Brad S. Gregory

Brad Gregory is Henkels Family College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2003. He specializes in the history of Christianity in Europe during the Reformation era and on the long-term influence of the Reformation era on the modern world. Gregory earned his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University and also has two degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is the author of the award-winning books Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999), his first, and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap, 2012). His most recent book is Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts that Continue to Shape Our World (Harper, 2017).

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