Dr. Brad Stephan Gregory (born 28 May 1963 in Woodstock, Illinois

Woodstock, Illinois

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) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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. His principal field of study is the religious wars of the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

. Dr. Gregory received the Hiett Prize

Hiett Prize

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 in 2005.

He received a B.S. in history from Utah State University

Utah State University

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; B.A. and Licentiate degrees in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; an M.A. in history from the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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; and a PhD. in history from Princeton University

Princeton University

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Prior to taking his position at Notre Dame, he was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows

Harvard Society of Fellows

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 and an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University

Stanford University

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Awards and fellowships received by Dr. 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.