Brad Gregory

Brad Gregory is a historian of Western Europe in the Reformation era whose scholarship has analyzed the effects of early modern religious disagreement and religio-political conflict, not only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also in the long-term shaping of Western modernity down to the present. In recent years the scope of his work has further expanded and takes the Anthropocene as its point of departure, while retaining an emphasis on the assumptions, ambitions, practices, and institutions of premodern Western Europeans that antedated the Industrial Revolution while fostering the anthropogenic trajectories that led our planet out of the Holocene. He is currently at work on a major project about the relationship between Western Christianity and the long-term formation of our current global environmental realities, the working title of which is The Way of the World: Power, Wealth, and Civilization from the Last Ice Age to the Anthropocene.