The James Madison Program is seeking applications for post-doctoral fellowships and visiting faculty fellowships for the 24-25 academic year.

Each year the Program invites scholars with established records as well as scholars who have recently received their doctorates to apply for appointments as Visiting Fellows, Associate Research…

The Madison Program has a major announcement: our Executive Director Bradford Wilson, who for almost two decades has served our program with distinction, has announced his plans to retire.

While we will miss Brad dearly, we are excited to announce his successor, Shilo Brooks. Shilo has served admirably as our Assistant Director…

Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, offers some advice in National Review to "conservative and religiously observant students who are entering colleges and universities in which their beliefs will place them in the minority, and perhaps make them feel like …

In March of 2023, a group of scholars convened at Princeton University to establish a set of principles meant to revitalize free inquiry on campus. Read the Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry.

Annika Nordquist, Communications Coordinator at the James Madison Program and host of the program's official podcast, "Madison's Notes," has been honored as one of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Top 20 Under 30.

“The Top 20 Under 30 Alumni Award recognizes the incredible accomplishments of ISI alumni. Those…

The James Madison Program joins the University in mourning the death of Harry G. Frankfurt, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton, who died in California at age 94 on July 16, 2023. Robert P. George, Director of the Madison Program, paid tribute to Professor Frankfurt as “that rarest of things in academia or anywhere else: a…

The Supreme Court of the United States has handed down its decision in the cases of Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellow of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina. These cases concern a matter on which reasonable people of goodwill are not of one mind: For the sake of…

The James Madison Program is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Stephen Whelan '68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: Undergraduate Fellow Abigail Anthony, whose thesis was titled “The Republic of Drunkards: The Political Pathogenesis of Addiction and…

Our Director, Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, was recognized at the May meeting of the faculty of Princeton University for his more than three-and-a-half decades of service as Princeton’s official parliamentarian. It was also announced by Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett that Professor Frances Lee, a faculty associate of…

Undergraduate Fellow Abigail Anthony '23 has been awarded the John and Daria Barry Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford...

Biola University awarded our Director, Professor Robert P. George, the ninth annual Charles W. Colson Conviction and Courage Award...

Each year the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions hosts scholars with established records as well as scholars who have recently received their doctorates as Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Research Associates. Scholars in the James Madison Program pursue their own research and writing, participate in courses, seminars…

Professor Bernard Haykel, James Madison Program faculty associate and co-director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Freedom of Thought, Inquiry, and Expression, has been appointed to the Nelson Mandela Chair in…

Daniel Mahoney, 2020-21 Garwood Visiting Fellow, has been awarded the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2023…

Dates: July 16–21, 2023
Location: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Participants: 8th–12th grade teachers
Application Deadline: April 1, 2023

Supported by the Jack Miller Center

In…