Professor David Novak of the Department of the Study of Religion and the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Science has been awarded the 2019 James Q. Wilson Award for Distinguished Scholarship on the Nature of a Free Society from Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institution.
Awarded earlier this year, Novak — a scholar of Jewish theology, ethics, political theory and the philosophy of religion, who holds the J. Richard & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies — also delivered a keynote address entitled: “Natural Law: Theological and Philosophical Diversity” at the James Madison Program’s two-day annual conference and later sat on the conference’s “A Consideration of the Thought of David Novak” panel.
Watch Professor Novak’s award presentation and keynote address below: