Justin Hawkins

Justin R. Hawkins is a postdoctoral research scientist in bioethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he also acts a co-director of the Columbia Character Cooperative, an initiative dedicated to the moral formation of medical students and residents. He researches disability, virtue ethics, moral formation, and political philosophy. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2024. His dissertation, Crowned with Glory and Honor: The Virtue of Magnanimity and Its Discontents examines the moral significance of noble striving and rightly elevated self-regard as a civic and moral virtue. He also holds a BA in Government from Georgetown University and an MAR in Philosophical Theology from Yale Divinity School. He lectures and consults widely for organizations working at the intersection of religion and cultural life. His essays and reviews have appeared in Christianity Today, Comment, The Hedgehog Review, Plough, Reading Religion, and elsewhere.