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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Jonathan Kirkpatrick BA (Oxon.), MSt (Oxon.)

Junior Dean and Lecturer in Classics

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.

Clint Bass BA, MDiv, ThM, and Jackie Bass BA

Junior Deans

Clint and Jackie Bass are the Junior Deans for The Vines.  Both graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Missouri, Clint with a BA in Christian Ministry and Sociology, and Jackie with a BA in Maths Education.  Clint then graduated MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Master of Theology from Duke Divinity School.  He is currently working for his DPhil at Regent’s Park College.  Jackie taught maths in middle schools for three years in the US and currently teaches at Rye St Anthony school, just opposite The Vines.

Santha Bhattacharji MA (Oxon.), DPhil

Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature

Oxford Summer Programme Academic Co-ordinator

Dr Bhattacharji was born in London and educated at the French Lycée there.  After studying Old and Middle English at Oxford, she did her doctorate on medieval liturgy and literature at Bristol University, before returning to Oxford, where she has taught in the English faculty ever since.  She is also Senior Tutor at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and talks and writes widely on the English mystics and related material.  Her recent publications include God is an earthquake: the spirituality of Margery Kempe (1997) and Reading the Bible with Gregory the Great (2001), as well as a number of articles on Anglo-Saxon poetry and medieval mysticism.

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.

Benno van den Toren BA, MA, MDiv, PhD (Kampen)

Theology Seminar Leader

The Revd Dr Benno van den Toren is from the Netherlands.  He studied theology in Utrecht, Oxford, and Kampen where he did his doctoral research on apologetics, Karl Barth, and postmodernism.  After working as a pastoral assistant and with the Dutch evangelical student movement, he moved with his family to French-speaking Africa, where Benno taught systematic theology for eight years at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology.  During those years he published in Dutch, English, and French, mainly on questions relating to cross-cultural apologetic witness and to the nature of Christian doctrine and ethics in a multicultural world.  He is an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.

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.