Univ Record 2018

A portrait of the Master, by artist Bryan Organ, was unveiled in College in June. Sir
Ivor Crewe has been Master of Univ since 2008. He will join the likes of Clement Attlee,
William Beveridge, Helen Cooper, Bob Hawke, Festus Mogae, Harold Wilson and the
Young Univ portraits on the Hall walls.
The Fellows
PROFESSOR BAREND J TER HAAR, Professorial Fellow and the Run Run Shaw
Professor of Chinese, published Guan Yu, The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero, the first
book length study in English of the cult of Lord Guan.
DR CATHERINE HOLMES, A.D.M. Cox Old Members’ Tutorial Fellow in Medieval
History, will be publishing The Global Middle Ages, edited together with Professor Naomi
Standen, in late 2018. The book includes a chapter by the late PROFESSOR GLEN
DUDBRIDGE, former Emeritus Fellow and Shaw Professor of Chinese.
PROFESSOR POLLY JONES, Schrecker-Barbour Tutorial Fellow in Slavonic and East
European Studies, edited Writing Russian Lives, a collection published in a special issue
of the Slavonic and East European Review. Professor Jones wrote an article for i News
about Old Member ARMANDO IANNUCCI’s (1982, English) film The Death of Stalin –
for which she provided historical background – and the events that inspired it.
DR ANDREW KER, Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science, received the award for
Outstanding Tutor at this year’s Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) Student-
Led Teaching Awards.
DR JOE MOSHENSKA, Beaverbrook and Bouverie Tutorial Fellow in English, gave
a talk at the BBC Proms on 10 August, broadcast during the interval. He discussed
doom, chaos and Biblical themes with novelist Salley Vickers, ahead of a performance of
Bernstein’s Symphony No.1.
JACOB ROWBOTTOM, Stowell Tutorial Fellow in Law, published Media Law on
12 July. This study looks at issues of privacy injunctions, the regulation of the press,
the political power of media moguls, mass leaks of government information, and the
responsibility of the digital media to prevent the spread of extreme content and fake
news. He also published an article on the London School of Economics blog discussing
the regulation of digital intermediaries – in response to the call by The Times for the
creation of a statutory regulator to protect internet users.
DR SOPHIE SMITH, Tutorial Fellow in Political Theory, published Nature, Action and
the Future: a collection investigating how the history of political ideas can help us make
sense of climate change.
Emeritus Fellows
DR DAVID BELL, Emeritus Fellow, published a novel, Lawless, the story of a bomber
pilot who loses his memory during WWII until a chance meeting many years later
changes everything.
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