Peters receives Jepson dissertation award

Toddie Peters, assistant professor of religious studies and Distinguished Emerging Scholar, received the award March 23 in Richmond, Va. Details...

Peters received the Jepson Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Leadership Studies from the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. The presentation was made during a colloquium on March 23-24.

Peters received a stipend for the juried award and gave a presentation about her research at the colloquium.

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies is the nation’s first undergraduate school of leadership studies with the mission to educate people for and about leadership. The school opened in 1988 and began offering master’s level courses in leadership in January.