
The James Madison Society is an international community of scholars whose research contributes significantly to civic education in institutions of higher learning. Members of the Society share the belief of James Madison that only a well-instructed people can be permanently free. They also share a commitment to instill within rising generations an appreciation of the common good and the moral foundations of democratic governance. The Society provides a forum through which scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in constitutional law, political thought, and related fields can engage in intensive discussions about their research and teaching.
Board of Consulting Scholars
- Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, Amherst College
- Director, James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding
- 2002-03 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Biolchini Family Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
- Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford
- Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University
- Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College, The University of Chicago
- Dean of the Faculty, Shalem College, Jerusalem, Israel
- Madden-Jewett Chair Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry
- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Johns Hopkins University
- Senior Research Professor, Valparaiso University
- J. Richard & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Toronto
- 2005-06 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Adjunct Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
- Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
- Former President, American Political Science Association
- Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Members of the James Madison Society
- Associate Professor and Chair of History, Ave Maria University
- Senior Affiliate for Legal Humanities, Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013-14 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
Shilo Brooks is Assistant Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics. He was previously Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado, where he was Faculty Director of the Engineering Leadership Program and Associate Faculty Director of…
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
- Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
- 2006-07 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Assistant Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Christendom College
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Austral University, Argentina
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Founding Director, Canterbury Institute
- Research Coordinator, Programme for the Foundations of Law, Oxford University
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
- 2009-10 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
- 2022-23 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Research Collaborator
- Associate Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
- Founding Director, Alexander Hamilton Forum, Middlebury College
- 2021-22 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Research Collaborator
- 2020-21 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Fellow
- 2017-18 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Director and Professor, School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
- 2012-13 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Fellow
- Associate Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College
- William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution
- 2020-21 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
- Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia
- Director, Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, University of Virginia
- Spring 2008 James Madison Program Garwood Senior Visiting Research Scholar
- Acton Institute Affiliated Scholar in Theology & Ethics
- Affiliated Scholar, John Jay Institute
- Contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy
- Contributing editor of Touchstone
- 2007-08 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Asness Fellow, Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets, University of Pennsylvania
- 2021-22 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Assistant Professor of History of Ideas and Sociology, University of Warsaw
- 2016-17 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
- Spring 2017 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- 2007-08 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University
- 2003-04 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Professor, Center of Ethics, Politics, and Society, University of Minho
- 2016-17 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & Public Service, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Associate Professor of Economics; Director of the Political Economy Program, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Professor of Political Science and Director of the Augustinian Scholars Program, Westmont College
- 2014-15 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
- Associate Director, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University
- 2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
- Spring 2012 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Fellow
- Director, Centre for the Study of Philosophy, Politics, and Religion (CSPPR), Cambridge, UK
- 2001-02 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Adjunct Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Professor of History, Ave Maria University
- 2002-03 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Cary Fields Professor of Law; Associate Director, Center for Law and Religion, St. John's University School of Law
- Spring 2019 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Chair, Department of History; Professor of American History, Samford University
- 2012-13 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
- Professor of Political Science, David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair, University of Notre Dame
- 2008-09 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow