Brad S. Gregory

Brad S. Gregory
Brad Stephan Gregory (born May 28, 1963) holds the Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair in European History at the University of Notre Dame. After spending the spring 2002 semester as a visiting scholar with the Erasmus Institute at Our Lady's University, Gregory came to Notre Dame in 2003 after teaching at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. He became a full professor of history at Notre Dame in 2012. Gregory formerly served as the director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, which was founded in 2008, from 2013 to 2019. Together with Randall C. Zachman, Gregory also serves as the North American editor of the Archive for Reformation History.
Educational background and personal life
Gregory was born in Woodstock, Illinois, on May 28, 1963. He attended grade school through eighth grade in the Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 and graduated from Marian Central Catholic High School. He 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.
In 2005, Gregory received the inaugural Hiett Prize in the Humanities, a $50,000 award given to the outstanding mid-career humanities scholar in the United States. In the same year, he also received the Kaneb Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame.
Works
Books
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999)
The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs (Brill, 2002) (editor)
Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (Notre Dame, 2009) (co-editor)
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap, 2012)
Rebel In The Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World (HarperCollins, 2017)
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular (Princeton, 2019) (contributor)
Journal articles
"No Room for God? History, Science, Metaphysics, and the Study of Religion," History and Theory, 47 (2008): 495–519.
"Anabaptist Martyrdom: Imperatives, Experience, and Memorialization," in Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1524–1700, ed. John D. Roth and James M. Stayer (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007), pp. 467–506.
References
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
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Reformation historians
Historians from Illinois
American Roman Catholics
21st-century American male writers