John Coffey
Professor
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.
Education
BA in history, University of Cambridge
PhD in history, University of Cambridge
Publications
Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford
John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689
Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.
The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Post-Reformation
Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion
Reliquiae Baxterianae
Diaries and Journals of William Wilberforce
