First Place Winner of the 2008 Gallagher Award.

Becky Winn

Becky won the first place, a prize of $500. Her essay is "'Coming into Existence': The Intersection of the Historical and Eternal in Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments."  Becky analyzes Soren Kierkegaard’s most difficult text.  And she does so with sophistication and creativity.  Becky shows how, for Kierkegaard, the notion of existence is connected with the Christian notion of Incarnation, and how both notions speak of the Divine entering into the historical without collapsing the distinction between the Human and God.  Becky's essay has marvelous theoretical scope, great scholarly ambition, and a clear-minded complexly that make it the Gallagher First Place Award winner, by the unanimous decision of the Committee. 

Becky Winn has had a busy four years at IUB. She is a May graduate with a double major English and a B.S. in Biology. Working with Prof. Levene, she completed a Religious Studies honors thesis entitled “The Incarnation, History, and the Divided Subject; Exploring the Salience of the Incarnation in Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and Lectures on the Philosophy of History. She received a Hutton Honors College thesis research grant for Fall 2007, and a thesis award for Spring 2008. She recently received the Margaret Bank James Scholarship from the English department. Last year she completed an honors thesis inthe English department entitled, "By word formyd in my understonding: Language and its Reworking in the Shewings of Julian of Norwich." The essay won the thesis award from the English Department last year. She will be attending the University of Virginia for the M.A./Ph.D. program in Religious Studies in Fall 2008.