Jeffrey D. Burson

Jeffrey D. Burson is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University where he specializes in Early Modern and Modern French History, the Enlightenment, Catholic Enlightenment, and the History of the age of Atlantic Revolutions. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he is the author or editor of five books, including The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019); The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason, co-edited with Anton M. Matytsin (Oxford University Studies on the Enlightenment, 2019); The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences, co-edited with Jonathan A. Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History, co-edited with Ulrich L. Lehner (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014); and The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).