University College Oxford Record 2020

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS
DR ANN-KATRIN GILL,
Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in
Egyptology, in collaboration with Dr Francisco
Bosch-Puche from the Griffith Institute, University
of Oxford, is attempting to track down and regather
as many of the individual pieces of the
Osiris liturgies of the Hood-Hearst Papyrus, to
virtually join them, and thus to bring the papyrus
roll back to its former glory through a digital
reconstruction. At the time of writing, the project
has recovered five additional pieces, bringing
the total of known fragments up to 15. These
constitute about half of the original document.
DR MIRELA IVANOVA,
Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History, coedited
with Dr Hugh Jeffery, Transmitting and
Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
(Brill, 2019).
DR DANIEL LUBAN,
Junior Research Fellow in Politics, published an
article in the American Political Science Review
entitled “What Is Spontaneous Order?”, as well as
an essay in Dissent magazine entitled “Among the
Post-Liberals.”
DR MARIEKE OUDELAR,
Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry,
published a paper in Nature Communications on
“Dynamics of the 4D genome during in vivo
lineage specification and differentiation.”
The non-fiction debut of poet and essayist,
DR JACK PARLETT, Junior Research Fellow in
English, will be published in 2022. Written in the
Sand follows the lives of the poets, writers, artists
and activists who found freedom on New York’s
iconic Fire Island.
DR ROXANA WILLIS, Junior Research Fellow
in Law, is Co-Investigator and Lead Advisor,
with Caroline Mbinkar, on the “Voices from the
Cameroon Conflict” project. Caroline Mbinkar
co-founded “ALL for Cameroon”, a pro bono law
chambers, in 2009, offering free legal advice and
representation to the marginalised and vulnerable
in Cameroon. She is also at the frontline of the
Cameroonian resistance movement.
HONORARY FELLOWS
*MICHAEL FISCHER (1968, Physics), CBE,
founded the COVID-19 Volunteer Testing
Network and donated £1 million to the
initiative. Mr Fischer directs SBL (Systems Biology
Laboratory UK), an independent non-profit
medical research laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Curator and writer SANDY NAIRNE, CBE
(1971, History), Honorary Fellow, published
The Coincidence of Novembers, the assembled
writings of his late father, Sir Patrick Nairne
(1940, Classics and History), the distinguished
former senior civil servant and Honorary Fellow
of the College.
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