Steven Reid has a PhD in history from the University of St Andrews and is a Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. He was the first recipient of the Scottish History Society Postgraduate Prize in Palaeography in 2007 and was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting lecturer in Church History at Yale Divinity School in 2012. His first book, Humanism and Calvinism (2011), won the Hume Brown Senior Prize in Scottish History.