Dr. Carlos Eire

Biography

Carlos Eire specializes in social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a strong focus on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the history of popular piety, the history of the supernatural, and the history of death. He joined the Yale faculty in 1996 after teaching at St. John's University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia. Eire is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has authored significant works including 'War Idols: Reformation Worship Erasmus Calvin' (1986), 'Madrid Purgatory: Art Craft Dying Sixteenth Century Spain' (1995), and 'A Brief History of Eternity' (2010). He co-authored 'Jews, Christians, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions' (1997) and has ventured into memoir writing with 'Waiting for Snow in Havana' (2003), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in the United States and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His latest memoir, 'Learning to Die in Miami' (2010), explores the experience of exile. Eire served as the past president of the Society for Reformation Research and his most recent book, 'Reformations: The Early Modern World' (2016), won the R.R. Hawkins Prize for Book of the Year from the American Publishers Association, among other accolades. His works have been banned in Cuba, marking him as a proclaimed enemy of the state—a distinction he regards as one of his highest honors.

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