Francis Christopher Oakley

Francis Christopher Oakley
Born1931 (age 92–93)
England
EducationOxford University
Yale University
Organization(s)Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williams College
Notable work
  • Omnipotence, Covenant and Order: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz (1984)
  • Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition (1992)
  • The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300-1870 (2003)

Francis Christopher Oakley (born 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.