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.
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.
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.
Matthew D. Kirkpatrick MA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
Academic Administrator, Wycliffe Hall Visiting Student Programme Co-ordinator, and SCIO Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology
Dr Kirkpatrick is the assistant tutor in theology at Wycliffe Hall, and serves as a liaison between the SCIO programme and the wider staff at Wycliffe Hall. His research interests include existential philosophy, ethics, and systematic theology. He is the author of the forthcoming book Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age: Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and the question of ‘Religionless Christianity’ and is a regular contributor to Third Way magazine.
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.
Richard Lawes BA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.), MB, ChB (Edin.), BSc (Edin.), MRCPsych, PG Dip Cognitive Therapy
Dr Lawes has taught English in the English faculty of the University of Oxford and a number of colleges for several years, and is lecturer in English at Regent's Park College, teaching literature of the Renaissance period and literary theory. 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 counselling service.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick BA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.)
Lecturer in Classics
Jonathan 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.
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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.
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.
