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

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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)

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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

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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.

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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).

Dr John Hood

BE, MA, MPhil, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2009

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009)
Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2005 to 2009)
Vice-Chancellor of Auckland University (from 1994 to 2004)
Fletcher Challenge Ltd. (from 1979 to 1997)
Rhodes Scholar, Worcester College, Oxford (from 1976 to 1978)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University of Auckland, New Zealand (from 1970 to 1976)

Other professional memberships and roles

BG Group (from 2007)

Research awards and grants

Hon. Doc., Korea University (2008).
LLD (Hon.), University of British Columbia (2006).
Hon. Doc., Beida University (2005).
LLD (Hon.), The University of Auckland (2004).
Rhodes Scholar (from 1976 to 1978).

Thomas Welsford

Volkswagenstiftung Fellow, Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany

Quondam Fellow since 2015

I am interested in the post-medieval history of Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In my first book, I examined the dynamics of political change in 16th- and 17th-century Transoxiana, and in my current project I am exploring patterns of social life in the Zarafshan valley in the decades immediately before and after the Russian conquest.

Background

Fifty Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2015)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2005)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1995 to 1998)

Research Interests

History of Islamic Central Asia, c. 1200-1800
History of Iran and the Caucasus, c. 1500-1750
Islamicate narrative and genre
Post-Soviet cinema

Selected publications

(ed. with A. Papas and T. Zarcone), The Routes of Pilgrimage between Central Asia and the Hijaz (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming).
‘Piety, Refuge and Dynastic Change: The Re-Opening of Iran to Central Asian Pilgrim Traffic, 1600-1650’, in A. Papas, T. Zarcone and T. Welsford (eds.), The Routes of Pilgrimage between Central Asia and the Hijaz (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming).
Review of Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia – Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006), in Journal of Islamic Studies 20.1 (2009), pages 109-113.
Review of Allen J. Frank and Mirqasym Usmanov (eds.), An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe 1770-1912 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), in Journal of Islamic Studies 17.1 (2006), pages 95-8.

Teaching

Approaches to Cultural History

Dr Nicholas Rodger

History

MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS, FSA

Emeritus Fellow since 2017

I specialise in the naval history of Britain and of other countries, from the 6th century to the present day. I am particularly interested in international comparisons between naval powers, and in internal connections between naval history and other approaches to national history.

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2017)
Lecturer, then Professor of Naval History, University of Exeter (from 1999 to 2008)
Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum (from 1991 to 1999)
Assistant Keeper, Public Record Office (from 1974 to 1991)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate at University College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1974)

Research Interests

Naval history of Britain and of other countries, from the 6th century to the present day
International comparisons between naval powers, and in internal connections between naval history and other approaches to national history
Naval connections with political, economic, social, agricultural, religious and medical history, among others

Selected publications

(ed. with R. Cock), A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK (London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2006; 2nd edn. 2008).
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, vol. II, 1649–1815 (London: Allen Lane in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2004).
(ed.), Memoirs of a Seafaring Life: The Narrative of William Spavens (Great Britain: Folio Society, 2000).
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval history of Britain, vol. 1, 660–1649 (London: HarperCollins Publishers in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1997).
(ed.), Naval Power in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).
(ed. jointly), British Naval Documents, 1204–1960 (Aldershot: Scolar, for the Navy Records Society, 1993).
(ed.), The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu. Fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718–1792 (London: HarperCollins, 1993).
Publications (PDF)

Research awards and grants

Hattendorf Prize in Maritime History (from 2011).

Professor Dame Angela McLean

Co-Director of the Institute of Emerging Infections, Oxford

Natural Sciences

MA, PhD, FRS

Distinguished Fellow since 2024

My work concerns the dynamics and evolution of infections. I am interested in how quickly infections grow inside individuals, and also how fast they spread amongst individuals. One of my projects asks if we can design individualised treatment regimens for people with chronic viral infections. When infected people start treatment with anti-viral drugs the amount of virus in their blood falls dramatically. That fall can be measured by taking frequent blood samples, and the resulting curve contains much information about the infection process inside that person. In principle it should be possible to tailor the treatment for a patient based upon the shape of this curve during their first few days and weeks on anti-virals. To do so requires a good understanding of the population dynamics of the virus inside that person. My research group collaborates with clinicians and virologists to gain that understanding. In a second project we ask how immune-driven evolution of HIV is causing new variants to spread through the human population. This project requires simultaneous consideration of evolution inside people and infectious transmission between people. We have made new mathematical models of the epidemiology and evolution of HIV that let us combine diverse types of data to create a better understanding of how HIV evolved as it emerged to become an established human infection.

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Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2023)
Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford (from 2000 to 2005)
Head of Mathematical Biology, BBSRC’s Institute for Animal Health (from 1998 to 2000)
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford (seconded 1994-8, Institut Pasteur, Paris) (from 1990 to 1998)
Postgraduate at Imperial College, London (from 1983 to 1986)
Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA (from 1982 to 1983)
Undergraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1982)

Research Interests

Use of mathematical models to aid our understanding of the evolution and spread of infectious agents

Selected publications

Fryer, H.R., Wolinsky, S.M. and McLean, A.R., 2018. Increased T cell trafficking as adjunct therapy for HIV-1. PLoS computational biology, 14(3), p.e1006028.
Rook, G., Bäckhed, F., Levin, B.R., McFall-Ngai, M.J. and McLean, A.R., 2017. Evolution, human-microbe interactions, and life history plasticity. The Lancet, 390(10093), pp.521-530.
McLean, A.R., Adlen, E.K., Cardis, E., Elliott, A., Goodhead, D.T., Harms-Ringdahl, M., Hendry, J.H., Hoskin, P., Jeggo, P.A., Mackay, D.J. and Muirhead, C.R., 2017. A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning the health effects of low-level ionizing radiation. Proc. R. Soc. B, 284(1862), p.20171070.
Lorenzo-Redondo, R., Fryer, H.R., Bedford, T., Kim, E.Y., Archer, J., Pond, S.L.K., Chung, Y.S., Penugonda, S., Chipman, J.G., Fletcher, C.V. and Schacker, T.W., 2016. Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy. Nature, 530(7588), p.51.
San Millan, A., Peña-Miller, R., Toll-Riera, M., Halbert, Z.V., McLean, A.R., Cooper, B.S. and MacLean, R.C., 2014. Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids. Nature communications, 5, p.5208.

Teaching

Undergraduate biology of infectious diseases
Graduate study in mathematical epidemiology and immunology

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