Current instructors for the Oxford Study Abroad Program include but are not limited to:
Corey Gustafson, Course Director, Oxford Study Abroad Programme, Professor of Political Science, California State University San Bernadino. He did his graduate work at the Institute of World Politics and the Claremont Graduate School. He lectures on the British American special relationship, American Presidents and their foreign policy, and U.S.-Chinese relations. Professor Gustafson ran in 2022 as a Candidate for U.S. Congress, 50th Congressional District, in California.
Ron Bee, California Professor of Record, Oxford Study Abroad Programme, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, San Diego State University, University of San Diego, Grossmont College, and Miramar College. Former foreign policy analyst at the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Palomar Corporation, Washington, D.C., Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow for American Leadership in Bonn (Committee on Foreign Affairs, Office of the Governing Mayor of West Berlin), Director of Publications and Research, ACCESS: A Security Information Service, Consultant, Freedom Support Act, Moscow, Senior Analyst, and Director of Special Projects, Middle East Programs, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Co-Director, University of California Revelle Program on Climate Science and Policy, Director, Charles Hostler Institute on World Affairs, San Diego State University, Director, Hansen Leadership Institute, University of San Diego School of Leadership. Professor Bee is co-editing a book Transatlantic Tomorrows: Foreign Policy Lessons Learned (Anthem Press, 2026) and often commentates on San Diego TV and radio on foreign policy and national security topics.
Mark Almond, Oxford University. Lecturer in Modern History, with an expertise in terrorism, Central Europe and Russia. Professor Almond consults with the British government of these topics. Professor Almond writes regularly for national British newspapers and has served as an election observer in a number of countries, including Georgia and Ukraine
Annaliese Dodds, Labour Member of Parliament, East Oxford, holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Politics (LSE) and in 2024-25 has served as Minister of State for Development, Women, and Equalities in the Foreign, Development, and Commonwealth Office. She has also served as a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Ashton University in Birmingham, UK.
Ashley Jackson, Professor of Imperial and Military History at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. Before joining King’s, he was a Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. He has written and edited 15 books on aspects of British, imperial, and military/strategic history. He is currently writing a history of Oxford during the Second World War and, with Andrew Stewart, an OUP book called Superpower Britain: The 1945 Vision and Why it Failed.
Tudor Jones, University College, Oxford University. Lecturer in British Politics. An expert on British government, culture, and Brexit, Dr. Jones has run for the British Parliament as a member of the Liberal Party. An author of seven books on British government and political philosophy. In 2018, Professor Jones published the book, Bob Dylan and the British Sixties: A Cultural History.
Todd Hall, Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he serves as the director of the Oxford China Centre. He is an expert in international relations, Chinese foreign policy, East Asian international relations and the intersection of emotions and politics on the global stage. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard Universities.
Brigadier General John Keeling, Trinity College, Oxford University, served in the British Army, and has duty-related expertise in British American intelligence, the US and UK intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, and US-British cooperation during the Falklands War. General Keeling was the British military attaché to Washington during the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. (2001-04). He was therefore involved in the military planning for the intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan and is uniquely suited to put the subjects into an international relations context. He is a fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.
Annie Hongping Nie, Teaching Associate and Chair of Examiners at the Oxford University School of Global and Area Studies; Research Associate at the
University of Oxford China Centre.
Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG, is a former President of Trinity College, Oxford and a distinguished British diplomat. He was the First Secretary at the British High Commission in Australia, British Ambassador to Yugoslavia, then to Ireland and to Italy. He has also served as a Senior Fellow of St Antony’s, Oxford University, the graduate college of International Relations. In 2009, Roberts edited the sixth edition of Satow’s Diplomatic Practice, originally written in 1917 by Sir Ernest Satow and widely used in embassies throughout the world. The seventh centenary edition, also edited by Roberts, appeared in 2017. Sir Ivor’s memoir of his years in the Balkans, Conversations with Milosevic, was published in 2016.
Brian Shoup, Associate Professor and Interim Head, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University. Dr. Shoup is the author of Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States: Institutional Incentives, Myths, and Counterbalancing, and he co-edited US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words. His research has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Chris Snyder, Dean and Professor of European History, Shackouls Honors College, Mississippi State University; Research Fellow, History Faculty, University of Oxford (2014-19). Dean Snyder is the author of ten books, including Gatsby’s Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain, 1904-29 (2019), and The Britons (2007).
Lord Jock Stirrup, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, has served in Afghanistan as a Deputy Commander in Chief of Strike Command (2001-02). During Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003), he coordinated logistics for British forces. From 2003-10, he served as Chief of the British Defense Staff. In April 2013, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him as a crossbench member of the British House of Lords.
Nick Timothy, a well-known British political adviser, theorist and columnist. He served as Chief of Staff to British Prime Minister Theresa May from July 2016 until June 2017 (having previously served for more than a decade as May’s senior aide and policy advisor when May was Shadow Home Secretary and – from 2010 – Home Secretary*). In August 2016 he was ranked by the Financial Times as the most influential member of Theresa May’s staff; he was often referred to as Theresa May’s “muse” and the “force behind ‘Mayism’.” Since leaving 10 Downing Street, Timothy has served as a regular columnist for a number of major British newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Sun and the Spectator. His highly acclaimed book, Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism, was published in 2020.