Thomas Albert Howard is a historian and academic who serves as professor of history and the humanities at Valparaiso University in Indiana. He previously directed the Center for Faith and Inquiry and was professor of history at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. His scholarship focuses on modern European intellectual history, the history of Christianity, and the relationship between faith, reason, and higher education. Howard is the author of several books, including *Religion and the Rise of Historicism*, which examines theology and historical thinking in nineteenth century Germany, and *Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University*. He has also written *The Faiths of Others*, a study of Christian engagement with religious diversity, and *Remembering the Reformation*, which explores how the Reformation has been interpreted over time. His work is widely used in historical, theological, and interdisciplinary studies.