Jonathan Madison

About Jonathan

Jonathan Madison is a fellow in the R Street Institute’s Governance program, where he researches electoral reforms to enhance the integrity and inclusivity of elections. He also teaches ancient and modern world history courses as a part-time professor at Brigham Young University.

From 2018 to 2023, Jonathan was a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, where he secured a PhD in global and imperial history. His doctoral research focused on the development of democracy since the end of WWII, and he has published multiple works analyzing 20th-century democracy in Brazil.

As a graduate student at George Washington University, Jonathan completed a research project on behalf of the Organization of American States that investigated violence against women across the Americas and the various solutions member states developed to prevent and punish gender-based violence.

Jonathan is currently working on turning his dissertation from the University of Oxford into a book. He was a Brazil Initiative Fellow at George Washington University from 2016 to 2018 and an Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center from 2019 to 2020.

In addition to his PhD, Jonathan holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and history from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in Latin American and hemispheric studies from George Washington University.

Find and subscribe to more of his work on Substack at Democracy’s Sisyphus.

He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife and two kids.