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Staff Profiles
Nick Campion
Senior Lecturer, Course Director
E mail: n.campion@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Nick Campion read history at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He gained his MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and was awarded his PhD by the University of the West of England, for a study of contemporary belief in astrology. He has been involved in documentaries on the subject for BBC1 and Channel 4 (UK), and the Discovery and History Channels; he was formerly Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University. His research interests include the history of astrology and astronomy as well as the place of both disciplines in contemporary culture, millenarian and apocalyptic belief, magic, New Age and pagan ideas and practices, the sociology of new religious movements and the nature of belief in general. His most recent book is the major, two-volume History of Western Astrology (London, Continuum 2009): read more here . He is currently working on Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions for New York University Press, and A Historical Dictionary of Astrology for Scarecrow. He is currently Chair of the Local Organising Committee of the Seventh Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAPVII) and is on the Scientific Organising Committee of the Eighteenth Conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC).
Crystal Addey, Tutor
Full biography to come
Alie Bird, Tutor
Full biography to come
Bernadette Brady, MA, Tutor
Bernadette Brady is a PhD Student in the Sophia Centre. She holds a MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University. She is a tutor for Schumacher College, in partnership with the University of Plymouth, in their MSc programme on Holistic Science. She is currently reading for her doctorate in determinism in western astrology at The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK. Her publications include ‘Chartres Cathedral and the Role of the Sun in the Cathedral’s Christian Platonist Theology’ in Sky and Psyche, Floris Books, 2006; ‘Four Galilean Horoscopes: An Analysis of Galileo’s Astrological Techniques’ in Galileo’s Astrology, Cinnabar Books, 2003 and "Some Philosophical Roots of Determinism in Astrology." Jupiter, Astronomy, Mathematics and Astroposophy 4, no. 1 (2009): 27-40.
Frances Clynes, Tutor
Full biography to come
Patrick Curry, Tutor, Honourary Research Fellow
Full biography to come
Liz Green, PhD, Tutor
Liz Greene is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Bristol. She received a PhD in History from the University of Bristol (2010), an MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University (2007), and an MA and PhD in Psychology from Los Angeles University (1971). She is a qualified analytical psychologist (Association of Jungian Analysts, London, 1983) and a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. Academic publications include 'Did Orphic Beliefs Influence the Development of Hellenistic Astrology?', Culture and Cosmos (2005), and 'Love, Alchemy, and Planetary Attractions', in Angela Voss and Jean Hinson Lall (eds.), The Imaginal Cosmos: Astrology, Divination and the Sacred (2007). Her research interests include the Kabbalah, the British occult revival of the late 19th century, and Orphic, Gnostic, early Jewish, and Hermetic astrologies from late antiquity.
Darrelyn Gunzburg, BA, Tutor
Darrelyn Gunzburg is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at the University of Bristol, She holds a BA from the Open University majoring in the art historical exploration of religious art produced in Italy 1280-1500. Her BA dissertation was short-listed for the AAH Bulletin 2006 BA Dissertation Prize. Darrelyn has presented papers at Contestations, AAH Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast (2007), Kent Symposium, University of Canterbury (2008), Sophia Centre Conference, University of Wales, Lampeter (2008), Traditional and Renewal Medieval Conference, University of Bristol (2009), Leeds International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds (2009), Language and Silence Medieval Conference, University of Bristol (2010), and was co-convenor of the conference on Imagining Astrology: Painted Schemes and Threads of the Soul, University of Bristol (2010). Since 2008 she has been a regular writer for The Art Book (Wiley-Blackwell). Her published books and plays are in the playwriting and astrological fields.
John McKim Malville, PhD.
John McKim Malville is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, and is Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, Australia. His fields of professional interest include solar physics, auroral physics, radio astronomy, ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy. His books include A Feather for Daedalus: Explorations in Science and Myth (Cummings Publishing Co, Menlo Park 1975). The Fermenting Universe: Myths of Eternal Change (Seabury Press, New York, 1981), Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest (Johnson Books, Boulder, 1989; second edition 1993 (with Claudia Putnam)), Time and Eternal Change (Stirling Press, New Delhi, 1990), Ancient Cities, Sacred Skies: Cosmic Geometries and City Planning in Ancient India (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2000) and A Guide to Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest (Johnson Books, Boulder, 2008). He is the author of some sixty papers on archaeoastronomy.
Garry Phillipson, Tutor
Full biography to come
