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Stan Rosenberg MA, PhD
Director
Dr Rosenberg is the director of the Scholars’ Semester and the Oxford Summer Programme. He is a member of the Wycliffe Hall academic staff and also teaches early Christian history and doctrine for the theology faculty at the University of Oxford. Previous positions include Director of the Washington DC Academic Center for Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Academic Programs Director for the C.S. Lewis Institute in Washington, D.C. He graduated BA in history from Colorado State University and MA and PhD from the Catholic University of America. His research interests focus on Augustine’s works (the sermons in particular), early Christian cosmology and its relationship to Greco-Roman culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought during this period. His recent research has led to a series of papers on the intersection of preaching, popular religion, and the development of doctrine in the largely oral culture of late antiquity. These are leading toward a book tentatively titled: Between creed and book: sermons as the source for interpreting Augustine’s theology and the congregation’s beliefs.
Nichole Fazio-Veigel BA, MA, MStud (Oxon)
Manager of Oxford Summer Programme and Grants and Fellowship Adviser
Nichole Fazio-Veigel graduated BA from Seattle Pacific University, MA from Marylhurst University, and MStud from the University of Oxford. She attended the CCCU’s Oxford summer programme in 1996 and 2000 during which time she helped restore C.S. Lewis’s home, The Kilns, to where she returned in 2001 to help launch the first Kilns’ summer seminar in residence. She then worked for the University of Washington, helping to develop its undergraduate research program and undergraduate scholarship office, co-ordinating the first summer institute in the arts and humanities, and advising undergraduate applicants for prestigious scholarships and fellowships. In 2005 Nichole returned to Oxford and is currently working on her DPhil on the photography of Julia Margaret Cameron. Nichole co-convenes the lecture series in the department of the history of art and is a postgraduate member of Trinity College.
Elizabeth Baigent MA (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.), PGDipLATHE (Oxon.), FSA, FRHistS, FRGS, FHEA
Senior Tutor and Associate Director
Dr Baigent is the University Reader in the History of Geography. She was educated at the universities of Oxford and Münster. She has held research fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Stockholm and a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins University, with funding from bodies such as the British Academy and the Fulbright Commission. From 1993 to 2003 she was Research Director of the Oxford dictionary of national biography, and Research Lecturer in the history faculty. She has 530 scholarly publications including a (co-authored) book which won an international prize. She is fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.
Katy Harling BMus (Wales), PGCE (Wales)
Programme Administrator
Katy graduated BMus in music from Cardiff University in 2003 and then completed a PGCE in secondary school music teaching at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She worked as a secondary school teacher at Matthew Arnold School, Oxford, for three years before joining SCIO in 2007.
Elisabeth Dutton BA (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
OSP Seminar Tutor
Dr Dutton studied English as an undergraduate at Oxford, and returned to Oxford for her doctoral studies. Her doctoral thesis was on Julian of Norwich and late-medieval devotional compilations. Dr Dutton was lecturer in medieval English at Magdalen College, Oxford, before taking up her present post of Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, where she works on medieval mysticism and drama: she has directed a number of productions of medieval and renaissance plays.
Peter Groves MA (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
OSP Seminar Tutor
The Revd Dr Peter Groves is a member of St Cross College and the faculty of theology at Oxford. He is also the parish priest at St Mary Magdalen Church. His interests vary from Christology and the philosophy of religion to the nineteenth-century Oxford movement.
Revd Margot R. Hodson BSc, BA
OSP Seminar Tutor
Margot Hodson is Chaplain of Jesus College, Oxford, and a director of the John Ray Initiative. She has degrees in geography and theology and a background in Jewish studies. Margot became interested in the connection between Christianity and the environment as an undergraduate and has been actively involved in the growing Christian environmental movement in the UK. Her publications include A feast of seasons (2000) and ‘Creative harmony: Isaiah’s vision of a sustainable future’, in R.J. Berry, ed., When enough is enough: a Christian framework for sustainability (2007). She is married to Martin Hodson and they are currently writing a joint book on Christianity and the environment, Cherishing the earth.
Martin J. Hodson BSc, PhD
OSP Seminar Tutor
Martin Hodson is Visiting Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, where he teaches plant, soil and environmental sciences. His research interests include plant mineral relations, palaeoecology, archaeology, and environmental impact assessment, and he has over seventy publications. Martin’s interest in the relationships between the Christian faith and environmental issues began in 1990, when he became one of the early members of Sage, Oxford’s Christian environmental group. Martin is also a director of the John Ray Initiative and Principal Tutor of the certificate in Christian rural and environmental studies, a distance learning course based at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, near Oxford.
Andrew Moore BA (Hons.), MA (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
OSP Seminar Tutor
The Revd Dr Andrew Moore is a member of the theology faculty in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Realism and Christian faith (2003), and co-editor of Realism and religion (2007), and numerous articles on the borderlands of philosophy and theology.
Hubert Pragnell BA, MA
Lecturer on the History of Art and OSP Seminar Tutor
Hubert Pragnell has been a tutor in history of art and architecture for the department for continuing education at Rewley House, Oxford, and a member of Kellogg College. Prior to this he taught history of art at The King’s School, Canterbury, for many years. His major interest is architectural history, particularly that of medieval cathedrals and churches. He has written a number of books on English architecture covering not only ecclesiastical architecture but also the domestic house and industrial buildings. Other interests include the history of painting. He is particularly interested in the topographical paintings of Turner and his contemporaries. He has a degree in history from the University of Kent and studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.
Canon Vincent Strudwick, BA, DipAdEd, MA
Lecturer on the English reformation and OSP Seminar Tutor
Vincent Strudwick is Chamberlain and Fellow Emeritus of Kellogg College, Oxford, and associate Chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. As a historical theologian, he specializes in sixteenth-century studies, with a particular interest in the English reformation and the religious and cultural changes that took place in this time. His publications include works in historical theology and adult and continuing education.
Santha Bhattacharji MA (Oxon.), DPhil
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature
Oxford Summer Programme Academic Co-ordinator
Dr Bhattacharji was born in London and educated at the French Lycée there. After studying Old and Middle English at Oxford, she did her doctorate on medieval liturgy and literature at Bristol University, before returning to Oxford, where she has taught in the English faculty ever since. She is also Senior Tutor at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and talks and writes widely on the English mystics and related material. Her recent publications include God is an earthquake: the spirituality of Margery Kempe (1997) and Reading the Bible with Gregory the Great (2001), as well as a number of articles on Anglo-Saxon poetry and medieval mysticism.
John Roche MSc, MA, DPhil (Oxon.)
Lecturer in the History of Science
Dr Roche teaches the history of science at Linacre College, Oxford, and applied physics at Oxford Brookes University. He was Senior Consultant and Administrator to the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity. His main research interest lies in using the history of physics to clarify difficult concepts in today’s physics. His publications include The mathematics of measurement: a critical history (1998), and ‘What is potential energy?’, European Journal of Physics, 24 (2003), 185–96.
Emma Plaskitt BA (McGill), MPhil (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
Lecturer in English Language and Literature
Dr Plaskitt graduated BA from McGill University before taking her MPhil and DPhil at Oxford. She currently works for the Oxford English dictionary and has published numerous articles for the Oxford dictionary of national biography. Since 1994 she has taught children’s literature and English literature 1640–1832 for several Oxford colleges, including Brasenose, Worcester, Somerville, and St Hugh’s. She has also taught for a variety of American student programmes based in Oxford and London, including those of Stanford University, Missouri Southern University, Bridgewater State College, and the University of Boston.
Meriel Patrick MA (Oxon.), MPhil (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy
Dr Patrick studied for her MA, MPhil, and DPhil at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her research interests stretch from philosophy of mind through metaphysics and philosophy of religion to Christian doctrine: her doctoral thesis considered the nature of mind and the application of this concept to a number of doctrinal questions. She has taught both philosophy and theology for a number of colleges of the University of Oxford and for visiting student programmes. She is also religion and theology metadata editor for Intute: Arts and Humanities, a national service which reviews websites for use in higher education and promotes the use of online learning resources.
Christine Royer
OSP Junior Dean
Chris Royer graduated from the College of William and Mary in May 2008 with a concentration in English literature and a minor in studio art. She has attended study abroad programmes in Sicily, the Middle East, and Oxford, and has conducted independent research projects in Sicily, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Israel/Palestine. She plans to study English literature at graduate school.
David and Vonnie Perry
Summer Property Wardens
David and Vonnie both graduated BSc from Abilene Christian University, from where they also gained their teaching certification. David began teaching recently after a career in broadcasting, advertising, and telecommunications. Vonnie is a school librarian and teacher. They join SCIO in the summer to help with OSP.
Joyce François BA (Legon), DPhil (Oxon.)
Operations Administrator
Dr François is a soil scientist by training, having taken her first degree at the University of Ghana (Legon) and her doctorate at Oxford. She has undertaken research for scientific publications and written policy reports on Africa. After working in administration at the North Oxford Overseas Centre and for Oxford Computer Journals, she has worked primarily in the voluntary sector, among other things as a visitor to asylum seekers at the Campsfield detention centre near Oxford.
Kevin Kinghorn MDiv (Asbury Theological College), STM (Yale), DPhil (Oxon.)
Wycliffe Hall Co-ordinator of American Programmes, and SCIO Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr Kinghorn is the philosophy tutor for undergraduates at Wycliffe Hall, and serves as a liaison between the SCIO programme and the wider staff at Wycliffe. He is also Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Asbury Theological Seminary. His areas of interest include philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. He is the author of The decision of faith: can Christian beliefs be freely chosen? (2005), and has published articles in such journals as Christian Scholar’s Review, Faith and Philosophy, and Philosophia Christi. Before moving to Oxford, Dr Kinghorn served as a pastor in the United Methodist Church.
Simon Lancaster BMus, GradDipMus., Cert Christian Counselling (CWR)
Tutor for Student Affairs
Simon has worked as a historical researcher and contributor for some of the most prestigious presses in the world, and was an academic member of the modern history faculty at Oxford University, working as the chief Bibliographic Editor for the Oxford dictionary of national biography. He is one of the authors for the New Hart’s rules, Oxford University Press’s official style guide, and probably knows as much about style and bibliography as anyone in Oxford. He is a member of the Christian Counselling Association and is trained as a professional Christian Counsellor. He is a regular preacher at his church in Newbury. He also worked for several years as a professional cellist, and his wife plays the cello with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick BA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.)
SSO Junior Dean and Lecturer in Classics
Jonathan is the SSO Junior Dean for 8 Crick Road. He graduated BA in Classics and MSt in Oriental Studies from Oxford, and his research interests currently centre on pagan religious cults in Roman Palestine, in which he is completing a DPhil. From 2004 to 2006 he was Departmental Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University.
Clint Bass BA, MDiv, ThM, and Jackie Bass BA
SSO Junior Deans
Clint and Jackie Bass are the Junior Deans for The Vines. Both graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Missouri, Clint with a BA in Christian Ministry and Sociology, and Jackie with a BA in Maths Education. Clint then graduated MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Master of Theology from Duke Divinity School. He is currently working for his DPhil at Regent’s Park College. Jackie taught maths in middle schools for three years in the US and currently teaches at Rye St Anthony school, just opposite The Vines.
Benno van den Toren BA, MA, MDiv, PhD (Kampen)
Theology Seminar Leader
The Revd Dr Benno van den Toren is from the Netherlands. He studied theology in Utrecht, Oxford, and Kampen where he did his doctoral research on apologetics, Karl Barth, and postmodernism. After working as a pastoral assistant and with the Dutch evangelical student movement, he moved with his family to French-speaking Africa, where Benno taught systematic theology for eight years at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology. During those years he published in Dutch, English, and French, mainly on questions relating to cross-cultural apologetic witness and to the nature of Christian doctrine and ethics in a multicultural world. He is an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.
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