Each year, our friends at the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles award the Excellence in Civic Education Award, honoring extraordinary teaching and student engagement at both the K-12 and collegiate level.

In 2022, the college civics award was awarded to two former postdoctoral fellows at the Madison…

We are excited to announce that two Madisonians have won major book awards this year.

Kevin J. Weddle, 2018-19 Garwood Visiting Professor with the Madison Program, has won the 2021 winner of the…

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), is one of the most consequential decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is also among the most controversial.

Roe had established, and Casey had confirmed, a constitutional…

Sergiu Klainerman, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and faculty associate of the James Madison Program, is a co-author of new…

Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is currently hiring a Fellowship and Events Coordinator! 

We are looking for a talented person to independently manage our busy events program. This position coordinates…

Congratulations to our Undergraduate Fellows of all classes who’ve been awarded general and departmental prizes this year, to those who’ve completed a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Engineering, and to those in receipt of additional honors and fellowships. We are so proud of you!

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The James Madison Program is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Initiative on Freedom of Thought, Inquiry, and Expression Paper Prizes: Abigail Anthony '23, whose paper is titled “Doublethink: The Fallacies of Linguistic Censorship in Orwell’s 1984" and Myles McKnight '23,…

The James Madison Program is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Stephen Whelan '68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: Alexandra M. Buzzini, whose thesis was titled “The Lost Liberal Ethic: Love and Toleration in the Political Thought of the New England Puritans." Buzzini's…

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…

Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is currently hiring for two positions: those of Communications Coordinator and Program Support Specialist. 

The…

The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is pleased to announce that Dr. Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, has been appointed as the 2022-23 Louise Lehrman Distinguished Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. As the…

We at the James Madison Program are very pleased to announce that Christian Potter '22, one of our many wonderful Undergraduate Fellows, has been named a co-winner of Princeton University's 2022 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize. Established in 1921, the Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior "who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship,…

Dear James Madison Program Undergraduate Fellows:

A happy Thanksgiving to you!

Although days of Thanksgiving in our country have been observed going all the way back to the presidency of George Washington, the national holiday we celebrate today was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863—in the very midst of the Civil War…

The James Madison Program mourns Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus, who died on September 18, 2021 after a lengthy illness. Professor Raboteau was a leading scholar in the field of African-American religious history, and a celebrated and beloved teacher. Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program,…

The James Madison Program is saddened to learn of the death of Donald Rumsfeld ’54—U.S. Naval officer, business leader, public servant. Mr. Rumsfeld, who twice served as U.S. Secretary of Defense, was an early and enthusiastic supporter of the Madison Program. He met personally with the Program’s Undergraduate Fellows and, together with his…