Live as a Scholar and a Believer | Carlos Eire ‘79 Ph.D.

Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University where he regularly offers courses on Christian mysticism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University and taught at St. John's University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia.
A prolific scholar, Eire specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a focus on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the history of popular piety, the history of the supernatural, and the history of death. He is the author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (2019) and They Flew: A History of the Impossible (2023).