Professor Margaret Moore has been selected as a 2019 recipient of the Queen’s University Excellence in Research Prize, the highest form of research excellence recognition at Queen’s.

This prize highlights research undertaken by the recipient during their time at Queen’s. It is awarded to outstanding Queen’s researchers and celebrates major research contributions either completed or recognized in recent years. There are only five prizes awarded each year, one for each major area of study: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, and Engineering. As part of the prize, recipients are required to deliver a public lecture on their research, which will be coordinated by the Office of the Vice-Principal (Research) within six months of the announcement of the prize.

Margaret (appointed in Political Studies, as well as Philosophy) is the director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity. Her research focuses on justice, nationalism, and the territorial rights of peoples and states. She is the author of A Political Theory of Territory, which won the Canadian Philosophical Association’s biannual book prize for 2017, and the forthcoming Who Should Own Natural Resources?