Steven Edgar Ozment
Steven E. Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, and a distinguished and productive historian of early modern Europe, with a special reputation in the history of the Reformation and of the family, was born on February 21, 1939. Ozment was raised in Arkansas and attended the University of Arkansas for two years, then graduated with a B.A. from Hendrix College in 1960. He earned a Bachelor of Divinity from the Drew Theological School of Drew University and then enrolled for a Ph.D. from Harvard, working under the renowned Reformation scholar Heiko Oberman. After teaching initially at Yale University, Ozment was recruited by Harvard’s Department of History in 1979, where he remained until he retired.