Dr Sebastian Brock FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1977
- Subjects
- Religion
Summary
Born 1938 to James Brock (archaeologist) and Ursula Brock (nee Cooper, silk weaver). 1966, married to Helen M.C.Brock (nee Hughes; archaeologist). Educated at Eton College (King's Scholar), and Trinity College Cambridge (Classics and Oriental Languages [Hebrew and Aramaic]); DPhil Oxford 1966. Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) 1964-1967; Lecturer in Hebrew, then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, Cambridge University, 1967-1974; Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, then Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, 1974-2003; 2003- Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Current post
Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
Past appointments
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Formerly Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
1990 -
University of Oxford Lecturer, Reader in Aramaic and Syriac
1974 -
University of Cambridge Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic
1967 - 1974
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Lynn Meskell FBA
Lynn Meskell FBA has published extensively on the archaeology of Egypt and Turkey; heritage violence in South Africa, India and the Middle East; the histories of colonialism, Cold War conflicts and espionage; and politics and ethics.
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA
Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
