Vincent Phillip Muñoz

1 VINCENT PHILLIP MUÑOZ Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science Concurrent Associate Professor of Law University of Notre Dame 2060 Nanovic Jenkins Halls Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-0489/[email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS • University of Notre Dame, 2009-present Tocqueville Associate Professor, Department of Political Science (with tenure, 2011) Concurrent Associate Professor of Law, School of Law Founding Director, Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies (2011-present) Director, Tocqueville Program for Inquiry Into Religion and Public Life (2011-present) • Princeton University, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion & Public Life, 2008-2009 • Tufts University, Assistant Professor, 2005-2009 • Seattle University School of Law, Faculty Affiliate, 2008 • North Carolina State University, Assistant Professor, 2001-2005 • Claremont McKenna College, Visiting Assistant Professor—D.C. Program, 2003-2004 • Pomona College, Lecturer in Politics and Critical Inquiry, 1998-2001 • California State University, San Bernardino, Visiting Instructor, 1996-1998 EDUCATION • Claremont Graduate School, Ph.D. Political Science, 2001 Major Fields: American Politics and Political Philosophy Dissertation: Religious Liberty and American Constitutionalism: John Locke, the American Founders, and the Free Exercise Clause • Boston College, MA. Political Science, 1995 Concentrations: American Politics and Political Philosophy Degree awarded with honors • Claremont McKenna College, BA. Economics and Government, Magna Cum Laude, 1993 Honors thesis: Aquinas’ Theory of Natural Law RESEARCH AREAS TEACHING FIELDS Church-State Jurisprudence American Political Thought The American Founding Ancient/Christian/Modern Political Thought Early Modern Political Thought Constitutional Law/Jurisprudence Natural Rights/Social Compact Theory American Presidency/Executive Power June 2018 2 ACADEMIC AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS RECEIVED • Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Notre Dame, 2016 • Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts: 2016 ($2,000), 2013 ($5,000), 2010 ($2,500) • Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, 2014 Sabbatical Grant (awarded but not accepted) • Earhart Foundation, 2014 ($35,000) • James Madison Fellowship, Princeton University, 2008 ($47,000) • Civitas Fellowship, The Pew Charitable Trust, 2003-2004 ($16,000) • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Fellow, 2003 ($3,600) • Summer Faculty Research Grant – North Carolina State University, 2002 ($5,000) • Civitas Fellow, The Center for Public Justice, 2001 ($3,000) • Claremont Graduate University Dissertation Grant, 2000-2001 ($5,000) • Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, 1999-2001 ($6,000) • Salvatori Fellowship for the study of the American Founding, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000 ($10,000) • Bradley Fellowship, 1997-1999 ($27,000 + tuition) • Summer Research Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 1998 ($3,000) • Earhart Fellowship, 1995-1997 ($24,000 + tuition) • John M. Olin Fellowship, 1996 ($3,000) • Bradley Fellowship, 1993-1995 ($10,000 + tuition) FOUNDATION GRANTS SECURED • M&T Foundation, 2017 ($3,000,000 pledge) • M&T Foundation, 2016 ($50,000) • Jack Miller Center Constitution Day Grants, 2011-2015 ($8,000) • Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, 2017, 2013, 2012, 2011 ($139,650) • Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, 2013 ($5,000) • Provost’s Grant for Constitution Day Programming, 2013-2015 ($4,500) • Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles, 2007 ($10,000) GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY • Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights Hearing on “Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square,” 8 June 2004 WORK IN PROGRESS • Book: Religious Freedom & The American Founding: The Natural Right of Religious Liberty and the Original Meanings of the Religion Clauses. Anticipated completion: 2019 June 2018 3 BOOKS • God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson Cambridge University Press, 2009. Recipient of the Hubert Morken Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in religion and politics in 2009-2010 • Religious Liberty and The American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases & Documents Edited First Amendment church-state casebook designed for classroom and reference use. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. Revised edition, 2015. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES, LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS • “Two Concepts of Religious Liberty: The Natural Rights and Moral Autonomy Approaches to the Free Exercise of Religion,” American Political Science Review 110, no. 2 (2016), pp. 369-81 • “If Religious Liberty Does Not Mean Exemptions, What Might It Mean? The Founders’ Constitutionalism of the Inalienable Rights of Religious Liberty,” Notre Dame Law Review 91, no. 4 (2016), pp. 1387-1417 • “How the Founders Agreed about Religious Freedom but Disagreed about the Separation of Church and State,” with Kevin Vance, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S., ed. Barbara McGraw (Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2016), pp. 85-97 • “Church & State in the Founding-era States” American Political Thought 4 (2015), pp. 1-38 • “The Founding Fathers’ Competing Visions for the Proper Separation of Church and State” In Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges, ed. Allen D. Hertzke (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), pp. 53-68 (adapted from previously published material) • “Introduction,” in Religious Liberty and The American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases & Documents, ed. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Litttlefield, 2013), pp. 1-12 • “The Founding Fathers’ Disagreements about Church and State,” in Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God, eds. Gish and Klinghard (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. 169-82 (adapted from previously published material) • “The Original Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause: The Evidence From the First Congress” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31, no. 3 (2008), pp. 1083-1120 • “The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause and the Impossibility of its Incorporation” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 8, no. 4 (2006), pp. 585-639 • “Thou Shall Not Post the Ten Commandments? McCreary, Van Orden, and the Future of Religious Display Jurisprudence,” Texas Review of Law and Politics 10, no. 2 (2006), pp. 357-400 • “James Madison’s Principle of Religious Liberty” American Political Science Review 97, no. 1 (2003), pp. 17-32 • “George Washington and Religious Liberty” The Review of Politics 65, no. 1 (2003), pp. 11-33 NON-REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS • “Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy of Religious Freedom: The Political Philosophy of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,” in The Crisis of Religious Liberty: Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought, ed. Stephen Krason (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Litttlefield, 2015), pp. 49-66 (revised version of my Jefferson chapter in God and the Founders) June 2018 4 • “The Place of Religion Among the American Founders,” in A Second Look at First Things, eds. Beckwith, George, and McWilliams (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2013), pp. 190-205 (adapted from previously published material) • “Religion in the Life, Political Thought, and Presidency of James Madison,” in Religion and the Presidency, ed. Mark Rozell (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2007), pp. 51-72 • “Current Separation of Church and State Doctrine: Suppressing Public Displays of Faith,” in You Decide! 2006: Current Debates in American Politics, ed. John T. Rourke. (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005), pp. 53-54 • “Religion and the Common Good: George Washington on Church and State,” in The Founders on God and Government, eds. Dreisbach, Hall, and Morrison (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) pp. 1-22 (revised version of “George Washington and Religious Liberty,” originally published in The Review of Politics) REVIEWS & ESSAYS • “Defending American Classical Liberalism,” National Review Online, June 11, 2018 • “A Bad Aftertaste in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision,” AmericanGreatness.com, June 9, 2018 • “Natural Rights, God, and Marriage in the American Founding,” Public Discourse, May 23, 2018 • “Free Exercise Exemptionism and the Evaporation of the Inalienable Character of Religious Liberty,” Journal of Law and Religion 32 (2017): 512-14 • “How is Equality Baked into Our Constitution,” AmericanGreatness.com, December 5, 2017 • “Why I Invited Charles Murray to Speak at Notre Dame,” RealClearPolitics.com, March 22, 2017 • “The Founders in Full,” Claremont Review of Books, XVII, no. 4, Fall 2017 Review of The Political Theory of the American Founding by Thomas G. West • “The Founders and the Natural Right of Religious Free Exercise: A Response,” Law and Religion Forum lawandreligionforum.org (St. John’s University Law School Center for Law & Religion), January 24, 2017 • Review of Rediscovering America: Liberty, Democracy, and the Crisis of America by John Agresto, Review of Politics 79 (2017) • “Justice Scalia was Right about Religious Free Exercise,” Law and Religion Forum lawandreligionforum.org (St. John’s University Law School Center for Law & Religion), September 6, 2016 • “A More Accommodating Accommodation? Justice Kennedy’s Invitation to Compromise” Commonweal.com, July 16, 2014 • “Justice Sotomayor Misses the Mark: Religious Non-Profits Should Prevail”

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