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.
Spring 2023 Course Offerings
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 Politics
POL 493 The Philosophy of Law in America
Instructor: R.J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs, The Witherspoon Institute
POL 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 University
FRS 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 Statesmanship
FRS 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 2019 Course Offerings
POL 320 Judicial Politics
Instructor: John Kastellec, Associate Professor of Politics
POL 325 The Presidency and Executive Power
Instructor: Lauren A. Wright, Associate Research Scholar in Politics and Public Affairs
POL 326 Constitutional Difficulties in the Age of Trump
Instructor: Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics
POL 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
Spring 2019 Course Offerings
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 Politics
FRS 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 College
POL 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
Spring 2018 Course Offerings
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 Fellow
FRS 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 College
POL 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
Fall 2017 Course Offerings
*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
Spring 2017 Course Offerings
FRS 164: The Idea and the Reality of Justice
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow
Fall 2016 Course Offerings
POL 332: Topics in American Statesmanship - The Successful President
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow
FRS 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