Victor Henry Knight IV

Results-driven professional with expertise in grant writing, research, writing, and project management. Proven ability to develop impactful proposals and collaborate effectively with stakeholders to meet funding needs and project goals.

• Kung Fu Student at Wah Lum Raleigh (2024-Present)
• UNC Religious Studies Peer Mentoring Group, Founder (2023-Present)
• Graduate Student Organizing Committee, Professional Development Chair (2023-Present)
• UNC GPSG Travel Awards Committee, Member (2023-2025)
• UNC Graduate and Professional Student Government, Senator (2023-2025)
• UNC Religious Studies Development and Outreach Committee (2023-2024)
• Summer Institute for College Teaching, Fellow (2022)
• UNC Religious Studies Graduate Teaching Committee, Member (2021-present)
• Cambridge-Yale Biblical Semantics Workshop (selected and scheduled for April, 2020, cancelled due to Covid-19)
• Epigraphic Workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2019)
• Archaeological Excavation at Jezreel, Participant (2018)

• UNC Religious Studies Wall Fellowship (2025-2026)
• Peck Award for Excellence in the Undergraduate Classroom (2025)
• CCJS Schneider Jewish Studies Research and Travel Grant (2025)
• CCJS Ruth von Bernuth Graduate Student Excellence Award (2025)
• UNC Religious Studies Miller Fund Travel Grant (2024)
• CCJS Jack O. Spies and Family Jewish Studies Summer Grant (2024)
• Professor Bernard Boyd Graduate Fellowship in Religious Studies (2022)
• Stephens Family Fund for Graduate Student Excellence in the Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences (2022)
• Yale Two Brothers Fellowship (2021)
• Theta Alpha Kappa Graduate Fellowship Award (2019)
• Campbell University Senior Award for Achievement in Biblical Studies (2018)
• Theta Alpha Kappa Honors Society (2017-present)
• Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society (2017-present)

• “The ‘Nature’ of YHWH: Cosmology, Iconography, and The Imagery of Nature.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Nature in the Bible Unit, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 22-25. (scheduled 2025)
• “Divine Transitions in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East: ‘National’ Gods, Colonization, and Syncretism.” American Academy of Religion-Southeast Regional Meeting, Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Session: “Space, Time, and Theology,” Miami, Florida, March 7-9. (2025)
• “The Divine Mechanics of Time and KTU 1.23: Figuring the Fourth Dimension.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Ugaritic Studies and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Unit, San Diego, California, November 25. (2024)
• “Beyond Typology: Multiplicity of and Plurality within Deity in the Ancient Near East.” UNC-KCL Conference on Ancient Religion and Modern Debates. London, March 13-15. (2024)

• "Moon and Star, Knights and Gods: Disney’s “Moon Knight” in the Context of Egyptian Religion." Delivered to the UNC Chapel Hill Undergraduate Religious Studies Club. Fall, 2025 (scheduled 2025).
• "Strange Stems: The History of the Hitpa‘‘el and Hishtaphel Stems in Biblical Hebrew." The Graduate Theological Union at Berkley. April 22. (2025)