Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a non-resident senior fellow at the Civitas Institute. He is also the Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the founding director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government.

His books include, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses (The University of Chicago Press, 2022); and Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, revised edition 2015). Muñoz’s first book, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, 2009), won the American Political Science Association’s Hubert Morken Award for the best publication on religion and politics. Muñoz received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School.