Union Theological Seminary is excited to welcome Dr. Christopher Gillett as an Assistant Professor of Reformation and Early Modern Histories.
President Serene Jones shares, “We are excited to welcome Dr. Christopher Gillett to Union. We look forward to his joining our faculty and our students benefiting from his scholarship and teaching. We are thrilled to bring on a historian with expertise in Christian Reformations of the sixteenth century and early modern to modern Christianities, especially in Europe and North America. This appointment is supported by the Henry Luce III Chair in Reformation Church History. We look forward to Christopher’s role in shaping Union’s Historical Studies field.”
Christopher P. Gillett has been Assistant Professor of the History of Britain and Its Empire at The University of Scranton since 2018. He arrived at Scranton, after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University, from which he also received his Ph.D. He is the author of several essays about Catholicism during the mid-seventeenth-century political crises of the English world (those territories throughout the world administrated from London), including “Probabilism, Pluralism, and Papalism: Jesuit Allegiance Politics in the British Atlantic and Continental Europe, 1644–1650” in James E. Kelly and Hannah Thomas, eds., Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange Between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–c. 1773: ‘The World is Our House’? (Leiden: Brill, 2019) and an essay about “Political Theology” in the second volume of the recently published Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism (Oxford: OUP, 2023). He is currently working on a book entitled, Catholicism and Revolution: Constitutional Radicalism and Anti-Popery in the English World, 1623–1673.
Dr. Christopher Gillett shares, “I’m very excited to be joining the faculty of Union Theological Seminary. It’s tremendously humbling to be entrusted with the responsibility of teaching Reformation history at Union. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share my passion for the vitality and relevance of this subject with my students and colleagues.I’m really looking forward to getting started.”
Union’s Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean, Su Yon Pak shares, “I am delighted to welcome Dr. Christopher Gillett to our Union community…..”
Christopher P. Gillett was born in the London Borough of Croydon. In his childhood, he spent time in the UK, Kansas, and New Jersey, where he now lives with his wife and son. He enjoys spending time with his family, listening to music, traveling, and cheering on his beloved football (that’s soccer) team, Crystal Palace F.C.
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