Carlos Eire is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe who specializes in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; the history of the supernatural, and the history of death. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, he taught at St. John’s University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of six scholarly books and two childhood memoirs, one of which – Waiting for Snow in Havana – won the US National Book Award in Nonfiction in 2003, and also prompted Cuba’s dictatorship to ban all of his writings and declare him an enemy of the state, a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.Read Full Biography
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