Justin Hawkins

Justin Hawkins is a Postdoctoral researcher in bioethics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His research focuses on the significance of disability theory for clinical care, and the legal and philosophical issues surrounding Presidential Bioethics Commissions in the United States. He has a BA from Georgetown University, an MAR from Yale Divinity School, and 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, attempts to articulate an account of magnanimity which is historically informed without being nostalgic and which inspires human excellence without the cultivation of contempt, and that is a viable and attractive source of democratic agency.