Dr. Jonathan Madison is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches US and World History general education courses here at BYU. He has a Ph.D. in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford, and he specializes in the study of democracy and 20th and 21st-century history. Dr. Madison also has a political science-focused master’s degree in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from the George Washington University where he completed a thesis on secondary education policy in Brazil and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Utah. He also completed the Adam Smith and Visiting Dissertation Fellowships in economics at the Mercatus Center. Previously, he also worked as a freelance researcher for the Organization of American States investigating violence against women in the Americas. Dr. Madison is currently preparing his dissertation, The Fourth Republic and the Practicing of Democracy in Brazil, for publication. He also has a series of completed academic and journalistic publications. This includes an article on American Studies in the French journal IdeAs, Idées d’Amériques, and an article on the 1946 Brazilian Constitution in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Journalistically, he has published articles on democracy in both English and Portuguese news outlets including Estadão, one of Brazil's most widely-read newspapers. Additionally, he maintains a politics newsletter, Democracy’s Sisyphus, that deals with democracy in the US, Brazil, and around the world.
