Dr. Carlos Eire

Biography

Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a focus on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, popular piety, the supernatural, and death. He joined the Yale faculty in 1996 after teaching at St. John’s University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia. Eire has authored several notable works, including 'War Idols' (1986), 'Madrid Purgatory' (1995), 'A Brief History of Eternity' (2010), 'Reformations: The Early Modern World' (2016), 'Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography' (2019), and 'Flew: The History of the Impossible' (2023). His memoir 'Waiting for Snow in Havana' (2003) reflects on the Cuban Revolution and received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in the United States, while his other memoir, 'Learning to Die in Miami' (2010), explores the experience of exile. Eire is a former president of the Society for Reformation Research and continues to research the history of the supernatural. His book on the Reformations received the R.R. Hawkins Prize, and he has been recognized with the Jaroslav Pelikan Prize by Yale University Press.

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