Glenn A. Moots Professor, Political Science and Philosophy Director, Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise Northwood University; Midland, Michigan (989) 837-4255 (w) [email protected]; [email protected]

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Ph.D. Political Science (Political Theory) Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

M.A. Philosophy Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

M.S. Financial Economics Walsh College Troy, Michigan

M.A. Political Science Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

B.A. Political Science/Asian Studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Liberal Arts Education/ Officer Training United States Military Academy West Point, New York

Aspen Institute Seminar Aspen Institute (Aspen Institute Executive Seminar) Aspen, Colorado

EMPLOYMENT

2010- Professor, Northwood University (Sabbatical 2013-2014) 2013-2014 Princeton University Department of William E. Simon Visiting Fellow, Program 2003-2010 Associate Professor, Northwood University 1998-2003 Assistant Professor, Northwood University (Sabbatical 2000-2001) 1995-1998 Instructor, Northwood University 1993-1995 Adjunct Instructor (), Northwood University Financial Paraplanner, Unique Perqs, Farmington Hills, Michigan

PUBLICATIONS AND CURRENT RESEARCH

Books Sanctifying : Early America’s Protestant Constitutionalism (Proposal under contract with Oxford University Press)

Justifying : Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence (co-edited) (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018)

Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology (University of Missouri Press, 2010)

Essays in Edited Collections

“Free Exercise and Establishment in Colonial America” (in The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty, Cambridge University Press, 2020)

“John Cotton and Roger Williams” (in Great Christian Jurists in American History, Cambridge University Press, 2019)

“Just Revolution: Protestant Precedents for Resistance and Rebellion” (co-authored with Valerie Morkevicius) (in Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence, Oklahoma, 2018)

“Introduction” (co-authored with Philip Hamilton) (in Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence, Oklahoma, 2018)

“Searching for Christian America” For Law and For Liberty: Essays on the Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought W. Bradford Littlejohn, editor (The Davenant Press, 2016)

“A ‘Half-Revolution’ or a Revolution Finally Completed? Protestant Theology’s Revolutionary Fulfillment in the American Revolution” in Finished and Unfinished: From “Primal” to “Final” Wayne Cristaudo, Glenn Hughes, and Paul Caringella, editors. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012)

“The Covenant of : The Pioneering Studies of Daniel J. Elazar” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism Ann Ward and Lee Ward, editors. (Ashgate Publishing, 2009)

Journal Articles (* denotes refereed journal)

“Samuel Cooper's Old Sermons and New Enemies: Popery and Protestant Constitutionalism” American Political Thought* Volume 5, Number 3 (Summer 2016)

Guest Editor’s Introduction to Symposium: Was the American War for Independence a Just War? Journal of Military * Volume 15, Issue 1, 2015

"The Protestant Roots of American Civil Religion" Humanitas. Volume XXIII, Nos. 1&2 (2010)

“Locke and the Ancients: From Athens to Galilee” Locke Studies* Vol. 10 (2010)

“Salus populi suprema lex: Versus Contemporary Democratic Theory” (co-authored) Perspectives on Political Science* Volume 39, Number 1(January–March 2010)

“The Complications and Contributions of Early American Hebraism: A Response to Sheila Wolosky and Andrew Murphy” (Symposium on American Hebraism) Hebraic Political Studies* Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2009)

“One Protestant Tradition’s Interface with ” (co-authored) The Journal of Markets and Morality* Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2006)

Encyclopedia Entries

“Puritanism” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)

“Puritanism” in American : An Encyclopedia (ISI Books, 2006)

Reviews/Review Essays/Occasional Essays

Forthcoming God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution by Gregg L. Frazer (Kansas) American Political Thought

American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present Hardcover by Philip Gorski (Princeton) Religious Studies Review

Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England: Politics, Religion, and News Culture by Gary Schneider (Routledge) Readingreligion.org (American Academy of Religion)

Published

“Faith and our Future: Lessons from C.S. Lewis in Time of Pandemic” Public Discourse (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/) Published April 8, 2020

“COVID-19, Circumstance, and Groundhog Day” Law & Liberty (http://lawliberty.org) Published March 30, 2020

Politica by Johannes Althusius (Liberty Fund) Law & Liberty (http://lawliberty.org) Published February 26, 2020 Featured at Real Clear Religion (realclearreligion.org)

To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe by Matthew Lockwood (Yale) Choice June 2020 (Vol. 57, Issue 10)

Law, love and freedom: from the sacred to the secular by Joshua Neoh (Cambridge) Choice February 2020 (Volume 57, Issue 6)

The Richard Baxter Treatises: A Catalogue and Guide. By Alan Argent (Boydell & Brewer) and Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers by David Sytsma. (Oxford) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 88 No 4 (December, 2019)

The Eucharistic Debate in Tudor England by Amanda Wrenn Allen (Lexington) and Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584 by Ceri Law (Boydell & Brewer) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 88 No 4 (December, 2019)

Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael Winship (Yale) Journal of Religious History Vol 43, No. 4 (December, 2019)

Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America by David Hollinger (Princeton) Law & Liberty (http://lawliberty.org) (October 14, 2019) Featured at Real Clear Religion (realclearreligion.org)

The Psychology of Inequality: Rousseau's Amour-Propre by Michael Locke McLendon (Penn) Choice Sept 2019 (Volume 57, Issue 1)

“Ferris Bueller’s Vacation Vocation” Public Discourse (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/) Published August 6, 2019 Republished as a “Greatest Hit” at Intellectual Takeout (intellectualtakeout.org) August 15, 2019 Featured in Powerblog (https://blog.acton.org/) August 12, 2019

Not But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution (Expanded Edition) by Stephen Baskerville (Pickwick/Wipf & Stock) Readingreligion.org (American Academy of Religion) Published July 15, 2019

Jonathan Edwards & Scripture: Biblical Exegesis in British North America. Ed. by David Barshiner and Douglas Sweeny (Oxford) Religious Studies Review Volume 45, Issue 2 (July, 2019)

Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America by Spencer W. McBride (Virginia); Conservative Revolutionaries: Transformation and Tradition in the Religious and Political Thought of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew by John S. Oakes (Pickwick); Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution by J. Patrick Mullins (Kansas); Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758-1801 by William Harrison Taylor (Alabama) Public Discourse (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/) Published June 19, 2019

The Dialectical self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject by Jamie Aroosi (Penn) Choice July 2019 (Volume 56, Issue 11)

John Wolman and the of Christ: A Colonial Quaker’s Vision for the British Atlantic World by Jon R. Kershner (Oxford) Religious Studies Review Vol. 45, Issue 1 (June, 2019)

Broken Idols of the English Reformation by Margaret Aston (Cambridge); Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge by H.C. Porter (Cambridge) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 88 No 1 (March, 2019)

The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony (Basic Books) The University Bookman (http://www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/) Feb 17, 2019

Locke and Cartesian philosophy, ed. by Philippe Hamou and Martine Pécharman. (Oxford) Choice April 2019 (Volume 56, Issue 8)

The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol. I: Reformation and Identity, c. 1520-1662 ed. by Anthony Milton (Oxford) Readingreligion.org (American Academy of Religion) Published January 16, 2019

Montesquieu’s & The Problem of Universal Politics by Keegan Callanan (Cambridge) Choice January 2019 (Volume 56, Issue 5)

Loyal Protestants & Dangerous Papists: Maryland and the Politics of Religion in the English Atlantic 1630-1690 by Antoinette Sutto (Virginia, 2015); Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction (Revised Ed.) by John Fea (Westminster John Knox, 2016); The Most Sacred Freedom: Religious Liberty in the History of Philosophy and America’s Founding Edited by Will R. Jordan and Charlotte C.S. Thomas (Mercer, 2016); Puritanism and Natural Theology by Wallace W. Marshall (Pickwick, 2016); The Founders and the Bible by Carl J. Richard (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present edited by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 87 No 4 (December, 2018)

Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary, A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments: Volume 9: Romans – Philemon by Cotton Mather; Robert E. Brown (ed). (Mohr Siebeck) Readingreligion.org (American Academy of Religion) Published September 19, 2018

The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology by W. Bradford Littlejohn (Eerdmans) Journal of Church and State Volume 60, Issue 4 (Autumn, 2018)

The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775 by John Howard Smith (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015) Religious Studies Review 44:3 (September, 2018)

“America’s First Chaplain and the Humility that Unites Us” The Hill (thehill.com) Sept 5, 2018

Toward "Natural Right and History" Lectures and Essays by , 1937–1946 ed. by J.A. Colen and Svetozar Minkov (Chicago) Choice August 2018 (Volume 55, Issue 12)

The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government by Steve Pincus (Yale, 2016) The University Bookman (http://www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/) (Published May 4, 2018)

When Religious and Secular Interests Collide: Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate by Scott A. Merriman (Praeger, 2017) Choice February 2018 (Volume 55, Issue 6)

John Owen and English Puritanism by Crawford Gribben (Oxford, 2016); Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World edited by Alex Ryrie and Tom Schwanda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England by Abram C. Van Engen (Oxford, 2015); William Perkins & the Making of a Protestant England by WB Patterson (Oxford, 2014); Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic by Heather Miyano Kopelson (NYU Press, 2014) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 87 No 1 (March 2018)

Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach (Oxford, 2017) and Faith and the Founders of the American Republic edited by Dreisbach and Mark David Hall (Oxford, 2014) Political Science Reviewer Vol. 41, Issue 2 (December, 2017)

Promise and Peril: Republics and in the History of ed. by Will R. Jordan Choice December 2017 (Volume 55, Issue 4)

Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden (Princeton, 2017) Public Discourse (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/) (Published November 17, 2017)

Theodore Beza: The Man and the Myth by Shawn D. Wright. (Christian Focus Publications, 2015); Morality After Calvin. 's Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics by Kirk M. Summer (Oxford, 2017); A Clear and Simple Treatise on the Lord’s Supper In Which the Published Slanders of Joachim Westphal Are Finally Refuted by Theodore Beza and translated by David C. Noe. (Reformation Heritage Books, 2016) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 86, No 3 (September 2017)

Calvin and the Foundation of Modern Politics by Ralph Hancock (St. Augustine’s Press 2011, Cornell UP, 1989) VoegelinView.com October 2, 2017 (co-authored with Stephen Wolfe)

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment 4e, by John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols (Oxford, 2016) Religious Studies Review 43:2 (June, 2017)

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. Edited by Barbara A. McGraw (Wiley- Blackwell, 2016) Religious Studies Review 43:2 (June, 2017)

Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to put Christ into the Constitution by Joseph S. Moore (Oxford, 2015); Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic by Emily Conroy-Krutz (Cornell, 2015), Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K Green (Oxford, 2015) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol 86, No. 1 (March, 2017)

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 by Mark Noll (Oxford, 2015) (Firstthings.com) Published 3.22.17 Excerpted at Mosaic Magazine (https://mosaicmagazine.com) April 7, 2017

The United States Constitution: One Document, Many Choices by John R. Vile. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Christians in Political Science (http://www.christiansinpoliticalscience.com/) (published 3.27.17)

State and commonwealth: the theory of the state in early modern England, 1549–1640 by Noah Dauber (Princeton, 2016) Choice, March 2017 (Volume 54, Issue 7)

The Empire of Habit: John Locke, Discipline, and the Origins of Liberalism by John Baltes (University of Rochester Press, 2016) Choice, December 2016 (Volume 54, Issue 4)

Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558-1626. by Joshua Rodda. (Ashgate, 2013); The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church by Calvin Lane (Pickering & Chatto, 2013); Unity in Diversity: English Puritans and the Puritan Reformation, 1603-1689 by Randall J. Pederson (Brill, 2014) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 85, No. 2 (June, 2016)

Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Bradley Birzer (University of Kentucky, 2015) Vol. 58, No. 2 (Spring, 2016) Republished as “ the Conservative, Russell Kirk the Man” by The Imaginative Conservative

John Knox by Jane Dawson (Oxford, 2015) Modern Reformation Vol. 25, No. 2 (March-April, 2016) Republished at White Horse Inn (www.whitehorseinn.org) Feb 2016

Jacob Green’s Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age by S. Scott Rohrer (Penn, 2014); Religious Studies Review Vol. 42, No. 2 (February, 2016)

Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in Nation by Jonathan Den Hartog (Virginia, 2015) Religious Studies Review Vol. 42, No. 2 (February, 2016)

Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism by Michael McVicar (UNC, 2015); Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction by Julie Ingersoll (Oxford, 2015) The Gospel Coalition (http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/) (Published December 21, 2015)

The Cross and : Conservative Christians Defending by Eric Crouse (Lexington, 2013) First Things (December, 2015)

Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, Literature and Religion edited by Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, and Gillian Wright. (Manchester University Press, 2013); America’s First Chaplain: The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché by Kevin J. Dellape. (Lehigh University Press); James Craig: Patriot Parson. An American Story of Religion and Revolution by Cynthia Mattson. (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 84, No. 3 (September, 2015)

The First French Reformation: Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime by Tyler Lange (Cambridge, 2014); The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure (Yale, 2013); The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom 1685-1789 by David Garrioch (Cambridge, 2014) Journal of Religious History Vol 39, No. 2 (June, 2015)

The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Candida Moss (Harper, 2013) Public Discourse (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/) (Published May 29, 2015)

George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd (Yale, 2014) Library of Law and Liberty (http://www.libertylawsite.org/blog/) (Published online March 2, 2015)

Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill by Michael P. Winship (Harvard, 2012) Anamnesisjournal.com (Published online February 22, 2015)

Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds. By Francis J. Bremer. (Yale, 2012); First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World by Francis J. Bremer (UNH, 2012); Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill by Michael P. Winship (Harvard, 2012) CPS Newsletter (March, 2015)

The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution by Alice Dailey. (Notre Dame, 2012); The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Candida Moss (HarperOne, 2013) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 83, No. 4 (December, 2014)

Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from to King, Jr. by John Coffey (Oxford, 2014) Choice September, 2014 (Volume 52, Issue 1)

Calvin’s Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609. By Scott M. Manetsch. (Oxford, 2012) Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 83, No. 3 (Sept. 2014)

Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic by Mark David Hall (Oxford, 2013); Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution by James P. Byrd (Oxford, 2013) Journal of Religious History Vol 36, No. 1 (March, 2014)

American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War by Eran Shalev (Yale, 2013) The Register of the Kentucky Historical Vol. 112 No. 1 (Winter 2014)

“Fondling as Flourishing: Stephen Pinker’s Hymn to Autonomy” Review of The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker (Penguin, 2012) Anamnesisjournal.com (Published online November 19, 2013)

New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America by Michael Hoberman (UMass, 2011) American Historical Review Vol 117, No. 3 (June 2013)

A Confusion of Tongues: Britain’s Wars of Reformation 1625-1642 by Charles W.A. Prior (Oxford, 2012); England’s Wars of Religion, Revisited edited by Charles W.A. Prior and Glenn Burgess (Ashgate, 2011); Baal’s Priests: the loyalist clergy and the English Revolution by Fiona McCall (Ashgate, 2013) Anglican and Episcopal History Volume 82, Number 4 (3) (December, 2013)

The Writing and Ratification of the Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action by John R. Vile (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012); The Original Compromise: What the Constitution’s Framers were Really Thinking by David Brian Robertson (Oxford, 2013) CPS Newsletter (April-May, 2013)

Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America by Mark R. Valeri (Princeton, 2010) Journal of Religious History Volume 37, Issue 2 (June, 2013)

The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America by Chris Beneke (Penn, 2011); Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasnaoff. (Knopf, 2011); Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski (Bluebridge Publishing, 2010); God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution by Thomas S. Kidd (Basic Books, 2010); and A Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty by John Ragosta (Oxford, 2010) Anglican and Episcopal History Volume 81 Issue 3 (September 2012)

Russell Kirk (Vol. 12 Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers Series) by John Pafford (Bloomsbury, 2010) Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place and Things Divine Vo1. 2 No. 1 (2012)

John Locke and Modern Life by Lee Ward (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Claremont Review of Books Website (claremont.org) (Published online December 26, 2011)

Commonwealth and the English Reformation: Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 1483-1560, by Ben Lowe (Ashgate: 2010); Reforming the Scottish Parish: The Reformation in Fife, 1560- 1640 by John McCallum (Ashgate: 2010); The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland 1480-1560 by Audrey- Beth Fitch (John Donald, 2009). Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol 80 No 4 (December 2011)

Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love by Grant Havers (University of Missouri Press, 2009) VoegelinView.com (Published online March 29, 2011)

Christianity and American ed. by Hugh Heclo (Harvard University Press, 2007); Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Charles L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager (Harvard University Press, 2007) Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 77, No 2 (June 2008)

“Locke Ascending”: Review of John Locke’s Politics of Moral Consensus by Greg Forster (Cambridge University Press, 2005); John Locke, Toleration, and Early Enlightenment Culture by John Marshall (Cambridge, 2006); The Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004); The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke by John Yolton (Cornell University Press, 2004) Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 40 Issue 3 (Spring 2007)

The Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004) Locke Studies, Vol. 6 (2006) (excerpted at Wilfred Laurier University Press Website)

“Michigan consumers lose if lawmakers fix gas prices” The Oakland Press, Mar 6, 2004

Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America by Andrew R. Murphy (Penn State University Press, 2001) Journal of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 4 (November 2002)

"Reintroduction of An American Divine": Review of A Jonathan Edwards Reader ed. by Smith, Stout, Minkema (Yale University Press, 1995). The University Bookman: Volume 37, Number 1 (Spring 1997)

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/LEADERSHIP

Conference Presentations 2018 Paper, “Political Sermons and the First Amendment” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Discussant for Panel “Outside Organizations on Campus” FIRE Faculty Conference 2017 Paper, “Does the Reformation Matter?” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “An Ennobling but Slightly Embarrassing Account of How American Protestants Came to Love the ” Religious Critiques of Law Conference, Nootbaar Institute, Pepperdine University

Paper, “Situating Ellis Sandoz's Political Sermons and Revolutionary Sermons among American Political Sermons 1630-1800” (co-authored) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2015 Organizer and Panel Chair, “Was the American Revolution a Just War?” Agora Institute, Eastern University

Plenary Lecture, “Searching for Christian America” Davenant Institute Convivium Irenicum: The Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought 2014 Paper, "The Place of Anti-Catholicism in American National Identity" (Cancelled due to illness) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Liberty and Progress as Benevolent Religion Extended Far and Wide” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Rev. Samuel McClintock and the American Revolutions” Huntington Library Sacred and Secular Revolutions Conference 2013 Paper, “Samuel Cooper and the Supple of American Political Theology” American Political Science Association

Roundtable Participant, “Was the American War for Independence a Just War?” American Political Science Association 2012 Paper, “Our Providential Mission: The Shifting of America’s Hebraic Narrative” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Reinventing the Christian Nation: The Success and Failure of Reformed Political Theology” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Conference cancelled by Katrina)

Roundtable Participant, “Violence and Modernity: A Roundtable on Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Conference cancelled by Katrina) 2011 Paper, “Political Judaizers: Abraham and the Patriarchs as Founders of Early Modern Political Theory” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Symposium Participant at Colloquium: What was Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century England? Folger Institute

Paper, “Profession, Vocation and Tradition: The Revolt of the Managerial Class” Ciceronian Society Meeting, University of Virginia

Discussant, Chair for Panel: Confronting Normative Questions in the Study of Religion and Politics Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Workshop Director at Summer Seminar: The Constitution and American Identity Lehrman American Studies Center/ James Madison Program Princeton University (sponsors)

Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: The Rhetoric of Democracy Lehrman American Studies Center/Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions

Co-Organizer/Facilitator for Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: Liberalism and Liberty Lehrman American Studies Center/Political Theory Project at Brown University

Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: What So Proudly We Hail Lehrman American Studies Center/The Harvard Program on Constitutional Government 2010 Invited Paper, “The American Revolution” at Conference: Revolutions Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong

APSA Short Course Presenter: Leading in Hard Times (Statesmanship and Democracy) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Participant and Chair for Roundtable: De-Culturation and Civic Consciousness in America American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Invited Presentation, “Reformed Protestantism and American Politics” Conference: America at the Crossroads, Liberty and Endangered The National Meeting

Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Colloquium/Workshop: The Founding and “Re-Founding” of America Lehrman American Studies Center /Yale University

Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Colloquium/Workshop: Statesmanship and the Constitution Lehrman American Studies Center /Amherst College

Discussion Facilitator/Workshop Director at Summer Seminar: America and the World Lehrman American Studies Center /James Madison Program at Princeton University 2009 Paper, “Locke and the Ancients: Preliminary Considerations” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Business as Vocation: Recovering Humanity in Enterprise” Association for Global Business Annual Meeting

Discussant for Panel: Religion and Liberalism Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2008 Discussant for Panel: Hebraism in America Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Western Political Thought Shalem Center and Princeton University Program in Judaic Studies

Invited Seminar Leader and Participant at Summer Seminar: The American Character Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History/University of Colorado’s Center for Western Civilization

Discussant and Chair for Panel: Resistance to Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God: Religion and Revolution Revisited American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Discussant and Chair for Panel: Democracy, Pluralism and Political Freedom Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2007 Discussant and Chair for Panel, Civil Religion in the American Founding American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2006 Paper, “Whither Political Covenanting Now?” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Appealing to Heaven” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Discussant and Chair for Panel: Locke, Charity and Welfare American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2005 Paper, “Manifestly for the Good of the People: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy in Locke’s Two Treatises” (co-authored) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “A Polity of Conscience: What is the Significance of Locke's Argument for Toleration?” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Paper, “Emerging Natural Rights Language in Reformed Political Theology” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Invited Summer Seminar Participant: Foundational Concepts of Liberty in the American Experience Lehrman American Studies Institute in American Ideas and Institutions/Intercollegiate Studies Institute James Madison Program at Princeton University 2004 Paper, “Locke, Covenant and Pulpit” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2003 Paper, “Covenant, Contract and Religion” Southwestern Political Science Association National Meeting

Paper, “The Gospel of John (Locke)” 11th International Congress on the Enlightenment/11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/34th Meeting of The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 2002 Paper, "The Intersection of Phenomenology and the : The Economics of Being-in-the- World" Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting

Invited Liberty Fund Colloquium Participation/Leadership

2012 Colloquium Participant: Liberty and the European Roots of Progressive Thought 2010 Colloquium Discussion Leader: Disobedience to Tyrants is Obedience to God 2010 Colloquium Participant: Roger Sherman, Ordered Liberty, and the Creation of the American Republic 2009 Colloquium Participant: Rationalism, Scientism, and Liberty 2009 Colloquium Participant: The Great Awakening, Political Theology, and the Rise of American Liberty 2006 Colloquium Participant: The Liberal-Classical Debate: Appleby and Banning on the Political Thought of the Founding Era 2005 Colloquium Participant: The Great Awakening, Political Theology, and the Rise of American Liberty 2002 Colloquium Participant: Great Men and Liberty: Politics and Literature

CLASSES TAUGHT

Northwood University Political Science 3000: Political Philosophy (including Honors) Political Science 2010: American Government Political Science 3850: Politics and Film Philosophy 3100: Ethics (including Honors) Philosophy 3000: Philosophy of Religion Philosophy 4105: Critical Philosophical Problems Philosophy 3300: Logic Philosophy 3850: Special Topics (Politics & Film) Economics 2210: Principles of Economics 2220: Principles of Macroeconomics Economics 3110: American Economic History Economics 4010: Economics of Public Policies

Louisiana State University Philosophy 1000: Introduction to Philosophy (Adjunct Instructor) Political Science 1001: Fundamental Issues of Politics (Graduate Assistant) Political Science 2051: American Government (Graduate Assistant)

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS 2019: The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (Institutional) Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grant (Institutional) Research Grant, Foundation (Institutional) The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History (Institutional) 2018: Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grant (Institutional) Research/Publication Grant, Institute for Humane Studies 2017: Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grant (Institutional) Program Grant, Charles Koch Foundation (Institutional) Publication Grant, Charles Koch Foundation 2016: Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grant (Institutional) The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (Institutional) Research Grant, Charles Koch Foundation 2015: Order of Merit, Society Research Grant, Earhart Foundation Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grants (Institutional) Jack Miller Center Constitution Day Initiative Grant (Institutional) The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (Institutional) 2013-14: William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Vada Dow Faculty Excellence Grant, Northwood University 2013: Research Grant, Earhart Foundation Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellowship The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (Institutional) 2012: National Constitution Day Initiative Grant Recipient, The Jack Miller Center (Institutional) The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (Institutional) 2011: Merit Scholarship Recipient, Aspen Institute Supplemental Grant Recipient, Atlas Economic Research Foundation (Institutional) National Constitution Day Initiative Grant Recipient, The Jack Miller Center (Institutional) Atlas Economic Research Foundation Teach Freedom Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional) 2010: Samuel R. Marotta Faculty Ethics Award, Northwood University Honors Student Teaching Recognition Award, Northwood University American Political Science Association Campus Teaching Award Recognition Atlas Economic Research Foundation Teach Freedom Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional) Atlas Economic Research Foundation Sound Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional) 2009: Higher Education Initiative Grant: The Jack Miller Center/Veritas Fund’s Center for the American University (Institutional) 2008: Annual Fellow, Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History 2007: Northwood University Innovation Award 2005: Lehrman American Studies Center Summer Institute Fellow 2004: Northwood University Faculty Excellence Award 2003: Scholarship Recipient, Earhart Foundation 2002: Salvatori Fellow, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Calihan Fellow, Acton Institute Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Scholars Grant Scholarship Recipient, Goodrich Fund, Earhart Foundation 2000: Sabbatical, Northwood University; Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University 1998: Senior Class Faculty Excellence Award, Northwood University 1996: Honors Student Teaching Recognition Award, Northwood University 1995: Delta Mu Delta Membership, Gamma Eta Chapter: Walsh College SERVICE

Additional Lectures/Seminar Leadership

2019 Discussion Leader/Co-Organizer: “Should Hamilton Get a Bad Rap?” (Russell Kirk Center) Discussion Leader: Democracy in America and (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) Discussion Leader: New Perspectives on Political Problems (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) 2018 Lecture/Mentor: ““Rediscovering Protestantism in America: Continuity, Community, and Constitutionalism”” (Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program, “Has Liberalism Failed?”) Discussion Leader: Toleration in a Free Society (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) Discussion Leader: Public Choice and Government Failure (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) 2017 Public Lecture: “Sanctifying Liberty: How Protestant Constitutionalism Defined American Politics” (Biola University) Public Lecture: “Protestant Constitutionalism and America’s Sanctification of Liberty” (Westmont College) Discussion Leader, Co-Organizer: Work and Virtue (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) Discussion Leader: The Morality of Capitalism (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) Public Lecture: “Protestant Constitutionalism, Just War, and the American Revolution” (John Jay Institute) 2016 Discussion Leader: Tocqueville on Liberty (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) Discussion Leader: Economics of Foreign Aid (Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium) 2015 Public Lecture: “God and Constitutionalism” (Louisiana State University) Debate Participant/Mentor: “Debating Conservatism,” (Russell Kirk Center/Intercollegiate Studies Institute) Discussion Leader and Presenter: "The Breaking and Healing of Christendom” (Eastern University/Agora Institute) Public Lecture: “Education and its Counterfeits” (Midland Christian School) 2014 Seminar Discussion: ’s Declaration and Summary View; Jefferson’s American Legacy (Eastern University/Agora Institute) Lecture and Discussion: “Do the Laws of Nature Need Nature’s God?” (Pomona College) Public Lecture: “What do we mean by a ‘Christian Nation?’” (Providence Christian College) Lecture and Discussion: Is God a Tyrant or a Revolutionary? (Princeton University) 2012 Conference Speaker: Reassessing the American University: New Challenges, Perennial Purposes (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) Seminar Discussion Leader and Presenter: “The Politics of Place,” (Louisiana State University) Lecture: “Introduction to ’s Nicomachean Ethics,” (Midland Christian School) 2011 Public Lecture: “Educated, Trained, or Called? Moving From a Business Education to a Satisfying Profession,” (Bentley University) Public Lecture: “Christian America? The View from History” (Hope College) Public Lecture: “Is There a Christian America?” (Patrick Henry College) Seminar Discussion of Politics Reformed with graduate students and fellows (University of Virginia Politics Department/Program in Constitutionalism and Democracy) Seminar Discussion: Democracy, virtue and religion in early American politics (Regent University) 2010 Conference Speaker: “Reformed Protestantism and American Politics” at Conference: America at the Crossroads: Liberty and Limited Government Endangered (Philadelphia Society National Meeting) 2006 Debate Moderator: Should A Free Society Allow Affirmative Action Preferences? (Midland, Michigan) Public Lecture: Is A Secular Public Square Possible? (Saginaw Valley State University Symposium on Religion and Politics) 2004 Public Lecture: What Should We Think of the Bush Doctrine in Light of Washington’s Farewell Address? () 2002 Workshop Presenter: Should We Try to Know What We Believe? (Baton Rouge Christian Classical Christian School) Lecture: Religious, Moral and Ethical Values in America – Who Cares? (Institute for Learning in Retirement, Saginaw Valley State University)

Editorial/Tenure Review/Referee/Conference Organization/News Media/Consultation

Guest Editor and Symposium Organizer: Journal of Military Ethics Volume 15, Issue 1, 2015

Executive Leadership 2013- present: Board of Directors Member: Eric Voegelin Society 2011- present: Editorial Board Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place and Things Divine

Journal Referee American Political Science Review, Journal of Church and State, American Political Thought, Contemporary Political Theory, Politics & Religion, Review of Politics, Journal of Political Science Education, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Religious History, Journal of Markets & Morality, The European Legacy

External Tenure Reviewer: External Reviewer, Promotion and Tenure Application, Robert Morris University

External Examiner for Thesis/Dissertation • Matt Sheedy, M.A. degree October 2007, Graduate Study in Religious Studies/Philosophy, Memorial University (Newfoundland, Canada) – Thesis Title: “Locke's Inheritors: An Examination of the Theological Underpinnings of the Letter Concerning Toleration and Its Implications for the Modern Dilemma of Religious Toleration.” • Shaun DeFrietas, L.L.M degree November, 2003, Graduate Study in Law, University of The Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) - Dissertation title: “Samuel Rutherford on Law and Covenant: The Impact of Theologico-political Federalism on Constitutional Theory” • Shaun DeFreitas, L.L.D. degree August 2013, Graduate Study in Law, University of The Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) - Thesis title: “Law and Federal-Republicanism: Samuel Rutherford’s Quest for a Constitutional Model”

News Outlets/News Media Quoted in NYT, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, World, Huffington Post, The Tennessean, Ft. Worth Star- Telegram, Kansas City Star, CBN on David Barton Controversy (2012). Published in The Hill 9/5/18 Panelist on “Currently Speaking” television show, WDCQ; News Segment on AIG bonuses, WEYI TV25 (2009)

Conference Panel Organization APSA Annual Meeting: 2013, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005; SPSA Annual Meeting: 2014, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004; MPSA Annual Meeting: 2009

Manuscript Reader: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, UMass Press

University Service: Chairman: Political Science and Philosophy; Director, Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise; Student Advisor, National Society of Leadership and Success; Honors Program Faculty Council (2004-2010, 2018-); Strategic Enrollment Management Steering Council (2019- )Michigan Curriculum Committee (1999-2008); Terms to Semesters Curriculum Transition Committee (2008-2009); WebAdvisor Implementation Committee (2003) Blackboard Pilot Program (2002-2003); Online Curriculum Task Force (2006); Assistant Coach - Northwood University Competitive Speech (1997-2004)

Textbook consultation: ITP, McGraw-Hill, Mayfield; Addison-Wesley, Pearson/Prentice Hall Publishing

Consultation Affiliated Scholar, Faith and Liberty Discovery Center (American Bible Society), Philadelphia Midland Christian School Advisory Board (2 years); Social Science Advisory Board, Delta College (2 years); Ontario Provincial Police/Toronto Metropolitan Police GOLD Program (2001)

Community Service Homeschool Great Books Seminar Leader (2010-2018); Book Club Organizer; Edenville Township Board of Review (3 years); Deacon Assistant, Christ Covenant OPC Church