the Influence of Scale and Community Stability on Seagrass Management and Ecomorphology |
| Fall 2021 | Beth Madison | Adult & Professional Studies | Well-Grounded: Unearthing Joy in Eden's Rhythms |
| Fall 2021 | Betsy Caceres | Chemistry | Investigating the Role of a Salt Bridge in PRMT1 Dimerization and Enzymatic Activity |
| Fall 2022 | Beth Madison | Adult & Professional Studies | Nevertheless: Finding Hope in Suffering |
| Fall 2022 | Kelvin Moore | Theology & Missions | Two Novels in a Series: For the Love of Friends and A Painful Past |
| Fall 2022 | Mollie Carter | Psychology | Christ-Modeled Self-Compassion: An Intervention for Decreasing Anxiety and Increasing Academic Grit in Undergraduate Students |
| Fall 2023 | Esther Choi | Biology | Inhibitory mechanisms of Pseudomanas fluorescens Culture Supernatants on Biofilm Formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis 1457 |
| Fall 2023 | Mollie Carter | Psychology | From Train up a Child to Remain in Me: How perceived Parenting Styles, Faith Maturity, and Satisfaction Predict Social Media Self-Control |
| Fall 2024 | Jason Crawford | Languages, Literature, and Writing | Shakespeare's Tragic Faith |
| Fall 2024 | Christopher Jones | History | The Strange Upper Sea: Assyrian Views of the Mediterranean |
| Fall 2024 | Phil Davignon | Sociology | Being Transformed: A Study of Faith and Learning at Christian Liberal Arts Colleges |
| Fall 2025 | Mollie Carter-Neal | Psychology | Sanctifying Achievement Motivation: An Exploration of Parental Goals, Parental Expectations, and Emerging Adult Motivational Processes |
| Fall 2025 | Justin Wainscott | Theology & Missions | A Life of Alexander Maclaren: The Prince of Expositors |
| Fall 2025 | Betsy Caceres | Chemistry | Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 R353P Mutation Affects Dimerization in Colorectal Cancer |