Michael McVicar is an Associate Professor in the Religion Department at Florida State University. In 2015, he published his first book (based on his dissertation Comparative Studies), Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism with the University of North Carolina Press. He currently is working on his second book, tentatively titled "God’s Watchers: Domestic Intelligence Gathering and Religious Activism from the Civil War to the War on Terror.” Research for his second project has been funded by Florida State, Columbia University, New York University, the Louisville Institute, and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in FSU’s American Religious History track, and his research interests are focused on religion and politics in the United States; extremism and US religion; and religion and the state.
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