Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Professor of the Graduate School
Contact
Office: 3225 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 2-4pm
Phone: (510) 642-4426 or (510) 843-2323
Fax: (510) 643-5323
Email: tabrady@berkeley.edu
Degrees
A.B., University of Notre Dame 1959
M.A., Columbia University 1962
Ph.D., University of Chicago 1968
Ph.D., honoris causa, University of Bern 1993
Positions
University of Oregon 1967-90. Asst. Prof. to Prof. of History
1967-91;
Prof. of Religious Studies 1985-91; President's Distinguished Prof. of the Humanities 1987-91
University of California, Berkeley 1991- . Prof. of History 1991- ;
Alumni Assn. Distinguished Professor, 1991-96
Peder Sather Professor of History 2001-
Professor of the Graduate School 2006-
Heiko A. Oberman Visiting Professor in Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona, Fall 2007
Teaching Areas
Europe since the Renaissance; Social History of Early Modern Europe; the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; Early Modern Germany; Modern Ireland
Courses
Areas of Interest
History of social thought, social movements, politics, and religion; comparative Eurasian history; historiography; urban history; rural history
Research
Central Europe in the 15th-17th centuries; political history of the German Reformation; comparative urban history; German and European historiography
Principal Publications
Ruling Class, Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1555 (Leiden, 1978); Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (Cambridge, 1985) (German Studies Association Book Prize, 1987); Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1995); The Politics of the German Reformation (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1996) (German translation, Berlin, 1996). Co-editor: Itinerarium Italicum: The Profile of the Italian Renaissance in the Mirror of its European Transformations. Dedicated to Paul Oskar Kristeller on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Leiden, 1975; Handbook of European History, 1400-1600. Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, 2 vols. (Leiden, 1994-95). Translator: The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective, by Peter Blickle (Baltimore, 1981); Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal, by Peter Blickle (Charlottesville, Va., 1997).
Honors
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow 1975-76, 1985
IREX Exchange Fellow, German Democratic Republic 1980
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Federal Republic of Germany 1980-81
NEH Senior Research Fellow 1984-85
Presidential Faculty Excellence Award, University of Oregon 1986
Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1988-89
Fellow of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich, Germany 1998-99
Fellow at the National Humanities Center 2001-02
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2003-
Personal Information
Born at Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, 23 Nov. 1937