{"id":1350,"date":"2023-05-30T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religion\/?page_id=1350"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:39:39","slug":"1350-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/1350-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Outstanding Thesis Award in Religious Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-675x900.webp\" alt=\"Jack Cantor and Frances White each won an Outstanding Thesis Award in Religious Studies. Jack\u2019s Honors Thesis, advised by Dr. Melnick Dyer is titled: &quot;Of Pawos and Bodhisattvas: The Poltico-Religious Language of Tibetan Self-Immolation&quot;. Frances\u2019s Thesis, advised by Dr. Baker is titled: &quot;Women with Chutzpah: Comedy as a Subversive Tool of Jewish Female Comedians: An Analysis of the Humor of Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, Gilda Radner, Ilana Glazer and Tiffany Haddish&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-1320 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-675x900.webp 675w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-150x200.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908-471x628.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/IMG-9238-e1685459326908.webp 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Cantor and Frances White each won an Outstanding Thesis Award in Religious Studies. Jack\u2019s Honors Thesis, advised by Dr. Melnick Dyer is titled: \u201cOf Pawos and Bodhisattvas: The Poltico-Religious Language of Tibetan Self-Immolation.\u201d Frances\u2019s Thesis, advised by Dr. Baker is titled: \u201cWomen with Chutzpah: Comedy as a Subversive Tool of Jewish Female Comedians: An Analysis of the Humor of Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, Gilda Radner, Ilana Glazer and Tiffany Haddish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Cantor and Frances White each won an Outstanding Thesis Award in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}