Brad S. Gregory
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Brad S. Gregory | |
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| Born | Brad Stephan Gregory May 28, 1963 |
| Awards | Hiett Prize (2005) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Anathema of Compromise[1] (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony Grafton[1] |
| Other advisors | Heiko Oberman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | Reformation |
Brad Stephan Gregory (born 1963) holds the Dorothy G. Griffin Chair in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. Gregory is a full professor of history at Notre Dame, where he is the Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies. Together with Randall Zachman, Gregory also serves as the North American editor of the Archive for Reformation History.
Born in Woodstock, Illinois, on May 28, 1963, Gregory received a BS in history from Utah State University; BA and licentiate degrees in philosophy from the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; an MA in history from the University of Arizona; and a PhD in history from Princeton University. At Arizona Gregory worked under Heiko Oberman. At Princeton, he studied under Anthony Grafton.
Prior to taking his position at Notre Dame, he was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
Awards
Awards and fellowships received by Gregory include the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford's highest teaching honor, and the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.
He is the author of numerous scholarly articles. His book Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe has won six awards, including the 1999 Thomas J. Wilson Prize as the best first book published by the Harvard University Press and the California Book Award Silver Medal for Nonfiction. In 2012 he wrote the widely acclaimed book The Unintended Reformation.[2]
Gregory received the Hiett Prize in 2005.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Graftonians". Graftoniana. September 17, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
- ^ Keen, Ralph (January 1, 1970). "Comment on Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation | Ralph Keen". Academia.edu. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
- ^ Weeks, Jerome (April 8, 2005). "Historian wins first Hiett Prize: His studies of religious wars seen as promising, draws $50,000 award". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
- Living people
- Utah State University alumni
- University of Arizona alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard Fellows
- Stanford University Department of History faculty
- University of Notre Dame faculty
- 1963 births
- People from Woodstock, Illinois
- 21st-century American historians
- Reformation historians
- Historians from Illinois
- American Roman Catholics