Rate My Professor Glenn Moots

Dr. Glenn Moots serves as Professor and Chair of the Political Science and Philosophy Department at Northwood University in Michigan, where he has been teaching since 1993, progressing through roles including Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor since 2010. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on Political Theory, an M.A. in Philosophy, and an additional M.A. in Political Science, all from Louisiana State University; an M.S. in Financial Economics from Walsh College; and a B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for liberal arts education and officer training. Notable visiting appointments include William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University’s James Madison Program in the Department of Politics (2013-2014) and Visiting Professor at Westmont College (2023).

Moots has authored Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology (University of Missouri Press, 2010; paperback edition 2022) and co-edited Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Key publications also encompass “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), and refereed articles such as “Samuel Cooper's Old Sermons and New Enemies: Popery and Protestant Constitutionalism” in American Political Thought (2016) and “The Protestant Roots of American Civil Religion” in Humanitas (2010). He has produced nearly two hundred conference presentations, essays, chapters, and articles in academic and popular outlets. Among his honors are fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, Huntington Library, Jack Miller Center, Acton Institute, and Intercollegiate Studies Institute; the Samuel R. Marotta Faculty Ethics Award (2010); Northwood University Faculty Excellence Award (2004); and Bretzlaff Foundation Research Fellow (2022). As a Scholar with Northwood’s McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, he has managed a campus lecture program funded by grants from the Institute for Humane Studies, Charles Koch Foundation, Jack Miller Center, and others.