After teaching for a year at a school in rural Zimbabwe, Ryrie read history as an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge ( BA 1993, MA 1997), completed a master's in Reformation studies at the University of St Andrews, and in 2000 took a DPhil in theology at St Cross College, Oxford.
Ryrie was born in London, and raised in Washington, DC. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. He was appointed Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in 2018. His current research is on the early history of the global spread of Protestantism, which formed the basis of his lectures during 2021-2.Alexander Gray Ryrie FBA (born 20 August 1971), is a British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His Gresham lectures from 2018-19 presented aspects of his 2019 book Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt his Gresham lectures from 2020-1 presented aspects of his 2020 book The English Reformation. Much of the book was prefigured in his lectures at Gresham College in 2015-17. He has written several prize-winning books and his 2017 book Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World gives an overview of the history of Protestantism from Luther to the present. He is an expert on the emergence and development of Protestant and radical beliefs, identities and spiritualities, and on the history of Protestant missions and missionaries. Professor Ryrie is a historian of the Reformation era and of Protestantism more widely, with a particular focus on England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Since 1997 he has been a Reader in the Church of England, and he is licenced to the parish of Shotley St. He is on the editorial boards of St Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Ashgate) and the Royal Historical Society's New Historical Perspectives. He was Head of the Department of Theology and Religion from 2012-15 and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow from 2015-18. From 1999-2006 he taught at the University of Birmingham, moving to Durham in 2007. He studied History as an undergraduate, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before completing a Master's in Reformation Studies at St. In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2015-17 he was Visiting Professor in the History of Religion at Gresham College and gave two series of lectures on the history of Protestant Christianity. He is also Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, Co-Editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and President of the Church of England Record Society. Alec Ryrie was Gresham Professor of Divinity.
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