D.G. Hart is the Study Group Chair for the Center for the Study of America and the West. He is a visiting professor of history at Hillsdale College. He earned his Ph.D. in History from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and has written extensively on religion and politics in the United States. He is the author of The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State (Ivan R. Dee, 2006); From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelical Protestants and the Betrayal of American Conservatism (Eerdmans 2011); and Calvinism: A Global History (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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