Vincent Phillip Muñoz, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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“I pray that the Supreme Court will not be complicit in Newdow’s missionary crusade”
Mar. 24, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Assistant Professor, Political Science, Tufts University, 2005-present
- Assistant Professor, Political Science, North Carolina State University, 2001-2005
- Civitas Fellow of Religion & Public Life, American Enterprise Institute
- Testified on the constitutionality of “under God” before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights, Tuesday, June 8, 2004
- Before oral arguments at the Supreme Court, Dr. Muñoz debated Mr. Newdow at the University of Maryland
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College, 2003-2004
- Civitas Fellowship, the Pew Charitable Trust, 2003-2004
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Fellow, 2003
- Summer Faculty Research Grant – North Carolina State University, 2002
- Civitas Fellow, the Center for Public Justice, 2001
- Lecturer in Politics and Critical Inquiry, Pomona College, 1998-2001
- Recipient, Claremont Graduate University Dissertation Grant, 2000-2001
- Tertio Millennio Seminar Participant, Krakow Poland, 2000
- Recipient, ISI Salvatori Fellowship, 1999
- Visiting Instructor, California State University, San Bernardino, 1996-1998
- Education:
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- PhD, Political Science, Claremont Graduate School, 2001
- MA, Political Science, Boston College, 1995
- BA, Claremont McKenna College, 1993
- Other:
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- Specialization areas: history of political philosophy, American political thought, constitutional law, John Locke