University College Oxford Record 2020

FELLOWS’ NEWS
THE MASTER
The Master visited Old Members in Germany,
Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States (in
Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
and Washington DC). He stepped down after
six years as President of the Academy of Social
Sciences but continued as Chair of the Higher
Education Policy Institute and a member of the
High Council of the European University Institute.
THE FELLOWS
DR WILLIAM ALLAN,
McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek
and Latin Languages and Literature, published
Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection (Cambridge
University Press, 2019).
PROFESSOR JUSTIN BENESCH,
Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry, is to receive
the University’s Commercial Impact Award for the
“Development and commercial implementation of
a new way of measuring mass: mass photometry.”
DR KEITH DORRINGTON,
Tutorial Fellow in Physiology & Medicine, has
been involved in efforts to seek funding and
ethical permission to set up a trial of almitrine
in COVID-19 patients. Dr Dorrington and Dr
Matthew Frise published “Lesson of the Month”
in the journal of the Royal College of Physicians,
under the title “Learning from Harvey; improving
blood-taking by pointing the needle in the right
direction.”
In Hilary Term 2020 PROFESSOR NICHOLAS
HALMI, Margaret Candfield Tutorial Fellow
in English, co-organised, with support from
the University’s John Fell Fund, a seminar on
“Universal Histories” with speakers from France,
Germany, Italy, and the UK. A selection of papers
from that seminar, with additional ones, will
be published as a special issue of the journal
Intellectual History Review.
The Global Middle Ages, published by DR
CATHERINE HOLMES, A D M Cox Old
Members’ Tutorial Fellow in Medieval History,
edited together with Professor Naomi Standen,
and mentioned in last year’s Record, was named
by The Spectator as one of their books of the
year. The book includes a chapter by the late
PROFESSOR GLEN DUDBRIDGE, former
Emeritus Fellow and Shaw Professor of Chinese.
DR BEN JACKSON,
Leslie Mitchell Tutorial Fellow in History,
published The Case for Scottish Independence: A
History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern
Scotland (CUP, 2020). The book tells the story
of the rise of nationalist ideas in Scotland, from
their beginnings as a fringe movement to their
influential position in contemporary Scottish
politics and culture. It explores how the arguments
for Scottish independence were crafted over
some fifty years by intellectuals, politicians and
activists, and why these ideas had such a seismic
impact on Scottish and British politics in the 2014
independence referendum. Dr Jackson also wrote
an essay for the Boston Review on a new history
of The Economist by Alexander Zevin.
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