The Brian Horey 鈥82 Civic Freedom Award
An award and scholarship given annually to the students who make the greatest contribution to promoting the ideals of freedom and Western civilization.
2024 Award: Michael Hanratty
Michael Hanratty 鈥24 of Barkhamsted, Conn. is the 2024 recipient of the the Brian Horey 鈥82 Civic Freedom Award. Hanratty is the Class of 2024 Valedictorian, graduating Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, majoring in economics and political science and receiving high honors in political science. As a 2023 James Madison Fellow his research project was titled 鈥淭he Development of the Supreme Court鈥檚 Power of Judicial Review鈥 and Stanley Brubaker, professor of political science, was his faculty sponsor.
Past Winners
- Grant Morro 鈥20
- Victoria Rykaczewski 鈥20
- Tara Hildabrant 鈥19
- Will Laud 鈥19
- Lucas Cooper 鈥18
- Andrew Derrenbacker 鈥18
- Caitlin Gilligan 17
- Michael Hogg 鈥17
- M. Kevin Costello 鈥16
- Hannah Loiacono 鈥16
- Andrew Romeo 鈥16
- Emily Taft 鈥15
- David Poortinga 鈥14
- Santina Scarcella 鈥14
- Leigh V. Herzog 鈥13
- Taylor Hollen 鈥13
- Alan He 鈥12
- Alexandra Nieto 鈥12
- Kathleen Hicks 鈥11
- Medvis Jackson 鈥11
- John Lyon 鈥11
- Samuel R. Daly 鈥10
- Safwan B. Shabab 鈥10
- Olivia Offner 鈥09
- Daniel Fichtler 鈥08
- Jennifer Frey 鈥08
- Anne C. Ameno 鈥07
- Hyun Yoon 鈥07
- Jeffrey Galletly 鈥06
- Nicholas Brown 鈥06