Professor Peter Pulzer

BSc, MA, PhD, FRHistS

Emeritus Fellow from 1996 to 2023

29 May 1929 - 27 January 2023

Peter Pulzer contributed to a symposium on Architecture and Inwardness in Vienna, conducted by Professor Joseph Koerner at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He lectured in Oxford and at the University of Sussex on the eightieth anniversary of the appointment of Hitler as German Chancellor. In December 2012 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa by the University of Vienna. His contribution to German Jewry Between Hope and Despair was published in the spring of 2013.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996)
Professorial Fellow, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham (from 1996 to 1999)
Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 1996)
Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford and Official Student and Tutor in Politics, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1962 to 1984)
Lecturer in Politics, Magdalen College and Christ Church (from 1957 to 1962)
Postgraduate, King’s College, Cambridge (from 1954 to 1957)
External Student, University of London (from 1951 to 1954)
Undergraduate, King’s College, Cambridge (from 1947 to 1950)

Research Interests

Politics
Modern European history

Selected publications

(co-editor with K. R. Luther) Austria 1945–1995: Fifty Years of the Second Republic (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
German Politics, 1945–1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Germany 1870–1945: Politics, State Formation, and War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992).
Political Representation and Elections in Britain (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967).
The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (London: Wiley, 1964; revised edn., London: Halban, 1988).

Other professional memberships and roles

Hon. Dr rer. soc. oec. (University of Innsbruck, 2007)
Chairman, Academic Advisory Committee, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex (from 1997 to 2009)
Chairman, Leo Baeck Institute, London (from 1998)
Member, Governing Body, Historisches Kolleg, Munich (from 1993 to 1997)
Hon. Vice-President, International Association for the Study of German Politics (from 1997)

Research awards and grants

Grand Silver Medal of Honour for Meritorious Service to the Republic of Austria (2008).
Federal Cross of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany (2004).

Professor Dominik Perler

MA, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 1997

Background

Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor of Philosophy, University of Basel (from 1997 to 2003)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997)
University Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 1997)
Lecturer, Unviersity of Göttingen (from 1993 to 1995)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Fribourg, Bern and Göttingen Universities (from 1984 to 1991)

Research Interests

Philosophy

Selected publications

Link to publications

Lord [Patrick] Neill of Bladen

Honorary Fellow from 1995 to 2016

8 August 1926 - 28 May 2016

Background

20 Essex Street Chambers (from 2007 to 2016)
Serle Court Chambers (from 1996 to 2007)
Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995 to 2016)
The Warden, All Souls College (from 1977 to 1995)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1958 to 1976)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1950 to 1957)
Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (Eldon Scholar) (from 1947 to 1950)

Professor Jan-Werner Müller

Professor of Politics, Princeton University

MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FRSA

Quondam Fellow since 2003

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Background

Fellow, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford (from 2003 to 2005)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2003)
Postgraduate degree, St Antony's College, Oxford (to 1996)

Research Interests

History of Moderrn Political Thought

Selected publications

Link to publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Founding Director, Project in the History of Political Thought, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Co-founder of European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin (2000)
Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University
Visiting Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard
Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris

Edward Mortimer

CMG, MA, DLitt (Hon)

Distinguished Fellow from 2013 to 2021

22 December 1943 - 18 June 2021

Background

Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2021)
Senior Vice-President and Chief Programme Officer (from 2007 to 2012), then Senior Program Advisor (2012 to 2021), Salzburg Global Seminar
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2008)
Chief Speechwriter, Executive Office of the Secretary-General and, additionally, Director of Communications (from 2001), United Nations (from 1998 to 2006)
Honorary Professor, University of Warwick (from 1993 to 1998)
Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (from 1990 to 1991)
Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times (from 1987 to 1998)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1986)
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York (from 1980 to 1981)
Assistant Paris Correspondent (1967–70) and Foreign Specialist and Leader-Writer on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Affairs (1973–85), The Times
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1965 to 1972)
Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1962 to 1965)

Research Interests

Politics
Contemporary history

Selected publications

'Europe’s future: 1814, 1914 – or something completely different?' (Inaugural Palliser Lecture, House of Lords, 3 February 2014).
(co-editor) People, Nation and State: the Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999).
A Few Words on Intervention (London: John Stuart Mill Institute, 1995).
European Security after the Cold War (London: Brassey's for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1992).
The World That FDR Built: Vision and Reality (New York: Scribner's, 1989).
The Rise of the French Communist Party, 1920-1947 (London: Faber and Faber, 1984).
Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam (London: Faber and Faber, 1982).
France and the Africans, 1944-1960: A Political History (London: Faber, 1969).

Dr Patricia Morison

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2001

Background

Senior Executive Officer, Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 2001)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1982 to 1987)

Professor Sir Fergus Millar

DLitt, DPhil, FBA, FSA

Examination Fellow from 1958 to 1964

5 July 1935 - 15 July 2019

Background

Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford (from 2002 to 2004)
Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 1984 to 2002)
Professor of Ancient History, University College London (from 1976 to 1984)
Fellow, The Queen’s College, Oxford (from 1964 to 1976)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1964 to 2019)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1958 to 1964)
Undergraduate, Trinity College, Oxford (from 1955 to 1958)

Research Interests

Ancient History; Late Roman Near East; Jewish History

Selected publications

A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
Rome, the Greek World and the East, 3 vols (University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 2004, 2006)
The Roman Republic in Political Thought (Brandeis University Press, 2002)
The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (University of Michigan Press, 1998)
The Roman Near East (Harvard University Press, 1993)
(ed with E. Segal) Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects (Clarendon Press, 1984)

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit, Oriental Institute;
Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California at Berkeley (2003)
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Corresponding Member, Russian Academy (1999)
Publication Secretary, British Academy (1997–2002)
Corresponding Member, Finnish Academy (Foreign Honorary, 1989)
Corresponding Member, Bavarian Academy (1987)
Corresponding Member, German Archaeological Institute (1978)
Vice-President (1977–89, 1992–2001), Hon. Vice President (2001) and President (1989–92) Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Research awards and grants

Research Grant, British Academy, 2007–9.

Dr Michael McQuillan

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2001

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2001)

The Revd Dr James McConica

Praeses Emeritus, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto

MA, DPhil, DLitt, DU, LLD, FBA, FRHistS, FRSC, OC

Emeritus Fellow from 1997 to 2023

24 April 1930 - 20 December 2023

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2023)
President, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (from 1996 to 2008)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
President and Vice-Chancellor, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto [now Emeritus] (from 1984 to 1990)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1984)
Junior Fellow (Professor extraordinarius) then Senior Fellow (Professor ordinaries), Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (from 1967 to 1991)
Part-time instructor, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto (from 1963 to 1964)
Instructor in History, then Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan (from 1956 to 1962)

Research Interests

Erasmus
Intellectual history
Historical theology

Selected publications

English Humanists and Reformation Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).
'Erasmus and the Grammar of Consent', in Joseph Coppens (ed.) Scrinium Erasmianum (Leiden: Brill, 1969).
'The Prosopography of Tudor Oxford', Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1973).
'Erasmus and the "Julius": a Humanist Reflects on the Church', in Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought X (Leiden, 1974).
'Scholars and Commoners in Renaissance Oxford', in Lawrence Stone (ed.) The University in Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).
The Correspondence of Erasmus - Letters 298 to 593: 1514 to 1517, translated by R.A.B. Mynors and D.F.S. Thomson, annotated by James K. McConica (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976 and 1977).
Volumes 3 and 4 of Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
Thomas More: A Short Biography (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977).
'Humanism and Aristotle in Tudor Oxford', English Historical Review 94 (1979).
The Collegiate University, volume 3 of The History of the University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Erasmus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
'The Early Fellowship' and 'Warden Hovenden' in Unarmed Soldiery, Studies in the Early History of All Souls College Oxford. The Chichele Lectures 1993-1994. (Oxford: All Souls College, 1996).
‘Edgar Winds Oxforder Jahre’ in Horst Bredekamp et al., Edgar Wind, Kunsthtoriker und Philosoph (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998).
‘L’enseignement humaniste à Oxford et à Cambridge et l’influence d’Erasme en Angleterre’, in André Tuilier (ed.) Histoire du Collège de France (Paris: Fayard, 2006).
'The Englishing of P. S. Allen' in Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters ed. Stephen Ryle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford
Member, International Commission on English in the Liturgy (from 2002)
Member (Vice-President, 1998–), International Council directing the Opera omnia of Erasmus of Rotterdam (ASD) under the auspices of the International Union of Academies and the Royal Dutch Academy (from 1983)
Chairman, Editorial Board, Collected Works of Erasmus, Toronto (from 1975)
Member, Board of Trustees, University of Toronto Art Centre (from 2003 to 2005)
Chair, Medieval Studies Foundation, Toronto (from 1996 to 2008)
Director, Canadian Rhodes Scholars’ Foundation (from 1997 to 2008)
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (1969–71 and 1977)
Foreign Member, Royal Belgian Academy
Honorary Fellow, Huntingdon Library (1976)
Corresponding Member, British Academy
Corresponding Member, Royal Belgian Academy
Officer of the Order of Canada

Research awards and grants

Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).

Nick McBride

Director of Studies in Law, Librarian, Tutor for Graduate Admissions and Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge

BA, MA

Quondam Fellow since 1999

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1999)
Undergraduate, Brasenose College (from 1988 to 1992)

Research Interests

Tort
Criminal
Contract
Equity
Aspects of Obligations Research Interests: Tort Law, the Law of Obligations generally

Selected publications

(with Rod Bagshaw) Tort Law (3rd edn, Pearson Education, 2008)
Letters to a Law Student (Pearson Education, 2007)

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