Shilo Brooks, Executive Director of the James Madison Program, has been selected to receive the 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, one of the highest teaching awards at Princeton University.

In 2004, Princeton University's chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society established a tradition of honoring two members of the faculty by awarding them the Phi Beta Kappa prize for excellence in teaching. The recipients of the 2025 prize were selected by the 29 members of the graduating class elected to Phi Beta Kappa last September. The fall inductees were charged with defining excellence in undergraduate teaching and then selecting those professors they believe exemplify those qualities.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society was founded in 1776 and is the oldest of all national honorary scholastic societies. Election to the Princeton chapter is based on scholastic standing and is open to candidates for the A.B. and B.S.E. degrees in their senior year. The chapter generally includes in its membership the highest-ranking tenth of each graduating class. A small group is elected in the fall of the senior year based on their academic record in the first three years; a larger group is elected at the end of the senior year and is inducted at a ceremony on Class Day.

Brooks will receive the award on Class Day during the Spring 2025 Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony.