The Faculty of Theology and Religion is delighted to announce that Professor Jenn Strawbridge has received the title of full Professor in New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of Oxford. This was part of the University’s 2025 Recognition of Distinction Awards, where the title of professor is awarded to those who are making “exceptional ongoing contribution" to leadership, teaching and research within the University and within their affiliated department and college.
Professor Jenn Strawbridge is also the G.B. Caird Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Mansfield College. Jenn has published and edited numerous books and articles, including The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early Christian Writers (2015), The First Letter of Peter: A Global Commentary (2020), and two recent articles: “Embodiment Matters: The Contested Presence of the Disabled at the Council of Nicaea” (International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2025) and “Spiders are Bad Kissers: 1 Peter’s Kiss of Love and Paul’s Holy Kiss in Early Christian Writings” (Anglican Theological Review 2025). In 2014 she was the winner of the De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History. Her current research focuses on sensory impairment in the ancient world, including a forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press on sightlessness in the New Testament.
