James Madison Society

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

Hadley P. Arkes

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

John M. Finnis

Biolchini Family Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford

Mary Ann Glendon

Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University

Leon R. Kass

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

Harvey C. Mansfield

William R. Kenan, Jr. Research Professor of Government, Harvard University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Paul R. McHugh

University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University

Gilbert C. Meilaender

Senior Research Professor, Valparaiso University

David Novak

J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor Emeritus of Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, and Fellow of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
2005-06 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

Daniel N. Robinson ~ d. 2018

Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Adjunct Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University

James Q. Wilson ~ d. 2012

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

Keegan F. Callanan

Associate Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Founding Director, Alexander Hamilton Forum, Middlebury College
2024-25 Forbes Visiting Research Scholar
2021-24 Forbes Visiting Research Collaborator
2020-21 Forbes Visiting Fellow
2017-18 Visiting Fellow

Alexis Carré

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
2022-23 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate

Paul O. Carrese

Professor, School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership and Academic Advisory Council Member, The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History
2012-13 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Fellow

Adam M. Carrington

Archer Endowed Position in American History & Politics at Ashland University
2020-21 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow

James W. Ceaser

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

J. Daryl Charles

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

Kyu-Been Chun

Asness Fellow, Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets, University of Pennsylvania
2021-22 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate

Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska

Assistant Professor of History of Ideas and Sociology, University of Warsaw
2016-17 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

Eric R. Claeys '89

Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Spring 2017 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

Robert L. Clinton

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

Angelo M. Codevilla ~ d. 2021

Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University
2003-04 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

José A. Colen

Professor, Center of Ethics, Politics, and Society, University of Minho
2016-17 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

Kody W. Cooper

Associate Professor, Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
2014-15 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate

Shawn Phillip Cooper

Columnist & Assistant Editor, The European Conservative
2022-23 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian

Associate Professor of Economics; Director of the Political Economy Program, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

Jesse D. Covington

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

Aurelian Craiutu

Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
2014-15 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow

Flynn J. Cratty

Professor of the Practice and Director of Operations, School of Civic Life and Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Barry J. Cushman

John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Spring 2012 James Madison Program Forbes Visiting Fellow

Agata Czarnecka

Assistant Professor of Law, Nicolaus Copernicus University
2022-23 Visiting Fellow