Jon Balserak is Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol and Visiting Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago. His publications include John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet (OUP, 2014) and Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563: Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France (OUP, 2024). He also authored the entries for "Calvin, Jean" and "Calvinism" in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th edition (OUP, 2022). He teaches on the Renaissance, Reformation, and western civilization.