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FALL 2018 UPDATE Yuval Levin, Editor of National Affairs and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and 12 Public Policy Center, delivered the Visiting and Postdoctoral Charles E. Test, MD Lectures on Why Fellows Institutions Matter in late April 2018. 40+ Scheduled Events 4 2018-19 Courses Taught by JMP Staff and Fellows 35 Summer Program Participants 180+ Undergraduate Fellows Contents Staff Updates 02 Update on 2017-18 Fellows 04 Update on the Class of 2018 06 Undergraduate Fellows Forum 10 2018-19 Visiting and Postdoctoral Fellows 12 Summer Programs 14 Executive Precepts and EdX Online 16 Upcoming Events 17 Administration Robert P. George Meet Dr. Franck, Associate Director (as of Sept. 1) Director Matthew J. Franck is the Associate Director of the Bradford P. Wilson James Madison Program in Executive Director American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in Politics at Matthew J. Franck Princeton University. He is Associate Director Repp/Fotobuddy Tori Photo: Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University, in Debra Parker Radford, Virginia, where he taught Program Manager constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy, Ch’nel Duke and was Chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1995 Program Administrator to 2010. He was a J. William Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Duanyi Wang Korea, 1998, and a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program Program Associate in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, 2008- 09. His responsibilities as Associate Director include mentoring the Evelyn Behling postdoctoral fellows in residence, providing educational programming Events Coordinator oversight for the Undergraduate Fellows Forum, and acting as the course facilitator for the new EdX online courses taught by Professor George. In the spring, he will be teaching a freshman seminar entitled, “Uncompromising Political Perfection: Plato, Huxley, and Our Future.” He earned his B.A. in political science from Virginia Wesleyan College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Northern Illinois University. 02 James Madison Program Fall 2018 Robert P. George Receives Heterodox Academy Leadership Award for Fostering Open Dialogue The Heterodox Academy (HxA) 2018 is the inaugural year for Professor Emeritus in the Center for is a politically diverse group of HxA’s Open Mind Awards. The African American Studies. George more than 1,800 professors and Leadership Award, which includes and West, both prominent public graduate students. It began as a $10,000 prize, is given to “the intellectuals, have co-taught courses a blog in late 2015 and became person or group that has most and given presentations together a membership organization effectively championed the from their viewpoints on opposite in response to requests from principles of viewpoint diversity, sides of the political spectrum— professors to join its mission to mutual understanding and George is a political and social support viewpoint diversity in the constructive disagreement in the conservative and West is an activist academy. academy and beyond.” Robert who addresses issues of race and George, the McCormick Professor class. of Jurisprudence and Director of Published on the Princeton University website the James Madison Program at (www.princeton.edu/news) on May 9, 2018. Princeton, received the Leadership Award along with Cornel West, the Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University, and Princeton’s Class of 1943 University Fall 2018 James Madison Program 03 Update on the 2017-18 Visiting Fellows Keegan Callanan, 2017-18 Visiting Fellow, was nominated by President Trump to Serve on the National Council on the Humanities on July 17, 2018. If confirmed by the Senate, he will serve a six- year term on the Council. Dr. Callanan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. He returned to Princeton in September 2018 to serve as a panelist on the Madison Program’s “Speak Freely: Lessons from Middlebury and Evergreen State” event. Photo: Sameer A.Photo: Khan/Fotobuddy Teaching at a law school, I am usually surrounded by only law professors. While that is not a bad thing, one gets used to thinking in a particular way that law shapes and requires. At the Madison Program, I have been a beneficiary of rich conversations and discussions on a wide variety of topics with all kinds of scholars. I have learned much from how they think, and it has broadened my curiosity and sharpened my thinking. Adeline Allen, 2017-18 Visiting Fellow 04 James Madison Program Fall 2018 Where Are They Now? 2017-18 Postdoctoral Fellows Bolek Kabala Matthew Slaboch Lecturer, Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University Denison University Deborah O’Malley Kevin Vance 2018-19 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Visiting Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Clemson University Assumption College Nathan Pinkoski Lecturer in Politics, Princeton University L to R: Matthew Slaboch, Deborah O’Malley, Nathan Pinkoski, Kevin Vance. Not pictured: Bolek Kabala It is fair to say that I was vastly more productive as a scholar, and publicly engaged, than in a typical semester. Princeton, the Madison Program fellowship, the “time away” from the usual distractions of my home institutions, and—unquestionably—the fresh stimulation of new and exciting colleagues and a community of scholars, young and old, all contributed to a great semester on this score as well. Michael Stokes Paulsen, 2017-18 Visiting Fellow and Visiting Professor of Politics Fall 2018 James Madison Program 05 Undergraduate Fellow Allison Berger ’18 Selected as a Winner of the Spirit of Princeton Award Undergraduate Fellow Allison Berger ’18 was selected as one of nine recipients of the 2018 Spirit of Princeton award. The prize is conferred to students who have made contributions to the University through “the arts, community service, students organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors.” Berger majored in economics with a certificate in political economy. She has served as the president of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, editor for The Princeton Tory, and founder of the University’s chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women, a group for conservative female undergraduates, among other activities. The 2018 Stephen Whelan ’68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought The Stephen Whelan ’68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought is an endowed University prize awarded by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. It is awarded to a senior whose thesis in the area of constitutional law or political thought is judged to be of superlative quality. This year, the amount of the prize for each recipient was $1,400. The recipients were Elly Brown ’18 for her thesis on “Politics in the Cave: Worldliness and Plurality in Plato, Augustine, and Arendt,” and Mikhael Smits ’18 for his thesis on “The Stranger is You: A Biblical Framework for a Common Way Forward in the American Migrant Membership Debate.” 06 James Madison Program Fall 2018 Honors, Awards, and Prizes Received by JMP Undergraduate Fellows of the Class of 2018 Departmental Honors summa cum laude (Highest Honors): Kevin Roy McElwee (Music) Frederick Phillips Brooks III (Chemistry) Eli Sheridan Schechner (Woodrow Wilson School) Elly Ann Brown (Politics) Todd Joseph Smith (Electrical Engineering) Jennifer El-Fakir (History) Elan Nesher Sykes (Woodrow Wilson School) Jonathan Grant Feld (History) Valerie Kathryn Wilson (History) Allison Margaret Halter (Politics) Elizabeth Maxey (East Asian Studies) Elected to Society Memberships Bharath Srivatsan (Computer Science) Phi Beta Kappa Society Eric Hu Wang (Woodrow Wilson School) Frederick Phillips Brooks III (Chemistry), magna cum laude (High Honors): Elly Ann Brown (Politics) Omid Langroudi Abrishamchian Thomas Hikaru Clark (Computer Science) (Operations Research and Financial Engineering) Jonathan Grant Feld (History) Allison Lee Berger (Economics) Allison Margaret Halter (Politics) Thomas Hikaru Clark (Computer Science) Gabriela Isabel Molina (Spanish And Portuguese) Alejandro Samuel de la Garza (English) Bharath Srivatsan (Computer Science) Zachary Nathan Flamholz (Molecular Biology) Society of Sigma Xi Theodore Raphael Furchtgott (History) Omid Langroudi Abrishamchian James A. Haynes (Classics) (Operations Research and Financial Engineering) Gabriela Isabel Molina (Spanish and Portuguese) Frederick Phillips Brooks III (Chemistry) Connor Russell Pfeiffer (History) Thomas Hikaru Clark (Computer Science) Tyler M. Simko (Politics) Zachary Nathan Flamholz (Molecular Biology) Mikhael Gérardus Smits (Politics) Charles Daniel Greenidge Noga Zaborowski (Philosophy) (Operations Research and Financial Engineering) cum laude (Honors): Kristin Qian (Music) Amy Naa Dedei Addo (English) Bharath Srivatsan (Computer Science) Paul Richard Draper (History) Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Society Brandon Lum-Lern Joa (Religion) Bharath Srivatsan (Computer Science) Carolyn Ellen Liziewski (Politics) Robert Roy Marshall (Philosophy) Peyton Randolph McElroy (History) Fall 2018 James Madison Program 07 Departmental Awards and Prizes Amy Naa Dedei Addo (English): Thomas H. Maren Sarah Ariyan Sakha (Woodrow Wilson School): Donald English Department Senior Thesis Prize Stokes ’51 Dean’s Prize Allison Lee Berger (Economics): Lynde Debate Prize- Todd Joseph Smith (Electrical