College Record 2020

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2020

Wolfson

Introduction

Letter from the President 7

Letter from the Bursar 12

Letter from the

Development Director 15

Sticking with the long-term 17

List of Donors 2019–20 21

Gifts to the Library 27

Clubs and Societies

American Football 28

AMREF Group 28

BarCo 29

Board Games 30

Boat Club 30

Choir 32

Entz (external) 33

Entz (internal) 33

Family Society 33

Feminist Society 34

Football Club 35

Foxes Women’s Football 36

LGBTQIA+ Society 36

Old Wolves and Archives 37

Punt Club 40

Reading Group 41

Ultimate Frisbee 41

University Challenge 42

Yoga 43

Research Clusters

Ancient World 44

Law, Justice and Society 46

Oxford Trauma Cluster 48

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 49

South Asia 50

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 51

Contents

College Lectures

and Seminars

Annual Lectures 53

Wolfson Lectures 54

President’s Seminars 54

The Record

College Officers and Membership 55

President and Fellows 56

Elections and Admissions 68

Fellows 68

Visiting Scholars 70

Graduate Students 71

Elected Members of GB and GPC 78

Scholarships, Awards and

Prizes 2019–20 79

Degrees and Diplomas 81

Personal News 89

Appointments and Awards 89

Books published by Wolfsonians 90

Births 92

Marriages 92

Deaths 94

Obituaries 94

Memories

Twelve Memorable Years at

Wolfson 99

Recollections of 11

Chadlington Road, 1938–57 101

Editor’s Note 106

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The President’s Letter

Sir Tim Hitchens

This last year will go down as one of the most abnormal in Wolfson’s history.

As I write this, in June, we are just starting to emerge, shell-shocked, having been

stranded for the last few months on our own private islands, aware that we are

part of a larger whole, but sometimes feeling a bit isolated. Some of our islands

have been large and comfortable, others smaller and sometimes claustrophobic.

Those living here at College – some 200 people throughout the crisis – have had

something of both, studying in their rooms, but able also to get out and eat socially

distanced takeaway lunches on the Harbour Lawn, or getting to know the walks in

the meadows across the river much better than they ever thought they would.

The College is returning to life; people are starting to come back in; but we have all

been through a collective shock. In this message to the Wolfson community around

the world, I wanted to recall a year which a football commentator would call ‘a

game of two halves’: the first half, under normal rules, and the second half, when

the rules went out the window.

It is sometimes hard to remember that there was life at Wolfson BC, before

Coronavirus. Perhaps that is simply evidence that we are still too immersed in its

consequences to see things clearly. But I wanted to note some of what we were

doing here before the virus hit.

In Michaelmas and Hilary terms the College was exceptionally busy, with a packed

programme. Ambassador Nick Burns, Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Adviser and

former US NATO Ambassador, spoke to us in November about how we get back to

international relations based on international law. Lord Reed, College Visitor and

now President of the Supreme Court, talked about the relationship between Britain,

Europe, and its Courts. Professor Linda Mulcahy, one of our Governing Body

Fellows, continued the legal theme in March with a lecture on Courts in a Virtual

Age – how to conduct justice without necessarily using a physical courthouse.

A prescient theme, given how virtual our lives became in the weeks afterwards.

I’ve been grateful to all those who have taken part in the President’s Seminars this

year: in October we considered ‘Copying’, from cell-reproduction to copyright: in

February we looked at ‘Order’, from Dante’s Divine Comedy to the structures of

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medieval religious thought. Both really original evenings which enlightened and

entertained.

We were delighted to welcome Pakistan’s first Oscar-winning Director, Sharmeen

Obaid-Chinoy, our annual Sarfraz Lecturer, who talked about the role of women

in contemporary society and film. Continuing on the theme of film, we were so

pleased that Curtis Winter, our DPhil candidate and film maker, won best film at the

70th Berlin International Film Festival, for an extended treatment of the last days

of an elderly Japanese lady. We continued to look east with our celebrations both

of Chinese New Year – the Hall bedecked with red – and then later Tibetan New

Year, with musical and dance performances from our Tibetan friends in Oxford

and around the world. We also hosted the first Annual Oxford Korean Forum in

November, attended by the Korean Ambassador.

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sarfraz Lecturer (photo: John Cairns)

If the Asian world was one of our consistent themes, the Ancient World continued

to be another. This year’s Syme Lecture was given by Professor Alan Bowman and

examined the role of Alexandria in the Roman Empire. The Ancient World Research

Cluster also hosted a wonderful presentation by Professor Paul Cartledge on the

2500th anniversary of the Battle of Salamis, which to some extent determined the

balance of power between Greece and Persia. And the College was delighted to

receive a generous and anonymous gift which allows us to endow in perpetuity a

Junior Research Fellowship and a research fund in Assyriology.

At the other end of the scale, in the realm of computing and mathematics, I was

pleased to attend what would have been the one hundredth birthday celebrations of

Robin Gandy held at the College in February, attracting a stellar list of speakers.

Robin was, as many will know, a great friend of Alan Turing, the founder of modern

computing science, and a Governing Body Fellow for many years – as well as

gifting us the Robin Gandy accommodation block.

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Sir Tim Hitchens and Ambassador Tsuruoka

for the Diplomacy for the 21st Century lecture

series. Photo by John Cairns

And finally, I should pay tribute to our

University Challenge Team who did so

well in this year’s tournament, reaching

the last eight, only to be pipped at the

post by Durham University, and for

keeping us, again and again, on the edge

of our seats until the very last question.

So that’s what we were doing as

a community. We also took some

important collective decisions, with

longer term ramifications. Our work

on climate change really picked up

pace, with us able to announce at last

we were fully divested from integrated

oil, coal and gas companies, and from

those which derive revenue from the

exploration, ownership or extraction

of fossil fuels. Oxford research showed

Robin Gandy (photo: Alchetron)

that one of the biggest individual

changes to reduce emissions we could

make was to reduce personal meat consumption, so the College moved towards

less meat-intensive catering, nudging people towards non-meat options, setting up

non-meat meals, increasing the variety of vegan and vegetarian options. This year,

for the first time, we served more vegetarian and vegan meals than meat and fish.

We also spent much of the first half of the year working on a College Masterplan,

setting out our collective ambitions for the next ten, twenty, thirty years. Many of

you will have seen the final plan which was agreed in March. Again, the virus has

unintentionally shown us the future: one with less air travel, with students more

likely to live in College through the year, with less demand for internal combustion

engines, and more space needed for more families. The Masterplan sets out how

we will get there.

Then, just as we had managed to raise our line of sight towards the horizon, an

immediate health crisis hit.

Group psychologists talk about the first two phases of any major crisis: selfpreservation,

then group preservation. We start by stocking up on pasta, rice

and tinned tomatoes until the shelves are empty. But then we start to look to our

neighbours and our community – and it is here that I think the Wolfson community

has been so extraordinary.

I have to pay so many tributes. To our own frontline staff, who have kept the College

running: those who keep the corridors and door handles clean, who man the Lodge

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24 hours a day, who keep cooking hot meals for students to take away, who keep

the fire alarms working and the electrics and IT running. The army of staff who

worked from home, on the helpline, supporting students, keeping the pay packets

and finances working. The students and Fellows who kept life going in College, in

the Bar, the Welfare Officers who worked hand in hand with the Chocolate Easter

Bunny to produce smiles under lockdown. It brought out the best in us.

Let me quote from one of our graduate students, Brian Wong, who wrote in the

Times Higher Education Supplement: ‘This epidemic is a natural disaster – but the

woes of students worldwide are no less [important]…. I am personally fortunate to

attend a college (Wolfson, Oxford) that has been incredibly supportive during these

trying times.’ We have tried.

The values of the College which came out in those decisions we took in the first

half of the year also emerged in the second, in the blast furnace of the pandemic.

First, that we are a place which embodies the value of expertise. Donald Trump

and Michael Gove may scorn experts as much as they wish, but it was people like

Anthony Fauci and Chris Whitty – medical advisers – who emerged as the real

heroes of the crisis. And it is no coincidence that Chris Whitty is an alumnus of

Wolfson, and indeed a former Chair of General Meeting.

Second, that we are a place which puts the welfare of our students first. We quickly

established a Wolfson Coronavirus Hardship Fund, and generosity in large sums

and small packets came in. I can now confirm that we have a fund worth over a

quarter of a million pounds which will let us support students and early career

researchers this year, next year and in the years to come, who face acute hardship as

a result of the coronavirus crisis. My warm thanks to our friends around the world

who have made this possible.

Third, that we are a place which cares for our staff. We have kept all our staff on

full pay throughout this experience, and we are determined to avoid redundancies

if at all possible in the financially difficult year ahead. The quality of the student

experience in college depends above all on the quality of our staff.

And fourth, the College’s sheer inventiveness. For the College’s May Day concert,

online this year, poets, musicians and other performers took to the virtual stage

and gave us a breath-taking example of the quality of artistry at the College. The

College Bar, unable to open conventionally, started deliveries of fine ales to front

doors. The Catering Team delivering meals to those self-isolating, and setting up a

deal to provide groceries direct to students. Old Wolves lecturing on ancient Rome

by Zoom. A digital scavenger hunt. A lockdown photography competition. A new

online community of gardeners.

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Necessity is the mother of invention, and there are many creative solutions which

already are part of the new normal.

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Let me end with this thought. The Wolfson community is large and diverse. There

are some of us on the medical front line, working in hospitals or on vaccines. There

are others acting as test pilots in vaccine trials. There are a number, in the UK and

around the world, who have encountered the virus and lived through it. Sadly,

we all know people who have been victims. There are older and more vulnerable

members of our community who remain at particular risk, and who are very much

in our thoughts.

For all of us, 2020 will remain in our memories inseparable from the coronavirus.

But I hope that for all of us, 2020 will also be inseparable from the community

spirit – including the Wolfson community spirit – which has been so defining.

Expertise, generous solidarity and collective inventiveness: that is who we are, and

who I hope we shall remain.

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The Wolfson Rock Band ‘Don’t Laugh’ records a music video ‘The Next Stop – Cha Shan Liu’ in the

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium to express the College’s sympathy with the first victims of the pandemic,

the people of Wuhan. (photo: Yanni Ren)

The video can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oyHNaU0AKg

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Letter from the Bursar

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With a modest endowment, Wolfson College has always been a ‘just about

managing’ college: while the endowment has grown steadily, we have continued to

spend every penny possible in supporting our students and Fellows in their academic

endeavours. Whilst this has resulted in the College having a small operating deficit

over the last few years, we have slowly been reducing that deficit, and had been on

track to achieve in 2019/20 our first, modest surplus (£108k) in several years. This

was achieved as a combined result of the kindness of our many benefactors; our

talented managers and teams putting in place good cost control, led by our brilliant

College Accountant, Kathryn Pocock; growing our successful conferencing and

events business, led by our fantastic Steward, Sebastian Stefanov; and the healthy

growth of our investment portfolio, greatly helped by our external advisers, Philip

Kay, Jonathan Paine and Allen Zimbler.

Of course, our fortunes have been temporarily set back by the impact of COVID-19

on the College’s income streams and endowment. In the good times, people often

ask what actions we will take if there is a financial crisis. Of course, there are many

actions to take in the event of financial upheaval; however, the real work to prepare

the College to withstand such a crisis starts long before. For example, guided by its

Investment and Finance Committees, Wolfson has taken many actions over recent

years to provide resilience, including splitting its investment portfolio across two

investment managers (Sarasin and Oxford University Endowment Management);

changing from a UK-biased to a global portfolio; increasing exposure to private

equity and ‘shorting capability’; continuing to generate the best ‘total return’ rather

than focusing on income generation; ‘smoothing’ the value of the endowment

over five years for drawdown purposes; keeping the annual drawdown from the

portfolio at a modest 3%; staying debt-free (we have not borrowed to build or

gear our investments); and improving budget and cost control processes. These

actions have placed Wolfson in a strong position to withstand the current crisis.

The College has also been greatly helped by the generosity of many members and

alumni who have given to the Student Hardship Campaign, as well as a very kind

legacy we were fortunate to receive. The College was also quick to hold back all

expenditure where possible at the outset of the crisis. We are therefore pleased to

report that, despite the current turmoil, Wolfson is on track to break even at the end

of the 2019/20 financial year which, in line with the rest of the University, runs

from 1 August to 31 July.

Although the endowment has reduced in value in the crisis, we are comforted that

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it has fared relatively well compared with the markets in general. For example,

while many European markets, including the FTSE 100, were down almost 30%

at one point, in early June our portfolio is only down around 3% since December

2019 (a fall to £62m from a peak of £64m). This also comes after a very good

return in 2019, which saw 16% growth in our portfolio due to strong investment

performance and the kindness of benefactors who funded several important new

research projects. Over five years the portfolio has grown (net of drawdown) by

38%, from £45m in 2015: Crescat pecunia Wolfsoniensis, as Isaiah Berlin said in

1979. Despite the downturn, we are therefore still able to increase our investment

drawdown to support students and Fellows in 2020/21 to £1.64m (from £1.57m in

2019/20).

The financial year 2020/21 will be challenging for us as the impact of COVID-19

continues. There are a lot of unknowns, but it is certain that our conferencing and

events income will be substantially reduced as social distancing continues. Our

brilliant conference and events team had grown this income stream to £700k,

but it is now unlikely that we will be able to achieve much of this in the next

financial year. We are, however, confident that students will join us at Wolfson in

their usual numbers in October, and that this will keep the fee and accommodation

income streams mostly intact. Currently, it looks as though the outcome of next

year’s budget will be a deficit of around £560k, even after cutting back as much

expenditure as possible. While such a deficit will be manageable for one year, the

risk to the College will be much greater if the pandemic continues to interrupt

income streams and investment values in the years ahead. We will therefore

continue to position ourselves as best we can, with prudence and caution. We had

hoped to use our returning surplus to start to lower the College’s carbon footprint

through a new heating system, double glazing and insulation – projects that will

cost several million pounds. We are still fully committed to this important goal but,

sadly, it will now take us much longer.

Our top priority, of course, remains financial support to our students and Fellows,

with over £1.5m allocated for such purposes in 2020/21. Costs continue to increase

in the College each year, of course, and last year we were pleased to adopt a

minimum pay rate for all staff in line with that set by the Voluntary Living Wage

Foundation. We will continue to keep this under review and ensure that all members

of staff receive a competitive salary and benefits package. We are committed to

supporting and retaining all our hard working, loyal, and talented staff throughout

this crisis, and although some have been furloughed we continue to pay all staff

100% of their salary.

Despite current pressures on our finances, we have had to allocate around £1m for

several urgent estate projects, where delays would have breached our legal duties or

created much greater expenditure in the near future. Those capital projects are due to

go ahead within the next few months, and will see a replacement lift being installed

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in the Marble Hall, the resurfacing of some courtyards, the refurbishment of the

Common Room balcony. Just before the current crisis started, we had completed

a masterplan for the development of the Wolfson estate, which included, as a first

phase, adding fifty new bedrooms, and building a ‘Long Gallery’ – a multi-purpose

room underneath the ground floor offices in the Berlin Quad and looking out to

the Harbour Quad and Harbour. We also aspire to build a new gymnasium and

fitness centre as an extension to our squash courts. These projects will inevitably

be delayed by the current crisis, but we are continuing to work on ways in which

we might raise the finance to pursue these in due course.

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Penoyre and Prasad, Wolfson College Masterplan Report (March 2020), p. 57

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Letter from the Development Director

In a year of unpredictability and crisis, one constant has been Wolfsonians’ loyalty

and generosity. Throughout the year, this was shown in the support alumni and

friends have given to our current students.

We launched a special Coronavirus Hardship Appeal in April with the objective of

ensuring that no Wolfson students or early career researchers would have to give up

their studies for want of means during the coronavirus crisis today, next academic

year, or in the years to come. The response from Wolfson Fellows, Members of

Common Room, alumni, staff, and students was phenomenal, and a testament to

Wolfson’s remarkable sense of community and solidarity.

More than 230 individual donors made gifts, from across the world – the UK,

Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Israel, the USA, Qatar,

Malaysia – and the appeal raised some £275,000. A special auction in aid of the

appeal included a work of art kindly donated by Bridget Riley (HMCR); signed

copies of Magnetic Field given by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage (HF), the

President’s edition of self-penned haiku, Twaiku eiryu, the acclaimed Lives of

Houses edited by Dame Hermione Lee and Kate Kennedy; and wine from the

College cellar selected by the Chairman of the Wine sub-committee, Jacob Dahl.

All the funds raised will go directly to students and early career researchers in

financial straits.

The special appeal followed a number of generous benefactions in 2019–20 to

endow hardship bursaries. These included a £60,000 legacy from the estate of

Merete Jakobsen, a donation of $20,000 from Clive Foss (MCR), £10,000 from the

Bestway Foundation and £10,000 from an anonymous donor for the Joyce Bonnie

Farley Bursary. Endowed bursaries are a wonderful way of providing a permanent

safety net for Wolfson students who encounter unexpected financial distress, and

we are hugely grateful for this support.

Other gifts have allowed students to embark on ground-breaking research at

Wolfson, for example scholarships in physics and quantum computing, thanks to

Simon Harrison; and in Jewish history, thanks to the Second Joseph Aaron Littman

Foundation. In November 2019 Wolfson received one of the largest gifts in its

history to establish and endow a Junior Research Fellowship in Assyriology and a

research fund in the same field. This will complement the College’s two existing

endowed graduate scholarships in Assyriology, the Jeremy Black Scholarship

and the Reginald Campbell Thompson Scholarship. The new Fellowship will

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strengthen our expertise in the Ancient World and provide a springboard for earlycareer

Assyriologists.

Much has changed in the Alumni and Development Office. As of September 2020,

we work largely from home. We cannot – to our great disappointment – welcome

Wolfsonians back to College or meet them face-to-face. Our normal programme

of events – the summer Gaudy, Syme Society Luncheon, and September drinks

reception – is on hold.

But we look forward to the time when these things are possible again, when we can

thank Wolfson’s alumni and friends in person for their generous support, and show

how all gifts – large and small – have a direct impact on nurturing the expertise

which is Wolfson’s hallmark. In today’s world, it has never been more important.

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Sticking with the long-term

Buffeted by external shocks – coronavirus, Brexit, rising inflation – it is very

tempting to focus on the immediate. How to ensure the student experience this year

is rich, despite coronavirus? How to ensure students from the EU remain welcome

and numerous in 2021? How to balance our books?

But crises are also the right time to keep your eye on the long term. Wolfson was

founded last century, and will still be successful next century. What it stands for

and what it aims for have not changed and will not change. Superb education and

superb research in a studious and stimulating setting.

The College decided in 2019 to commission architects Penoyre and Prasad to look

at Wolfson’s long-term development, over the next few decades. Sunand Prasad

himself works very much in sympathy with the original Powell and Moya design

of the College, and is widely respected for his ground-breaking work on the built

environment adapting to climate change. He and his colleagues spent many months

working with all the groups who represent the College to answer the questions:

‘what will a College environment look like in thirty years’ time? What do we want

it to look like?’ They spoke to academics, students, and staff, thinking hard about

the future before putting elegant pen to paper.

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A new approach (artist’s impression)

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Our broad mandate to the architects as they began their work was that we wanted to

give students more space in the College to be inspired and refreshed. We currently

have something like 650 students, and 320 rooms. So around half of our student

body can be housed in College. But we are aware that it is living in College which

really brings the strongest student experience, especially on arrival in Oxford, and

those who live out can also miss out.

We wanted to give students more space for the arts, of which we are very proud

in Wolfson; more space for sports; and more space for events more generally. And

most importantly, we wanted to do this in a way which anticipated the future rather

than struggled to catch up with it. Collectively we came to these conclusions.

First, that in thirty years there will still be graduate students working on doctorates

and masters who will value a College environment. The names of the higher degrees

may change, but serious continuing research by those with undergraduate degrees

will continue. Indeed the value of generating new ideas as the heart of economic

and political transformation will be more important than ever in a competitive

world. Supporting that study with the human touch, in a humane setting, rather

than being part of a production line, will remain very important.

Second, that the climate emergency means that the world will have changed

forever. The internal combustion engine will become history. So our relationship

with privately owned vehicles will be entirely different, be it more electric vehicles,

or simply fewer privately owned vehicles. The increasing cost of flying will mean

that fewer international students will be heading home three times a year; Wolfson

will become for many more people what it currently is for just some, their home

all the year round.

Third, that the average age of our students is likely to rise a little, and the need to

provide for those in partnerships or with families will be even more important. We

are distinctive in this already, with our nursery and family accommodation, but this

will become even more important.

The result of these discussions was then transformed into a visual statement of

what Wolfson could look like in thirty years’ time. The design sets out not hard

architectural proposals, but a very clear sense of where and how we could grow,

as finances become available; and just as importantly, how to retain everything of

Wolfson which is so prized: its calm, bucolic, thoughtful environment. Buildings

will continue to sit in their own gardens, rather than have gardens as an add-on.

The Harbour area and meadows over the Cherwell stay as they are, the heart of

the College visual identity. Among the new developments, let me pick up three in

particular.

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Our students tell us that excellent gym provision is really important to their

welfare. We certainly felt the lack of gym facilities during full lockdown, and the

restrictions on gym access as autumn arrives, is still a constraint for many. So we

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are proposing a major new development of the gym facilities by upgrading what is

now the squash court area, providing not just squash courts and showers but a highgrade

gym centre for the whole community, including our excellent rowing club.

The architects have discovered that in ‘A’ Block it would not be difficult to

construct a Long Gallery in the space below the ground-level offices. Without

changing the face of Harbour Quad, we could have a whole new space for events,

dinners, display of the art collection, and creating a direct connection between an

indoor space and the outdoor lawn. It would be spectacular, and the envy of many.

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Inside the Long Gallery (artist’s impression)

The architects also discovered that in the original plans for the College there was

discussion about an accommodation wing coming out into what is now the southern

car park; indeed that the car park was in effect its foundation. So there is a proposal

to remove the existing car park and site a carefully crafted site for accommodation

in its place – perhaps to be called the Garden Building – without touching the

extensive planting in that area.

Beyond those three proposals, there are ideas for recasting the current Annex

as a new Chadlington Quad; for pedestrianizing the entrance to the College, for

bringing the Bishop’s House into use as a research centre; and for expanding family

accommodation in the Bishop’s House garden area, while retaining the garden and

its structure, including respect for the quiet residential environment. These will

all require much more architectural work and planning, and of course would rely

heavily on those who generously support the College. This is a long-term approach,

which will no doubt be developed and adapted by future generations of Governing

Body Fellows.

During the long months of coronavirus lockdown I have been lucky enough

to spend a great deal of time in an even quieter than usual College. Crises are

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a challenge, but they can also offer surprising opportunities to perceive deeper

truths, or longer-term trends. While much of Oxford fell quiet, Wolfson carried

on, offering a home to the 200 or so students still in residence; over the next few

decades, we will only see the numbers here during the so-called Vacation rise.

During lockdown, students acutely felt the lack of gym facilities; a generously

equipped gym will become an expectation and requirement over the next ten years.

As the numbers of students arriving in Wolfson surge this year, the need to be able

to offer good quality accommodation on our site, especially to students new to the

UK, will only increase.

And yet, as all these changes happen, the need to provide a distinctive environment

for study, close to the river, free of tourists, with views over rural meadows, and

among rich and generous garden space, will not change. The masterplan we now

have will guide us through that careful balance, to preserve what is special about

Wolfson, and provide for future generations. As Abraham Lincoln is reported as

saying, ‘the best way to predict your future is to create it.’

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List of Donors 2019–20

The College thanks all these people and organisations for their generous donations

in the last academic year.

The Romulus Circle (£50,000+)

Dr Simon Harrison

Mr Reid Hoffman and Dr Michelle Yee

The Estate of Dr Merete Jakobsen

One anonymous donor

The Lycidas Circle (£20,000+)

Morningside Foundation

Silk Road International Foundation

The Estate of Professor Andrew Watson

The Berlin Circle (£10,000+)

Second J.A. Littman Foundation

Bestway Foundation

Professor Julie Curtis and Dr Ray Ockenden

Derrill Allatt Foundation

Professor Clive Foss

Dr Jonathan Paine

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Lady Smith

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The Harbour Circle (£5,000+)

Ms Catriona Cannon

Miss Miranda Curtis

Derek Hill Foundation

Sir Antony and Lady Hoare

Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust

Miss Carol O’Brien

Mr Aamer Sarfraz

Professor David Thomas

One anonymous donor

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The Tree Circle

(£1,000+)

Mr John Adams

Dr Fatma Al-Maadheed

Mr Felix Appelbe

Professor Paul Aveyard

Professor Marcus Banks

Professor Derek Boyd

Mr William Conner

Mrs Helen de Borchgrave

Professor Anne Deighton

Dr Stephen Donaldson

Professor Amato Giaccia

Professor Jan Gralla

Dr Anthony Gray

Professor Barbara Harriss-White

Professor Christopher Hodges

Professor Masa Ikegami

Mr William Kelly

Dr Ira Lieberman

Dr Thayne McCulloh

Dr Jacek Mostwin

Professor Benito Müller

Professor Jagdeep Nanchahal

Dr John Penney

Professor Andrew Prentice

Professor Christina Redfield

Professor Moritz Riede

Mr Walter Sawyer

Mr Graeme Skene

Mr Ronald Sonneborn

Dr Ken Tregidgo

Mr Andrew Tuckey

Dr Anthony Wickett

Professor Anthony Wierzbicki

Lady Williams

Nine anonymous donors

Patrons of the College

(£500+)

Mr Nicolas Barker

Professor Jonathan Barrett

Professor John Brockington

Professor James Byrne

Ms Dan Chen

Dr Tim and Ms Kathy Clayden

Dr Huw David

Dr Roberto Delicata

Dr Martin Francis

Professor Martin Goodman

Dr Sarah Graham

Professor Michael Hitchman

Professor Clifford Jones

Professor John Koumoulides

Professor Helen Lambert

Professor Bettina Lange

Dr James B. Lewis

Professor Roland Littlewood

Dr Gideon Makin

Professor Gillies McKenna

Dr Gregor McLean

Professor Andrew Neil

Professor Geoffrey Pasvol

Paul and Edith Babson Foundation

Mrs Judith Peters

Professor Karla Pollmann

Professor David Ray

The Rt Hon Lord Robert Reed

Professor David Robey

Professor Alison Salvesen

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Mrs Louise Samuel

Mr Philipp Schafer

Professor Rick Schulting

Professor Nicola Smart

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji

Dr Jean Soul-Lawton

Dr Christopher Staker

Mrs Lindsay Stead

Professor Heinrich Taegtmeyer

Dr Linda Tan

Dr Leslie Tupchong

Dr Peter Turner

Professor Marc Ventresca

Professor John Woodhead-Galloway

Three anonymous donors

Sponsors of the College

(£100+)

Professor Jonathan Arch

Dr Philippa Archer

Mrs Gillian Argyle

Dr Shaked Ashkenazi

Dr Martino Bardelli

Dr Simon Barker

Professor John Barnard

Mr Stephen Barry

Dr Christopher Bartley

The Revd Dr William Beaver

Professor Maxine Berg

Dr Michael Bevir

Dr Bonnie Blackburn

Dr David Bounds

The Rt Hon Lord William Bradshaw

Mrs Margaret Broadbent

Dr Sebastian Brock

Dr Susann Bruche

Mr Richard Buch

Professor Philip Bullock

Professor Christoph Bultmann

Mr Rhys Burriss

Professor Richard Butterwick-

Pawlikowski

Dr Robin Buxton

Dr Helen Caldwell

Mr Carl Calvert

Dame Averil Cameron

Dr Choon Chai

Dr Cyril Chapman

Mr Howard Clarke

Dr Nicola Clarke

Professor Pamela Clemit

Professor John Coleman

Professor Reuben Conrad

Professor James Crabbe

Dr Andrew Crane

Dr Diana Crane

Professor David Cranston

Dr George Cranstoun

Professor Abigail Cunningham

Dr Paula Curnow

Mr James Currey

Mr Steve Curtis

Professor Shimon Dar

Professor David Deutsch

Dr Margaret Dick

Professor Kennerly Digges

Ms Sarah Donaldson

Dr Simon Dowell

Dr Igor Dyson

Mr John Edgley

Dr Charles E. Ehrlich

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Dr John Ellis

Mr Michael Esplen

Extended Mind

Ms Mary Ferry

Ms Caro Fickling

Professor Thomas Figueira

Professor Peter Flewitt

Professor Godfrey Fowler

Ms Kerstin Frie

Dr Matthew Frohn

Dr David Geggus

Professor Alexander George

Brigadier Alan Gordon

Ms Kiyoko Hanaoka

Dr Sabina Heinz

Dr Martin Henry

Dr Paul Henry

Dr Miguel Hernandez-Bronchud

Dr Daniel Herskowitz

Dr Raymond Higgins

Professor Jonathan Hill

Dr Richard Hitchman

Mr Roger Hobby

Professor Robert Hohlfelder

Dr David Holloway

Ms Sally Horovitz

Mr John Howell

Dr Susan Iles

Dr Daniel Isaacson

Professor Mary Jacobus

Ms Sarah Jarvis

Professor Ann Jefferson

Mrs Wendy Jennings

Professor Carolyn Kagan

Dr Philip Kay

Dr Boris Kayachev

Dr Lorcan Kennan

Professor Jim Kennedy

Professor Richard Keshen

Mr Graham Klyne

Dr John Koval

Mr Yusaku Kurahashi

Dr Matthew Landrus

Professor David Langslow

Pattie Langton

Dr Zoia Larin Monaco

Dr Ann Laskey

Professor Helen Lawton Smith

Professor Robin Leake

Dr Kuangdai Leng

Mr Christopher Lethbridge

Professor Jeremy MacClancy

Mr Michael Macdonald

Professor Marc Mangel

Mr Alan Mapstone

The Estate of Dr Francis Marriott

Dr Jody Maxmin

Professor Colin McDiarmid

Dr Tom Mclean

Dr Paul Metzgen

Dr Jean-Louis Metzger

Mrs Sarah Metzger-Court

Dr Hans Meyer

Dr Robin Meyer

Professor Francisco Mora

Mr Dan Morgan

Ms Peggy Morgan

Dr Victoria Mort

Ms Shona Nicholson

Ms Lucia Nixon

Professor Judith Okely

Professor Giuliano Pancaldi

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Mrs Nicola Park

Dr Georgi Parpulov

Mr Raphael Pietzsch Amora

Dr Janice Pinder

Dr John Pinot de Moira

Professor Fernanda Pirie

Ms Kathryn Pocock

Dr Mark Pottle

Mr Raymond Pow

Ms Catherine Quinn

Professor Charles Ramble

Dr Nigel Ramsay

Dr Robert Rees

Mr John Rendall

Dr Julie Richardson

Carolyn M. Roberts

Professor Carolyn R. Roberts

Dr Stephen Roberts

Dr Paul Roberts

Professor David Roulston

Dr Andrew Rowan

Dr Judith Ryder

Dr Arthur Ryman

Mr Malcolm Savage

Dr John Sellars

Dr Kasturi Sen

Professor Joanna Shapland

Mr and Mrs Charles and Sarah Shaw

Dr Varda Shiffer

Mr Ben Simpson

Professor Pritam Singh

Professor Alan Spivey

Mrs Gillian Stansfield

Professor Peter Stewart

Professor Lloyd Strickland

Mr Michael Strugale

Dr Anne Sykes

Professor Noraini Tamin

Dr Michael Taylor

Professor Charles Taylor

Professor Swee Thein

Professor Robert Thomas

Dr Noreen Thomas

Dr Sally Thompson

Professor Charles Thompson

Mr Christopher Thompson-Walsh

Dr Edward Thorogood

Dr Michael Tully

Dr Sue Vaughan

Mr Nouri Verghese

Her Excellency Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Dr Susan Walker

Mr Christopher Walton

Dr Quanlong Wang

Dr Xin Wei

Dr John Wells

Ms Ruth Wells

Ms Pip Willcox

Dr Henry Winstanley

Professor Adrian Wood

Professor Christopher Woodruff

Professor Michael Worthington

Dr Adam Wyatt

Mr Gokhan Yilmaz

Professor Zeynep Yurekl-Gorkay

Dr Hubert Zawadzki

Professor David Zeitlyn

Seventeen anonymous donors

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Supporters of the College

Dr Nicholas Allen

Dr Maryam Aslany

Mrs Liz Baird

Mr Peter Berkowitz

Miss Julia Binter

Mr Michael Bloom

Dr Steven Bosworth

Dr Juan Carlos Boue

Professor Harry Bryden

Dr Kurt Burnham

Dr Andrew Busby

Dr Erica Charters

Professor Timothy Claridge

Mr Barry Coote

Mr Rhys David

Dr Katrien Devolder

Dr Davide Di Maio

Professor Robert Dingwall

Dr Michael Dodd

Mr Thomas Filbin

Professor Karen Fuson

Ms Clare Gardom

Ms Naide Gedikli-Gorali

Professor Deborah Gera

Dr Alun German

Dr Joshua Ginsberg

Professor Richard Gombrich

Ms Louise Gordon

Dr Yegor Grebnev

Professor Jonathan Hart

Professor James Henle

Dr David Hill

Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig

Dr Lama Jabb

Dr Barry Johnston

Ms Margit Kail

Dr Ilya Kardailsky

Dr Paul Klenerman

Dr Matthew Lecznar

Ms Home Lowe

Dr Qiong Lu

Mrs Anne Lucas

Professor Jeffrey Lucas

Miss Kathryn Mackay

Dr Nancy Macky

Dr Nicholas Marquez-Grant

Dr Diana Martin

Dr Dominik Maschek

Miss Alexis McGivern

Dr Brian McKenna

Professor Partha Mitter

Professor Rana Mitter

Dr Courtney Nimura

Dr Jonathan Noble

Professor Robert Owens

Dr Jacqueline Piper

Dr Jane Potter

Mr Ilan Price

Mr Kylash Rajendran

Ms Tabassum Rasheed

Dr Peter Raven

Miss Natasha Reynolds

Professor Peter Rhodes

Dr Stephen Romer

Ms Bridget Simpson

Dr St John Simpson

Professor Alastair Small

Miss Marlene Spangenberg

Mr Jon Spooner

Professor John Sutton

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Dr Robert Tanner

Professor Shawkat Toorawa

Professor David Wiles

Dr Beau Woodbury

Dr Jonathan Woolf

Mrs Carol Wratten

Mr Simon Wratten

Gifts to the Library

Miss Juan Juan Wu

Mr Shuhao Yan

Professor Norman Yoffee

Dr Mackenzie Zalin

Dr Boshu Zhang

Mrs Anna Zubek

Sixteen anonymous donors

The Library welcomes gifts of books from all its members, past and present,

which enhance its academic collections and add to the pleasure of its readers. This

year substantial donations have been received from Professor Donna Kurtz and

Professor Janet Delaine, and from Professor Stephanie Dalley antiquarian volumes

of The genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian: containing twenty

books of the Jewish antiquities, seven books of the Jewish War, and the Life of

Josephus, written by himself.

Books have generously been donated by those whose names follow, authors or

contributors being identified by an asterisk. Only those books received by 31

March 2020 are included.

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian)

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*Dr Nicholas Allen

*John Maxwell Atkinson

*Professor Elleke Boehmer

*Professor Julie Curtis

*Professor Jacob Dahl

Dr Stephanie Dalley

Professor Anne Deighton

*Professor Janet DeLaine

*Professor Penelope Gardner-Chloros

*Dr Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz

Kiyoko Hanaoka

Dr Robert Harskin

*Professor Barbara Harriss-White

Dr Theresia Hofer

*Reid Hoffmann

Andreas Johns

*Professor Bettina Lange

Dr James Lewis

John Livingston

*Professor Itikar Malik

*Professor Matthew Macartney

*Dr Robert Mines

*Professor Philomen Probert

Kevin Schlege

*Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord

*Dr Roger Tomlin

*Susan Walker

Rob Ward

Wright and Wright

*Hubert Zawaldzki

Antigoni Zournatzi

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American Football

Colleges do not always share their sports facilities with University teams, contrary to

what most people might think, but when Wolfson was approached by the University

American Football team, the ‘Lancers’, we helped them put on a demonstration

dubbed ‘Wednesday Night at Wolfson’ with mobile floodlights to show how our

pitch could be used during the fall months after early sunsets. This was thanks to

amazing support from the President, the Social and Cultural Committee, Michael

Pearson and his crew, and Barry Coote. Wolfson also generously hosted three home

fixtures for the Lancers, essentially saving their season, as many other pitches in

the area were under water. It also showed the University’s Sports Federation how

invaluable college partnerships can be.

Stewart Humble

SCC Sports Chair

AMREF Group

Our work has continued successfully this year, punctuated by exciting new

connections and initiatives. In addition to our familiar fundraising activities, we

have welcomed visitors from Amref UK and supported a new project which aims

to improve sexual health education for young women in Africa by using sport as a

catalyst for empowerment.

The Sunday Coffee Shop continues to be a success, with many Wolfsonians

generously contributing cakes and other baked goods. At the Fireworks Display

in November the sale of mulled wine in the Harbour Quad, coupled with some

enthusiastic and dedicated bucket-shakers, raised £1,214. The Pub Quiz which

began in Hilary 2019 has become an established termly event, in Hilary 2020

even managing to draw a (very successful) team from the Governing Body. This

year’s prizes were generously donated by a range of local businesses, including the

Oxford Retreat, the Jam Factory, the Cherwell Boathouse, the Anchor and the Mad

Hatter, as well as donations from the College Bar and wine cellar.

In Hilary term, Wolfson donated £3000 to the project already mentioned, ‘Sport for

Health: Empowering Girls Through Sport’. This is to be realised in Dagoretti and

Mukuru, two informal settlements in Nairobi, and will offer teenage girls sexual

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Our donation will help train health workers who will pass on their knowledge to

3,000 girls. The College has since received a letter from Amref thanking it for this

contribution and for its continued support.

On 13 February, the College was delighted to welcome Camilla Knox-Peebles

(CEO) and Rebecca Miller (Fundraising Manager) of Amref UK as the President’s

guests at the annual Haldane Lecture and the guest night dinner afterwards. Also in

attendance, as representing the Group, were Mark Pottle and student representatives

Nameerah Khan and Ryan Walker.

The pandemic has of course affected all aspects of College life, and the Group’s

activities are no exception. Face-to-face fundraising was impossible in Trinity

term, and in Nairobi the Amref County Health Management Team made the

understandable decision to postpone the Sport for Health project to allow its

members to focus on their response to COVID-19. But we thank Amref for its

clear and open communication about this, and look forward to future news of the

project. We also look forward to resuming our face-to-face fundraising activities

when it becomes safe to do so.

Despite this unusual end to the year, the Wolfson–Amref connection is as strong

as ever. The success of this relationship is only made possible by the continual and

wonderful support of College members. To everyone who has made these activities

possible, we offer warm and sincere thanks.

Ryan Walker

AMREF Student Representative

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BarCo

The Cellar Bar started the year by hosting several events for Freshers’ Week,

including a pub quiz, karaoke, bar games, a leg of the college pub crawl and the

famed Alphabop. Many freshers joined the rota as the wonderful community

around our student-run Bar continues to grow, with inductions being held in

Michaelmas and Hilary terms. We hosted several events during the year, including

two bops organized by the Wolfson Internal Entz team; LGBTQ drinks featuring

a cocktail menu curated by our Social Sub-committee; several charity pub quizzes

in conjunction with Amref; and a successful jazz night featuring the Rough Edge

Brass Band.

Hilary term brought some changes: the Bar is currently closed, but to keep up

morale and provide some respite and delicious refreshments for those who remain

in College, we have moved to a volunteer-run online ordering and delivery system

and set up a ‘Wolfson radio station’ on Discord. There has been a very warm

response, and we are now planning how to give the freshers of 2020 as much fun

in Freshers’ Week as in any previous year.

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Our most exciting work in progress is a Wolfson College beer. We had a visit

from a local brewery in early Hilary for a tasting session in which a beer was

chosen by our greatest beer enthusiasts, and recently we held a competition to

design the bottle labels, the winner of which will be announced this summer. We

hope to develop other Wolfson beverages in the future. As always, we look forward

to another exciting year for the Bar, which we hope will continue to be a safe,

inclusive and sociable space for the Wolfson community.

Cathy Wormald

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Board Games

This is the third anniversary of the Board Game Society founded by Nicola Dotti

and myself. We hosted a large event at Fresher’s Week with more than twenty

people attending, which was a lot of fun and attracted new members. This year

we extended our collection of board games with funds given by the College, and

gained a dedicated space in the refurbished TV room which has a bigger table,

ideal for board games. The collection caters for all interests and levels: players

without previous knowledge have fun, while experts can still be challenged. There

are strategic and role-playing games, as well as games for larger social gatherings.

They are being played regularly, a great way to meet new people and have fun

together. We only hope the Covid-19 situation will soon improve, so that we can

organise events again.

Michael Slota

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Boat Club

The Club celebrated two major achievements this year, its fiftieth anniversary, and

the women’s first boat going Head of the River. We entered crews successfully

in summer regattas such as Molesey, where the men won their division and the

women came second in theirs. Success followed at Henley Town and Visitors and

Oxford City Royal Regatta. Our women won both their 8+ event and the ‘supersprints’

during Oxford Royal, and the same event saw a Wolfson – Wolfson Final

between our 4+ crews. Two of our rowers also won the prestigious Mixed Pairs

Head competition on the Thames, the pennant for which is now displayed in

College alongside the Head of the River and Most Improved Members Trophy.

Unfortunately the tide turned at the beginning of the academic year. Country-wide

flooding closed our beloved river for most of Michaelmas and Hilary, and was soon

followed by the global pandemic which kept us in lockdown at home or in College.

At the time of writing, it is unlikely that we will be rowing eight-person boats any

time soon, but we are determined to stay sociable and active as a club throughout

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The annual beginners’ event, Christ Church Regatta, was cancelled by the floods

and replaced by an ‘Ergatta’. We entered two women’s crews in this gruelling relay

on ergometers, requiring not only strength and endurance but also agility to achieve

quick changeovers between rowers. All this with bellowing encouragement from

their captains. Both teams did extremely well in their divisions, with one losing

only to Balliol.

Despite the difficult river conditions our squads managed to squeeze in a few

external regattas. In Michaelmas term a Womens 4+ and a Men’s 4+ attended the

Upper Thames Autumn Head and the Fairburns Cup respectively. A Womens 4+

then competed at Fours Head of the River Race in London, where Club member

Miriam Stricker also raced in an Oxford Lightweights crew that won their event.

Our last race was Quintin Head, which saw our women compete in two matched

VIIIs.

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‘Warpids’ 2020 (photo: Mi Jun Keng)

Torpids was cancelled, but Pembroke organised a tug-of-war ‘Warpids’ event in

its place. In this competition our two teams of eight huffed and puffed beside the

overflowing river, with one unfortunately losing to the other and the victors not

quite making the finals. That was the end of group activities, since the pandemic

ensued a few weeks later. However, we have not been idle. The Club has organised

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virtual yoga, ballet and circuits sessions weekly, as well as competitions in cycling,

running and home sports to challenge us and keep us in good spirits. We have

also tried to increase access by reallocating funding to reduce costs and increase

available support for individuals at all levels in the Club.

I am delighted to report that this year’s sponsor, an alumnus of the Club, has kindly

renewed his support for the coming year. Plentiful success, I hope, will reward him

and the incoming committee and members.

Adam Ferris

Boat Club President

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Choir

The Choir started the year with a bang, holding a ‘Choir and Cupcakes’ session as

part of Wolfson Week, which saw a large group of newcomers and oldtimers gather

in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium to try out choral singing with a fun mix of

songs, ranging from ‘Bíum Bíum Bambaló’, a slightly creepy Icelandic lullaby, to

‘Barrett’s Privateers’, a swashbuckling Canadian pirate song. Barely a week later

we gave our first performance as part of the Music Society’s Freshers’ Concert, a

chance for musicans at Wolfson to get together and make music for each other in

a relaxed atmosphere. We mustered a small choir which was even called upon for

an encore.

It was a good start to the year. At the end of Michaelmas term we gave the traditional

Christmas concert, treating a large audience in the Auditorium to a mix of the

old English favourites and songs in French, German and Latin. Afterwards, we

trooped to the Café for mulled wine and mince pies, amid much cheerful chatter

and laughter, interrupted only by an unexpected encore rendition of ‘We wish you

a merry Christmas’. We hope this tradition will continue in years to come.

A new tradition was born in Hilary term, when the choir sang during drinks before

the last formal dinner. Amidst the hum of conversation and the occasional clink of

glasses, a series of songs of rebellion rang out: ‘Cutty Wren’, a song about killing

and eating the king, ‘The Chartist Anthem’, ‘Hum Dekhenge’, an Urdu song of

protest, and a haunting version of ‘Maid on the Shore’ about a young woman who

tricks and robs a wicked captain. We little knew it was to be our last event of the

year: with the Covid-19 restrictions, our preparations for the May Day Concert,

usually a highlight of our year, came to naught. It will be a while before it is safe to

gather again and sing together, but we look forward to it eventually.

Ursula Westwood

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Entz (external)

The year started with three exchange dinners in Michaelmas (St Antony’s, Kellogg,

and Queen’s) and a very popular chocolate-tasting event. We also organized a trip

to London for the musical The Book of Mormon. Three more exchange dinners

were held in Hilary (St Hilda’s, LMH, and St Hugh’s), and we went back to London

for the musical Hamilton just before the lockdown. Trinity brought fine weather,

but the lockdown forced us to cancel all our plans. We hope everyone stays safe.

Maysa Falah

External Entz Chair

Entz (internal)

We live in interesting times. The year started on a promising note, with our

traditional Alphabop in the Bar and Games Room to mark the beginning of the

academic year and to welcome freshers into Wolfson and Oxford. Next term we

moved our annual 90s-themed MmmBop to Trinity term instead, and invited the

Wolfson community to choose their favourite bop themes for Hilary. They chose

Memebop and Bop to the Future. Memebop was a rousing success, and even

included a costume contest, but unfortunately Bop to the Future, which would have

coincided with Darwin Day, was cancelled because of the pandemic, like Darwin

Day itself and all our subsequent events. But we look forward to the day when we

will once again provide a chance to relax, to dance with friends and enjoy some

great music.

Nameerah Khan

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Family Society

Michaelmas is traditionally the busiest term for the Family Society. Many families

arrive in Oxford in the autumn, and the Society provides opportunities for them to

get to know each other, and for children and their parents to make friends. More

than ninety guests, old and young, came to our Welcoming Party in Fresher’s Week,

which was held – for the first time – in the newly refurbished Buttery. Despite the

unlimited potential for destruction, the Buttery survived unscathed. Another first

was an information session to exchange useful tips.

The Society’s role in building relationships is made easier by the onslaught of

family holidays in the autumn. As most of our members are far from their own

families, we try to get them together as one large family. Halloween is the highlight,

and features both pumpkin-carving and trick-or-treating. Together, we carved 45

pumpkins for heroic volunteers to take to the Buttery. Next day, a spooky crowd

of little monsters brought awe to the College and did not spare the Presidential

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Lodgings either in their quest for treats. When all was over and it was dark, they

feasted – with their exhausted parents – on twenty monster-sized pizzas.

It was also a year of innovation. Family-friendly formal Halls have become a

popular termly event. The Family Room opened in November 2019, and may be the

first such room in an Oxford college. Its purpose is to provide a space for members

with children to socialise, and to make it easier for non-resident members with

families to visit the College and take part in its life. Families are always welcome to

dine in Hall, but time restrictions apply for the Common Rooms. Saturday brunch

has often been followed by families gathering in the Family Room.

The Society held a winter party at the end of Michaelmas, to mark the end of 2019

with plenty of cakes and drinks. The first event of 2020 was a potluck party in

mid-January, with some fifteen families enjoying homemade cakes and food from

around the world. We held a movie afternoon in the Buttery with popcorn and

crisps just two weeks before the lockdown, our last social gathering in 2019/20.

It has been challenging for many members with children since March, when the

College, schools and nurseries were closed down. However, Wolfson has been

truly supportive. Children can still play in the sports field and the Bishop’s House

garden. Resident children were given surprise chocolates by the Easter Bunny.

Families have cared for and helped each other during these difficult times.

Hansol Hanelt and Chigusa Yamaura

Feminist Society

This was the first full year of the Society’s existence. We are committed to upholding

a feminism that is intersectional, trans and non-binary inclusive, and anti-racist. We

aim to create safe spaces within which all members of the Wolfson community can

discuss, learn about and celebrate intersectional feminism.

We were delighted to join the other societies during Freshers’ Week, and

attracted many new sign-ups to our mailing list and Facebook group. In spite of

postponements due to the pandemic, we held ten events this year, attended by a

wide range of College members.

One of the highlights was the panel discussion ‘Wolfson Women in Academia’

with three speakers: Dr Erica Charters, Associate Professor of Global History and

the History of Medicine; Dame Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson 2008–17 and

Emeritus Professor of English Literature; and Dr Nikita Sud, Associate Professor of

Development Studies. Our panellists spoke about the challenges facing women and

other disproportionately represented groups in academia, and discussed different

approaches towards challenging structural inequalities.

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The Society hosts a book club each term, reading texts that we have chosen together.

This year we read Audre Lorde’s classic collection of essays, Sister Outsider (1984),

Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2017), and Jack Halberstam’s

Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018). These books

promoted lively discussions on the ways that feminist scholarship and activism can

and must work to oppose misogyny, racism, and the erasure of trans and non-binary

lives, even within its own ranks.

A second event each term has been our ‘No Stupid Questions’ discussion evening.

We developed this format to give participants the chance to bring their own

questions to the group by submitting them anonymously in advance. Each question

we discussed, however complex or seemingly simple, prompted a productive

conversation, proving that there truly are no stupid questions.

Our other events included two film screenings and discussions, of Iranian director

Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men (2009), and F. Gary Gray’s Set It Off (1996).

In Michaelmas we also helped to facilitate a ‘Feminist Cybersecurity Workshop’ in

Wolfson, which combined practical digital security training with discussion about

the relationships between gender and the traditionally male-dominated world of

cybersecurity.

Unfortunately we had to postpone several events scheduled for Trinity term,

including the history workshop ‘From “White Slavery” to “Migratory Sex Work”:

Coercion, Consent and Women’s Agency in Human Trafficking Discourses from

the 19th Century Until Today.’ A second event would have been a screening and

discussion of Abandoned, a 2018 film about the impact that being denied legal

abortions has had on the lives of several women. Lawyer Francisca Fernández

Guillén, who took part in the film’s creation, and Professor of Philosophy Stella

Villarmea, were due to join us.

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The Society is working to reschedule this workshop and film screening, and looks

forward to next year, when it will continue to contribute to the academic and social

life of Wolfson by offering a wide range of events. We are also committed to

supporting College initiatives that respond to the imperatives that, while far from

new, have been highlighted by recent global events and the Black Lives Matter

movement.

Ira Pavlova and Rose Stair

Football Club

The Wolfson / St Cross football team had a successful year in a season plagued by

storms and pandemic. A solid intake of new players added to a strong foundation

from both colleges. We continued to train twice a week, the turnout ranging from

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students looking to play casual football to those playing in the first team. In total

over fifty students took part in the football club this year.

The first team secured its place in the top division once again, ending in sixth place,

10 points off the top of the table. Will Vickery finished the year as top goal scorer

with 6 goals. In cuppers, a dramatic game against St Hugh’s, involving a (slightly

offside) winning goal from Will Vickery in extra time, pitted us against our bitter

rivals Corpus / Linacre in the semi-finals. Once again they just got the better of us

in a 2–1 epic with the winner coming in the last minute of extra time.

The second team were able to put rivalry to one side and continued its strong

relationship with Corpus / Linacre. They missed promotion by just one point,

coming third and scoring 29 goals, conceding only 8.

Futsal Cuppers was replaced by FIFA Cuppers. Our time in the competition was

short-lived as our only entry, Oliver Carr, was knocked out in the first round by the

(eventual) runner-up.

The first team Players’ Player of the season was Tim Baxter and the Captain’s

Player was Toby Balaam. The second team Player of the season was John Suriya.

All three gave outstanding performances in every game. I must thank Youssuf

Saleh and Basil Nelis for their work as joint-captains this year, and wish the

incoming captains, Laurie Hutchence and Tim Baxter, the best of luck as they take

the armbands for next season.

Eoin Finnegan (St Cross)

Men’s Football Captain

Foxes Women’s Football

The football season came to a premature end this year, but the Foxes emerged

victorious from all the League games they played. We also made it to the semifinals

of Cuppers, but unfortunately lost to St Cat’s. This year we welcomed many

talented new Foxes, but also had to say goodbye to our wonderful coach, Felipe

Roa-Clavijo. He had been with us for four seasons, coaching us to second place in

Cuppers and First League in 2017 and 2018, and first place in the Hassan’s Cup

and First League in 2019.

Lena Reim

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LGBTQIA+ Society

Three events have helped the College feel more inclusive and tolerant. The first

was Diversity Night which we organised with Maribel Schönewolff, the BAME

representative, a drinks night at which we could do surveys and get to know the

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different communities in Wolfson. Then LGBTQ Drinks Night, for the ‘queer’

community to get together and relax a little. Many guests came, and the ‘gay’

cocktails were a great success. And finally the ‘No Stupid Questions’ Zoom event

led by Maribel, which allowed Wolfson to think about all forms of diversity and to

start discussing how to make clubs and societies more diverse.

I conclude with a big Thank You to Maribel for being so supportive and proactive,

and I am so glad she will be at Wolfson for a few more years. As for future events,

even though I will be leaving this year, I hope to work with the next LGBTQ rep

to ensure a seamless transition. I wish all LGBTQ students success at Wolfson, and

thank them for letting me represent them.

Timothy Knight

Old Wolves and Archives

On 7 November 2019 we welcomed back Michael Hitchman, one of Wolfson’s first

JRFs (1968), later Professor of (Physical) Chemistry at Stirling University, who

gave us a light-hearted illustrated introduction to the world of industrial coatings:

‘Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoats’. This was preceded by a buffet lunch in the

newly refurbished Buttery, at which we celebrated the 90th birthday of gardens

expert Ken Burras (MCR 1967–76, SF 1976–97, MCR 1997–). Walter Sawyer

(SF), Superintendent of the University Parks for 26 years, reminisced about Ken’s

long and important association with the College. Ken was Gardens Adviser for

Wolfson and it is partly thanks to his influence that the College in its early days

retained so many of its mature trees. He is a long-standing member of the Grounds

sub-committee, and also an ex-Superintendent of Oxford’s Botanic Garden. We are

very grateful to an anonymous donor for generous assistance with this event.

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Celia Sawyer and Ken Burras

(photos: Liz Baird)

On 13 February 2020 John Kirby (MCR), retired member of staff and independent

scholar, gave us a taste of his impressive research into the Anglo-Saxon battle of

Brúnanburh. His lecture even included a slide of the tide tables for AD 937, as

might be expected from the author of Identifying Brúnanburh: ón dyngesmere

(2019).

On 13 March Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (GS 1999–2006, MCR), Lecturer in

Forensic Anthropology at Cranfield University, organised an unusual symposium

with Dr David Errickson, also of Cranfield, which focussed on legacy issues from

both World Wars, especially the search for missing casualties, identifying human

remains and remembering the war dead. A number of international organisations

are involved in this task, and an important aim is to provide for dignified burial and

thus closure to the families concerned. Archaeological techniques are used to search

for and recover the dead, mostly in the battlefields of Belgium and France for the

First War, and in Germany, Italy and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe for

the Second. Forensic anthropology (the analysis of human skeletal remains), which

assists in identifying the dead, is promoted by international exchanges of specialist

knowledge and experience such as this symposium.

The symposium was attended by experts from the Ministry of Defence and

representatives from the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre, the Royal

Air Force, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Dutch Army.

Archaeologists, anthropologists and forensic scientists came from the UK and

many countries in Europe including Russia, Lithuania, France, Germany, Belgium,

Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. There was also remote participation by members of

organisations such as the Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Centre, the

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International Committee for the Red Cross, the Committee on Missing Persons in

Cyprus and the Aranzadi Society of Sciences.

The President welcomed the participants, those present including Dr Erica Charters

(GBF) who will be the next Fellow for Archives. The meeting was very motivating,

with a great exchange of knowledge, and future actions were agreed including a

publication on policies and legislation worldwide, which will be for the benefit of

all. The organisers thank the College for its hospitality, and especially the Events

Team, the staff at the Lodge, the catering team, the Archivist and the President.

Wolfson was an appropriate venue, not only for its international perspective, but

because it was on this site that three airmen and a civilian lost their lives in 1941, as

remembered by Jane Moir in her ‘Recollections of 11 Chadlington Road, 1938–57’

later in this Record.

One more event was arranged for 7 May 2020, but by then the College was in

lockdown. We were therefore all the more appreciative of Dr Susan Walker’s talk

‘The House of Venus: living it up in late Roman Volubilis’, which she delivered

skilfully via Zoom. This lively talk was accompanied by images of naked

frolicking maidens and others, which cheered us all up enormously. Dr Walker

(EF) is an Honorary Curator of the Ashmolean Museum, where she was Sackler

Keeper of Antiquities during 2004–14. Her latest publication is ‘The House of

Venus at Volubilis: a late Roman residence?’ in E. Fentress and H. Limane (eds),

Volubilis après Rome. Les fouilles UCL/INSAP, 2000–2005 (2018), a version of

which appears in the OCLW monograph Lives of Houses (2020).

Mention should also be made of an unusual gift to the Archives. The late Professor

Myron Evans (JRF 1975), who published prolifically and held controversial views

on matters such as climate change, was famous for the Einstein–Cartan–Evans

(ECE) theory, a would-be unified theory of physics. During his career he won many

prizes, awards and nominations, including several nominations for the Nobel Prize.

He was awarded the 1978 Bronze Harrison Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of

Chemistry and the 1979 Bronze Meldola Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry,

which he donated to the College before his death in May 2019.

If you are one of our Old Wolves, anyone with memories of Wolfson in former

times, you are welcome to join us at our termly lunches, which are normally held

in Hall on a self-service, self-pay basis, but do remember to book with us first

(archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk). A talk will follow, and events have already been

planned for 2021, but we do not yet know which will be via Zoom. Even if they

take place in the Auditorium, we may also use Zoom. Please check with the College

nearer the time. To join us for a Zoom event, email the Archivist by noon of the

Thursday seven days before the event, and the link will be sent to you.

Liz Baird

College Archivist

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Punt Club

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Left to right: Sailors Alex Sumadijaya, Alex Corney, Jonathan Knight, Jesse Lundquist, Pirate Calvin,

Boatman Martin Cross, Sailor Tim Hitchens, Boatman Jim Ronaldson, Sailor Jay Lewis, Ship IT

Manager Stephen Gower (photo: Etienne Hanelt)

When our crew of fearless pirates took in the punts for the winter break in October

2019, little did they know how long it would be until they could set sail again. As

usual the punts were taken in for repairs and maintenance during the period of

ungodly weather, but this time the crew was on the beach for much longer still.

The spring weather was painfully sunny, only seldom interrupted by clouds, but

the sailors felt like landlubbers. How they longed for the open sea, the fresh breeze

and salty air! Only in June, as the lockdown slowly eased, were the punts launched

again. Soon our mighty fleet shall once more rule the Cherwell, and bring fear to

the unscrupulous mariners of LMH and the treasure-laden argosies of Cherwell

Boathouse.

Etienne Hanelt

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Reading Group

Our meetings this year were cut short in March before we met to discuss The Master

and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. However, in Michaelmas term we enjoyed

three very different books. Men without Women, short stories by Haruki Murakami,

was a fascinating read. We followed this with Drive your plow over the bones of the

dead by Nobel and International Booker prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk, a feminist

murder mystery with a comic twist which was much enjoyed. We ended the year

with Robert Macfarlane’s latest book Underland: A Deep Time Journey.

I hope we will be able to meet again before too long. In the meantime, an online

Wolfson Book Group has been initiated which can be accessed through the website

at www.goodreads.com/group/show/1081714-wolfson-college-book-club

Jan Scriven

Ultimate Frisbee

Ultimate is a sport known for its high energy, sportsmanship and inclusivity, and

last year’s College League did not disappoint. We welcomed our largest and most

diverse team yet, bringing lots of enthusiasm and talent to the squad. Despite the

Michaelmas mud, they reached Christmas undefeated in a series of nail-biting

games. Further sport was curtailed by the pandemic, but the team is proud to have

finished the season joint-leaders of the League. We anticipate the next season to

be as competitive and enjoyable as the last, and look forward to welcoming new

players to keep Wolfson at the top of the leaderboard.

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Ultimate Frisbee team 2020 (left to right): Sarah Miller, Matt Jaquiery, Mateo Galdeano Solans, Michael

Howlett, Ed Miller, Bogdan Draghici and Jonathan Grant-Peters. Not pictured: Sophie Thorup, Muriel

van der Laan (photo: Bogdan Draghici)

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University Challenge

Claire Jones (Captain), Ryan Walker, Mike Perrin, Amogh Dhar Sharma and I were

Wolfson’s first-ever team to compete in the filmed part of University Challenge.

This is an accomplishment in itself, since more than a hundred teams meet the

producers each year and take a paper-based quiz to prove they won’t melt in the

face of the competition, a studio audience and Jeremy Paxman with his questions

on British statues, 16th-century poetry and past Glastonbury headliners.

We managed an exhilarating run of four games, led by show-stopping answers

by Claire and more than one nail-biting tie-breaker. The show went on the air

months after being filmed, but I was still on the edge of my seat watching at home

and reliving the experience. Unfortunately we were bested in our fifth match, just

before reaching the quarter-finals. Overall it was a very positive experience, largely

due to the kind, passionate people who work on the show, who took very good

care of us while we were filming in Manchester. Our thanks also to everyone who

supported us along the way, cheering us on in studio and at home, and the best of

luck to Wolfson’s many future teams!

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Yoga

Millions of people all over the world have turned to yoga and meditation in the last

three months to maintain wellbeing. In this current anxiety, there has never been a

better time to start practising yoga. Our students have embraced the opportunity,

not only to build a physical practice, but in this time of physical distancing, to

found a virtual community for mutual connection and support. It also helps them

take the teachings of yoga off the mat to take care of the environment and help

those in need.

Virtual Yoga (photo: Kristine Homoki)

This photo of a Zoom meeting was taken on a sunny Wednesday evening, when we

practised in the garden, on the balcony, by the river or in the comfort of our living

room. We have attracted people from all over the world, which is one advantage of

moving classes online. They have continued twice a week in term and out of term,

throughout the summer, and are subsidised for students, discounted for alumni,

staff and members of Common Room. Do feel free to join us, and together let us

boost our immunities, build mental and emotional resilience, and stay balanced and

grounded. To find out more, please email kristine.homoki@gmail.com or join our

Facebook group: Wolfson Yoga and Acroyoga Clubs

Kristine Homoki

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Ancient World

AWRC supports College members working on Ancient World topics – currently

over 100 – and promotes interdisciplinary working and exchange across different

age groups and experience. Thanks to generous funding from Baron Lorne

Thyssen-Bornemisza (HF), we are able to do this through grants, sponsorship of

research events and the organisation of a variety of activities intended for both

our members and the wider University and public. We also support projects which

foster collaboration with other academic institutions, both within the University

and around the world. The breadth of our members’ research interests is reflected

in the wide variety of events we have been able to organise.

The Cluster was busy in Michaelmas and Hilary with a number of special events

and new initiatives in addition to the regular programme, but the Trinity programme

has been postponed until next year because of the pandemic, together with several

planned conferences and fieldwork programmes.

Grants were awarded in support of three international workshops and conferences

to be held at Wolfson, organised by a welcome mixture of Fellows and student

members. They include a workshop entitled ‘From Alexandria to Kabul: languages,

cultures and communities in the Sasanian World’; a conference on ‘Art, Science

and Religion: An Integrated Perspective on the Communication between East and

West along the Ancient Silk Road’; and the Ninth Annual Oxford Postgraduate

Conference in Assyriology.

Five grants were made in support of fieldwork and essential post-excavation

analyses. They include survey in the desert of north-east Jordan, and at the

Roman legionary fortress and provincial capital of Carnuntum in Austria, as well

as radiocarbon dating for early Buddhist cave temples and human remains from

pre-Columbian contexts in the Bahamas. There were also two grants to support

graduate students on fieldwork.

Two research awards were made to graduate students, and three to other members

of the Cluster for attending international conferences and presenting papers.

Special events

An important part of our activity is to host special events either featuring distinguished

Cluster members or invited speakers. This year these included a fascinating

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interdisciplinary and cross-cultural lecture on ‘The Alexandrian Source of the 6th

century account of Aristotle’s Philosophy presented to the King of Persia’ by Sir

Richard Sorabji; a lively and well-attended ‘In Conversation’ event, followed by an

open audience question and answer session, with internationally acclaimed cuneiform

scholar Stephanie Dalley, well-known for her investigation into the Hanging Gardens

of Babylon; and a special public lecture to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of

the Battle of Salamis by Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor Emeritus of Greek

Culture at the University of Cambridge and one of the most distinguished living

historians of Ancient Greece. Cluster members were also treated to private tours of

the stunning Pompeii exhibition at the Ashmolean, by its curator Paul Roberts (GBF).

New initiatives

In Hilary 2020, AWRC and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing launched a joint

seminar series on ‘Approaching Ancient Lives’, to recognize the fullness and

variety both of ancient experience (including limits of our access to past lives) and

of our perceptions of ancient existence. The talks so far have presented an array of

differing sources with intriguing insights into the lives of desert nomads, ancient

Roman builders and early Mesopotamians. We also pioneered a much appreciated

Career Event to support graduate students and early career researchers, with senior

members sharing their experiences of leading a research team and applying for

research grants, in an informal setting which encouraged a lively discussion.

Under a new Library scheme, books by past and present Cluster members or

relevant to AWRC events are displayed in the Library corridor, including a special

display to commemorate the late Sir Fergus Millar.

Lunches and after-lunch talks in College

These bi-termly events continued to be well attended, and once again we were

able to put on a rich and varied programme, with talks from Cluster members

on Buddhist cave temples, recent work at the Hellenistic-Roman city of Zeugma

on the Euphrates, Mesopotamian seals, and Language and Consciousness; and by

visiting scholar Antigoni Zournatzi on the Apadana reliefs.

Running the Cluster

Our Steering Group has seen some changes. Special thanks for all his work to

David Taylor, who has now stepped down, and a warm welcome to new members,

Professors Jim Benson, Rick Schulting and Yuhan Vevaina. Our thanks also to

Lynn Salummbo-Zimmermann, who has stepped down as our Graduate Student

convenor. We are also grateful to the Events Office Team for their ready support

for all our events.

Janet DeLaine, Sarah Graham and Diana Rodríguez Pérez

Joint-Directors, AWRC

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Law, Justice and Society

2020 is a landmark year for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, which

celebrates fifteen years since it was established in 2005. During these years, the

Foundation has been fulfilling its aim to bridge the gap between academia and

policy-making, and in so doing has acted as a de facto Research Cluster before the

term was coined by Dame Hermione Lee in 2011.

For this anniversary year, the Foundation has hosted two keynote lectures by

Knights of the Realm. It has also published responses to the Government’s White

Paper on Online Harms and the European Court of Justice’s ruling on your online

privacy, unearthed the hidden secrets of Adam Smith’s lost work on jurisprudence,

and overcame lockdown by launching a successful webinar programme of online

events to a global audience.

The highlight of the year came just before lockdown in March, when the former

President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, delivered a keynote

lecture on ‘Liberal International Order in Trouble’. Over 100 people heard him

present his compelling analysis of the contemporary regression suffered by liberal

constitutional democracies and set out a series of proposals for how we might

rethink liberalism so as to withstand the erosion of international legal and security

norms. In a prescient thesis that anticipates the current colonial revisionism sparked

by the Black Lives Matter movement, he traced the roots of the problem to the fact

that much liberal thought is premised on an implicit support for colonialism, which

undermines its very foundations.

In Michaelmas term we hosted another distinguished scholar, the philosopher

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji, who delivered a lecture on the impact of fake news

and social media on freedom of speech. In a sweeping analysis that encompassed

philosophical thought throughout the centuries and across cultures, he proposed

new legislation to stop the most heinous distortions of the electoral process.

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We developed ideas concerning the harms and benefits of online free speech in

a Policy Brief by the media expert and Government adviser Professor Damian

Tambini. This Policy Brief, one of over 100 freely available to download on

FLJS.org, was submitted to the Government’s consultation on its Online

Harms White Paper, the revised version of which adopts Professor Tambini’s

recommendation that social media companies have a ‘duty of care’ to protect

users from harm caused by content published on their platforms. The same day we

published an Opinion Piece on FLJS.org that the European Court of Justice ruled

on the ‘right to be forgotten’, in order to inform the public of the implications of the

decision for your digital privacy.

In November we brought to light some of the secrets of Adam Smith’s lost work

on jurisprudence, when Professor Iain McLean described his meticulous research

to piece together the lecture notes of two of Smith’s students and to reconstruct

Smith’s jurisprudential thought, based on the view of the impartial observer, from

which could be derived a legal system in the interests of all. Professor McLean

posited that Smith was therefore an important influence on Karl Marx a century

later, and offered a tantalising insight into the potential influence of Smith’s thought

on the new republic of the United States, since one James Wilson attended Smith’s

lectures, who may well have been the James Wilson who became a Justice of the

US Supreme Court, one of the leaders of the Federalist Party, and a signatory to the

Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

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Our Book Colloquium programme proved particularly popular this year, with panel

discussions of former Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption’s provocative bestseller

Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics, and Professor Shoshana

Zuboff’s groundbreaking The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, whose influential

account of the ‘darkening of the digital dream’ attracted a sell-out audience.

Lockdown in March put an early end to our Hilary programme, but we responded

in Trinity by launching a live webinar programme of online events, broadcast

simultaneously to a global audience on Zoom and Facebook Live. The first of these

live webinars, ‘The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty’,

will also be broadcast by ABC Radio National, the Australian public broadcaster’s

national network, later in the year.

By making a virtue of the constraints of lockdown and launching a free, public

webinar series enjoyed by people from around the world, the Foundation has

ensured the success of its anniversary year and secures its reputation for pioneering

innovative, forward-thinking approaches to delivering open, accessible scholarship.

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Oxford Trauma Cluster

The Cluster holds one or two open meetings each term, preceded by lunch in College.

On 16 October 2019 the focus was ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ (PPI). In the

morning, members of the UK Trauma PPI Group, hosted at Wolfson, met and discussed

patient involvement in setting research priorities, including their experience of the

James Lind Alliance Research Setting Partnerships. Members of the Cluster also

discussed PPI communications, PPI at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, and

their experience of being members of research teams for specific research projects.

The afternoon session in the Auditorium heard Jagdeep Nanchahal (GBF), Professor

of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, present his ‘Overview of Vascular

Repair in the Trauma Setting’, and also talks given by members of the Oxford Trauma

and Emergency Care team on ‘Bone Healing’ and ‘Patient and Public Involvement in

the JLA PSP for Upper Limb Fractures in People over 50’.

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On 4 December the focus was on ‘Publications and Reporting Research’. Emma

Vodden, the Head of Publishing for The Bone and Joint Journal gave a fascinating

talk on the Journal’s history and future directions in reporting research into Trauma

and Orthopaedics. Jennifer De Beyer, Research, Training, and Publication Manager

at the EQUATOR Network, also joined us for a talk on ‘Reporting guidelines –

history and future directions’. Matt Costa finished the session by presenting the

UKSTAR trial results, as an example of the different ways in which the reporting

of research influences clinical practice and policy.

On 11 March 2020 the focus was the roles of different members of a successful

research team. Members of the Cluster gave an insight into their specific roles

and why they are important. Lauren Exell talked about her role in research

administration, supporting Chief Investigators in their work. Kathryn Lewis,

Thames Valley Lead Research Nurse for Trauma and Emergency Care, gave

a very interesting talk on ‘The Consent Process and the things we have to keep

in mind’. Duncan Appelbe spoke of the role of Research Information and why

programming and software testing is so important. Finally Dave Keene, Research

Fellow in Trauma Rehabilitation, told us about his role in developing a new trial

called WISE which will investigate patients’ rehabilitation from a fracture of the

distal radius. Members appreciated the opportunity of discussing their role in the

research process, and also of practising their public speaking.

Senior Management and Strategy Group meetings are held in a College seminar

room, often on the morning of a Cluster session. We have also held meetings of the

Trial Management, Steering and Data Safety and Monitoring Group, with updates

on recruitment, patient safety, and patient experience in research in Trauma and

Emergency Care. The Cluster session for 13 May 2019 had to be cancelled because

of the lockdown, but we look forward to hosting future events soon.

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

The highlight of Hilary term was the launch of Lives of Houses (Princeton, 2020),

a collection of essays edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee. Contributors

included OCLW Director Elleke Boehmer, the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

(HF), Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan and Jenny Uglow. Essays were also

contributed by members of the OCLW Advisory Board: Roy Foster, Alexandra

Harris, Susan Walker (EF), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and Laura Marcus; as well

as by former Visiting Scholars Sandra Mayer and Rebecca Bullard. This book is

OCLW’s first monograph, dedicated to the late Harry Weinrebe, the philanthropist

whose Dorset Foundation enabled the creation of OCLW. It will, we hope, be

a lasting monument to the work we do at the Centre. As Helen Barrett wrote in

the Financial Times, ‘Life-writing of this kind has the power to animate its subjects

in ways that Sunday afternoon tours cannot.’

We responded to the pandemic with ‘Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events’ (LIVE

for short), a creative life-writing project documenting the pandemic, created by

Katherine Collins. We released a creative prompt each week from 10 April: topics

have included the significance of mask-wearing, what ‘getting back to normal’

might mean, and noticing objects in one’s immediate environment. The archive of

poems, diary entries and essays includes more than a hundred contributions from

people of all ages around the world. Last month the ‘LIVE Writing’ section of our

website had more than five hundred visitors.

The lockdown forced us to transfer all our activities online. We launched a Digital

Seminar Series on 4 April which continued throughout Trinity term, in the format of

video talks followed by text-based question and answer sessions. Topics included

authorship and celebrity, writing the lives of ‘ordinary people’, trauma and lifewriting,

narrative agency, biographies of exiles, the artist El Greco, and the lifewriting

of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing. As one of our community wrote to us:

‘After having many events cancelled during the pandemic, the OCLW online was a

lifeline. Thank you for putting everything online so quickly and well!’ Two or three

hundred people on average engaged with the content, and the positive comments

from our wider community encourage us to continue with a blend of face-to-face

and digital events.

The Writing Discussion Group has continued through the lockdown, linking

visiting scholars and members of the Centre with writers from the general public.

This term we brought in a literary agent to talk to writers about how to market

their work. It has been a very important way of connecting writers, amateur and

professional, during an isolating time.

In February 2020, in honour of LGBT History Month, Meg Roberts organised a

colloquium at OCLW highlighting work currently being done at Oxford to represent

historical and contemporary members of the LGBTQ+ community. The keynote

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speaker was Dr Jane Traies, and the Pitt Rivers Museum’s ‘Beyond the Binary’

exhibition team gave us a tour.

We joined the Ancient World Research Cluster in launching a new seminar series

on ‘Ancient Lives’. Speakers included Michael Macdonald on Lives in the Ancient

Desert, Janet DeLaine on the ordinary people who built ancient Rome, and Jacob

Dahl on reconstructing Lives from early cuneiform sources

‘Lives in Medicine’ is pursued in collaboration with Johns Hopkins, the Digital

Research Cluster, the English Faculty and Digital Humanities at Oxford, a major

research project that seeks to improve the quality and ethical environment of

medicine by directing the public, the medical and related professions, policy-makers

and the medical industries to engage with and learn from the lived experience of

patients and practitioners.

We launched a new website: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk

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In Michaelmas term we hosted lectures from high-profile speakers including

writers Olivia Laing and Lucasta Miller, tenor Mark Padmore, Professor Zachary

Leader, and Black Gopnik, author of the new biography of Andy Warhol. Research

Forum topics that term included Japanese letters, a cultural history of the overcoat,

Irish women’s writing, cancer narratives, and Second World War life-writing.

In Hilary our seminar speakers gave talks on writing biofiction, writing an Armenian

childhood, the future life of opera, the Berlin and London Orchestras during the

First World War, and trauma in 21st-Century French and Spanish Life-Writing.

Kate Kennedy and Katherine Collins obtained funding from the Derrill Allatt

Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council for a doctoral

studentship to study the life stories of homeless women around Oxford. We look

forward to welcoming Freya Marshall-Payne to Wolfson and OCLW in Michaelmas

2020.

OCLW administrator Mark Lee left Oxford to take up a post as Assistant Professor

in History at the University of New Brunswick in June 2020, and we welcomed his

replacement, Alice Little, to the OCLW team.

South Asia Research Cluster

First and foremost, the Cluster mourns the passing of Nick Allen (EF) who, from

its inception in 2012, was a regular and active participant in events far outside what

one might have expected was his comfort zone. He will be greatly missed.

The Sarfraz Lecture for 2019 was given by journalist and film maker Sharmeen

Obaid-Chinoy on ‘Pakistani Women on the Frontline’.

Dr Maryam Aslany (JRF) developed a successful new book discussion series

featuring Akbar Zaidi, Rana Dasgupta, Rana Mitter and Joerg Friedrichs, to which

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Wolfson contributed Matthew McCartney (GBF), Barbara Harriss-White (EF),

JRF Kaveri Qureshi (former JRF) and Ionut Moise (former GS).

The Punjab Research Group held their annual national conference, organised by

Professor Pritam Singh (MCR), under the auspices of Wolfson and the Cluster.

The Cluster collaborated with Wolfson’s new Earth Emergency Research Cluster

and the Green Team – in the Earth Emergency talks especially – and with the

reading group on India and Climate Change in Somerville’s Oxford–India Centre

for Sustainable Development.

The pandemic brought the Cluster to a halt, with the notable exception of the Old

Hindi virtual workshop organised by Imre Bangha (GBF) in Trinity term. Planning

continued undaunted, however. Some activities have been postponed until next

academic year, including the book discussions on Pakistan with Christophe

Jaffrelot and on cricket history with Prashant Kidambi, and the much-needed

international workshop on agricultural markets; these have long been a key interest,

but disruptions to them are threatening India with acute food scarcities.

We look forward to a new stream of post docs who will put further spring into the

Cluster’s resilient step, and are as ever grateful for the College’s support.

Barbara Harriss-White (EF) and Maryam Aslany (JRF)

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre

In Michaelmas 2019 we held the fifth of the annual Aris Lecture series, established

in memory of Michael and Anthony Aris and their contributions to Tibetan and

Himalayan Studies. Dr Diana Lange of Humboldt University delivered ‘A Pictorial

Encyclopedia of the Tibetan World: Reading Illustrated Mid-19th Century Maps of

Tibet’ to a packed audience in the Auditorium. Her lecture explored an illustrated

map of Tibet created by a Tibetan lama in the mid-nineteenth century, in what is

now the Wise Collection in the British Library. She presented a novel account of a

Tibetan map-maker’s intimate knowledge of Tibet and his encounter with a British

colonial officer. This informative lecture had a special resonance for Wolfson and

our Cluster as it furthers research initiated by Michael Aris.

On 26 February 2020 the Cluster heard an engaging talk by Professor Ann Tashi

Slater of Japan Women’s University which presented an intimate history of her

family and Tibet in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Recalling the ‘dreams,

memories and journeys’ of her family and reading from her own literary works,

she offered a unique insight into Tibetan social and political life in Darjeeling

and Lhasa. Through the story of her prominent family she demonstrated the

interconnected nature of one’s private life and the history of one’s nation whilst

underlining individual and collective identity and cultural legacy.

7 March saw our annual celebration at Wolfson of the Tibetan New Year. As in

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previous years we celebrated ‘Losar’ with live Tibetan music, poetry reading,

dancing and traditional food and drinks. This year we had a well-attended Tibetan

dance workshop run by Tenzin Phakdron and an art exhibition by Jamji Shiwah.

Aisha, Ananda, Daniel and Thokmay, students of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies,

helped organise the party and made it a great success. The event attracted a

diversity of some three hundred celebrants who included members of Wolfson

and the University, Tibet enthusiasts, and Tibetans and Mongolians from Oxford,

London and elsewhere. These New Year parties have become very popular among

the Wolfson community, and provide a rare and jovial social space for Tibetan and

Himalayan Studies students, College members and others to interact with Tibetans

and experience Tibetan culture at Wolfson.

Other events had to be postponed until next year because of the lockdown, including

a series of lectures by Professor Per K. Sörensen and a conference keynote lecture

by Dr. Matthew King, but it has been a productive year nonetheless, and we thank

the College for all its generous funding and support.

Lama Jabb

Head of the Centre, Instructor in Tibetan at the Faculty of Oriental Studies

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College Lectures and Seminars

Annual Lectures

The Ronald Syme Lecture (7 November 2019)

‘Alexandria In the Roman Empire: Politics, Commerce and Culture’

Professor Alan Bowman, University of Oxford

The Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture (14 November 2019)

‘Pakistani Women on the Frontlines’

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, SOC FIlms

The Aris Lecture (5 December 2019)

‘A Pictorial Encyclopaedia of the Tibetan World: Reading Illustrated Mid-19th

Century Maps of Tibet’

Dr Diana Lange, Humboldt University, Berlin


The Wolfson Haldane Lecture (13 February 2020)

‘If biodiversity is the medicine, what are its active ingredients? The emerging

scientific evidence-base behind “green health”’

Professor Kathy Willis, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

The Berlin Lecture (rescheduled to 11 February 2021)

title to be confirmed

Professor Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary, University of London

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Wolfson Lecture Series 2019–20: ‘The Experience of

Courts’

‘Law and Europe’ (21 November 2019)

Robert, Lord Reed, President of the Supreme Court of the UK

‘Virtual Justice’ (5 March 2020)


Professor Linda Mulcahy, University of Oxford, and Dr Emma Rowden, Oxford

Brookes University

The President’s Seminars

The Seminars provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of some of the

fascinating and ground-breaking research that is carried out by Wolfsonians at all

career stages, and give them the opportunity to meet other researchers and to hear

how they plan, conduct and complete their projects.

Michaelmas term: ‘Copying’

Professor Nicholas Cronk: ‘Plagiarism, rewriting, text reuse in Enlightenment

philosophy’

Dr Charlotte Kirchelle: ‘Copy thy neighbour, or not? Coordination and robustness

in plant morphogenesis’

Bogdan Draghici: ‘Syriac manuscript transmission history’

Hilary term: ‘Order’

Professor David Robey: ‘Order in Dante’s Divine Comedy’

Dr Bakinaz Abdalla: ‘Ontology as Order: Towards a Systematic Study of Medieval

Jewish and Islamic Philosophy’

Trinity term: no Seminars because of the lockdown.

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College Officers and Membership

President: Sir Tim Hitchens

Vicegerent: Professor Jeremy Johns

Bursar: Richard Morin

Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare: Emily Eastham

Development Director: Dr Huw David

Secretary to the Governing Body: Professor Jan Fellerer

Fellow for Archives: Dr Ellen Rice

Fellow for Library: Professor Matthew McCartney

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer: Professor Christina Redfield

Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer: Professor Tarje Nissen-Meyer

Dean of Degrees: Professor Wolfgang de Melo

Deputy Deans of Degrees: Dr Imre Bangha, Dr Erica Charters, Dr Roger Tomlin

Data Protection Officer: Professor Jacob Dahl

Editor of the College Record: Dr Roger Tomlin

Wine Steward: Professor Jacob Dahl

College Membership

Governing Body 58

Fellows

Honorary Fellows 39

Emeritus Fellows 51

Research Fellows 24

Junior Research Fellows 71

Supernumerary Fellows 36

Visiting Fellows 1

Graduate Students 645

Members of Common 782

Room

Abbreviations

EF Emeritus Fellow

EXF Extraordinary Fellow

GBF Governing Body Fellow

GS Graduate Student

HF Honorary Fellow

HMCR Honorary Member of Common Room

JRF Junior Research Fellow

MCR Member of Common Room

RF Research Fellow

RMCR Research Member of Common Room

SF Supernumerary Fellow

SJRF Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow

SF Supernumerary Fellow

VF Visiting Fellow

VS Visiting Scholar

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President

Hitchens, Sir Tim, KCVO, CMG, MA (MA Cambridge)

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Governing Body Fellows

Andersson, Ruben (BA SOAS, MA City London, MSc, PhD LSE),

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor in Migration and Development

Austyn, Jonathan Mark, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Surgery: Transplantation

Immunology, Professor of Immunobiology

Aveyard, Paul N (BSc, MB, BS London, MPH, PhD Birmingham)

Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader in the Department of Primary Care

Health Sciences, Professor of Behavioural Medicine

Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest, PhD Santineketan)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Hindi

Banks, Marcus John, MA (BA, PhD Cambridge)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Professor of

Visual Anthropology

Barrett, Jonathan, BA (MA, PhD Cambridge)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA Rhodes University, South Africa)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World Literatures in English

Charters, Erica Michiko, MA, DPhil (BA Carleton, MA Toronto)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in the History of Medicine; Fellow for

Archives from October 2020

Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free University of Brussels)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Quantum Computer Science;

Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures

Cosmidis, Julie (MA, PhD Paris)

Ordinary Fellow and Professor of Geobiology

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Costa, Matthew (MB, BChir, PhD East Anglia, MA Cambridge)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery

Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Russian Literature

Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS Copenhagen, PhD California)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Assyriology; Data Protection Officer

David, Huw, MA, DPhil (MA Warwick)

Ordinary Fellow; Development Director

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo, MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology

Eastham, Emily, MA (MA Oxford Brookes)

Ordinary Fellow; Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA Vienna, Dr Phil Basel)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Non-Russian Slavonic Language

Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and Family Psychology, Reader in Child

and Family Psychology

George, Alain, MSt, DPhil (BSc LSE)

Professorial Fellow, I M Pei Chair in Islamic Art and Architecture

Giaccia, Amato (BA Lafayette, PhD Pennsylvania)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Radiation, Oncology and Biology

Goodman, Martin David, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Jewish Studies

Harrison, Paul Jeffrey, MA, BM, BCh, MRCPsych, DM

Ordinary Fellow, Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, Honorary Consultant

Psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry

Howgego, Christopher John, MA, DPhil

Professorial Fellow, Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek

and Roman Numismatics

Jarvis, R Paul (BSc Durham, PhD Norwich)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor of Plant

Cell Biology

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Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, Professor of the

Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean

Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Computation

Landau, Loren (MSc London, PhD Berkeley)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Migration and Development

Lange, Bettina, MA (BA, PhD Warwick)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Law and Regulation

Lewis, James Bryant, MA (BA University of the South, MA, PhD Hawaii)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Korean History; Secretary to the

Governing Body from October 2020

Lowe, John, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Sanskrit

McCartney, Matthew Howard, MPhil (BA Cambridge, PhD SOAS)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor in the Political Economy and Human

development of South Asia

Maschek, Dominik, MA (MA, PhD Vienna, Habilitation Darmstadt)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology and Art

Mathur, Nayanika (MA Delhi, MPhil, PhD Cambridge)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia

Morin, Richard Antony, MA (MA KCL)

Ordinary Fellow, Bursar

Mulcahy, Linda (LLB Southampton, LLM, MA, PhD London)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies

Nanchahal, Jagdeep (BSc, MBBS, PhD London)

Ordinary Fellow; Professor of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje (Diplom Munich, MA, PhD Princeton)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Geophysics; Visiting Scholars’

Liaison Officer

Pila, Jonathan, MA (BSc Melbourne, PhD Stanford)

Professorial Fellow, Reader in Mathematical Logic

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Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics

Ray, David (MBChB, PhD Manchester)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Endocrinology

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics

Riede, Moritz (MSc Cambridge, PhD Konstanz)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials

Roberts, Paul Christopher, MA (BA Cambridge, MPhil Sheffield)

Professorial Fellow, Sackler Keeper of Antiquities

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD Münster, Habilitation Munich)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Rushworth, Matthew, MA, DPhil

Professorial Fellow, Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology

Schulting, Rick J, MA (BA, MA Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE Queen’s

Belfast)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology

Smart, Nicola (BSc Kent, PhD London)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Development and

Regeneration

Stewart, Peter Charles N (MA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology

Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Delhi, MA Mumbai)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Development Studies; Vicegerent

from October 2020

Taylor, David Guy Kenneth, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Aramaic and Syriac

Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD Imperial)

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science

Ventresca, Marc J, MA (AM, PhD Stanford)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Vevaina, Yuhan, S-D (BA Tufts, MA, PhD Harvard)

Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies

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Wolff, Jonathan, BA, MPhil

Professorial Fellow, Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy

Woodruff, Christopher Marshall (BSc Chicago, MA California Los Angeles, PhD

Texas)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Development Economics

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep (BArch, MArch Istanbul Technical University, PhD

Harvard)

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

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Honorary Fellows

Adams, John W (BA Rutgers, JD Seton Hall, LLM New York)

Armitage, Simon (MA Manchester)

Barnard, John Michael, MA, BLitt

Berman, Alan Jay (MA Cambridge, Dip Arch UCL)

Bostridge, Ian, MA, DPhil (MPhil Cambridge)

Bradshaw, William Peter, the Rt Hon Lord Bradshaw (MA Reading), FCIT

Brendel, Alfred, KBE

Burgen, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent) (MB, MD London, MA Cambridge),

FRCP, FRS

Chan, Gerald Lokchung (BS, MS California, SM, SCD Harvard)

Davies, Kay Elizabeth, MA, DPhil

Deutsch, David, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge)

Ekert, Artur (MSc Krakow) DPhil

Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA, MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London,

Hon MD Edinburgh, Prague, Hon DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath,

Hon FRCPA, FRS,

Hon FRSE, FMedSci

Gellner, David Nicholas, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Ghosh, Amitav, DPhil

Halban, Martine (BA Sussex)

Halban, Peter (BA Princeton)

Hamilton, Andrew David, MA (BSc Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD

Cambridge), FRS

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Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale, BPhil, MA, DPhil

Harrison, Simon John, (BSc London) DPhil

His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, Jikmé Pema Wangchen

Hoffman, Reid (BS Stanford) MSt

Kennedy, Baroness Helena Ann, QC, FRSA

Khalili, Nasser David (BA New York, PhD SOAS)

Lee, Dame Hermione, DBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL

Levett, Christian Clive (BTEC Durham)

Lewis, David John

Macdonald, Michael Christopher Archibald, MA

Mance, Jonathan, the Rt Hon Lord Mance, MA

Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD Edinburgh)

Reed, Robert John, Lord Reed of Allermuir, DPhil (LLB Edinburgh,

Hon LLD Glasgow)

Rezek, Francisco (DipL LLB, DES Minai Gerais, PhD Paris)

Robinson, Dame Carol Vivien (MSc Wales, PhD Cambridge)

Segal, Karen Ilona Marianne

Sorabji, Sir Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne

Vike-Freiberga, President Vaira (MA Toronto, PhD McGill)

Williams, Patricia (MA Cambridge)

Wood, Sir Martin, OBE, MA (BA Cambridge, BSc London), FRS

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Emeritus Fellows

Abraham, Douglas Bruce, MA, DSc (BA, PhD Cambridge)

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London)

Anderson, David Lessells Thomson, MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St Andrews)

Benson, James William, MA (BA Macalester College, MA Minnesota, PhD

Stanford)

Briggs, George Andrew Davidson, MA (PhD Cambridge)

Brock, Sebastian Paul, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge, Hon DLitt Birmingham), FBA

Brown, Harvey Robert, MA (BSc Canterbury New Zealand, PhD London)

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Bryant, Peter Elwood, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London), FRS

Bulmer, Michael George, MA, DPhil, DSc, FRS

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB, BCh Birmingham, FRCP, FRCP Edinburgh)

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil

Cluver, Lucie, MSc, DPhil

Conner, William James, MA (BA Grinnell)

Cranstoun, George Kennedy Lyon, MA (BSc, PhD Glasgow), FRSC

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George Washington,

PhD Cambridge)

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, PhD Reading)

Delaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD Adelaide)

Dercon, Stefan, BPhil, DPhil (BA Leuven)

Francis, Martin James Ogilvie, MA, DPhil

Galligan, Denis James, BCL MA DCL (LLB Queensland, AcSS)

Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc Torino, PhD Lausanne)

Gombrich, Richard Francis, MA, DPhil (AM Harvard)

Gordon, Alan Fleetwood, CBE, MA, FCMI

Harriss-White, Barbara, MA (DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East Anglia)

Hoare, Sir Charles Antony Richard, MA, DFBCS, FRS

Isaacson, Daniel Rufus (AB Harvard) MA, DPhil

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward Lawson (MA Cambridge)

Kennedy, William James, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD London)

Kurtz, Donna Carol, MA, DPhil (BA Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA

Langslow, David Richard, MA, DPhil

McDiarmid, Colin John Hunter, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Edinburgh)

McKenna, William Gillies, MA (BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert Einstein)

Mann, Joel Ivor, CNZM, DM (MBChB, PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP,

FRSNZ

Meisami, Julie Scott, MA (MA, PhD California Berkeley)

Neil, (Hugh) Andrew Wade (MB, BS, DSc London, MA Cambridge) MA, FFPHM,

FRCP, RD

Penney, John Howard Wright, MA, DPhil (MA Pennsylvania)

Perrins, Christopher Miles, MA, DPhil, (BSc London), FRS, LVO

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Ramble, Charles Albert Edward, MA, DPhil (BA Durham)

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas Pepys, MA DPhil

Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Cambridge)

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA PhD Cambridge)

Robey, David John Brett, MA

Robinson, Chase Frederick, MA (BA Brown, PhD Harvard)

Sanderson, Alexis Godfrey James Slater, MA

Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cambridge)

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc Liverpool, PhD Bristol)

Tomlin, Roger Simon Ouin, MA, DPhil, FSA

Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance, MA (BA, PhD London), FSA

Walton, Christopher Henry, MA (MA Cambridge), MBE

Watson, Oliver (BA Durham, PhD London)

Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc London, PhD Durham)

Wilkie, Alex James, MA (MSc, PhD London), FRS

Wyatt, Derek Gerald, MA, DPhil

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Supernumerary Fellows

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Bhaskaran, Harish (BE Pune, MS PhD Maryland)

Brockdorff, Neil (BSc Sussex, PhD Glasgow)

Clemit, Pamela Anne, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Coleman, John Steven, MA (BA, DPhil York)

Collins, Paul Thomas (MA, PhD UCL)

Crabbe, Michael James Cardwell, FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD, DSc

Manchester), FRSA, FRSC, CChem, CBiol, FIBiol, FLS

Cronk, Nicholas, BA, DPhil

De Roure, David (PhD Southampton)

Ehlers, Anke (Hab. Marburg) MA (PhD Tübingen)

Ferreira, Pedro (Licentiate Lisbon, PhD Imperial)

Griffin, Xavier Luke, BM, BCh (MA Cambridge, PhD Warwick)

Hodges, Christopher, MA (PhD KCL)

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Jabb, Lama, DPhil (MSc SOAS)

Kaski, Kimmo Kauko Kullervo, DPhil (MSc Helsinki)

Kay, Philip Bruce, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FSA

Key, Timothy James Alexander, DPhil (BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London)

Konoplev, Ivan Vasilyevich (BSc, MSc Nizhny Novgorod State,

MPhil, PhD Strathclyde)

Kurkchiyan, Marina (MSc Yereven, PhD Vilnius)

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA Louisville)

Leeson, Paul (MB BChir, PhD Cambridge, BSc St And, FRCP)

Maltby, Colin Charles, MA

Merrony, Mark Woodridge, MPhil, MSt, DPhil (BA Wales St David’s)

Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH Zurich)

Nuttall, Patricia Anne, OBE, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD Reading)

Paine, Jonathan, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Perry, Dan, MBChB (PhD Liverpool)

Pottle, Mark Christopher, MA, DPhil (BA Sheffield)

Quinn, Catherine Ward, EMBA (BA Birmingham, MA Ohio State)

Sawyer, Walter, MA

Seymour, Leonard William (BSc Manchester, PhD Keele)

Sheldon, Benjamin Conrad, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD Sheffield)

Toth, Ida, DPhil (BA, MPhil Belgrade)

Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth, MA, DPhil

Willett, Keith Malcolm, MA (MB BS London), FRCS

Wright, James Gardner (MD Toronto, MPH Yale)

Zeitlyn, David (MSc London) MA, DPhil (PhD Cambridge)

Research Fellows

Balzat, Jean-Sebastian (BA Louvain-la-Neuve, MA Notts, PhD Newcastle)

Barrett, Gordon, MPhil (BA Mount Allison, PhD Bristol)

Bortone, Pietro, MPhil, DPhil

Cagnan, Hayriye (BSc Cornell, MSc Imperial, PhD Amsterdam)

Castello Palomares, Alfredo (BSc, PhD Madrid)

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Cohn, Martin (MSc Denmark, PhD Copenhagen)

Dahlsten, Oscar (MSc, PhD Imperial)

Devolder, Katrien (DEA Brussels, MA, PhD Ghent)

Fallon, Maurice (MSc Dublin, PhD Cambridge)

Gehmlich, Katja (BA PhD Potsdam)

Georgieva, Antoniya (BSc Technical Univ Sofia, PhD Portsmouth)

Geurds, Alexander (MA, PhD Leiden)

Hofer, Theresia (MSc, PhD London)

Joudaki, Shahab (MSc, PhD California)

Kayachev, Boris (Diplom Russia, PhD Leeds)

Kennedy-Allum, Kate (BA, PhD Cambridge, MA KCL, Dip RC Mus):

Weinrebe Fellow in Life-Writing

Mahdi, Adam (MSc Cracow, MSc, PhD Barcelona)

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc Turin)

Nimura, Courtney (MA London, PhD Reading)

Pattenden, Miles Alexander Frederick, DPhil (BA Cambridge, MA Toronto)

Schilling, Christian (Diplom Mainz, PhD Zurich)

Smith, Olivia (BA UEA, MA, PhD London)

Viney, Tim (MBiol Bath, PhD Basel)

Williamson, Victoria (BSc, PhD Bath)

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Stipendiary Research Fellow

Herskowitz, Daniel, DPhil (BA Israel, MA Hebrew) Jewish Studies

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow

Page-Perron, Emilie (BA Quebec, MA Geneva, PhD Toronto) Assyriology

Junior Research Fellows

Abdalla, Bakinaz (MA Indiana, PhD McGill)

Abitbol, Max (MA, MPhil, DPhil Columbia) Dennis Sciama JRF

Albuquerque-Wendt, Andreia (MSc Lisboa, PhD Hannover)

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Al-Rashid, Moudhy, MPhil, DPhil

Ashkenazi, Shaked (MSc, PhD Weizmann)

Aslany, Maryam, MSc (PhD London)

Baitner, Hallel (MA, PhD Jerusalem)

Bardelli, Martino (MSc Switzerland, PhD London)

Bongianino, Umberto, MPhil, DPhil

Bonilla Osorio, Ruy Sebastian, DPhil (BS Los Andes, MPhil Cambridge)

Bruche, Susann (Diplom Leipzig, MCRS, PhD Imperial)

Chatterjee, Mihika, MPhil, DPhil

Christodoulou, Marios (Diplom Athens, PhD Aix-Marseille)

Christoforo, Mark Greyson (BA Notre Dame, MA Georgia Tech, PhD Stanford)

Clavel-Vazquez, Adriana (BA, MPhil Mexico, PhD Sheffield)

Collins, Katherine (MA, PhD West of England)

Dafinca, Ruxandra, MSc, DPhil (BSc Jacobs Bremen)

Degli Esposti, Michelle, BA, DPhil

Dewey, Damian (BSc Paul Lambin, MSc Louvain) Wiener Anspach

Di Spurio, Laura (BA, MA, PhD Brussels)

Doody, Brendan (MA Lincoln, PhD Durham)

Doyon, Jerome (MPhil, PhD Sciences Po)

Feyereisen, Justine ((MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach

Forrow, Aden (BA Middlebury, PhD Massachusettes)

Fransham, Mark, MSc, DPhil

Gassman, Mattias, MPhil (MA Minnesota, DPhil Cambridge)

Genaro-Motti, Silvia (MSc Sao Paulo, PhD Milan)

Godin, Marie Veronique, MSc (PhD London)

Grecksch, Kevin (MA Leipzig, PhD Oldenburg)

Guida, Claudia (MA Pisa, PhD Heidelberg)

Hampton, Sam, BA, DPhil

Hass, Binesh, MSt, DPhil

Haskett, Tim, (BSc, PhD Murdoch)

Hatfield, Peter, DPhil (MSci Cambridge)

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Hsiao, Yaling (BA Taiwan, PhD Wisconsin)

Ioannou, Stefanos (MSc Newcastle, MPhil Athens, PhD Leeds)

Jackson, Cailah, MSt, DPhil

Jortay, Coraline (BA, MA Belgium) Wiener Anspach

Kefelian, Anahide (BA, MA Lyon, PhD Sorbonne)

Kirchhelle, Charlotte, DPhil (MSc Munich)

Kirchhelle, Claas, DPhil (MA Munich, MA Chicago)

Kolpashnikova, Kamila (BA Yakutsk, MA Tokyo, PhD Columbia)

Lachman, Jamie, MSc, DPhil (BA Yale)

Leng, Kuangdai, DPhil (PhD Tsinghua)

Lundquist, Jesse (BA Manchester, PhD Virginia)

Lutomski, Corinne (BSc Wayne, DPhil Indiana)

Malandraki-Miller, Sophia, DPhil (MSc Ioannina)

Matke-Bauer, Anna-Katharina (MA, PhD Oldenburg)

Meyer, Robin, MPhil, DPhil

Molina-Munoz, Adriana (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois)

Montes, Chloe, DPhil (BA Dublin)

Ozdemir, Tugrul (BSc Bilkent, PhD Vienna)

Parkinson, Rachel (BSc, PhD Saskatchewan)

Pradhan, Uma, DPhil (MA Sussex)

Queloz, Matthieu (MA Zurich, PhD Basel)

Rassi, Salam, DPhil (BA, MA SOAS)

Robert, Martin (BA, MA, PhD Quebec)

Rudgard, William (MSc, PhD London)

Schmid, Nora (MA, PhD Berlin)

Shalev, Nir, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv)

Shenderovich, Yulia, MPhil (PhD Cambridge)

Soares Barbosa, Rui Miguel de Sousa Martinho, MSc, DPhil

Suryasentana, Stephen, DPhil (BEng Western Australia)

Tarruell, Cecilia (MA, PhD Madrid)

Tennie, Felix, DPhil (Diplom Hamberg, MASt Cambridge)

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Volonakis, George Mathieu (BSc, MSc, PhD Thessaloniki)

Winkler, Andreas (BA, MA, PhD Uppsala)

Woltering, Steffen (MSc Gottingen, PhD Manchester)

Yamaura, Chigusa (MA Chicago, PhD Rutgers)

Zhao, Pu, (BSc Fudan, PhD Cambridge)

Zharkevich, Ina, MPhil, DPhil

Creative Arts Fellow

Young, Carey (BA Brighton, MA RCA)

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Governing Body Fellows

Cosmidis, Julie (MA, PhD Paris)

Nanchahal, Jagdeep (BSc, MBBS, PhD London)

Ray, David (MBChB, PhD Manchester)

Smart, Nicola (BSc Kent, PhD London)

Honorary Fellows

Armitage, Simon (MA Manchester)

Emeritus Fellows

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London)

Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Cambridge)

Research Fellows

Barrett, Gordon, MPhil (BA Mount Allison, PhD Bristol)

Cagnan, Hayriye (BSc Cornell, MSc Imperial, PhD Amsterdam)

Fallon, Maurice (MSc Dublin, PhD Cambridge)

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc Turin)

Viney, Tim (MBiol Bath, PhD Basel)

Williamson, Victoria (BSc, PhD Bath)

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Junior Research Fellows

Baitner, Hallel (MA, PhD Jerusalem)

Chatterjee, Mihika, MPhil, DPhil

Christodoulou, Marios (Diplom Athens, PhD Aix-Marseille)

Clavel-Vazquez, Adriana (BA, MPhil Mexico, PhD Sheffield)

Degli Esposti, Michelle, BA, DPhil

Forrow, Aden (BA Middlebury, PhD Massachusettes)

Fransham, Mark, MSc, DPhil

Haskett, Tim, (BSc, PhD Murdoch)

Hass, Binesh, MSt, DPhil

Hatfield, Peter, DPhil (MSci Cambridge)

Jackson, Cailah, MSt, DPhil

Kefelian, Anahide (BA, MA Lyon, PhD Sorbonne)

Kolpashnikova, Kamila (BA Yakutsk, MA Tokyo, PhD Columbia)

Lutomski, Corinne (BSc Wayne, DPhil Indiana)

Ozdemir, Tugrul (BSc Bilkent, PhD Vienna)

Parkinson, Rachel (BSc, PhD Saskatchewan)

Robert, Martin (BA, MA, PhD Quebec)

Schmid, Nora (MA, PhD Berlin)

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Stipendiary Junior Research Fellows

Page-Perron, Emilie (BA Quebec, MA Geneva, PhD Toronto) Assyriology

Supernumerary Fellows

Bhaskaran, Harish (BE Pune, MS PhD Maryland)

Jabb, Lama, DPhil (MSc SOAS)

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA Louisville)

Leeson, Paul (MB BChir, PhD Cambridge, BSc St And, FRCP)

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Visiting Scholars in residence during the academic year

2019–20

Akisik Karakullukcu, Aslihan (BA Brown University, MA Bosphorus,

PhD Harvard)

Allen, James (BA Yale, PhD Princeton)

Alaura, Silvia (PhD Florence)

Amerasinghe Ganendra, Shalini (BA, MA Cambridge, LLM Columbia)

Bentz, Anne-Sophie (BA Strasbourg, MA, PhD Geneva)

Bishop, Stephanie (BA Sydney, PhD Cambridge)

Bonechi, Marco (PhD Florence)

Bugliani, Paolo (BA, MA, PhD Pisa)

Camminga, B (BA Rhodes, MA Leeds, PhD Cape Town)

Cave, Penelope (GRSM Royal Academy of Music, PhD Southampton)

Cerrito, Marta (MA Rome, MA Paris, PhD Rome)

Choi, In-Hwa (BA, MA, PhD Pusan)

Choudhry, Salman (BSc, MSc Lahore, LLB London, LLM Rotterdam,

LLM Hamburg)

Dasgupta, Rana, BA (MA Wisconsin-Madison)

Ebler, Daniel (BSc, MSc Zurich, PhD Hong Kong)

Effe, Alexandra (BA, MA Freiburg, PhD London)

Feldman, Walter (PhD Columbia)

Frigyesi, Judit (MA Budapest, PhD Pennsylvania)

Gardner-Chloros, Penelope, BA, MA (MA London, PhD Strasbourg)

Hopkins, John (B.Mus, M.Mus Cardiff, MA Cambridge, DPhil Sussex)

Kvaerne, Per (MA, PhD Oslo)

Laerke, Mogens (BA, MA Copenhagen, MPhil, PhD Paris)

Meretoja, Hanna (PhD Turku)

Navratilova, Hana (MA, PhDr, PhD Prague)

Newsholme, Philip, DPhil (BSc Birmingham)

Nicoud, Marilyn (BA Aix-en-Provence, MA, PhD Paris)

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Nwosu, Oge (BA Cambridge, MA Guildhall School of Music and Drama)

Osman, Newal (BSc Lahore, MSc London School of Economics, PhD, Cambridge)

Ozlu, Nilay (BArch METU, MBA San Francisco, MArch Yildiz, PhD Bosphorus)

Persson, Fabian (BA, PhD Lund)

Piombino-Mascali, Dario (MA, PhD Pisa)

Przepiórkowski, Adam (MSc Warsaw, PhD Tübingen, PhD Warsaw)

Sakashita, Chikashi (BA International Christian University, BA, MA Tokyo)

Saleem, Ali (MA Manchester, MA Calgary, MA Quaid-e-Azam, PhD George Mason

Schirg, Bernhard (MA, PhD Gőttingen)

Singh, Pritam, DPhil (BA, MA Panjab, MPhil Jawaharlal Nehru)

Spooner, Jonathan (BA Leeds)

Thébaud-Sorger, Marie-Aline (PhD Paris)

Vuturo, Francesca Paola (MA, PhD Palermo)

Warditz, Vladislava (PhD, Moscow)

Xue, Hui (BA China, MA Stockholm, PhD Macquarie)

Zournatzi-Tsami, Antigoni (BA Harvard, MA, PhD Berkeley)

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CARA Visiting Scholar

Coskun, Murat (BA Kocaeli, MA, PhD Sheffield) from September 2020

Ozkazanc Kozakli, Alev (MA Essex, PhD Ankara)

Graduate Students

Adderley, Morgan Michéa (Master of Public Policy)

Al Faqir, Rawan Essam Mohammad (PGDip Diplomatic Studies)

Ali, Mohammad (DPhil Clinical Medicine)

Alomari, Faisal Abbas Y (MBA)

Alotaiq, Abdullah (MSc Energy Systems)

Alrishedan, Norah (DPhil Oncology)

Anderson, Benjamin Goode (MBA)

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Astigarraga Baez, Maria Paz (Master of Public Policy)

Au, Ho Yu Alan (DPhil Chromosome Biology)

Aynetdinova, Daniya (Synthesis for Biology and Medicine (EPSRC CDT))

Baldock, Alice Bethany Susan (DPhil History)

Barber, Joseph (MPhil Cuneiform Studies)

Barral, Yann-Stanislas Hubert Marc (DPhil Computer Science)

Battye, Holly (MSt Slavonic Studies)

Benitez-Inglott Y Ballesteros, Eduardo (DPhil History)

Beregi, Abel (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics)

Biswas, Manisha (MSc Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology)

BjØRanger, Thea Moe (MSt History of Art and Visual Culture)

Bolch, Kimberly Blair (DPhil International Development)

Borrmann, Theodor (DPhil International Development)

Botos, Csaba (DPhil Engineering Science)

Brauner, Jan Markus (Auto Intelligent Machines and Systems (EPSRC CDT))

Bretherton, Christopher Patrick (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Broketa, Matteo (MSc(Res) Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)

Cai, Ting (DPhil Primary Health Care)

Cammarota, Isabella Rosa (MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies)

Caso, Federico (DPhil Clinical Medicine)

Chau, Oi Hei Chloe (DPhil Materials)

Chen, Guangzhao (DPhil Materials)

Chen, Meitong (MFA (Full-time))

Chen, Yinglei (DPhil Migration Studies)

Chiu, Yuk Lun (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance)

Cho, Ju Ryung (DPhil Social Policy)

Condoleo, Elisa (MPhil Japanese Studies)

Copin, Nastia (MPhil Economics)

Cripovich, Alejandrina (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine)

Curtis, Amanda Nicole (MSc Social Science of the Internet)

Dai, Jiatong (MPhil Economics)

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Dall’Agnol, Ana Carolina (DPhil Socio-Legal Studies)

Davidson, Connor Ian (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Davies, Daniel (MBA)

Derby, Edmund (Environmental Research (NERC DTP))

Dhar Sharma, Vyoma (DPhil International Development)

Diaconescu, Oana Liana (DPhil Medical Sciences)

Dominici, Corso Maria (DPhil Classical Archaeology)

Dong, Shiling (DPhil Materials)

Doré, Maximilian Leonid (DPhil Computer Science)

Dror, Yael (DPhil Law (Part-time))

Du, Mike (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Dube, Mbongeni (MSc Energy Systems)

Dyhouse, Jaroslaw (EMBA)

Egieva, Maria (MSt Film Aesthetics)

Elrakabawy, Sherif (DPhil Social Data Science (PT))

Emes, David Tresco (MSc Economics for Development)

Fawzy, Sherif Hosam Fouad (MSc Computer Science)

Ferguson, Tyler (DPhil Clinical Medicine)

Forward, David James (MSt Classical Hebrew Studies)

Fu, Yuting (DPhil Mathematics)

Gallay, Elizabeth Grace (MPhil Politics: Political Theory)

Goglio, Alessia (MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry))

Gomez Cortes, Cristobal Eduardo (MBA)

Guo, Yuchen (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Handley, Michael (MSc Statistical Science)

Hanson, Megan Leigh (MSc Education (Higher Education))

Hao, Zelin (MJur)

Harris, Ynyr Theophilus (DPhil Particle Physics)

Hasell, Joe Anthony (DPhil Social Policy)

Holtz, Katja (MSc Migration Studies)

Home, Eleanor Catherine (MPhil Cuneiform Studies)

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Hope, Freya (DPhil Anthropology)

Hsu, Ho (MSc Sociology)

Hudson, Tobias Olaf (DPhil Comparative Philology and General Linguistics)

Hughes, Austin Tyler (MPhil Japanese Studies)

Hung, Chung-Chieh Gary (MSt Archaeology)

Jabin, Nusrat (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine)

Jennings, Emily Morgan (MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics)

Ji, Caixuan (DPhil Area Studies (China))

Jin, Yongcheng (DPhil Chemical Biology)

Jo, Sang Woo (MSc Statistical Science)

Johns, Isobel Gretel (DPhil Biochemistry)

Jones, Gwion Wyn (MSt History – US History)

Jung, Taeho (DPhil Engineering Science)

Junglas, Solveig Maren (MSc Archaeological Science)

Kane, Clementine Mary Grace (MPhil Islamic Art and Archaeology)

Kerr, Robert William (DPhil Materials)

Klug, Brittany Rae (DPhil Sociology)

Knight, Jonathan (MSt Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (AS))

Knight, Timothy Christopher (MSc Japanese Studies)

Koh, Cheryl Michaela (MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy

Evaluation)

Kosuge, Tetsuaki (MSc Law and Finance)

Kralova, Jitka (MSc Social Anthropology)

Kugelberg, Elsa Viktoria caroline Crafoord (DPhil Politics)

Kylander, Daniel Eric (MSc Sociology)

Laerke-Hall, Sif Rhiannon (MSt Greek and/or Roman History)

Langshaw, David Montgomery (DPhil History (HSM and ESH) (Part-time))

Law, Chess Man Weng (MSt English (1700–1830))

Leung, Vincent (MPhil Modern Languages (ITA))

Li, Sujun (DPhil Biochemistry)

Li, Wenrui (MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology)

Liu, Shuhan (MSc Statistical Science)

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Liu, Yue (DPhil Mathematics)

Livesey, Matthew Terence (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management)

Lovejoy, Malerie Veronica (MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics)

Mabombo, Viviana Cecilia Joao (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine)

Mahnoor (DPhil Oncology)

Marshall, Naomi Elizabeth Ann (DPhil Anthropology)

McGivern, Alexis Marie (MSc Environmental Change and Management)

McQuillen, Samuel Andrew (MPhil Development Studies)

Merkel, Katharina Christina (MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy

Evaluation)

Mikallou, Antonios (DPhil Materials)

Mishra, Megha (MSc Social Science of the Internet)

Misri, Didon (BCL)

Mohammed, Rizwaan Adeeb (DPhil Particle Physics)

Moller, Timothy Owen (MSc African Studies)

Moore, Brian Michael (MSt English (1900–present))

Moore, Elynor Vivien (Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP))

Morales Bernabe, Kevin Gadiel (MPhil Buddhist Studies)

Mothatego, Thapelo (DPhil Materials)

Mukhoti, Jishnu (DPhil Engineering Science)

Navarro, Dimitri Raoul Joseph (DPhil Mathematics)

Nelson-Addy, Lesley Gladys Naa Okaikor (DPhil Education (Full-time))

Olatunbosun, Kayode Saheed (EMBA)

Oliveira Dal Santo, Luiz Phelipe (DPhil Criminology)

Pahlke, Svenja-Maria (DPhil Clinical Medicine)

Pant, Anita Cathleen (MSc Russian and East European Studies)

Partsch, Cornell Julie Josepha Rahel (MSc African Studies)

Paulin, Oliver William (DPhil Engineering Science)

Pi, Liquan (DPhil Materials)

Pikane, Eliza (MSc Russian and East European Studies)

Piperno, Shirly (MSt Jewish Studies)

Qiu, Xinchi (Health Data Science (EPSRC CDT))

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Rady, Nora A. (MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry))

Rafipooraskestani, Hossein (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences)

Rahimi, Akam (Auto Intelligent Machines and Systems (EPSRC CDT))

Rahman, Matiur (MSc Modern South Asian Studies)

Reim, Lena Maria (DPhil International Development)

Rizzo, Irene (DPhil Computer Science)

Rossides, Nicole (MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience)

Rothweiler, Elisabeth Mira (DPhil Clinical Medicine)

Ruffle, Aimee Rebecca (DPhil Medical Sciences)

Rumney, Rebecca Esther (Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science:

Responsible and Reproducible Research (CDT))

Sabir, Marya Sabah (DPhil Biomedical Sciences: NIH-OU)

Saccon, Lorenzo (DPhil History)

Sadd, Natha (DPhil International Relations)

Sahgal, Gayatri (DPhil Area Studies (Africa))

Scarrold, William Michael Lamont (DPhil Mathematics)

Scheven, Pascal (MSc African Studies)

Schulkes, Piotr Gerben Sylvester (MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies)

Schwedhelm, Diana Lee (MBA)

Schweers, Julia Serena (DPhil Migration Studies (Anthropology))

Schönewolff, Maribel Fides Melissa (DPhil Biochemistry)

Serrano, Louis François Raphaël (MSc Statistical Science)

Shakhparyan, Gohar (MBA)

Siddiqui, Aliyah Iram (MSc Modern South Asian Studies)

Siddiqui, Misha (MSc Integrated Immunology)

Silkatcheva, Anastasiya (DPhil Oriental Studies)

Singler, Samuel William (DPhil Criminology)

Sisti, Manuela (Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (EPSRC CDT))

Skelton, William Peter Roy (DPhil Oriental Studies)

Soneji, Hershini Shruti (MPhil Classical Indian Religion)

Sozanschi, Ana (DPhil Organic Chemistry)

Steemers, Alexander Sebastiaan (MSc Integrated Immunology)

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Stephens, Alexander John (DPhil Oncology)

Sun, Yuancheng (MSc(Res) Inorganic Chemistry)

Tagashira, Masashi (MBA)

Tamm, Andres (Health Data Science (EPSRC CDT))

Tanghetti, Carlo (MSt History – British and European History 1700–1850)

Tao, Hongyan (DPhil Medical Sciences)

Temple, Frederick (DPhil Physical and Theoretical Chemistry)

Thiesbrummel, Jarla (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics)

Thorup, Sophie Ryan (MPhil English Studies (Medieval))

Topp-Mugglestone, Max Emil (DPhil Particle Physics)

Torres Gutierrez, Ana Carol (DPhil Oriental Studies)

Turcatti, Domiziana (DPhil Migration Studies)

Valmorbida McSteen, Francesca Elise (Master of Public Policy)

Van Balen, Liselotte Merel (MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy)

van der Laan, Muriel Christine (Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP))

Van Pee, Bart Willy Rosa (DPhil Engineering Science (Part-time))

von Behr, William (MSt Greek and/or Latin Language and Literature)

Walker, James Houston (MSt Historical Studies)

Wang, Yizhou (DPhil Oncology)

Wardenier, Joost Pieter (DPhil AOP Physics)

Welsch, Niklas Joshua (BPhil Philosophy)

Werens, Karolina Barbara (MSc Archaeological Science)

Whitehead, Gillian Rosemary (MSc Social Science of the Internet (PT))

Wiesen, Maik Maria (MSc Medical Anthropology)

Wiest, Christoph (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences)

Williams, Andrew Ioan Lee (Environmental Research (NERC DTP))

Wojahn, Daniel (DPhil Oriental Studies)

Wollburg, Clara (MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation)

Wood, Dominic (Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP))

Woodgate, Samuel James (MSc Energy Systems (36 Months))

Woodley, James Shloky Michael (MSc Latin American Studies)

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Woodward, Daniel James (DPhil Materials)

Ye, Xuanyu (DPhil Oriental Studies)

Zammataro, Alessandro (DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (FT))

Zhang, Jingwei (MBA)

Zhang, Kangning (Health Data Science (EPSRC CDT))

Zoulis, Rafail (MSt Greek and/or Roman History)

Elected Members of Governing Body

Bogdan-Gabriel Draghici (GS)

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Etienne Hanelt (GS)

Minhui (Becca) Wei (GS)

Bohao Yao (GS)

Martino Bardelli (JRF)

Courtney Nimura (RF)

Elected Members of General Purposes Committee

Yuancheng (Tommy) Sun (GS)

Bohao Yao (GS)

Corinne Lutomski (JRF)

Matthew Landrus (SF)

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Scholarships, Awards and Prizes 2019–20

David Thomas Scholarship in Ancient Documents

Chiara Scanga

Jeremy Black Scholarship

Eleanor Home

Littman Clarendon Scholarship

Ursula Westwood

Lorne Thyssen Scholarship

Gregory Thompson

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley AHRC Scholarship

Juan Ignacio Neves Sarriegui

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Scholarship

Hannie Lawlor

Oxford Wolfson Marriot Graduate Scholarships

Mark Haskew

Tom Maltas

Giovanni De Felice

Katherine Hurst

Gesa Jessen

Anna Jungbluth

Ronald Dekker

Vasileios Papadogiannis

Helen Theissen

Jessica Kelley

Elizabeth Rose Stair

Thomas Lewin

Gabriela Smarrelli

Naide Gedikli

Katherine Truslove

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Marieke van Beest

Syed Munim Husain

Lesley Nelson-Addy

Lena Reim

Maribel Schönewolff

Elsa Kugelberg

Joe Hasell

Oxford Wolfson Reginald Campbell Thompson Assyriology

Scholarship

William Skelton

Oxford Wolfson Ullendorff Graduate Scholarship in Semitic

Philology

Vladimir Olivero

Wolfson Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship

Garrett Bullock

Daniya Aynetdinova

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Quantum Foundation Scholarship

Alexis Toumi

Irene Rizzo

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Physics Scholarship

Joey Tindall

Jonas Wuerzinger

Joost Wardenier

Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Clarendon Scholarship

Sophia Backhaus

Domiziane Turcatti

Oxford Wolfson Ullendorff Graduate Scholarship in Semitic

Philology

David Forward

Jacob Ghazarian Studentship (2018–19 and 2019–20)

Grace Stafford

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Degrees and diplomas conferred during 2019–20

(1 July 2019 – 31 May 2020)

Abernethy, Robert Graham

Adegbite, Adetola Oluseun

Allen, Brandon

Allievi, Elisa Gaia

Ampiah, Millicenta Kukua

Mbeaba

Andrade de Bem, Rodrigo

Armfield, Lee Dominic

Assael, Ioannis Alexandros

Balte, Sara

Bandara, Samantha Kumari

Bartoníčková, Tereza

Bauer, Andrew Hans

Bediako, Kofi

Beguin, Estelle Francoise

Binter, Julia Teresa Susanne

(2014–20) Science and Technology of Fusion

Energy (EPSRC CDT), ‘Understanding the

Effects of Ion and Neutron Irradiation on

Tungsten’

(2018–19) Master of Public Policy

(2018–19) MSt Syriac Studies

(2018–19) MSc Pharmacology

(2018–19) MSc Clinical Embryology

(2014–19) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Looking

Deep at People: Towards Understanding and

Generating Humans in Images with Deep

Learning’

(2015–20) DPhil Oncology, ‘The role of histone

H3K36me3 in mammalian cell cycle regulation

and genome stability’

(2015–20) DPhil Computer Science, ‘Deep

Learning for Communication: Emergence,

Recognition and Synthesis’

(2018–19) MSc Social Anthropology

(2018–20) MPhil Visual, Material and Museum

Anthropology

(2017–19) MSc Social Science of the Internet

(PT)

(2017–19) MPhil Development Studies

(2018–19) MSc African Studies

(2014–19) Healthcare Innovation (RCUK CDT),

‘Sonodynamic therapy of hypoxic tumours’

(2013–20) DPhil Anthropology (Part-time),

‘African Cosmopolitanism and the Atlantic.

Trade, Imperial Contact and Relating to the Past

in the Niger Delta (Nineteenth to Twenty–first

Centuries)’

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Boswell, Michael Terence (2016–19) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Impact of

host restriction factors and capsid evolution on

HIV disease progression’

Braddock, Sebastian (2018–19) MPhil History – Modern European

History 1850–present

Bradshaw, Fiona Gail (2010–20) DPhil Archaeological Science,

‘Exploitation, Technology and Function of

Plant Resins in Oceania: Molecular Analysis

of Ethnographic Museum Artefacts and the

Implications for Archaeological Resin Analysis’

Braverman, Alexandra Jane (2018–19) MSt English (1830–1914)

Breslin, Bláthnaid Elizabeth (2018–19) BCL

Brethome, Alexandre (2015–20) Synthesis for Biology and Medicine

(EPSRC CDT), ‘A Physical-Organic Approach

to Asymmetric Catalysis: Design and Synthesis

of Chiral Ligands Using Multivariate Modelling’

Bright, Phoebe Elizabeth (2018–19) MSc Social Science of the Internet

Caple, Mary Alexandra (2018–19) MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Chen, Thomas

(2016–20) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, ‘The

Synthesis, Post-polymerization Functionalization

and Applications of Oxygenated Polymers’

Cherry, Peyton Julie (2018–19) MSc Social Anthropology

Chipault, Pierre-Baptiste (2018–19) MJur

Colquhoun, Rachel Mary (2014–19) DPhil Genomic Medicine and

Statistics, ‘Pan-genomic analysis of clonal

bacterial samples using nanopore reads and

genome graphs’

Contino, Sofia Chiara Skye (2018–19) MSt Film Aesthetics

Crook, Thomas


Daemgen, Marc Andre (2015–20) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Investigating

the Function of a Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion

Channel with Molecular Simulation’

Daneshmand, Mohammad (2015–19) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Ancient

Mesopotamian Divination: Anxiety and Methods

of Decision-Making’

De Jonge, James Anthony (2017–19) MPhil Modern Chinese Studies

De La Vega Loza, Shakira (2018–19) PGDip Diplomatic Studies

Virginia

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Do, Virginie

Dotti, Nicola

Dougall, Emma Victoria

Dror, Yael

Ebbinghaus, Mathis

Elliott, Ivo Antony Moritz

Enoch, Siobhan Marie

Erickson, Katherine Marie

Evans, Matthew Parry

Fan, Catherine Yang

Fawcett, Jamie Alexander

Fouirnaies, Christine Maria

Freschi, Giuliana

Frie, Kerstin

Gallagher, Joshua James

Morris

Gao, Yuan

Gardezi, Syed Khurram

Mushtaq

Gergely, Károly

(2018–19) MSc Social Data Science

(2015–19) DPhil Materials, ‘Electronic

Transport in Magnetic Materials at Different

Dimensionalities’

(2018–19) MSt History – British and European

History 1700–1850

(2017–19) MPhil Law

(2018–19) MSc Sociology

(2015–19) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘The

clinical epidemiology of scrub typhus in humans,

chiggers and rodents’

(2017–19) MSc Taxation

(2015–19) DPhil History, ‘The Visual

Vernacular: The Canonization and Celebration of

the Uganda Martyrs as a Mark of Post–Conciliar

Change in the Catholic Church, 1962–1972’

(2018–19) MSt Classical Archaeology

(2015–20) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘A novel

minimal cell constructed from chromosome-free

bacterial chassis’

(2018–19) MSc Social Science of the Internet

(2012–19) DPhil English, ‘Photography and

Fiction in Life-Writing’

(2017–19) MPhil Economic and Social History

(2016–20) DPhil Primary Health Care,

‘Self-Weighing and Self-Regulation for Weight

Loss’

(2018–19) MSc Japanese Studies

(2014–19) Healthcare Innovation (RCUK CDT),

‘Describing Obstetric Ultrasound Video Content

Using Deep Learning’

(2016–19) MSc(Res) Medical Sciences, ‘The

clinical epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in

a population cohort and its association with

valvular heart disease’

(2018–19) MSc Russian and East European

Studies

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Grzempa, Gregory Edward

(2018–19) MSc Medical Anthropology

Guevara, Peter Francis Sian (2017–19) MPhil Late Antique and Byzantine

Studies

Hodgson, Joshua Austin (2018–19) MSt English (1700–1830)

Holguin, Amy Louise (2018–19) MSc Archaeological Science

Robson

Ibe, Lilian Chidimma (2018–19) MSc International Health and

Tropical Medicine

Jagani, Devi Nileshkumar (2018–19) BCL

James, Christopher Dillon (2018–19) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies

Janmohamed, Farhaz (2017–19) MPhil Comparative Social Policy

Ji, Caixuan

(2018–19) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies

John, Michelle Keisha (2018–19) MSc Clinical Embryology

Lorraine

Johnson, Zoe Alice Murphy (2017–19) MPhil Development Studies

Jones, Claire Powell (2018–19) MSt Global and Imperial History

Jones, Cyrus Kazem Tudor (2017–19) MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Juchems, Keno Onno (2015–19) DPhil Experimental Psychology

(Direct Entry), ‘Constructing value in the medial

prefrontal cortex’

Kamisli, Gul

(2017–19) MSc Computer Science

Kang, Myunghoon (2018–19) MSc Law and Finance

Kaye, Josie Lianna (2014–20) DPhil International Relations, ‘The

Business of Peace and the Politics of Inclusion:

What Role for Local ‘Licit’ and ‘Illicit’ Business

Actors in Peace Mediation?’

Khan, Ayub

(2017–19) MPhil Modern South Asian Studies

Kim, Esther Hana


Kim, Sinae


Kim, Woohee

(2018–19) MSc Education (Comparative and

International Education)

Kim, Yoolim

(2016–19) DPhil Comparative Philology and

General Linguistics, ‘The mental representations

of Hanja: Exploring cross-script semantic

cohorts in Korean’

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King, Rachel Louise

Klebolte, Kimberly

Kusio, Mateusz Kacper

Learey, Mark Scott

Lee, Minho

Li, Chui Lam

Liu, Qianqian

Liu, Ryan

Lorenzini Aracena,

Sebastian

Luettich, Alexander

Luo, Ziying

Maamri, Jouja

Mandersloot, Mattho

Martens, Marieke Annie

Gerdine

McAuliffe, James

McKay, Francoise

McLean, Meaghan Corrie

Mergenthaler, Alicia Vashio

(2014–19) DPhil Experimental Psychology

(Direct Entry),’Attentional Control of Goal

Directed Behaviour’

(2018–19) MSc Comparative Social Policy

(2017–19) DPhil Theology (Full-time), ‘The

Antichrist Tradition in Second Temple Judaism

and Early Christianity’

(2018–19) MSt Archaeology

(2013–20) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Social Policy

Preferences in South Korea: Individual and Family-related

Perspectives’


(Direct Entry), ‘Suboptimality and Efficiency in

Human Decision Making’

(2017–19) MPhil Archaeology

(2018–19) MSc Education (Higher Education)

(2018–19) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)


(Direct Entry), ‘Temporal expectations in the

context of spatial expectations and stimulus

competition’

(2018–19) MSc Applied Linguistics and 2nd

Language Acquisition (Full-time)

(2018–19) MSc Migration Studies

(2018–19) MSt Korean Studies

(2015–19) DPhil Psychiatry, ‘The interaction of

COMT genotype, tolcapone and acute stress on

brain activity and working memory performance’

(2015–20) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Developing

Viral Vectored Vaccines for MAGE-expressing

Tumours’

(2018–19) MSc Education (Higher Education)

(2018–19) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second

Language Acquisition (Full-time)


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Meyer, Robin

Meyer-Bothling, Elena

Nasreen

Miles, Marjotte Antonia

Georgia

Mitsutake, Yuichiro

Moldokmatova, Ainura

Moss, Charlotte Emily

Elizabeth

Muso, Milan

Namwira, Johise Nsuli

Nguyen, Linh Thuy

(2013–18) DPhil Comparative Philology and

General Linguistics, ‘Iranian-Armenian language

contact in and before the 5th century CE: An

investigation into pattern replication and societal

multilingualism’

(2018–19) MSt World Literatures in English

(2018–19) MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

(2018–19) MSc Evidence-Based Social

Intervention and Policy Evaluation

(2018–19) MSc International Health and

Tropical Medicine

(2018–19) MSc Education (Child Development

and Education)

(2015–20) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Functional

study of waist-hip ratio associated loci and the

WARS2 gene as modulators of fat distribution’

(2018–19) MSc African Studies


Orozco Olvera, Victor Hugo (2014–19) DPhil Social Intervention, ‘Using

Entertainment-Education to Promote Safer

Sexual Behavior in Young Adults in Nigeria’

Othman, Khair Razlan (2010–19) Healthcare Innovation (RCUK CDT),

‘Learning sonographic views using a multiple

proposal approach’

Oyarbide Magana, Ernesto

Eduardo

Parker, Andrew

Pefkianakis, Aris Therapon

(2015–20) DPhil History, ‘The First Count of

Gondomar’s Library and Diplomatic Practice

(1613–1622)’

(2013–19) Systems Biology (EPSRC CDT),

‘Parameterising models of collective cell

spreading’

(2018–19) MSt Greek and/or Latin Language

and Literature

Philbin, Michael Sean (2018–19) MSc Latin American Studies (1+1)

Pienkowska-cote, Marta

Barbara

(2015–20) DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time),

‘Small-scale effects on global seismic waves’

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Probst, Gaudenz Paul

Alessandro

Quinn, Emelia Jane

Rios Erazo, Ignacio Javier

S/O Haj Mohamed,

Muhammad Azhar

Schlegel, Kevin

Schonfield, Amos Judah

Sharma, Angira

Sharp, Daniel James

Sheridan, Kathryn Ruth

Sibiya, Lindokuhle Andile

Siddiqui, Ali Arsalan Pasha

Simpson, Bridget Michelle

Slade, Louis Alexander

Smith, Mark James Houston

Snyder-Beattie, Andrew

Evans

Sonina, Snejina

Taylor, Roxanne

Tenzin Choephel,

Turner, Katelyn Elizabeth

Vaas, Christian Peter Georg

Waller, Sharlayne Tatyana

(2015–20) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Becoming

Families: A study of same-sex couples’ rights in

the Anglo-Saxon countries’

(2015–19) DPhil English, ‘The Monstrous

Vegan: Reading Veganism in Literature, 1818 to

Present’

(2018–19) MPhil Law

(2018–19) Master of Public Policy

(2014–20) Partial Differential Equations

(EPSRC CDT), ‘On the Existence of Representer

Theorems in Banach Spaces’

(2018–19) MSc Migration Studies

(2018–19) MSc Computer Science

(2017–19) MPhil Economics

(2018–19) MSc Comparative Social Policy

(2018–19) MBA

(2018–19) MSc Modern South Asian Studies

(2018–19) MSt Theology


(2018–19) MSc Statistical Science

(2016–19) DPhil Zoology, ‘Evolution and

existential risk with observer selection bias’

(2018–19) MSt Gen Linguistics and

Comparative Philology

(2017–19) MPhil Gen Linguistics and

Comparative Philology

(2017–19) MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

(2018–19) MSc Evidence-Based Social

Intervention and Policy Evaluation

(2014–19) Cyber Security (EPSRC CDT),

‘Security and privacy in location-aware mobile

systems’

(2014–19) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Engineering human neural networks:

Controlling cell patterning and connectivity’

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Wallersteiner, Imogen

Helena

Walsh, Sarah

Weil, Julia Taylor

Wildi, William Trevor

Williams, Ella Daisy

Winter, Curtis William

Yao, Ziqi

Yurttas, Taha

Zak, Danilo Avram


(2016–20) DPhil Chemical Biology, ‘Design and

Synthesis of Fluorogenic Oligonucleotide-based

Systems to Target Double-stranded DNA’

(2018–19) MSc Criminology and Criminal

Justice


(2018–19) MSc Modern Middle Eastern Studies

(2013–20) DPhil Fine Art (Full-Time), ‘The

Recollections: The Works and Days (of Tayoko

Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)’

(2018–19) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies

(2017–19) MPhil Cuneiform Studies

(2018–19) MSc Refugee and Forced Migration

Studies

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Personal News

Appointments and Awards

Elleke Boehmer (GBF) was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

in June 2019, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of History in January 2020. In

September 2019 she was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize in South Africa for

her novel The Shouting in the Dark, and in the same month she was commended

for the ARB Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in Australia.

Max Atkinson (RF 1976–87, MCR 1987–) was given a Lifetime Achievement

Award by the UK Speechwriters’ Guild. He has also been elected to a Fellowship

of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Pamela Clemit (SF) was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

at the start of the current academic year.

Christopher Hodges (SF) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

(2020) and appointed Lay Member of the Academic Quality and Standards

Committee of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London (2019).

Daniel Herskowitz (JRF) has won the Leo Baeck InstitutionYear Book

Essay Prize (2020) for his essay ‘Between Exclusion and Intersection:

Heidegger’s Philosophy and Jewish Volkism’.

Robin Meyer (JRF) has been elected a Member of Council of the Philological

Society and appointed Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics at the

Université de Lausanne.

Juan Neves Sarriegui (GS), Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley AHRC Scholar, has

been elected to a Norman Fiering Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library in

Providence (USA). This fellowship is for a two-month research period during the

academic year 2020–21 in the Library’s archive of Iberian and Latin American

history, to pursue his project of ‘Public Opinion and Print Culture in the South

American Atlantic, c. 1800–1830’.

Barry Potter (GS 1977–81, JRF 1980–81, MCR 2015–) was given the 2018

Tu Youyou Award. He was recognized not only for outstanding contributions

to Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology with a strong relationship to

Natural Products Chemistry, but also for academic excellence, leadership and

entrepreneurship across a wide spectrum of activities related to Chemistry,

Biology and Medicine.

Martin Robert (JRF) has been awarded this year’s Jean-Charles Sournia Prize

by the French Society for the History of Medicine (SFHM) for his doctoral

dissertation ‘La fabrique du corps médical. Dissections humaines et formation

médicale dans le Québec du XIXe siècle’. He defended this dissertation in

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September 2019 at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and it is now under

review for publication by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

John Sandford O’Neill (GS) was awarded the Institution of Engineering and

Technology’s Leslie H. Paddle Scholarship last July. It is an annual award of

£5,000 to ‘encourage excellence in engineering and technology research’.

Tim Viney (RF) has been appointed as a Career Development Fellow in the

Department of Pharmacology, starting 1 July 2020. This is an independent post

enabling him to develop and lead his own research programme. He has also

received funding from the Alzheimer’s Society for a new DPhil student, who will

start next academic year. His research programme will focus on how memories

are processed in a specialised part of the brain called the thalamus. His group will

also investigate how the thalamus is affected in neurodegenerative diseases.

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Susan Walker (EF), Honorary Curator of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum,

has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for 2020–21 to facilitate the

publication of the letters of the 19th-century collector and supporter of the Oxford

Movement, Charles Wilshere, to Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Director of the

Vatican Library and founding father of the academic discipline of early Christian

archaeology.

Xuan Wang (MCR) has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of

Finance at VU University Amsterdam and Candidate Fellow at Tinbergen Institute,

from 1 September 2020. Xuan has also been selected as a finalist in the European

Central Bank’s young economists’ competition 2020 for his research paper

‘When Do Currency Unions Benefit From Default?’

Books published by Wolfsonians

Maryam Aslany

Andrew Briggs

Elleke Boehmer

(JRF) Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India

(Cambridge University Press, May 2020)

(MCR) Two books from his children’s book series, The

Curious Science Quest, were published last year. Book

5, Victorian Voyages: Where did we come from? Book 6,

Modern Flights: Where next?

(GBF) To the Volcano

(A new collection of short stories published by

MyriadEditions in October 2019)

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Julie Curtis

(GBF) A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The

Master and Margarita

(Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019)

Shimon Dar

Elena Draghici-

Vasilescu

Jan Fellerer

(GBF)

Martin Goodman

Джули Куртис, Англичанин из Лебедяни. Жизнь

Евгения Замятина [The Russian-language edition of

her 2013 book, The Englishman from Lebedian: a life of

Evgeny Zamiatin (1884–1937)]

(Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, ‘Sovremennaia

Zapadnaia Rusistika’ series, 2020)

(MCR) with Yigael Ben Ephraim, Discovering – The Lost

City of the Carmel

(The Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem 2018 (Hebrew

and English))

(MCR) Heavenly sustenance in Patristic texts and

Byzantine Iconography: Nourished by the Word

(London: Palgrave, 2018; nominated for the Early Slavic

Studies Association Book Prize for 2019)

(GBF) Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe. The

Polish Dialect of Late-Habsburg Lviv

(Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages

and Cultures; Lanham/MD; London: Lexington Books /

Rowman and Littlefields 2020).

(GBF) Josephus’s The Jewish War: a biography

(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019)

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Katy Granville-

Chapman

Christopher

Hodges

The Italian edition of his book, A History of Judaism

(2017), published by Einaudi as Storia dell’ebraismo

(2019), was awarded the National Cherasco Prize for

History for 2020.

(GS) with Emmie Bidston, Leader: Know, Love and Inspire

Your People (Crown House Publishing Limited, 2020)

(SF) Delivering Dispute Resolution: A Holistic Review of

Models in England and Wales (Hart, 2019)

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Claas Kirchhelle

(JRF) Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in

Anglo-American Food Production (Rutgers University

Press, 2020)

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Claas Kirchhelle also launched the international exhibition

‘Typhoidland’ on the past, present, and future of typhoid

control: www.typhoidland.org. This exhibition ran in

Oxford as ‘Alice in Typhoidland’ and won the Bristol

Science Film Festival’s prize for the best Science Fact

Professional film.

Tariq Rahman (MCR) Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: an

Intellectual History (Berlin: Walther de Gruyter, 2018, and

reprinted by Oxford University Press for Pakistan in 2019),

was given the Best Book of the Year Award at the Karachi

Literary Festival in February 2020

John Sellars (MCR) Marcus Aurelius (Routledge, 2020)

Sarah Shaw (MCR) Mindfulness: Where it comes from and What it is

(Shambhala Publications, Colorado, 2020)

Richard Sorabji (HF) Founder and editor of the book series ‘Ancient

Commentators on Aristotle’ which has reached 110

volumes

Katherine Watson (MCR) Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in

England and Wales, 1700–1914 (Routledge, 2019)

Chigusa Yamaura (JRF) Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of

Cross-Border Matchmaking between Men from Japan and

Women from Northeast China (Cornell University Press,

2020)

David Zeitlyn (SF) Mambila Divination: Framing Questions,

Constructing Answers (Routledge Studies in Anthropology,

2020)

Births

To Robin Meyer (GS 2011–18, MCR 2018, JRF 2018–) and Sheera Suner:

a daughter, Esra Florence, in April 2020.

Marriages

Mary Caple (GS 2018–) to Sebastian Jones in June 2019.

Weixi Ding (GS 2017–) to Pierre Buscaill in June 2019.

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Weixi Sing and Pierre Buscaill cut the cake (photo: Marie Lautteur-Poncé)

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Deaths

Nicholas Justin Allen (GBF 1976–2001; Vicegerent 1985–7; EF 2001–20) on 21

March 2020. (Obituary follows)

Geoffrey Bath (JRF 1974–8; RF 1978–85; MCR 1985–7) on 30 December 2019.

Eleanor Brock, widow of Michael Brock (GBF 1976–76, HF 1977–2014), in May

2020.

Brian Buck (GBF 1971–2002; EF 2002–20) on 24 July 2020. (Obituary in next

year’s Record)

Howard Robert Clarke (GS 1980) on 2 April 2020. (Obituary follows)

Myron Evans (JRF 1975) on 2 May 2019.

Donald Harris (MCR 1974–95) on 10 August 2020. (Obituary follows)

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Mark Norman (MCR 2003–17; HMCR 2017–19) on 27 October 2019.

Judith Peters, widow of George Peters (GBF 1980–2001; EF 2001), on 29 July

2020.

Obituaries

Nicholas Justin Allen

(1939–2020)

Governing Body Fellow 1976–2001;

Vicegerent 1985–7; EF 2001–20

Beneath his shy and donnish exterior, N.J.

Allen – or Nick, as he was universally

known to friends and colleagues – was

a man of determination, self-belief

and bravery. ‘Like a rock climber, a

comparativist must take some risks’, he

(photo: David Gellner)

wrote in ‘From Mountains to Mythologies’

(Ethnos 68.2 (2003), 271–84), his own account of his intellectual career, which will

be quoted again later. Nick knew what he was talking about – both about the rock

climbing and about comparison. He was a serious, hard-working, deeply learned

and committed scholar – a polymath, who acquired Latin, Greek, French, German,

Italian and Spanish at school (Rugby); later, he learned Russian. Until quite late in

life, he went on learning new languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Old Norse, Old Irish) to

help him in his research.

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From school, he won a scholarship to read classics at New College, Oxford; but

he decided to switch to medicine. Unhappy studying medicine, he stumbled across

Haddon’s History of anthropology at the house of his maternal uncle, the father

of anthropologist Alfred Gell. This gave him the idea of returning to Oxford to do

the diploma (now the MSc) in social anthropology in 1963–64. He was strongly

influenced by his supervisor Rodney Needham, who was in his high structuralist

period. Needham had been in the Gurkhas during the war and encouraged Nick to

do fieldwork in Nepal for his doctorate.

Nick worked principally on the oral literature and myths of the Thulung Rai. The Rai

are divided into numerous subgroups, each with their own mutually unintelligible

language. Nick’s first publication (1975) was a grammar of Thulung Rai. That his

historical interests were already strong is demonstrated by the fact that he had

chosen the Thulung, of all the myriad Rai groups, because he had read that theirs

was the most archaic branch of east Himalayish within the Tibeto-Burman language

family. His DPhil on the mythology of the Thulung was published many years later

as Miyapma: Traditional Narratives of the Thulung Rai (Kathmandu, 2012).

Nick taught for four years, from 1972

to 1976, at Durham University. He then

returned to Oxford as University Lecturer

in the Anthropology of South Asia. As

well as teaching the whole range of social

anthropology to MSc students in weekly

tutorials, Nick was responsible for the

option course on South Asia, with a focus

on Hinduism. Rodney Needham had sown

a crucial seed by introducing Nick to the

work of Georges Dumézil in 1965. While he

was still in Durham, Nick had tried to apply

a Dumézilian approach to Tibeto-Burman

mythology. Now in Oxford, and focused

on Hinduism, a whole new field of Indo-

European comparativism began to open up.

Nick Allen in Nepal, 1970 (centre)

photographed by shaman (dhami) Dan

Bahadur Rai in front of the latter’s house,

5 February 1970

In his later career, Nick made significant contributions to three main areas: kinship

theory, the history of anthropology (specifically the Année Sociologique school,

particularly Mauss as well as Durkheim and Dumont) and comparative Indo-

European mythology. To those three areas should be added his work on eastern

Nepal and on comparative Himalayan, mainly Tibetan, myth, kinship and social

structures. The paper he contributed to Anthropologists in a wider world (2000) is

a passionate defence of his decision, after coming to Oxford in 1976, to focus his

efforts on desk research and to leave time-consuming ethnography to others.

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Nick’s reflections on Marcel Mauss, honed over years of reading and teaching the

French school, are collected in his book Categories and Classifications: Maussian

Reflections on the Social (New York, 2000). The kinship work was prefigured

in two early articles, ‘A dance of relatives’ and ‘Tetradic theory: An approach to

kinship’, published in 1982 and 1986 respectively in Journal of the Anthropological

Society of Oxford. They distilled the lessons of quadripartite kin systems into a

simple model of four kinds of relative. They ended with the speculation that, as the

simplest possible kinship terminology and structure, it had emerged initially out of

tribal celebrations and was subsequently used to organize society into totemic clans.

Perhaps the intellectual contribution closest to Nick’s heart was his pursuit of the

comparisons to be found between the Mahabharata and Homer’s Odyssey. Inspired by

Dumézil’s work on the Hindu epic, Nick believed he had been able to go much further.

The parallels between the two epics were so numerous and so precise that ‘there is

little room for doubt. The only reasonable explanation is that the two epics go back to a

common origin from which they diverged in the course of separate oral transmission.’

Nick’s crucial theoretical advance in Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and

Greek Epic (London, 2020) was to supplement Dumézil’s three functions (religious and

magical power; physical force and war; fertility and prosperity) with a fourth sacred

pole (focusing on the outside, the other and the uncanny), with both a positive and

negative valence. This meant that, depending on context, the key organizing number

for underlying structures could be either four or five.

One of Nick’s great attributes was his complete indifference to academic fashion.

He did not seek recognition from others and, unlike some of his Oxford colleagues,

he made no attempt to turn his students into disciples. He was happy that a few

dedicated Dumézilians around the world shared his interests, even if they had not

(yet) accepted his reinterpretation of the Dumézilian triad.

Nick was devoted to his wife Sheila, whom he met at Linacre College, Oxford

during his diploma year. She came to join him in his Thulung fieldwork for six

weeks after a period doing VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in Pakistan. He

was also devoted to his two daughters, Charlotte and Martha, and to the four

grandchildren who came along in due course.

Nick saw early retirement ‘less in terms of stepping “down” than of stepping up –

into an indefinite sabbatical.’ He often appeared in Wolfson College, Oxford, for

lunch and then worked in a small office in the basement of the department in the

afternoons. He took advantage of the riches that Oxford has to offer, often going

to classicist, philological and even occasionally social anthropology seminars. His

photographs, notes and audio recordings are in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Despite the

cancer that he had to battle in his final years, he kept working cheerfully until the end.

David Gellner (HF) (Anthropology Today 36.4 (August 2020). A longer version

will appear at: https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries)

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Howard Robert Clarke (GS 1980)

(1943–2020)

My husband Howard Clarke, who has died aged 76, was a sixth-form college

principal in the north-east of England and a stout defender of the need for greater

financial support for further education, in particular through his involvement with

the Sixth Form Colleges Association.

Howard was born in Sheffield, the son of Mary, a sales clerk, and James Clarke, a

trade association secretary. He attended High Storrs grammar school in the city and

then went to the London School of Economics to read economics and politics. On

completing his degree he trained to be an accountant, but after two years decided

that accountancy was not for him, and did teacher training at Oxford University.

After qualifying he taught economics at the newly created Marton sixth-form

college in Middlesbrough, where he was promoted to head of careers, senior tutor

and, eventually, vice-principal.

In 1980 he took time out to study for an MSc at Oxford in the governance of

education, after which he became principal of Bede sixth-form college in Stockton

and then in 1986 principal of Stockton sixth-form college, where he stayed until

his retirement in 2002. He chaired Stockton’s headteachers’ and principals’ group

for many years and was a founder member and sometime chair of the Sixth Form

Colleges Association, in which role he was invited in the 1990s to Downing Street

to present the case for better funding of post-16 education. An intelligent and

learned man, Howard had great integrity and was always kind and tolerant with

both staff and students.

After his retirement Howard followed his interest in military history by writing two

books about little-known aspects of education in the armed forces. The first was A

New History of the Royal Hibernian Military School (1765-1924) Phoenix Park,

Dublin (2011), and the second, to be published posthumously, is Redcoats in the

Classroom, a history of the British army’s schools for soldiers and their children

during the 19th century.

Diana Clarke

(The Guardian, 29 May 2020, which required a fee to republish this text sent by

Mrs Clarke.)

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Donald Harris (MCR 1974–95)

(1928–2020)

Donald Harris, QC (Hon), BA LLM New Zealand, BCL MA Oxf, LLD Keele, was

Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence at Balliol 1956–76, Senior Research Fellow

1977–93 and Emeritus Fellow from 1993. At Wolfson, he played a central role in

establishing the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 1972, and was its Director for

21 years. The present Director writes:

Don was a specialist in contract and tort, with a particular interest in remedies and

the day-to-day reality of contractual relations, subjects he taught in the Oxford BCL

for many years. As Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, he was at the

forefront of the move in legal scholarship from traditional black-letter approaches

to one supplemented by a socio-legal perspective, making use of the insights of the

social sciences in the study of law and legal phenomena.

It is no exaggeration to say that in his time at the Centre Don made the most

important contribution of the era to securing the institutional foundations of socio–

legal studies in the UK through the research conducted at the Centre, and the staff

and research students brought there to be schooled in multidisciplinary analysis of

law, its institutions, its processes and impact. He had an enormous capacity for hard

work, though it was through the force of his personality that Don made the Centre

an exciting and pleasant place in which to work and created a strong sense of

collective effort and community. His former colleagues remember him most for his

personal qualities, his sheer humanity and decency, his modesty and willingness to

forsake any kind of personal recognition, his optimism, sense of fun and, not least,

his shining integrity. It is fashionable to think that leadership skills can be learnt,

but Don was a natural. He inspired enduring loyalty, respect and friendship in all

those he worked with. He was instrumental in appointing and mentoring at least

two generations of socio-legal scholars, many of whom became leaders in the field

in the UK and abroad. He also worked behind the scenes in setting up and nurturing

the Socio-Legal Studies Association. His legacy continues to be enjoyed by sociolegal

scholars across the world.

Linda Mulcahy (GBF)

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Memories

Twelve Memorable Years at Wolfson

by Max Atkinson (RF 1976–87, MCR 1987–)

Academic Memories

As a lecturer in Sociology at Manchester University in 1975, I took what seemed

a terrible risk at the time by resigning from a secure tenured job (it would have

lasted until I was 65) and accepting the offer of a Senior Research Fellowship at

the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. The downside was that, since it was a Research

Unit of the Social Science Research Council, for the job to continue beyond five

years depended on formal reviews of our work. The upside was that the job came

with a Research Fellowship of Wolfson College, where I am still a Member of

Common Room.

One of the many attractions of the Centre was that I could research into whatever

I chose, so long as it was inter-disciplinary and ‘socio-legal’. Being interested in

what was then a rather obscure form of sociolinguistic research, Conversation

Analysis, I started to develop a programme of research into law and language –

and, in particular, how courtroom language differs from more familiar forms of talk

such as conversation. Books I published then include Discovering Suicide: Studies

in the social organization of sudden death (1978), Order in Court: the organisation

of verbal interaction in judicial settings (1979) and Our Masters’ Voices: the

language and body-language of politics (1984). Copies are in the College library.

After my first year at Wolfson, I was listed in the College Record as ‘J.M. Atkinson,

BA Reading, PhD Essex’. But I had a problem: without an Oxford MA, I would

not be allowed to supervise any graduate students – but no need to worry, because

all I had to do was to get a form from the University Offices and sign it. In my

second year, a not very subtle change in my listing appeared: I had become ‘J.M.

Atkinson, MA status (BA Reading, PhD Essex)’, my proper degrees from redbrick

and plate-glass universities now appearing in brackets. In fact, when friends and

former colleagues asked me what Wolfson was like, I used to say ‘pretty much like

the University of Essex: concrete and plate-glass building, with no senior common

rooms, but it does have some carpets and Carrara marble.’ But unlike Essex, which

had four superb new squash courts, the arrangements for keen players like me at

Wolfson were my biggest disappointment. I like to think that my main legacy to the

College was eventually to be the squash courts.

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Sporting memories

One year at Foundation Dinner, the then Bursar was unlucky enough to sit opposite

to me – unlucky, because I spent so much of the time ranting about what a mistake

it had been for the founders of the College to have spent £1 million on a building

with no squash courts. That meant we had to play nearby at the Dragon School,

at extremely inconvenient times. It also meant we had to play all our matches

away, in some ancient, damp and often dangerous courts with no sprung floors. I

explained to the Bursar that squash was the ideal sport for people doing full-time

research because, unlike more time-consuming forms of exercise such as football,

cricket and rowing, you could play squash, have a shower and be back at your desk

within an hour. For good measure, I added that companies in North Oxford might

be willing to pay the College for their staff to use the courts as well. To my surprise

(and very great delight) the Bursar set up a committee to look into the idea, and

they quickly gave the go-ahead for building work to begin.

The first term the courts were open (Michaelmas 1980), the Wolfson team won the

second division of the University league. After being promoted to the first division

next term (Hilary 1981), we won that as well. Given that our average age was about

30 and all our opponents were undergraduates, it was quite an achievement. The

picture below still hangs on my study wall, and a few years ago was still hanging

on the wall of the balcony of the squash courts. But when my son and I came to

Wolfson for brunch earlier this year (en route to an Oxford United match), we

couldn’t get access to the courts: a notice on the door said they were ‘temporarily

closed for repairs’. I can see that after forty years, the courts probably do need some

refurbishment. But since February, I’ve been worrying that this classic picture may

have been removed or thrown away. I’d therefore be very grateful if any reader still

based in College would check to see if it is still there.

Afterword

This classic picture still hangs in

the squash courts, beside those of

eight other distinguished Wolfson

teams. Max is standing in the centre

of the back row.

(photo: Roger Tomlin)

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Recollections of 11 Chadlington Road, 1938–57

by Jane Moir

Jane Moir is the daughter of renowned gynaecologist Professor Chassar Moir

(1900–77), the first Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, who lived

at 11 Chadlington Road from 1938 to 1957, where he is commemorated by a Blue

Plaque erected in 2019. This house, almost opposite the President’s Lodgings, is

where Jane grew up with her siblings Kenneth, Priscilla and John, and she shares

some of her memories with the Archivist, Liz Baird.

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Our house and gardens

The house was built by architect Frank Shepherd and designed with his small

daughter, who had contracted tuberculosis, in mind. It therefore faced west and

south to catch the maximum amount of light and sunshine, with a veranda onto the

garden and a large balcony above, which led out of the nursery. The second floor

also had a small balcony facing west.

The houses in Chadlington Road were built on orchards belonging to St John’s

College, which originally owned much of the land in North Oxford (freeholds were

offered for sale in the late 1950s). Our large garden was beautifully laid out with

lawn, and a rose-covered pergola dividing the flower garden from the vegetable

garden. We were largely self-sufficient in produce, and also kept chickens.

Our gardener, a Mr Walker known by us children as Gar-Gar, had been one of the

original gardeners employed to lay out the gardens for the new houses. We were

allowed to keep Mr Walker as he was already retired by the outbreak of war, and

my father was allowed some ‘help’ as his position was a protected occupation. We

were similarly fortunate to keep our cook/maid Ethel Bastin (Faffle to me), who

lived in, as well as a nursemaid and daily cleaning help.

My father’s study on the ground floor at the front of the house had double-glazed

windows so that he could have peace and quiet to do his work. Since it was a rare

occurrence even to see a passing car in the road, it was already a very quiet spot.

The only other vehicles were the horse-drawn milk float, and the weekly rubbish

collection by lorry. Deliveries were made by errand boys on bicycles, and there was

an occasional delivery by van.

The many windows were a joy, but not in the War when it came to putting up the

blackout blinds, which took my mother and Ethel the best part of an hour. We had

an underground bomb shelter at the end of the garden to which we not infrequently

had to retire for the night, together with our cook, the dog and anyone else who

happened to be in the house at the time. Particularly memorable was the night

Coventry was blitzed and the sky was lit up so much that it could even be seen in

Oxford.

After the War, there was a great shortage of housing, and a Housing Allocation

Officer visited all the local houses regularly to count the number of rooms used,

which had then to be justified. We were fortunate as my father’s profession and

position allowed us a generous allocation. Many people also had evacuees or

‘displaced persons’ lodging with them. We let a flat at the top of the house to a

medical colleague for a while.

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Cherwell Boathouse

The house at the bottom of the lane (now 52 Bardwell Road) beside what was then

known as Timms’ Boathouse, was the home of Mrs Timms and her two sons. The

Timms brothers ran the Boathouse and were much appreciated as they worked very

hard to please their customers. Then as now, this establishment provided endless

pleasure to people who were able to hire punts and canoes there. In those days, there

were even ‘camping punts’, which had a canvas awning which could be pulled over

the seats to provide a sheltered spot for sleeping, when moored up at the river bank.

I well recall the smell of pitch during the winter when the boats were re-caulked,

with the swallows nesting in the rafters causing havoc, with numerous buckets

placed strategically to catch the droppings. There was a freezer of sorts in the office

and an occasional delivery of either Walls or Lyons individual ice creams in waxed

papers; when this happened, the buzz went round the road that ice-creams had

arrived, and we children would be dispatched to buy one each for all the family as

a special treat at lunchtime.

‘Cherwell’ and Home Farm

From Cherwell House at the end of Linton Road, the meadows extended to the

north, towards the ferry at Marston, and to the south along the backs of the houses

in Chadlington Road as far as Timms’ Boathouse, all beside the river. ‘Cherwell’,

a long, thin, three-storey house, was the home of Professor J.S. Haldane and his

family. The property included a large laid out garden, and a vegetable garden, as

well as Home Farm with its cowsheds for a small herd of Jersey cows and a bull.

There was also a small farmhouse for the cowman and his wife. At the end of the

formal garden, next to the River Cherwell, was a boathouse and deck.

My brother Ken used to ‘help’ the cowman with the cows (and annoy the bull).

Sadly, the cowman, his wife and the bull and the farmhouse were all hit by a plane

which in 1941 crashed onto the last house in Linton Road. At the time, we had

an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) surgeon, Gavin Livingstone, living in our top flat,

and he was one of the first people on the scene. I remember going over to the stillsmouldering

site with my brother, needless to say, disobeying parental authority.

The tennis court to the house was hopelessly damaged.

‘Cherwell’ itself, as I recall, was rendered in rather drab coffee-coloured render,

and had a large porch with a dangling bell pull. To the left of the house was the

side entrance to a long ground floor corridor with, I believe, the dining room, and

Professor Haldane’s study. I recall a large lead sink and racks of flower vases.

There was even a ballroom there, too. On the ground floor by the side door was a

flat, and above it a second flat; presumably these had once been staff quarters. In

the first floor flat lived my friend Pamela, her parents and their Chinese ‘Amah’

(nanny). I do not know their surname, but he, Pamela’s father, had been the British

Ambassador in Peking, until one day they had to return to Britain in a hurry. The

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Chinese nanny had strong ideas on toilet training; she also had bound feet. She used

to tip-tap up Linton Road every afternoon to go shopping in North Parade – every

day, that is, except Thursday, which was early-closing day in those days.

We loved Haldane’s, as we called it. Sometimes Mrs Haldane was welcoming, but

at other times she bawled us out of her property. She kindly allowed the family who

lived next door at 18 Linton Road to keep a small rowing boat in the boathouse.

(Mrs Haldane’s grand-daughter is still alive and living in Oxford.) When at last

the house was sold – and later the land purchased for Wolfson College – there

was a huge house sale of contents. We acquired a very useful large bookcase with

cupboards underneath the glazed doors; it had ball feet, a pediment with spindles

and ball decoration on the top. I remember once seeing it in situ, in the Haldane’s

ballroom, with a collection of blue and white Chinese vases displayed within. It

was an ambitious purchase: one of the four ball feet had to be removed, and the

pediment modified, to get it to fit into our more modest sitting room.

Afterword

The Record has published other memories of ‘Cherwell’, in 1990 by Mrs Haldane’s

daughter Naomi Mitchison (HF), in 2008 by Mrs Haldane’s grandsons Professors

Denny and Avrion Mitchison, and in 2011 as collected by local historian Ann

Spokes Symonds. See also ‘Confessions of a Lodger’ by Alison Cobb, in Wolfson

College, Oxford: The First Fifty Years (2016).

The plane crash recalled by Jane Moir was commemorated by the unveiling of a

plaque at Wolfson on its seventy-third anniversary, 4 May 2014, when the Bursar,

Edward Jarron, described what happened (Record 2014). Later his speech was read

by Louise Tubb in Canada, who sent him further details. She is the daughter of

Gavin Livingstone who lived at 11 Chadlington road in 1941 and (as Jane Moir

recalls) ‘was one of the first people on the scene’. His ‘gallant conduct’ when he

‘went to the help of a person lying beneath a blazing aeroplane that had crashed

onto his house, and disregarding the danger from fire and explosion succeeded in

carrying him to a place of safety’ (to quote from the covering letter) was officially

commended. He duly received this certificate signed by Winston Churchill.

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(photo: Louise Tubb)

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Editor’s Note

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The shadow of Isaiah (photo: Roger Tomlin)

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