Carlos Eire, PhD

Carlos M. N. Eire was born in Havana in 1950 and fled to the United States without his parents in 1962. He is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale, where he has served as chairman of the Department of Religious Studies and the Renaissance Studies Program. He has also taught at St. John’s University in Minnesota (1979-81) and the University of Virginia (1981-1996), and , in between, spent one year as a Fulbright scholar in Spain and two years as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is an associate editor of the journal Church History, and served as president of the American Society for Reformation Research in 2010. Author of several scholarly books on early modern European religious history, he is perhaps best known outside of academia for his two memoirs, Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), which won the nonfiction National Book Award in 2003 and has been translated into thirteen languages, and Learning to Die in Miami (Free Press, 2010). All of his books –scholarly and non-scholarly – are banned in Cuba, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state, a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.

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