Named after distinguished American theologian Michael Novak, this $20,000 award rewards new outstanding scholarly research concerning the relationship between religion, economic freedom, and the free and virtuous society. This award recognizes those scholars early in their academic career who demonstrate outstanding intellectual merit in advancing the understanding of theology’s connection to human dignity, the importance of the rule of law, limited government, religious liberty, and freedom in economic life.

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Dr. Radich recently completed his Ph.D. in Markets and Morality at the Catholic University of America, where he serves as assistant professor of business ethics, marketing, and social thought at the Busch School of Business. He brings extensive business experience to his doctoral work. His research has been presented at Oxford and Cambridge University in the U.K., and at Harvard and Notre Dame in the United States. His dissertation, “Alasdair MacIntyre on the Role of the Economy in Fostering the Political Common Good,” examines the ethical, political, and economic dimensions of MacIntyre’s thought and offers a Thomistic response to Marxian critiques of capitalist culture. His current work explores the role of virtue and religion in entrepreneurship and human flourishing, both philosophically and empirically. He has served on the Ethics Committee of the American Marketing Association and holds appointments as a Scholar with the Institute for Human Ecology and through the Röpke-Wojtyła Fellowship.