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Steven E. Ozment is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation.
Raised in Arkansas, Ozment has lived in New England since 1960. He is the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. 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 Civ at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard and continues to teach it today.
He has authored ten books and his Age of Reform, 1250-1550 won the Schaff History Prize 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.
His latest opus is A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People. He is currently researching a study of the German world of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder and is due to be published by Yale University Press, January 3, 2012 under the title, "The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation."
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