John Coffey is professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Civic Leadership. He is also honorary professor in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. His work focuses on religion, politics, and ideas in the Protestant Atlantic world between 1600 and 1850.

Coffey is the author of four monographs and has edited or coedited major works in the field. He was also part of the editorial team that produced the prize-winning five-volume edition of Richard Baxter’s Reliquiae Baxterianae and is currently leading a team preparing the Diaries and Journals of William Wilberforce for Oxford University Press. He has published extensively on the English Revolution, John Milton, toleration studies, early evangelicalism, slavery, and abolition. Before joining the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin, he was professor of history at the University of Leicester, where he served as head of the School of History from 2013 to 2016. He has also taught at the University of Cambridge and University College London.