Robert Ingram

Robert G. Ingram is a Professor at the Civitas Institute and the Director of the Program on Humanities and the Western Tradition at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ingram’s research focuses on the early history of liberal democracy in the English-speaking world, with particular focus on religion and politics. He is the author of Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England and Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England. He has co-edited a number of books, including Capitalism: Histories, People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, Freedom of Speech, 1500–1850, and God in the Enlightenment. He co-edits a book series on intellectual history called Ideas and Practices, 1300–1850.

Ingram’s current book project is The Religion of the State: Sovereignty, Pluralism and Constitutionalism, 1890–1920. He is also currently co-editing scholarly edition of the memoirs and correspondence of the Whig politician John Lord Hervey (1696–1743), which will be published by Oxford University Press, and solely editing an edition of Conyers Middleton’s Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers (1749), which will be published by the Liberty Fund.

He received his B.A. from The University of the South and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Before starting at the University of Texas at Austin, he taught at the University of Florida, where he was Professor of Humanities and Associate Director of the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, and at Ohio University, where he was Professor of History.

Research interests:
Liberal democracy
Medieval studies
Religion and politics