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.

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. 

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.

Christine Royer BA (William and Mary)

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 several study abroad programs - in Sicily, the Middle East, and Oxford - and has conducted independent research projects in Sicily, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Israel/Palestine.  She will receive a Master's in Irish Literature from Dalarnas Högskolan in June 2009 and plans to attend graduate school for studio art.  This is her third year as Junior Dean for the Oxford Summer Programme.

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.

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.

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 assist with orientation and de-briefing the OSP students.  They also manage SCIO properties.

Richard Lawes BA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.), MB, ChB (Edin.), BSc (Edin.), MRCPsych, PG Dip Cognitive Therapy

Lecturer in English Language and Literature

Dr Lawes has taught English in the English faculty of the University of Oxford and in a number of colleges for several years.  Richard’s interests include spiritual autobiography, poetry of the seventeenth century, psychological literary theory, and C.S. Lewis.  He is also a qualified medical doctor and psychiatrist, currently working at the University’s counseling service.

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.

Andrew Atherstone MA (Cantab), MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS

Lecturer in Theology and History

Dr Andrew Atherstone is tutor in history and doctrine, and Latimer research fellow, at Wycliffe Hall. His main research is into Anglican and Evangelical identities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His publications include Oxford’s Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles Golightly (Paternoster, 2007), The Martyrs of Mary Tudor (Day One, second edition 2007), and Oxford: City of Saints, Scholars and Dreaming Spires (Day One, forthcoming 2008).

Liz is a church historian by training and now teaches spirituality at Wycliffe. Her PhD is in the English Reformation and covered the presence at court of reforming ideals during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. She became interested in Celtic Christianity while living away from her home in the northeast of England and has explored it from both a historical angle and that of its spirituality. Liz has written for Grove books on Celtic Christianity among other topics. She is ordained and has ministered in rural parishes in the north of England. She also has a special interest in spiritual direction and teaches on the MA course in this subject from Cranmer Hall in Durham.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Simon Lancaster BMus, GradDipMus., Cert Christian Counselling (CWR)

Tutor for Student Affairs for the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford

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.)

Junior Dean and Lecturer in Classics for the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford

Jonathan is the 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.

Michael Reed Burdett, BA (Azusa Pacific), BS (California) and Emily Reed Burdett BA (Azusa Pacific), MS (California)

Junior Deans for the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford

Michael is the Junior Dean for The Vines.  He graduated BA in theology from Azusa Pacific University and BS in civil engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He hopes to graduate MPhil and eventually DPhil in theology from Regent’s Park College, Oxford, where he is focusing on technology's influence on society and how this affects theology. His general interests lie in modern and postmodern theology.  Emily graduated BA in psychology from Azusa Pacific University and MS in clinical psychology from California State University, Fullerton. She is reading for a DPhil in anthropology at Exeter College, Oxford and her research focuses on children's concepts of God with a cross cultural emphasis. She is interested in the cognitive science of religion.