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Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with particular focus on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, popular piety, the supernatural, and the history of death. Before joining Yale in 1996, he taught at St. John’s University and the University of Virginia, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
His research interests include the intersections of religious belief, political power, and cultural practices during the early modern period. He has written extensively on topics such as the Reformation, the role of death in religious thought, and the history of supernatural beliefs. His memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana won the National Book Award and explores his childhood in pre-revolutionary Cuba before his exile to the United States.
Eire has received major accolades including the 2024 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize and the R.R. Hawkins Prize for his book Reformations. His work often bridges academic scholarship with accessible narrative history, as seen in his biographies and cultural histories. He currently researches topics in the history of the supernatural and is a past president of the Society for Reformation Research.
Notably, all his books are banned in Cuba, where he has been declared an 'enemy of the state'—a distinction he embraces as his highest honor.
