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Marie Raulier is a Barker Fellow working with Richard Scholar on the ‘Imagining Alternatives : Utopia in the World’ project as part of the Inventing Futures Programme at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). During her fellowship at Durham, she will examine representation

Sophie Jones is a PhD student at Union Theological College, Belfast. Her research focuses on the interplay of music, theology, and literature in the life of Irish writer C.S. Lewis. Sophie performs regularly with the Priory Singers and New Irish Arts. She has spoken at C.S. Lewis Societies in Oxford

Will Hamlin is Professor Emeritus of English at Washington State University, having retired in June 2024 after forty years of teaching. A recipient of research fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Renaissance Society of America, and the National Endowmen

Liz is a theologian, poet, novelist, essayist and lecturer. She is working on a new commission from the Saltire Society, for poetry exploring the conservationist John Muir’s legacy in the Anthropocene. As a creative-critical academic, Liz specialises in theopoetics and trauma theology. Her interdi

Eric is a Professor of History at Missouri State University in the United States.  His two monographs have engaged with the challenges of peacemaking after sectarian violence in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. His most recent entitled The Legacy of Iconoclasm focused on the uses of memor

Bible scholar Ben Witherington is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University. A graduate of UNC, Chapel Hill, he went on to receive the M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. fr

David is Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research broadly focuses on religious conflict and peacebuilding in early modern France, and has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize and the Harold J. Grimm Prize by the Sixteenth Centur

Sherilyn Bouyer is working with Tom Hamilton on the Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars  Inventing Futures (IF) project to develop her contribution to The Oxford Handbook of the French Wars of Religion on ‘Postwar Justice’. She has recently submitted her PhD at the University

Rachel Goodman is a poet, portrait painter and former actor-presenter whose creative practice spans theatre, broadcasting and the visual arts. After studying English Literature at Durham University (Trevelyan College) and completing an MA in Poetry with Distinction at the University of East Anglia,

Thinking with the Church at the Margins initiative within Methodism, Florence’s project aims to reflect theologically on ‘Recovery Church’, a community of people living with addictions that gather for services that incorporate elements of the 12-Step programme. This research builds on her