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DPhil Studentship

In October 2012 the CISOQ Programme funding board approved the creation of a fully-funded 3-year (extending to a maximum of 4 years) graduate studentship, to enable outstanding students to undertake doctorate research within this area. The studentship call is managed through the Faculty of Oriental Studies and awards are offered following an independent assessment review of applications.

Award recipients:

Mr Jose Vericat, October 2012 for 4 academic years, researching "The Internal Conversation of Hamas: Salafism and the Rise of the 'Ulama'". Jose talks to us about his research: Muslim politics are not monolithic. Hamas is a movement that has a specific agenda, different from other Islamic movements. Also the values and motivations that Hamas acts according to are not all rooted in Islam. Further, its doctrine changes depending on the situation as well as over time, though often it tries to justify such modifications within a religious framework. As I analyze the decisions the movement makes and the discussions around these I pay particular attention to the use of religious references, and the different functions that they serve. I try to show that there is a heated internal debate, a wide variety of opinions struggling with each other to define values and shape the movement. I also trace the origins of these discussions to debates in Islamic intellectual history. My overall aim is to decode the religious, political and philosophical underpinnings of Hamas and by doing so to throw some light on the relation between religion and politics in political Islam in general.  

Mr Martyn Rush, October 2017 researching “Capitalism with Islamic Characteristics? The tracing of the construction of Islamic capitalism through a genealogy of the concepts of the market, private property, and social justice in 20th century Islamic thought”.

Distinguished Friend of St Antony's

Sir David Madden

SEESOX Associates

• Antonis Kamaras
• ​Manolis Pratsinakis
• Peter Sanfey
• Jonathan Scheele

SEESOX Steering Committee

• Othon Anastasakis (Director of SEESOX; Research Fellow, St Antony’s College Oxford)
• Richard Caplan (University Professor of International Relations; Fellow, Linacre College Oxford)
• Franck Duvell (Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford)
• Charles Enoch (Director of PEFM Oxford; Academic Visitor, St Antony's College, Oxford)
• Renée Hirschon (Senior Research Fellow, St Peter’s College Oxford)
• Celia Kerslake (Retired University Lecturer in Turkish; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College Oxford)
• David Madden (Former British Ambassador; Distinguished Friend of St Antony's College Oxford; Chair, SEESOX Steering Committee)
• Laurent Mignon (University Lecturer in Turkish; Fellow, St Antony’s College Oxford)
• Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University Professor of International Relations; Fellow, St Antony’s College Oxford; Chair, SEESOX)
• Elizabeth Roberts (Dean of Studies Weidenfeld Scholarships, University of Oxford)
• Kostas Skordyles (Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and History; St Peter's College Oxford)

Dr David Doyle, Associate Professor in Latin American Politics

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-david-doyle
Email address: david.doyle@politics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1865 284457

Dr Francesca Lessa, Postdoctoral Researcher

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-francesca-lessa
Email address: francesca.lessa@lac.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 284947

Academic Affiliates

Alan Angell

Emeritus Fellow

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/alan-angell
Email address: alan.angell@sant.ox.ac.uk

Dr John Crabtree
Research Associate

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-john-crabtree
Email address: john@crabtree-condor.u-net.com

Malcolm Deas
Emeritus Fellow

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/malcolm-deas
Email address: Malcolm.deas@lac.ox.ac.uk

Professor Joe Foweraker
Emeritus Fellow

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/professor-joe-foweraker
Email address: joe.foweraker@lac.ox.ac.uk

Dr. Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow in Nuffield College

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-ezequiel-gonzalez-ocantos
Email address: ezequiel.gonzalez@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Hurrell

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Balliol College

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/professor-andrew-hurrell
Email address: andrew.hurrell@politics.ox.ac.uk

Dr Halbert Jones
Senior Research Fellow in North American Studies
Director, St Antony's College North American Studies Programme

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-halbert-jones
Email address: halbert.jones@sant.ox.ac.uk

Professor Alan Knight
Emeritus Fellow

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/professor-alan-knight
Email address: alan.knight@sant.ox.ac.uk

Dr David Preston

Research Associate

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-david-preston
Email address: d.a.preston@leeds.ac.uk

Dr Laura Rival

Associate Professor in Anthropology and Development 

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/dr-laura-rival
Email address: laura.rival@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Rosemary Thorp

Emeritus Fellow

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/rosemary-thorp
Email address: rosemary.thorp@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Mr Laurence Whitehead

Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/laurence-whitehead
Email address: Laurence.whitehead@nuffield.ox.ac.uk