Dr John Davis

BA, PhD, FBA

Honorary Fellow from 2008 to 2017

9 September 1938 - 15 January 2017

Background

Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2017)
The Warden, All Souls College (from 1995 to 2008)
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1995)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and finally Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Kent (from 1966 to 1990)
Postgraduate, London School of Economics (from 1961 to 1969)
Undergraduate, University College, Oxford (from 1958 to 1961)

Research Interests

Social and economic anthropology

Selected publications

(with Scott Mandelbrote) The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford, 1601-1850, Oxford Historical Society New Series, 45 (Oxford: Boydell Press, 2013).
Exchange (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992).
Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution (London: Tauris, 1987).
People of the Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 1977).
Land and Family in Pisticci (London: Athlone Press, 1973).

Other professional memberships and roles

President, Royal Anthropological Institute (from 1997 to 2001)
Chairman, European Association of Social Anthropologists (from 1993 to 1994)

Professor Anne Davies

Professor of Law and Public Policy

Professorial Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2001

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995 to 2001)

Research Interests

Anne Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her research is in the fields of public law and labour/employment law. Further information about her research, including a list of publications, can be found on the Law Faculty website:
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/anne-davies

Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Fellow and Tutor, Exeter College, Oxford

University Lecturer in Modern History

BA, MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1998

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 1998)
Knoop Research Fellow, University of Sheffield (from 1994 to 1996)
Senior Germaine Scholar, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 1992 to 1994)
Postgraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1990 to 1992)
Undergraduate, University of York (from 1987 to 1990)

Research Interests

Social and intellectual history of the English-speaking world, c. 1500–1800

Teaching

British and European history between 1400 and 1800

Dr Stephen Cretney

DCL, FBA, QC (Hon), LLD (Hon)

Emeritus Fellow from 2001 to 2019

25 February 1936 - 30 August 2019

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2019)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2001)
Professor of Law and Dean, Faculty of Law (1984–8), University of Bristol (from 1984 to 1993)
Law Commissioner (from 1978 to 1983)
Fellow and Tutor, Exeter College, Oxford (from 1969 to 1978)
Lecturer, Southampton University (from 1968 to 1969)
Lecturer, Kenya School of Law, Nairobi (from 1966 to 1967)
Solicitor, Macfarlanes, London (from 1959 to 1965)
Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1956 to 1959)

Research Interests

Family law
The legal system
Modern legal history

Selected publications

Same Sex Relationships from 'Odious Crime' to 'Gay Marriage' (OUP, 2006)
Family Law in the Twentieth Century: A History (OUP, 2003, pbk 2005)
(jointly authored) Principles of Family Law (Sweet and Maxwell, 7th edn, 2002)
Law, Law Reform and the Family (OUP, 1998)

Professor Stephen Clark

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol

BA, MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1975

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Background

Honorary Research Fellowship in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol (from 2010)
Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool (from 1984 to 2009)
Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow (from 1974 to 1983)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1975)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1968 to 1975)
Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1968)

Research Interests

Plotinus
Animals
Science Fiction
Philosophy of Religion

Selected publications

Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor and Philosophical Practice (University of Chicago Press: Chicago 2016), xxii + 344pp
Can We Believe in People: human significance in an interconnected cosmos (Angelico Press: New Hampshire 2020)
Plotinus: Ennead VI.9: translation and commentary (Parmenides Press, 2020)
Cities and Thrones and Powers: towards a Plotinian Politics (Angelico Press: New Hampshire 2022), xix + 305pp
How the Worlds Became: philosophy and the oldest stories (Angelico Press: New Hampshire, 2023), x + 327pp
G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Templeton Foundation Press: West Conshohocken, PA 2006), 256pp
Understanding Faith: Religious Belief and its Place in Society (St Andrews studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Imprint Academic 2009), vi-280pp
Philosophical Futures (Peter Lang: Frankfurt 2011), 248pp
Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (Continuum: London 2013), xiv+246pp

Dr William Child

University Lecturer in Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, University College, Oxford

BA, BPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1989

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1989)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 1989)
Undergraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1985)

Research Interests

Philosophy of Mind
Wittgenstein

Selected publications

Link to publications

Teaching

Graduate Supervision in Philosophy of Mind and Wittgenstein
Undergraduate teaching in Philosophy of Mind, Wittgenstein, History of Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Professor Euan Cameron

Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (Emeritus)

BA, MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2011

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2011)
Lecturer (1985–92), Reader (1992–7), and Professor (1997–2002) University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (from 1985 to 2002)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979 to 1986)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1976 to 1979)

Research Interests

History of Christianity in the late Middle Ages and Reformation eras
Heresy and unorthodox belief
Superstition and its theological critics
Early modern social history
Theological concepts of time and history in the Middle Ages and Reformation

Selected publications

A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages, edited by Marina Benedetti and Euan Cameron (Leiden and New York: Brill, 2022)
Sister Reformations III – Schwesterreformationen III: From Reformation Movements to Reformation Churches in the Holy Roman Empire and on the British Isles – Von der reformatorischen Bewegung zur Kirche im Heiligen Römischen Reich und auf den britischen Inseln, ed. by / Hrsg. v. Dorothea Wendebourg, Euan Cameron and/und Martin Ohst (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, imprint 2019 but issued early 2020), 630 pp.
The Annotated Luther, volume 6: The Interpretation of Scripture (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017, 616 pp)
The New Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume III, From 1450 to 1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, xx + 975pp)
Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason and Religion c. 1250-c.1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xii+474pp)
O Século XVI, Portuguese translation of The Sixteenth Century (Porto: Fio da Palavra, 2009, 306pp)
[as editor and contributing author] El Siglo XVI, Spanish translation of The Sixteenth Century (Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2006, 318pp)
[as editor and contributing author] The Sixteenth Century, in the series ‘Short Oxford History of Europe’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 276pp)
Interpreting Christian History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 292pp)
[as editor and contributing author] Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 402pp; issued in paperback, February 2001, 402pp)
Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 336pp)
The European Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 564pp. Second edition, with significant revisions, 2012, 616pp)
The Reformation of the Heretics: the Waldenses of the Alps 1480–1580 in the series ‘Oxford Historical Monographs’, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984, 291pp; new impression, 1986; now back in print with OUP)

Link to publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 2016 onwards
Member of the Editorial Panel of Journal of Religious History (from 1998 to 2008)
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Ecclesiastical History (from 2000)
Member, Board of Trustees of the American Waldensian Society

Research awards and grants

Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology, for a research project entitled “The Biblical View of World History 1250-1750: Rise, Refinement and Decline” (from 2014 to 2015)
Leverhulme research fellowship (from 1996 to 1997).

Dr Jeremy Butterfield

Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

MA, PhD, FBA

Quondam Fellow since 2006

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2006)
Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge and Lecturer (1981–97) and Reader in Philosophy, University of Cambridge (from 1981 to 1997)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1973 to 1984)

Research Interests

Philosophical aspects of quantum theory, relativity theory and classical mechanics

Selected publications

Link to publications

Teaching

The Philosophy of Classical and Quantum Physics

Professor Charlotte Brewer

Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English, and Tutor for Women, Hertford College, Oxford since 2004

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1990

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Background

Tutorial Fellow and CUF Lecturer, Hertford College (working half-time from 1998-2004) (from 1990 to 2004)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990)
Thesis Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 1990)
Lecturer, University of Leeds (from 1985 to 1987)
Lecturer and Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from 1982 to 1985)
Postgraduate, Wolfson College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1982)
Postgraduate, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Canada (from 1979 to 1980)
Undergraduate, St Anne’s College, Oxford (from 1975 to 1978)

Research Interests

Currently working on the history and revision of the Oxford English Dictionary since the completion of the first edition in 1928
Textual criticism, especially in the Middle English period

Teaching

Old and Middle English and History of the Language for the College, and give lectures and seminars on these subjects for the University
Research website (OED)

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Research Fellow (2009).

Head and shoulders photograph of Sir Tim Besley

Professor Sir Timothy Besley

CBE, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA

Quondam Fellow since 2018

Sir Tim Besley is an economist who specializes in the study of economic policy. In addition to his research, he has extensive policy experience working with government and international organizations such as the EBRD, World Bank and IMF. He has a particular interest in political economy, i.e. studying policy processes and their implications for the design and implementation of economic policies.

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Background

Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016 to 2018)
London School Economics: Professor of Economics (1995-7), Professor of Economics and Political Science (1997-2007), Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science (2007-11), School Professor of Economics and Political Science (since 2012), W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics (since 2015).
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995 to 2000)
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University (from 1989 to 1995)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
Postgraduate, Nuffield College (from 1983 to 1984)
Undergraduate, Keble College (from 1980 to 1983)

Research Interests

Political economy
Growth and development
The implications of long-term changes in norms, values and institutions for the economy

Selected publications

Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government, The Lindahl Lectures, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters (with Torsten Persson), The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011
“An Economic Model of Representative Democracy” (with Stephen Coate), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(1), February 1997, 85-114.
“The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation and Politics,” (with Torsten Persson) American Economic Review, 99(4), 1218-44, 2009.
“State Capacity, Reciprocity and the Social Contract,” Econometrica, 88(4) 1307-1335, 2020
“The Political Economics of Green Transitions” (with Torsten Persson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023.

For full list see https://ideas.repec.org/e/pbe46.html (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

President of the Royal Economic Society (2021-2022)
President of the Econometric Society (2018)
President of the European Economic Association (2010)
President of the International Economic Association (2014 -2017)
Member Academia Europaea (since 2022)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2012)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association (since 2007)
Co-editor, American Economic Review (from 1998 to 2003)
External Member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (from 2006 to 2009)
Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission (since 2015)
Honorary Fellow, Keble College
Fellow British Academy (since 2001)
Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 2000)

Research awards and grants

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management (2022)
John von Neumann Award (2010)
Yrjo Johnsson Award of the European Economic Association (2005).

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