Patrick McGhee
Patrick McGhee is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, where he is developing his postdoctoral project, 'The Anatomy of Atheism in the Atlantic World, c. 1600–1800', with the support of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2020–2023. He completed his AHRC-funded PhD on '"Heathenism" in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 – c. 1700' at the University of Cambridge in 2019. A monograph based on this project, entitled ‘The Reformation of the Heathen’, is under contract with Manchester University Press. He has published articles in 'Atlantic Studies', 'Studies in Church History', and 'Exchange', as well as ‘The Freethinker’ magazine, and has co-edited a Special Issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern History' entitled 'Global Protestantisms' (2024).