Francis Oakley

Francis Christopher Oakley (born in England in 1931) is the former Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of ideas at Williams College, President Emeritus of Williams College and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He also served as Interim Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. His research focuses on late-medieval and early-modern religious studies and history of political thought.