Teaching Staff
The Regent and two of the lectors
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Richard Finn OP MA DPhil (Oxon) MA MPhil (Cantab)
Regent
Richard Finn is Head of House at Blackfriars Hall and Regent of Studies of the English Dominican Province. He is a member of the Theology Faculty of Oxford University and lectures in Augustine and Church History. He is the author of Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire, published by Oxford University Press.
Richard Conrad OP MA (Oxon) MA PhD (Cantab) STL STLic (Angelicum)
Vice Regent
Richard Conrad is Vice Regent at Blackfriars, Oxford, having moved at the start of Michaelmas term from Cambridge where he was Prior. Richard is also a part-time lecturer at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, where he has special responsibility for MA programmes , and is a Studium lector at Blackfriars in dogmatic and sacramental theology. He is the author of The Catholic Faith.
Simon Gaine OP STL MA DPhil (Oxon)
Secretary of Studies
Simon Gaine lectures in Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at Blackfriars Studium and is a tutor in Theology of the Hall. He is a member of the Theology Faculty of Oxford University. He is the author of Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Fr Simon is also the Prior of the community of Dominican Friars.
David Goodill OP MA (Cantab) MPhil (Mancun)
Bursar
David Goodill is the bursar of Blackfriars Hall and Studium. He teaches Philosophy at Blackfriars and also teaches at Oscott seminary in Birmingham.
Vivian Boland OP BD STL STD (Rome)
Director of the Aquinas Institute
Vivian Boland lectures in the Studium on Moral and Pastoral Theology and is author of Ideas in God According to Saint Thomas Aquinas. His areas of interest include Aquinas, his thought and its Greek sources, moral theology and the relationship between virtue-theory and psychotherapy. He is Student Master for the English Dominicans.
William Carroll BA (Notre Dame) PhD (Michigan)
Thomas Aquinas Fellow
Dr William Carroll is Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Science and Religion at Blackfriars Hall and a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford. He is author of La Creacion y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino and co-author with Steven E. Baldner of Aquinas on Creation.
Michael Demkovich OP STL PhD (Leuven)
Mike Demkovich is the Founding Director of the Dominican Ecclesial Institute and Adjunt Professor of Religious Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is a regular visiting lector to Blackfriars, who teaches the History of Christian Spirituality and World Religions courses.
Benjamin Earl OP MA MSc (Oxon) JCL (Angelicum)
Benjamin Earl is lector in Canon Law in the Blackfriars Studium. His principal academic interest is in the law of religious institutes. He is also the Provincial Bursar of the English Dominican Friars.
Martin Ganeri OP MA MPhil (Cantab) DPhil (Oxon)
Martin Ganeri is member of the CaSE team, the agency for evangelisation of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, and a visiting lecturer in World Religions in the Blackfriars Studium. A specialist in Hindu cosmology and Ramanuja, his current interests include comparative religion.
Peter Hunter OP MA (Cantab) BA (Oxon) PhD (London)
Peter Hunter is lecturer and tutor in Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall. His current interests include the relationship between science and religion.
John Patrick Kenrick OP BA (Exon) MA (Oxon) PhD (Cantab)
John Patrick Kenrick is Novice Master of the English Dominican Province and a visiting Lecturer in Moral Theology for the Blackfriars Studium.
Ian Logan BA PhD (Leeds)
Ian Logan is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall who teaches Medieval Philosophy and whose primary research interest is the work of Anselm, in particular the Proslogion. You can visit his Anselm blog at http://anselm2009.blogspot.com/
Austin Milner OP STLic (Le Saulchoir) SLittPer (Paris)
Fr Austin Milner is Lector in Liturgy at the Blackfriars Studium. He is the author of 'The Ministry of the Word' (Burns Oats, London, 1967) and 'The Theology of Confirmation' (Mercier Press, Cork, 1971).
EmailSr Anne Murphy SHCJ
Sr Anne Murphy, formerly of Heythrop College, London, teaches in Christian doctrine and Reformation Church History. She is author of 'Thomas More' (1996) and a specialist in Renaissance and Reformation studies.
Richard Ounsworth OP BA (Lond) MA MSt (Oxon)
Richard Ounsworth is lecturer in Scripture at the Blackfriars Studium. His research area is the Letter to the Hebrews.
Aidan Nichols OP STM MA DipTheol (Oxon) PhD (Edinburgh)
Aidan Nichols, briefly Vice Regent of Blackfriars in Hilary 2007 before his recall to Cambridge, is a member of the Divinity Faculty and Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University, and member of the Theology Faculty at Oxford University where he remains Lecturer in Catholic Theology at Greyfriars. Among his many books are The Art of God Incarnate, Yves Congar, Holy Order, The Panther and the Hind, Epiphany: A Theological Introduction to Catholicism, Looking at Liturgy and Dominican Gallery.
Stephen Priest MA (Cantab)
Stephen Priest is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall, where he lectures in Hilary Term. He is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford and Hughes Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of The British Empiricists (Penguin), Theories of the Mind (Penguin, Houghton Mifflin), Merleau-Ponty (Routledge) and The Subject in Question (Routledge). He is editor of Hegel's Critique of Kant (Oxford University Press), Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings (Routledge) and co-editor (with Antony Flew) of A Dictionary of Philosophy (Macmillan). He has authored a number of ebooks. Stephen Priest has lectured widely in universities in Britain, the United States and Europe and his writing has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Korean. To see his Faculty web page, go to http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/spriest/index.htm.
David Sanders OP BA (London) DipTheol (Oxon) STLic
David Sanders was for many years a member of the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University. He is a lecturer in the Blackfriars Studium in Scripture. His interests include adult education, liberation theology, and religious formation.
Prof David Robertson
Director of Studies in PPE
David Robertson is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. He is Vice-Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. The author of numerous books on British politics, with a particular interest in defense and security issues, his web page can be found here.