Geoffrey Parker is professor of History at Ohio State University. He has published several books on the history of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Philip II (1984); The Grand Strategy of Philip II (1998), which won the Samuel Eliot Morison award of the Society for Military History; and The Global Crisis: War, Climate, and Catastrophe in the Seventeeth Century (2013), which received the British Academy Medal for the most significant book published in the field of the humanities and social sciences. In 2012, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded him the biennial Heineken History Prize.