Philippe Buc is a French/American historian concentrating on religion and politics, mainly in the European Middle Ages.
[1] Buc did his undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1982.
He then attended the prestigious EHESS (quasi-university) in Paris between 1984 and December 2011, studying History and receiving his doctorate for his dissertation entitled "Potestas: prince, pouvoir, et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible (Paris et France du Nord, 1100-1330") (loosely, "Potestas: Prince power and people in bible commentaries - Paris and northern France: 1100-1330").
[2] The work was supervised by Jean-Claude Schmitt and informally but energetically by Jacques Le Goff.
In September 2011 he became Professor for Medieval History at the University of Vienna, Institut für Geschichte and Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung.