Undergraduate Fellow Matthew Wilson '24 has been awarded the Stephen Whelan '68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought for his thesis: "In Defense of Faithful Reasons: Challenges to Contemporary Theories of Public Justification.”

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.

James Madison Program Director Robert P. George describes Matthew's thesis as "a brilliantly argued piece of scholarship... [which] engages John Rawls's ideas about justice and, particularly, public reason(s) critically but in a genuine spirit of dialectical partnership."

Congratulations, Matthew, on a job well-done!