Peter G. Wallace earned his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. Over the past four decades, he has taught undergraduate courses in all areas of pre-modern European history from Antiquity to the French Revolution. He has published a monograph on the post-Reformation period in the Alsatian city of Colmar, where he explored the shifting relations between its Protestant and Catholic communities. His articles and essays have covered a variety of historical events in the Swiss, German, and French areas of the early modern Upper Rhine Valley. His textbook, The Long European Reformation, appeared in a third edition in 2019. He is currently working on a revised and enlarged fourth edition.