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The Revd Canon John Ovenden
Chaplain (2014-2019)
After many dedicated years of service, John retired from his role as Chaplain at Mansfield at the end of 2019.
John’s warmth, kindness and patience have left a lasting impression on those who have worked with him. We hope you will join us in wishing him all the very best on his retirement.
Lucinda Rumsey
Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions
In March 2021, Lucinda will be admitted as the University of Oxford’s Senior Proctor, and so will be temporarily leaving
Mansfield. We hope you will join us in wishing Lucinda warm congratulations on her new role.
Professor Alison Salvesen
Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies
In October 2020, Alison’s co-edited volume,
Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept
and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period was published, having resulted from a project at the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2016, funded by the Polonsky Foundation and the Dorset Foundation.
Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski famously stated in The Jews of Egypt that ‘From time immemorial, Egypt has exercised a singular power of attraction over the Jews’. Israel’s larger and more powerful neighbour represented both religious danger and a place of safety and prosperity. Through essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the attitudes and lived experiences of Jewish communities in Egypt, using both documentary and literary evidence.
Recent publications:
Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, ed A Salvesen, S Pearce and M Frenkel (Brill, 2020). ISBN 9789004435391.
Dr Ruth Scobie
Stipendiary Lecturer in English
Recent publications:
‘“A World of Bad Spirits”: The Terrors of Eighteenth-Century Empire’ in The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 1, Gothic in the
Long Eighteenth Century, ed A Wright and D Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 180-197. ISBN 9781108472708.
Professor Jenn Strawbridge
Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Religion
In January, Jenn was installed as the first Canon Theologian for the Diocese of Blackburn. Within this role, she assists
the Diocesan Bishop and Cathedral Chapter in their theological reflections, studies, and teaching. Following the installation, she gave an inaugural lecture for the Diocese – ‘“Sight to the Inly Blind”: Encountering Blindness in Hymns and Scripture’ – drawing from her wider research on sightlessness in the New Testament. Jenn also continues to serve as a Wiccamical Prebend (Honorary Theological Canon) for the Diocese of Chichester.
Recent publications:
The First Letter of Peter: A Global Commentary, editor and co- author (SCM Press, 2020). ISBN 9780334058878.
‘Taking up Armour: The Challenges of Early Christian Exegesis of Ephesians’, in Studia Patristica, Vol 100, 19-38.
‘Farrer on St Paul’, in Austin Farrer for Today, ed R Harries and S Platten (SCM Press, 2020), 37-52. ISBN 9780334059448.
Dr Eileen Tipoe
Career Development Fellow in Economics
Eileen was awarded the ‘Social Sciences 2020 Divisional Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career)’ during the summer,
in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning, and the academic development of students within the Department of Economics and the Division.
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