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- Francis_Christopher_Oakley abstract "Francis Christopher Oakley, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas at Williams College; President Emeritus of the College and of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. Born in England in 1931 of Irish immigrant parents and raised in Liverpool, Professor has vivid memories of the World War II wartime Blitz there and, while his elementary school was closed because of the bombing, of being homeschooled by his mother whose own education in a tiny village on the edge of Connemare had ended at the age of 14. That notwithstanding, she proved to be an effective, dedicated and demanding teacher and he was able to go on, first to Jesuit academic high school in Liverpool and then, via that route, to Oxford, where he graduated in 1953 with First Class Honours in the Honours School of Modern History. Awarded a Goldsmiths' Company's Commonwealth Traveling Research Scholarship, he spent the next two years studying Latin Palaeography and the history of Medieval Philosophy.Oakley's graduate studies were interrupted by the need to return to England to serve for two years (followed by reserve duty) in the British Army, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals and was attached to the Commonwealth Communications Army Network (COMCAN). Having decided to return to North America, he completed his Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 1959 and spent the next two years teaching in the Yale History Department before taking up a similar position in the history department of Williams College in Massachusetts. there, for forty years, he taught medieval and early-modern history for the history department, as well as courses in the Interdepartmental History of Ideas major (of which he was co-founder) and in the Environmental Studies Program until his retirement from the faculty in 2002.Oakley's teaching work was punctuated by some years of senior administrative service at Williams (1977-94), first as Dean of the Faculty, then as President of the College, and later, 2002-03, as President of the American Council of Learned Societies in New York City -- an interim appointment.A lifelong scholar, Oakley has held visiting research appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. During the academic year 1999-2000, he held the Sir Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship in the History of Ideas at Oxford University.Francis Oakley has written extensively on topics pertaining to medieval and early0modern intellectual and religious history and to American higher education, and is the co-editor of three volumes as well as the author of some fourteen books. Prominent among the latter are his Omnipotence, Covenant and Order: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz (1984), Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition (1992), and The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 (2003), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in 2004. Professor Oakely is currently working on the third volume of a trilogy with the overall title of The Emergence of WEstern Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages. Yale University Press published the first tow volumes in 2010 and 2012 respectively; the third volume is scheduled for publication in 2013-14. An honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he is also Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (President of the Fellows, 1999-2002) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary degrees, LL.D., L.H.D. and Litt.D., from Notre Dame, Northwestern and Wesleyan Universities, from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and from Amherst, Bowdoin and Williams Colleges.Oakley has served for many years on the boards of various non-profit organizations in the arts and higher education, among them the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the American Council of Learned Societies (board chair 1994-97), the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (board president 1998-2005), and the National Humanities Center (board chair 2004-7).He is married to the former Claire-Ann Lamenzo of Manchester, CT, a gifted fiber artist and dedicated horsewoman. They have four children -- Deirdre, Christopher, Timothy, and Brian -- and seven grandchildren.".
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