The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is pleased to participate in and contribute to the academic life at Princeton University through its support of course offerings. The Program provides full funding support for courses that are of interest both to students in the Department of Politics and to students in other departments such as religion, philosophy, history, and the School of Public and International Affairs. Offered regularly is a course on American Statesmanship funded by the William Garwood family.
Current Course Offerings
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Fall 2024 Course Offerings
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POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program [Dist. Area: SA]This course is a study of the structure of the American constitutional system and of the meaning of key constitutional provisions. Students will critically evaluate competing theories of, and approaches to, constitutional interpretation.
POL 491 / CLA 491 / HUM 490 The Politics of Higher Education: Competing Visions of the University
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; John Londregan [Dist. Area: SA]This course will examine the history, contemporary reality, and likely future of higher education, especially in the United States but also abroad. We will consider the changing and often conflicting ideals and aspirations of parents, students, instructors, and administrators from classical Rome to Christian institutions in the European Middle Ages to American athletic powerhouses today, seeking answers to fundamental practical, economic, and political questions that provoke vigorous contemporary debate.
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Spring 2024 Course Offerings
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POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Executive Director of the James Madison Program and Lecturer in PoliticsPOL 316 Civil Liberties
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison ProgramPOL 563 / PHI 526 Philosophy of Law
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison ProgramFRS 130 Contours of American Thought
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
Past Course Offerings
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Fall 2023 Course Offerings
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POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and InstitutionsPOL 331 / HUM 305 Abraham Lincoln Politics: Concepts, Conflict, and Context
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director, Initiative on Politics and StatesmanshipFRS 183 The Collapse of Civilization
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program and Lecturer in Politics
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Spring 2023 Course Offerings
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POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of PoliticsPOL 493 The Philosophy of Law in America
Instructor: R.J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs, The Witherspoon InstitutePOL 494 Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Inquiry
Instructor: Marc DeGirolami, Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics; Cary Fields Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's UniversityFRS 130 Contours of American Thought
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and StatesmanshipFRS 184 Virtues and the Meaning of Life in Different Cultures
Instructor: Ronen Shoval, 2022-23 Associate Research Scholar; Ph.D. in Jewish Political Thought, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
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Fall 2022 Course Offerings
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FRS 103 Contemporary Natural Law Theory
Instructor: Thomas Howes, 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Philosophy, Catholic University of AmericaFRS 105 American Identity at a Crossroads?
Instructor: Nasser Hussain, 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Politics; Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Columbia UniversityPOL 488 / HUM 488 / AMS 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
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Spring 2022 Course Offerings
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FRS 146 Central Dilemmas of Israeli Politics
Instructor: Benjamin Schvarcz, 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Political Science, Hebrew University of JerusalemPOL 491 / CLA 491 / HUM 490 Politics of Higher Education: Competing Visions of the University
Instructors: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities
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Fall 2021 Course Offerings
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FRS 105 American Identity at a Crossroads?
Instructor: Nasser Hussain, 2021-22 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Columbia UniversityPOL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program; McCormick Professor of JurisprudencePOL 332 / HUM 339 Topics in American Statesmanship: Abraham Lincoln's Politics: Concepts, Conflict and Context
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities
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Spring 2021 Course Offerings
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FRS 128 The Most Sacred of All Property: The Philosophical Case for Protecting Religious Liberty
Instructor: Thomas D. Howes, 2020-2021 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: Woodrow Wilson: Progressive, Villain?
Instructor: Matthew J. Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in PoliticsHUM 363 / AMS 364 Writing Lincoln: Biography, Film, Literature
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities
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Fall 2020 Course Offerings
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POL 488 / HUM 488 / AMS 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities
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Spring 2020 Course Offerings
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HIS 471 / HUM 471 / AMS 471 Abraham Lincoln and America, 1809-1865
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities
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Fall 2019 Course Offerings
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POL 320 Judicial Politics
Instructor: John Kastellec, Associate Professor of PoliticsPOL 325 The Presidency and Executive Power
Instructor: Lauren A. Wright, Associate Research Scholar in Politics and Public AffairsPOL 326 Constitutional Difficulties in the Age of Trump
Instructor: Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of PoliticsPOL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship -- The Early American Republic: Judicial Career of John Marshall
Instructor: Matthew Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics
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Spring 2019 Course Offerings
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FRS 114 Uncompromising Political Perfection: Plato, Huxley, and Our Future EM
Matthew Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in PoliticsFRS 172 Alexander Hamilton: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of an American Original HA
Bradford Wilson, Executive Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics; Faculty Fellow, Butler CollegePOL 332 American Statesmanship -- The General as Statesman: Allied Leadership and Operation OVERLORD HA
Kevin J. Weddle *03, 2018-19 Spring Garwood Teaching Fellow; Professor of Military Theory and Strategy, US Army War College
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Spring 2018 Course Offerings
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FRS 110 War, National Security, and the Constitution SA
Michael Stokes Paulsen, Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas; Spring 2018 Visiting Professor in Politics and James Madison Program Visiting FellowFRS 172 Alexander Hamilton: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of an American Original HA
Bradford Wilson, Executive Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics; Faculty Fellow, Butler CollegePOL 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution HA
Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professorof the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College; 2017-18 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow
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Fall 2017 Course Offerings
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*POL 332 (HA): Topics in American Statesmanship - Abraham Lincoln
Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College; 2017-18 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow
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Spring 2017 Course Offerings
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FRS 164: The Idea and the Reality of Justice
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow
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Fall 2016 Course Offerings
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POL 332: Topics in American Statesmanship - The Successful President
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting FellowFRS 195: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. EM
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus; Senior Scholar, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions