Steven Ozment

Steven E. Ozment (born February 21, 1939, McComb, Mississippi) is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation. From 1990 to 2015, he was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He is now Professor Emeritus.

Raised in Arkansas, Ozment has lived in New England since 1960. The father of five children, he presently lives in Newbury, Massachusetts with his wife Susan Schweizer, Vice President and Senior Quality Manager at J.P. Morgan Chase.

Ozment has taught at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, and at Yale and Stanford as well as Harvard. The co-author of both Western and world civilization textbooks, he taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, and continues to teach it today.

Ozment has authored 10 books. His Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into European and Asian languages.

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