College Record 2013

Wolfson College Record 2013

WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 

2013

Contents 

page 

President and Fellows 5 

College Officers and Membership 16 

Editor’s Note 18 

The President’s Letter 19 

Obituaries 25 

Alumni Relations and Development 

2012–13 37 

List of Donors 39 

Gifts to the Library 45 

Scholarships, Travel Awards, and 

Prizes 2012–13 46 

Sketching Wolfson’s New Building 48 

Wolfson’s Architecture Past and 

Present 52 

Degrees and Diplomas 57 

Elections and Admissions 74 

Fellows 74 

Visiting Scholars 74 

Graduate Students 75 

Elected members of the 

Governing Body 81 

Clubs and Societies 82 

AMREF Group 82 

Arts Society 83 

Boat Club 87 

Cricket 89 

Entz 89 

Environment 91 

Family Society 92 

Football Club 93 

Football, Women’s 95 

Karate 96 

Knitting Society 97 

Meditation 97 

Middle Eastern Dance 97 

Music Society 98 

Old Wolves Lunch 99 

Punt Club 100 

Reading Group 101 

Romulus 101 

Squash 102 

Summer Event 102 

Tennis 103 

Winter Ball 105 

Wolfson/Darwin Day 2013 106 

Yoga 106 

Research Clusters 107 

Life-Stories Event 110 

The President’s Seminars 111 

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 113 

Wolfson’s Early Printed Books 

by John Sellars 114 

Music is Everywhere 

by John Duggan 120 

Adventures of an Oxford 

Househusband 

by Alan Mendelson 123 

The Death of a King 

by Martin Henig 126 

The Wonders of Tick-Spit 

by Pat Nuttall 129 

Cross-Cultural Collaboration 

by James Crabbe 131 

Pawdle across the Chumba 

by John Penney 134 

The Record 138 

Births 138 

Marriages 139 

Ruby Wedding 139 

Deaths 140 

Professional News 140 

Books published by 

Wolfsonians 143

Wolfson College 

at 1 October 2013 

President 

Lee, Hermione, DBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL 

Governing Body Fellows 

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA 

Cambridge, PhD London) Professorial 

Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of 

Computing 

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, 

University Lecturer in Hindi 

Banks, Marcus John, MA (BA, PhD 

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Professor 

of Visual Anthropology 

Barrett, Jonathan, BA (MA, PhD 


Lecturer in Computer Science 

Benson, James William, MA (BA 

Macalester College, MA Minnesota, 

PhD Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Sanskrit 

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Rhodes University, South Africa) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World 

Literatures in English 

Brown, Harvey Robert, MA (BSc 

Canterbury, New Zealand, PhD 

London) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics, 

Professor of the Philosophy of Physics; 

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer and 

Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer (until 

Jan 2014) 

Chappell, Michael A., MEng, DPhil 


Engineering Science 

Charters, Erica Michiko, MA, DPhil 

(BA Carleton, MA Toronto) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in the History 

of Medicine 

Cluver, Lucie, DPhil (MA Cambridge) 


Evidence-based Social Intervention 

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Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free 

University of Brussels) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Quantum 

Computer Science; Professor of Quantum 

Foundations, Logics and Structures 

Conner, William James, MA (BA 

Grinnell) Ordinary Fellow, Development 

Director 

Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn, 

MA, DPhil Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Russian 

Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS 

Copenhagen, PhD California) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Assyriology 

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, 

DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George 

Washington, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Russian and 

East European Political Economy, Reader 

in Command and Transition Economics 

De Haas, Hein, (MA Amsterdam) 


Migration Studies 

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, 

PhD Reading) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in European 

International Politics, Professor of 

European International Politics 

DeLaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD 

Adelaide) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology 

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo, 

MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical 

Philology 

Dercon, Stefan, MA, MPhil, DPhil 

(BPhil Leuven) Professorial Fellow, 

Professor of Development Economics 

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA 

Vienna, Dr des Basel) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Non-Russian 

Slavonic Languages 

Galligan, Denis James, MA, BCL, 

(LLB Queensland), DCL, AcSS 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio- 

Legal Studies 

Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and 

Family Psychology, Reader in Child and 

Family Psychology 

Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc 

Torino, PhD Lausanne) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Materials 

Modelling 

Goodman, Martin David, MA, DPhil, 

DLitt, FBA Professorial Fellow, Professor 

of Jewish Studies; Vicegerent 

Hargreaves, Gillian, (BA Newcastle) 

MSt Ordinary Fellow; Senior Tutor 

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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 

Humphreys, Glyn, MA (BSc, PhD 

Bristol) Professorial Fellow, Watts 

Professor of Psychology 

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward Lawson 

(MA Cambridge) Extraordinary Fellow; 

Bursar 

Jarvis, R Paul, (BSc Durham, PhD 

Norwich) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor in 

Cell Biology 

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 


Computation 

Lange, Bettina MA (BA, PhD 

Warwick) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Law and Regulation; Secretary 

to the Governing Body 

Lewis, James Bryant, MA (BA 

University of the South, MA, PhD 

Hawaii) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Korean Studies 

McCartney, Matthew Howard, MPhil 

(BA Cambridge, PhD SOAS) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Political 

Economy and Human development of 

India 

McKenna, William Gillies, MA 

(BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert 

Einstein) Professorial Fellow, Professor of 

Radiation Biology 

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, (Diplom 

Munish, MA PhD Stanford) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Geophysics 

Pila, Jonathan MA (BSc Melbourne, 

PhD Stanford) Professorial Fellow, 

Reader in Mathematical Logic 

Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil 


Classical Philology and Linguistics 

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas Pepys, MA, 

DPhil Senior Research Fellow, Pro-Vice 

Chancellor for Development and External 

Affairs 

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA 

Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard) Ordinary 

Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics 

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Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil 

(BA Mount Holyoke College, MA 

Cambridge) Senior Research Fellow, 

Ancient History and Archaeology; Fellow 

Librarian and Archivist 

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA, PhD 


Lecturer in Biogeochemistry, Professor of 

Biogeochemistry 

Riede, Moritz, (MSc Camb, 

PhD Konstanz) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Soft Functional 

Nanotechnology 

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD, 

Münster, Habilitation Munich) 


Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 

Schulting, Rick J, MA (BA, MA 

Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE, 

Queen’s Belfast) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Scientific and 

Prehistoric Archaeology 

Sheldon, Ben C, MA (BA Cambridge, 

PhD Sheffield) Professorial Fellow, Luc 

Hoffman Professor in Field Ornithology 

Stallworthy, Jon Howie, BLitt, MA, 

FBA, FRSL Extraordinary Fellow, 

English Literature 

Stewart, Peter Charles N, (MA, 

MPhil, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical 

Art and Archaeology 

Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Delhi, MA Mumbai) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Development 

Studies 

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc 

Liverpool, PhD Bristol) Senior Research 

Fellow, Professor of Human Genetics; 

Dean of Degrees 

Taylor, David Guy Kenneth, MA, 

DPhil Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac 

Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD 

Imperial) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Theoretical Quantum Optics 

Ventresca, Marc J, MA (AM, PhD 

Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Strategy 

Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance, 

MA (BA, PhD London), FSA Ordinary 

Fellow; Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean 

Museum 

Watson, Oliver, (BA Durham, PhD 

London) Professorial Fellow, I M 

Pei Professor of Islamic Art and 

Architecture 

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Wells, Andrew James, (MA, PhD 


Lecturer in Physical Climate Change 

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep, (BArch 

MArch Istanbul Technical University, 

PhD Harvard) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Islamic Art and 

Architecture 

Honorary Fellows 

Berlin, Lady (Aline) 

Bradshaw, William Peter, the Rt Hon 

Lord Bradshaw, (MA Reading), FCIT 

Brock, Michael George, CBE, MA, 

DLitt, FRHistS, FRSL 

Burgen, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent), 

(MB, MD London, MA Cambridge), 

FRCP, FRS 

Caro, Sir Anthony, OM, CBE 

Chan, Gerlad Lokchung, (BS MS 

California, SM SCD Harvard) 

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 

Goff, Robert Lionel Archibald, the Rt 

Hon Lord Goff, DL, FBA 

Goodenough, Frederick Roger, MA 

(MA Cambridge) 

Hamilton, Andrew David, MA (BSc 

Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD 

Cambridge), FRS 

Khalili, Nasser David, (BA Queens, 

New York; PhD SOAS, London) 

Mack Smith, Denis, CBE, MA (MA 

Cambridge) FBA, FRSL 

Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD 

Edinburgh) 

Rezek, Francisco, DipL (LLB, DES 

Minai Gerais, PhD Paris) 

Screech, Michael Andrew, MA, DLitt 

(DLit London, DLitt Birmingham) 

FBA, FRSL 

Smith, Sir David, MA, DPhil, FRS, 

FRSE 

Sorabji, Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil, 

FBA 

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne 

Wood, Sir Martin, OBE, MA (BA 

Cambridge, BSc London), FRS 

Emeritus Fellows 

Abraham, Douglas Bruce, MA, DSc 

(BA, PhD Cambridge) 

Allen, Nicholas Justin, BSc, BLitt, BM 

BCh, Dip SocAnthrop, MA, DPhil 

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Anderson, David Lessells Thomson, 

MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St 

Andrews) 

Ashton, John Francis, MA, DLitt (STL 

Lyons, LSS Rome) 

Booker, Graham Roger, MA, DPhil 

(BSc London, PhD Cambridge) 

Briggs, George Andrew Davidson, MA 

(PhD Cambridge) 

Brock, Sebastian Paul, MA, DPhil, 

(MA Cambridge, Hon DLitt 

Birmingham), FBA 

Bryant, Peter Elwood, MA (MA 

Cambridge, PhD London) FRS 

Buck, Brian, MA, DPhil 

Bulmer, Michael George, MA, DPhil, 

DSc, FRS 

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB 

BCh Birmingham), FRCP, FRCP 

(Edinburgh) 

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil 

Cranstoun, George Kennedy Lyon, MA 

(BSc, PhD Glasgow), FRSC 

Dudbridge, Glen, MA (MA, PhD 

Cambridge), FBA 

Francis, Martin James Ogilvie, MA, 

DPhil 

Garton, Geoffrey, MA, DPhil 

Gombrich, Richard Francis, MA, DPhil 

(AM Harvard) 

Gordon, Alan Fleetwood, CBE, MA, 

FCMI 

Hall, Roger Lawrence, MA (BSc, PhD 

Nottingham) 

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 

Jones, George Arnold, MA, DPhil 

(MA, PhD 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) 

Mann, Joel Ivor, CNZM, DM (MBChB, 

PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP, 

FRSNZ 

Meisami, Julie Scott, MA (MA, PhD 

California at Berkeley) 

Metcalf, David Michael, MA, DPhil, 

DLitt, FSA 

Mulvey, John Hugh, MA (BSc, PhD 

Bristol) 

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Neil, (Hugh) Andrew Wade, (MB BS 

DSc Lond, MA Camb,) MA, FFPHM, 

FRCP, RD 

Penney, John Howard Wright, MA, 

DPhil (MA Pennsylvania) 

Perrins, Christopher Miles, MA, DPhil 

(BSc London) FRS, LVO 

Ramble, Charles Albert Edward, MA, 

DPhil (BA Durham) 

Robey, David John Brett, MA 

Robinson, Chase Frederick, MA (BA 

Brown, PhD Harvard) 

Sanderson, Alexis Godfrey James 

Slater, MA 

Shepstone, Basil John, BM, BCh, MA, 

DPhil, (BA (Econ.) South Africa; BSc, 

MSc, DSc Free State; MD Cape Town), 

DMRD (RCP and S), FInstP, FRCR 

Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil 

(MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Tomlin, Roger Simon Ouin, MA, 

DPhil, FSA 

Walton, Christopher Henry, MA (MA 

Cambridge), MBE 

Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc 

London, PhD Durham) 

Wilkie, Alex James, MA (MSc, PhD 

London), FRS 

Wyatt, Derek Gerald, MA, DPhil 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Altman, Douglas Graham, (BSc Bath, 

CStat Royal Statistical Society, DSc 

London) 

Casadei, Barbara, MA, DPhil, (MRCP, 

FRCP London) 

Coleman, John Steven, MA (BA, DPhil 

York) 

Crabbe, Michael James Cardwell, 

FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD 

Manchester), FRSA, FRSC, CChem, 

CBiol, FIBiol, FLS 

De Roure, David, (PhD Southampton) 

Ehlers, Anke, (Hab. Marburg) MA 

(PhD Tubingen) 

Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale, MA, 

BPhil, DPhil 

Kaski, Kimmo Kauko Kullervo, DPhil 

(MSc Helsinki) 

Kay, Philip Bruce, MA, MPhil, DPhil 

Key, Timothy James Alexander, DPhil 

(BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London) 

Konoplev, Ivan Vasilyevich, (BSc, MSc 

Nizhny Novgorod State, MPhil, PhD 

Strathclyde) 

Macdonald, Michael Christopher 

Archibald, MA 

Maltby, Colin Charles, MA 

Merrony, Mark Woodridge, (BA Wales 

St David’s) MPhil, MSt, DPhil 

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Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH 

Zurich) 

Nuttall, Patricia Anne, OBE, MA (BSc 

Bristol, PhD Reading) 

Platteau, Jean-Philippe, MA (PhD 

Namur) 

Pottle, Mark Christopher, MA, DPhil 

(BA Sheffield) 

Quinn, Catherine Ward, EMBA (BA 

Birmingham, MA Ohio State) 

Sawyer, Walter, MA 

Seryi, Andrei, (PhD Institute of 

Nuclear Physics) 

Seymour, Leonard William, (BSc 

Manchester, PhD Keele) 

Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth, MA, 

DPhil 

Watson, Max, MA Cambridge 

Willett, Keith Malcolm, MA (MB BS 

London), FRCS 

Wood, John V, (BMet, DMet Sheffield, 

PhD Cambridge) 

Zeitlyn, David, (MSc London) MA, 

DPhil, (PhD Cambridge) 

Research Fellows 

Alarcon Henriquez, Alejandra, (BA 

Institut Libre Marie Haps, MA 

Université Libre de Bruxelles) 

Andersson, Daniel Christopher, BA 

(MA, PhD Warburgh Institute) 

Arancibia, Carolina, (BSc North 

London, MSc Royal Postgraduate 

College, PhD Imperial) 

Benjamin, Simon Charles, (BA, DPhil 

Berczi, Gergely, MSc Eotvos Lorand, 

PhD Budapest) 

Bhaskaran, Harish, (BE Pune, MS, 

PhD Maryland) 

Boyes, Mark Edward, (BA, MPsych, 

PhD Western Australia) 

Broome Saunders, Clare, (BA, PhD 

Durham, MA Lancashire) 

Chen, Yi Samuel, (AM Harvard) DPhil 

Colomo, Daniela, DPhil (Laurea Dipl 

Pisa) 

Datta, Animesh, (BTech Indian 

Institute of Technology Kaupur, PhD 

New Mexico) 

Davison, Lucy Jane, (BA, Vet MB, MA 

Cambridge, PhD RVC, London) 

Demetriou, Nicoletta, (BA Aristotle 

Univ of Thessaloniki, PhD SOAS, MA 

UEA) 

Doering, Andreas, (DPhil Johann 

Wolfgang Goethe) 

Dries, Manuel, (BA, MPhil Exeter, 

PhD Cambridge) 

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Dushek, Omer (BSc Western Australia, 

PhD British Columbia) 

Gagliardone, Iginio, (MA Bologna, 

PhD LSE) 

Gray, Rebecca R, (BA Millersville, MA, 

PhD Florida) 

Griffiths, Edmund Patrick, BA, MSt 

Gromelski, Tomasz Witold, DPhil 

(MA Warsaw) 

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, MSc (Maîtrise 

Sorbonne, PhD Cambridge) 

Hadjiyiannis, Christos, (BA 

Nottingham, MPhil Cambridge, PhD 

Edinburgh) 

Hartfield, Elizabeth Margaret, (BSc 

Cardiff, PhD Bristol) 

Haslam, Michael Alan, (BA, PhD 

Queensland) 

Hesselberg, Thomas, (MSc Aarhus, 

PhD Bath) 

Hewitt, Rachel, BA, MSt, (PhD Queen 

Mary) 

Huebener, Hannes, (MSc Hamburg, 

PhD École Polytechnic) 

Huetteroth, Wolf-Dietman Moritz, 

(BSc PhD Philipps-Universitat 

Marburg) 

Jankowiak, Marek, (MA Warsaw, MA 

School of Economics Warsaw, PhD 

École Pratique des Hautes Études, 

Paris) 

Kar, Aditi, (MA Delhi, PhD Ohio State) 

Kazachkov, Ilya, (PhD McGill) 

Kong, Anthony Hee, (MB, BS, MSc 

London, PhD, UCL) 

Kubal, Agnieszka Maria, DPhil (MA 

Exeter, MA Jagiellonian) 

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA 

Louisville) 

Lee, Renee Bee Yong, DPhil (BSc 

Malaysia) 

Leeson, Paul, (BSc St Andrews, MB, 

BHir PhD Cambridge) FRCP 

Leigh, Graham Emil, (MMath, PhD 

Leeds) 

Lonergan, Gayle Maria, MSc, DPhil 

(BA Cambridge, BA London) 

McBarnet, Doreen Jean, MA (MA, 

PhD Glasgow), CBE 

Makovicky, Nicolette Milota, (BA 

Copenhagen, PhD London) 

Maroney, Owen Jack Ernest, (BA 

Cambridge, MSc, PhD London 

Mavridou, Despoina, DPhil (MChem 

Athens) 

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Mitri, Sara, (BSc American University 

Cairo, MSc Edinburgh, PhD École 

Polytechnic) 

Morero, Elise Hugette, (BA Amiens, 

MA PhD Paris) 

Munt, Thomas, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Cambridge) 

Outes Leon, Ingo, MSc, DPhil (MSc 

Regensburg) 

Panovic, Ivan, DPhil (BA Belgrade, 

MA American University Cairo) 

Parau, Cristina Elena, (BSc Sibiu 

Romania, MSc Brun, PhD London) 

Parker Jones, Oiwi, MPhil (BA 

Colorado) 

Raz, Avi, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv) 

Recker, Mario, DPhil (MSc UCL) 

Robinson, Paul John Robert, DPhil 

(BSc London) 

Roy, Shovonlal, DPhil (BSc, MSc, PhD 

Jadavpur) 

Ryder, Judith, BA, MA, DPhil 

Sabiron, Céline, (MA, PhD Sorbonne) 

Schure, Klara, (BMus Hogenschool 

van de Kunsten Utrecht, MSc, PhD 

Utrecht) 

Schwarz, Andrew Douglas, DPhil 

(MChem Newcastle) 

Shin, Min-Su, (BA Yonsei, PhD 

Princeton) 

Stansfeld, Philip James, (BSc 

Edinburgh, PhD Leicester) 

Still, Clarinda Lucy Marion, (MA 

Edinburgh, MRE UCL, PhD LSE) 

Sullivan, Kate Helen, (BA York, MA 

Heidelberg, PhD ANU) 

Toth, Ida, (BA, MPhil Belgrade) DPhil 

van der Blom, Henriette, MSt, DPhil 

(BA Copenhagen) 

Vicary, Jamie Oliver, (MA Cambridge, 

PhD Imperial) 

Vinko, Sam Masa, DPhil (BA, MA 

Rome) 

Weisheimer, Antje, (Diplom Humboldt, 

PhD Potsdam) 

Socio-Legal Research 

Fellows 

Kurkchiyan, Marina, (MSc Yerevan, 

PhD Vilnius) 

Stremlau, Nicole, (BA Wesleyan, MA, 

PhD London) 

Stipendiary Junior 


Jabb, Lama, (BA, MSc, SOAS), DPhil 

Lenaghan, Julia, (BA Princeton, MA, 

PhD NYU) 

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Lord, Jack, (MA SOAS, PhD Lond) 

Metcalf, Christopher, (MA Edinburgh), 

MPhil, DPhil 

Tolstoy, Anastasia, BA, MSt, Dphil 

Junior Research Fellows 

Allan, Charlotte, (BA MBChB Leeds, 

MRCPsych) 

Bowes, Lucy Nicola, BA, MSc (PhD 

King’s) 

Calabrese, Katherine, BA MSt, (PhD 

UCL) 

Gillebert, Celine, (MSc, PhD Leuven) 

Hiruta, Kei, (BA Keio, MA Essex), 

MSc, DPhil 

Jin, Xianmin, (PhD Sci and Tech Univ 

China) 

Kelly, Catherine, (BSc MRES York) 

DPhil 

Kissinger, Alexander, (BSc Tulsa, MSc) 

DPhil 

Lal, Raymond, (BSc York, MSc 

Imperial), DPhil 

Meinck, Franziska, (BA Free Univ 

Bolzano) MSc, DPhil 

Owald, David, (BSc Heidelberg, PhD 

Gottingen) 

Shin, Min-Su, (BA Yonsei, PhD 

Princeton) 

Verhoeven, Harry, (MA Gent, MSc 

LSE), DPhil 

Viney, Tim James, (MBiol Bath, PhD 

Basel) 

Creative Arts Fellow 

Duggan, John, BA 

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College Officers 

President 

Vicegerent 

Bursar 

Senior Tutor 

Development Director 

Fellow for Library and Archives 

Deans of Degrees 

Secretary to the Governing Body 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

Professor Martin Goodman 

Mr Edward Jarron 

Ms Gillian Hargreaves 

Mr William Conner 

Dr Ellen Rice 

Professor B C Sykes/Dr J B Lewis/ 

Dr R S O Tomlin/Professor C Redfield 

Dr Bettina Lange 

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer 

Professor Harvey Brown 

and Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer (until Jan 2014) 

College Membership 

Governing Body Fellows 62 

Honorary Fellows 19 

Emeritus Fellows 45 

Supernumerary Fellows 27 

Research Fellows 63 

Socio-Legal Research Fellows 2 

Junior Research Fellows (Stipendiary) 5 

Junior Research Fellows (Non-Stipendiary) 14 

Visiting Fellows 1 

Graduate Students 577 

Members of Common Room 693 

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Abbreviations 

EF 

GBF 

GS 

HF 

HMCR 

JRF 

MCR 

RF 

SJRF 

SF 

VF 

VS 

Emeritus Fellow 

Governing Body Fellow 

Graduate Student 

Honorary Fellow 

Honorary Member of Common Room 

Junior Research Fellow 

Member of Common Room 

Research Fellow 

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow 

Supernumerary Fellow 

Visiting Fellow 

Visiting Scholar 

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Editor’s Note 

The Record keeps the College in touch with some 6,000 Wolfsonians throughout the 

world. Please send us changes of address, personal and professional news including 

books (but not articles) published, by e-mail if possible (college.secretary@wolfson. 

ox.ac.uk). The Record welcomes photographs which illustrate College life, and 

reminiscences of your time here and experiences since. They should reach the 

College Secretary, by e-mail if possible (college.secretary@wolfson.ox.ac.uk), by 1 

June for publication that year. 

We gratefully acknowledge photographs in this year’s Record by Santhy 

Balachandran, Phil Brown, Zoe Goodwin, Hugo Nava Kapp, Christopher 

Lethbridge, Rebecca Merkley, Margaret O’Rorke, Jane Potter, David and Megan 

Price, Tom Rackham, Amy Richards, Greg Smolonski, Roger Tomlin. 

This Record covers the academic year 2012 to 2013. Please let the College Secretary 

know of any errors or omissions. She will also help Wolfsonians who have lost 

touch with former colleagues. You can contact the College: 

e-mail: juliet.montgomery@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 

website: http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ 

post: Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford OX2 6UD 

telephone: 00 44 1865 274100 fax: 00 44 1865 274140 

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Snake’s Head Fritillaries (Fritillaria meleagris) on the Island after the floods

The President’s Letter 

2013 marks my fifth year as President of Wolfson College, and I am happy to report 

that, on the whole, it has been an exciting and rewarding year for the College. 

We have had some sad and momentous losses. We are very sorry to have said 

goodbye to that great and distinguished scholar of Jewish studies, world-famous 

historian of Jesus and of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Geza Vermes. We are profoundly 

sad to have lost from our company Jon Stallworthy’s wife Jill, for very many years 

a friend to the College and much loved and admired by many of us. Jon’s active 

and dedicated presence in the College is something we all benefit from; long may 

it continue. We salute the passing of our oldest graduate, the venerable student of 

archaeology Gertrud Seidmann, at the age of 93. 

We said goodbye this year to a number of members of staff and colleagues. Dr 

John Penney, now Emeritus, is, happily, still very much in our midst, and was the 

first person to hold a seminar in our new auditorium, on Neo-Punic inscriptions. 

Dr Devi Sridhar, who moved away to Edinburgh, is flourishing there. On the staff 

side, we were sorry to lose Anna Chancellor and Katy Watson in the development 

office, though we welcome Kathie Mackay in their place; and we were sorry to say 

goodbye to Chris Kitchen from the bus and Sandra Keogh from the gardens. The 

College has been extremely fortunate to appoint Juliet Montgomery as the new 

College Secretary, and she has fitted in so well and so quickly that she is already an 

indispensable and much-admired Wolfsonian. 

The loss of one senior Wolfsonian, our Emeritus Fellow Dr Francis Marriott, led 

to a wonderful stroke of good fortune for the College. Having been the anonymous 

donor of Q Block, which I renamed the Catherine Marriott building last November, 

Francis left us a legacy amounting to about 5 million, a substantial proportion 

of which the College has decided to spend on graduate scholarships, fortunately 

coinciding with the University’s matched funded graduate scholarships scheme. 

This was a transformative gift for the College and made an exciting start to the 

academic year. 

Among our Governing Body fellows we have welcomed some stellar new arrivals: 

Dr Andrew Wells, UL in Physical Climate Science; Dr Wolfgang de Melo, UL in 

Classical Philology; Dr Michael Chappell, UL in Biomedical Engineering; Dr Hein 

De Haas, UL in Migration Studies; Dr Jonathan Barrett, UL in Computer Science; 

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Professor Paul Aveyard, Reader in Primary Care Health Sciences; and Dr Moritz 

Riede, UL in Soft Functional Nanomaterials. 

We are saying goodbye to Professor Andrew Neil as the most impeccable, dedicated, 

professional Senior Tutor a college could have – though not, luckily, saying goodbye 

to him as Wine Steward. He will be a very hard act to follow, but I am confident that 

our new Senior Tutor, Gillian Hargreaves, will take on the challenge with spirit. We 

pay tribute on his retirement to our Senior Fellow, Professor Dan Isaacson, whose 

fine and gentle spirit will be much missed from our Governing Body, though I am 

sure we will not be losing sight of him. We have acquired a new College Visitor, the 

Rt. Hon. the Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court, who has already paid us a 

very affable visit, but who I don’t think has any very onerous duties here unless the 

College decides to depose me. 

In December 2012 we said farewell to Jan Scriven, who had worked for the 

College for twenty years as College Secretary, and has now, luckily for us, become 

the College’s Arts Administrator. She gave the College twenty years of utterly 

professional, impeccable, unstinting work. But more than that, beyond her accurate 

and dedicated work for our College committees and administration, she brought to 

the College’s life her wonderfully rich and various and deep mixture of interests, 

her passionate commitment to the arts, her generous dedication to our charity 

AMREF, and her boundless enthusiasm for the College’s activities. At all hours of 

the day, on weekends and evenings, Jan could be found setting up or hosting an art 

exhibition or a concert, running her reading group, or organising and attending 

lectures and seminars. Beyond all that unceasing energy and activity, we thank her 

and celebrate her for her generosity, her interest in others, her thoughtfulness, tact, 

wisdom, and good humour. 

Many of our colleagues have had notable successes this year. It’s hard to persuade 

some of them to blow their own trumpet, so let me do it on their behalf. Samson 

Abramsky is the 2013 winner of the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society. 

Elleke Boehmer has been awarded a Leverhulme International Network Grant for 

2014–16. Barbara Casadei was awarded a British Heart Foundation Professorship. 

Lucie Cluver masterminded a project, which included a film by five AIDS orphans 

from Cape Town, at the 29th International Conference on AIDS. Jacob Dahl created 

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headlines this year as the head of the team deciphering the world’s oldest writing 

system. Feliciano Giustino has a Leverhulme Leadership Award for research into 

solar cells. Paul Harrison won the 2012 European College of Neuro-psychopharmacology 

Award. Glyn Humphreys won the Donald Broadbent prize from the 

European Society of Cognitive Psychology. 

Ancient World Cluster members, including Jeremy Johns, based in the Khalili 

Research Centre, have received major AHRC awards. Gillies McKenna was 

awarded the Frank Ellis Medal from the Royal College of Radiologists and the 

Röntgen Medal from the Deutches Röntgen Museum in Germany, and is to head a 

new world-leading £138 million centre for targeted cancer. Jonathan Pila gave two 

sets of distinguished lectures, in Berkeley and Columbia. Vlatko Vedral is heading 

a groundbreaking programme on quantum technologies. Susan Walker was elected 

President of Libyan Studies and won a Hugh Last Senior Fellowship at the British 

School at Rome. Marc Ventresca gained a Teaching Award. And Roger Tomlin told 

the BBC that a lead tablet discovered in a Roman farmhouse in Kent may have been 

used by Romans to cast spells on thieves and malefactors. 

Our postdoctoral Research Fellows bring great lustre and energy to Wolfson, and 

they too have been gathering honours. Agnieszka Kubal also gained a Teaching 

Award. Charlotte Allan went to Parliament to present her work on depression 

among the elderly, as a finalist in the ‘Set for Britain’ competition. Omer Dushek 

won a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Sara Mitri won a Marie Curie Grant, and Simon 

Benjamin had an exhibit called ‘Quantum of Spin’ at last year’s Summer Science 

Exhibition. 

The students are at the heart of everything we do here. We currently have 594 

students from all over the world, 208 of whom came in this year, and 375 of whom 

are DPhil students. We have five Rhodes Scholars and three Wolfson Foundation 

Humanities Scholars. And we are doing all we can for our graduates. We currently 

award 22 scholarships, with more to come next year and still more from 2014 

onwards, when our matched funded Oxford Wolfson Marriott scholarships come 

on board. We gave out 146 travel and conference awards and 20 academic bursaries 

this year, and our total expenditure on scholarships, travel awards and academic 

bursaries was just over £206,000. 

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Wolfson is a creative place, and our musicians and artists, our philosophers, singers 

and dancers, have had a lively year. Our Creative Arts Fellow, the composer, singer 

and conductor John Duggan, set up the Isaiah Choir, created a Wolfson soundscape, 

and brought his Sospiri Choir to the new Auditorium. It has been an energetic 

year for activities as various as the Alternative Choir, the History of Ideas reading 

group, the art shows, the Middle Eastern Dancers, the Fournier Trio and other 

visiting musicians, the Communist Bop, karaoke and whisky-tasting. The Venetian 

masked Winter Ball was an elegant, colourful, and well-run event. Oxjam raised 

money for Oxfam, and AMREF raised substantial sums at the fabulous Fireworks 

display last November and at our joyous family-friendly Summer Event. AMREF 

sent £3,200 this year to fund two midwives, to care for 1,000 mothers in a trans- 

African scheme, and hopes to fund fifty bicycles for them to travel between patients. 

The College’s sporting prowess has been much in evidence this year. The football 

club won the MCR League and were runners up in the MCR cuppers competition. 

After a difficult start to the training season, with the river flooded and the weather 

horrible, the Boat Club did brilliantly, with fine successes in Torpids and in Eights 

Week. The men’s first boat, containing three novices, ended Eights week fifth on 

the river, and the women’s first boat bumped up into the first Division on the last 

day. Wolfsonians gained High Profile awards in rowing and Ice Hockey, and there 

were Blues Awards to Michael Cameron for Lacrosse and to Chris Trisos for Water 

Polo. We won most of our sports events on Darwin Day in March, in what was 

described as ‘a pulsating contest’. 

Our more formal College events attracted good audiences and much interest. There 

was an elegant Syme Lecture by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill on the connections 

between the Sun King at Versailles and Roman history. The inspiringly pragmatic 

and public-spirited Paul Nurse talked on ‘Making Science Work’ for the Haldane 

Lecture. Vlatko Vedral gave a dazzling Royal Society lecture for our alumni, which 

made even me feel, for the duration of his talk, that I entirely grasped Quantum 

Physics. Glyn Humphries organized an excellent series of Wolfson Lectures on 

Neuroscience and Education this term, to inaugurate the Mind, Brain and Behaviour 

academic cluster. 

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All our academic clusters have been bubbling over with activity. Just to pull 

a handful of events out of the cornucopia, we have had a Life-Writing series on 

Portraiture and Life-Writing, an all-day conference for the centenary of Leonard 

Woolf ’s The Village in the Jungle, a day to celebrate the one-hundredth volume of 

Richard Sorabji’s Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, a three-day workshop 

on translation and bilingualism in Ancient Near Eastern texts, a conference on 

Tibetan life-writing, the arrival of the Leverhulme-funded Empires of Faith 

project, seminars and workshops on India in the Eyes of Others and on India- 

China comparative studies, and an end-of-year open meeting on Digital Research, 

crossing over disciplines – which is the point of all our clusters. 

The academic year came to a climax with two major events within a week of each 

other. One was the Berlin Lecture on 30 May, given by Alfred Brendel, a ‘piano 

alphabet’ of magnetising interest, drawing on his lifetime’s experience as one of 

the great pianists of our time, and paying tribute to his friend Isaiah Berlin. The 

second, on 6 June, Isaiah Berlin’s anniversary, was the naming of our new Leonard 

Wolfson Auditorium, designed by Berman Guedes Stretton, built by Benfield and 

Loxley, part-funded by the Wolfson Foundation, driven along by the Home Bursar 

Barry Coote, and masterminded by the Bursar, Ed Jarron. About a hundred and fifty 

Wolfsonians and friends of Wolfson, including the Vice-Chancellor and members 

of the Wolfson Foundation, came to hear a celebratory programme of words and 

music and to look round the building for the first time, and some came back again 

with all the families and the neighbours and the students on the Saturday for the 

public opening. We could not have tested the acoustics more thoroughly, from a 

string duo and a poem by Jon Stallworthy to a brass band and the a cappella group 

‘Out Of the Blue’. We had some very good publicity, and the building has been 

generally acclaimed as a triumph. It has immediately become much in demand, and 

one visitor to a lecture was overheard saying to his neighbour: ‘I’m having a bad 

case of auditorium-envy’. All looks set fair for the building to become a popular and 

much-used part of the college, and for the development of our plans for the next 

phase of the Academic Wing. At the end of my fifth academic year as President, 

three years away from our Fiftieth Anniversary, I thank all those who have helped 

to make this part of my vision for the college such a success. 

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I thank, too, all the people I work alongside here all the time, in the gardens and 

the kitchens, the Events Office, the Accounts Office, the Accommodation Office, 

the Senior Tutor’s office, the Catering Office, in Housekeeping and in the Nursery. 

I thank, especially, the Development Director Bill Conner, who like me has had a 

very busy year, who has travelled the world with me on behalf of the College, and 

who has notably raised the level of support we receive from many individuals and 

from several hundred alumni donors. Our journeys this year, to New York, Madrid, 

Tokyo, Korea and Singapore, were very fruitful and useful ones for the College’s 

connections and alumni-relations. I thank Julie Curtis, who has been the best, most 

generous minded and most efficient Secretary to the Governing Body imaginable. 

And I thank my indefatigable PA, Sue Hales. When I opened the new Auditorium 

on 6 June, I said that although I was the fortunate person who is lucky enough to 

make the speech, I do so as part of a team, and the Wolfson team is a remarkable 

one. 

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The President and Lady Wolfson

Geza Vermes 

(1924–2013) 

Geza Vermes was an expert in the history 

of Judaism in the early Roman empire 

whose prolific writings, particularly on the 

Jewish background of early Christianity 

and on the Dead Sea scrolls, have had a 

profound effect both among scholars and in 

the wider public. 

Geza Vermes was born in Makó in southern Hungary in 1924. His father, Ernó, 

a journalist, and his mother, Terézia, a school teacher, were part of the largely 

assimilated Jewish bourgeoisie in Hungary. In 1931, when he was six, he and 

his parents converted to Christianity. Sent to the local gymnasium, he proved a 

precocious student and decided in his late teens to study for the priesthood. The 

decision almost certainly saved his life, since the seminary priests protected him 

during the period of the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944. 

After the war Vermes joined the order of the Fathers of Notre Dame de Sion and in 

1947 he was sent by the order to Louvain to study Theology and Oriental history 

and languages. His intention was to write a thesis on Isaiah, but on news of the 

discovery of biblical and other ancient Jewish writings in the Judaean desert, he 

changed his topic. His thesis on the origins of the Dead Sea sect, completed in 1952, 

was the first doctoral thesis to be written on the Dead Sea scrolls. In 1957, having 

left the priesthood, he was appointed to a Lecturership in Divinity in the University 

of Newcastle, and it was there that he published with Penguin in 1962 the first 

edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls in English as well as a series of important studies on 

bible interpretation in antiquity. 

In 1965 he was appointed Reader in Jewish Studies in Oxford and a Fellow of Iffley 

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(soon to be Wolfson) College, and he remained a devoted member of the College 

for the rest of his life. He was one of the last remaining Iffley Fellows who had 

witnessed the creation of Wolfson from the beginning. 

In his new post, he soon became widely known for a series of studies on Jesus 

within his Jewish environment, particularly Jesus the Jew, first published in 1973. 

The depiction of Jesus as an individualistic holy man who operated at a tangent 

to the religious currents of the Judaism of his day was further clarified by in a 

series of later studies. Apart from his University duties as Chairman of the Faculty 

Board of Oriental Studies and as a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate 

Hebrew Studies (now renamed the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies), 

he devoted much energy to his role as editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies, 

establishing the international reputation of the Journal as a forum for scholarly 

discussion of Jewish history and literature, particularly of late antiquity. Not least 

among the achievements of his time in post in Oxford was the extensive revision, in 

collaboration with a small group of colleagues, of Emil Schürer, History of the Jewish 

People in the Age of Jesus Christ. 

Vermes was among the first in a humanities faculty in Oxford to seek to attract 

graduate students by setting up taught Masters courses in Jewish Studies in the 

Graeco-Roman period, and he attracted and inspired many doctoral students who 

went on to academic careers in many parts of the world. 

His output was hardly diminished after retirement from his university post in 1991. 

A series of studies sought to clarify his views on the significance of Jesus within 

Judaism. He produced an edition of the fragments of the Community Rule from 

Cave 4, in collaboration with Philip Alexander, with exemplary speed and accuracy. 

Among his many later publications were a series of studies of central elements of 

the Jesus story (on the nativity, passion, and resurrection), and, most recently, a 

history of Christianity from its origins to the fourth century. 

Vermes was awarded a DLitt by Oxford in 1988 and was appointed to a personal 

chair in Jewish Studies in 1989. In 1985 he was elected a Fellow of the British 

Academy and in 2001 he was elected to the European Academy of Arts, Sciences 

and Humanities. He received honorary degrees from Durham, Edinburgh, Sheffield, 

and the Central European University of Budapest, and in 2009 he was honoured 

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y the United States House of Representatives with a vote of congratulation ‘for 

inspiring and educating the world’. The latest edition of the translated Dead Sea 

scrolls, now entitled The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, was issued, fifty years 

after the first edition, as a Penguin Classic. 

Martin Goodman (GBF 1991–) 

In the Record for 2007–08 we published an interview with Geza Vermes, ‘Geza Vermes in 

active retirement’. 

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Gertrud Seidmann 


Gertrud Seidmann, who has died at the age 

of 93, was a leading advocate of the teaching 

of German in British schools and universities 

and an internationally recognised scholar of 

Neoclassical gemstone carvings. 

She was born in Vienna on 16 September 1919 and was educated there, which 

included six years of music and Germanistik at the University of Vienna (1932–38). 

A sense of the ever-increasing threat to Jewish people like herself led to her flight 

to England when still in her teens in August 1938, a few months after the Nazi 

annexation of Austria. Her businessman father, Ludwig Seidmann, managed to 

follow her to England some months later (only to be interned in the Isle of Man), 

but the rest of her family perished in the Holocaust. 

In October 1940 she enrolled at Queen’s University, Belfast, as a student of Modern 

Languages. With a mixture of modesty and pride, she was later to say that she had 

talked the Vice-Chancellor into admitting her. She graduated in 1943 with a First 

Class degree in French and German, and then took an MA, writing a dissertation 

in German (1943) on the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy. 

It might be said that she had two and a half careers. In each she began at the 

bottom and by dint of hard work and ability gradually worked her way up. The first 

career, which kept her employed for over thirty years, was as a teacher, principally 

of German. Beginning in secondary schools in London, she rose to become a chief 

examiner at A-level, a school governor, and a founder of the British Association of 

Teachers of German. As early as 1950 she also began her lifelong outpouring of 

books and articles, with a collection of German conversation-dialogues, the first of 

a dozen books of hers that were all aimed at the schoolchild or university student. 

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Optimistically, the collection’s preface states that ‘The dialogues are humorous, 

short and easily learnt by heart.’ A pupil from these days, when she was at Southall 

Grammar School, recalls her on Friends Reunited: ‘Her striped stockings and long 

finger nails will live with us forever!’ Later she taught at Battersea County School, 

and was head of modern languages there by 1963, when she produced an edition of 

Heinrich Böll, Dr Murkes Gesammeltes Schweigen. 

She also moved beyond language and literature into studies of the methodology 

of teaching and testing as well as the provision of German-language teaching 

materials. Recognition came in the award of the Goethe Medal (1968) by the 

Goethe Institute, and then in a tutorship in Modern Languages at the Institute of 

Educational Studies, Oxford. After three years there, she moved to Southampton 

University, where she was appointed to the newly-founded Language Centre as one 

of its first lecturers (1972). Being hardworking and punctual herself, she expected 

her students to share her attitude: latecomers to her 9 a.m. lectures could expect to 

be directed to come and sit at the front. But academic conventions never troubled 

her unduly: she once cancelled her own lecture so that she could go and hear an 

archaeologist visiting from Oxford give a lecture in another department. This was 

how she met her future friend and collaborator, Martin Henig (SF 1998–2009), who 

many years later wrote her obituary for The Times. 

It could be said that her second career commenced when she took early retirement in 

1979 and started living permanently in Oxford, where the libraries and institutions 

such as the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology became her 

constant resource. But really she had begun her exploration of the history of the 

decorative arts, and especially of the history of jewellery, in her London days, 

when she was a regular weekend visitor to the Portobello Road dealers. She had 

an extremely eclectic range of interests, but in her disciplined way gradually came 

to focus on what she realised was an overlooked area, where someone with a good 

memory and an eye could make the most wonderful discoveries. This was the world 

of gemstones, especially sards (cut in sardonyx), carved in the Neoclassical style and 

often echoing great statues of the Ancient World, in the later eighteenth and early 

nineteenth centuries. Previously such carvings had tended either to be mistaken 

as Antique or dismissed as mere fakes or copies. She thus had the field almost to 

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herself. Some of the remarkable finds she made were exhibited (until 3 May 2013) 

at Christ Church; they include a copy by Edward Burch RA of an Antique intaglio 

showing the Emperor Hadrian’s favourite, Antinous. 

Since the 1970s the study of the history of jewellery in Britain has gradually been 

put on a firm historical basis, thanks to the Jewellery History Society of which 

Gertrud was a founder-member. She published a series of papers, notably a catalogue 

raisonné (1987) of Britain’s most talented gem-cutter, Nathaniel Marchant RA 

(c. 1739-1816). Her work has the particular value of making extensive use of 

archival sources, such as the records of the Royal Society of Arts. 

With a merry laugh, she was slight of stature and modest (though not diffident) 

by nature, but she had such evident ability and energy that she was regarded as a 

dependable authority – an obvious reviewer for scholarly journals such as Apollo, 

the Burlington Magazine, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. Already a 

Fellow of the latter (FRSA 1985), she was delighted to be elected a Fellow of the 

Society of Antiquaries in 1986: it was a sign of acceptance in her adopted land. 

In 1999 her 80th birthday was celebrated by a book of essays in her honour, on 

Classical and Neoclassical cameos and gemstones, edited by Martin Henig and 

Dimitris Plantzos. 

In October 2004, by then 85, she embarked on her third intellectual adventure: 

research for an MPhil degree at the University of Oxford. ‘These days the tutors 

do appear a little younger than they once were’, she observed of her supervisor, 

Professor Michael Vickers, and others. The subject of her studies was a nineteenthcentury 

Egyptologist and collector, the Revd Greville Chester – an archaeologist 

whom she had encountered in the pages of the Ashmolean Museum’s register of 

benefactors. Except that he was generous-spirited, little was known of him. She had 

to learn all sorts of new research methods – locating his bank account, for instance 

– but was relieved to find that he was not anti-semitic. 

It was hard to believe that she was then in her eighties (perhaps Oxford’s oldest 

research student ever), so lively was she still in writing and conversation. She lived 

by her electronic diary, and a laptop went with her everywhere. A fresh flow of 

articles now began, about Chester: at first in Romulus at Wolfson, which she made 

her new academic base, and then longer pieces in scholarly journals. Alas, she did 

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not quite have the strength to complete her thesis, but the University thoughtfully 

awarded her a Certificate of Graduate Attainment in March 2011. For this most 

capable and formidable (but kindly) of scholars, it was in a sense also a recognition 

of a lifetime’s studies, ranging across Europe and over two millennia of the classical 

tradition. 

Nigel Ramsay (MCR 2005–) 

David Price (GS 2003–) and Megan Price (GS 2000–07, 

MCR 2007–), who were foremost in caring for Gertrud 

Seidmann in her last years, write: 

This was a life lived amongst rare gems. Gertrud (whose Hebrew name was Gavrila 

bat Lotan) was a true antiquarian and scholar; when she died peacefully at home in 

the early hours of Friday, 15 February, at the age of 93, she was the oldest full-time 

student at Wolfson and possibly at Oxford. She was cremated by her own wish on 

Tuesday, 5 March, at Oxford Crematorium. 

Her father Ludwig Seidmann was Roumanian, her mother Frederika Menkes 

Austrian, and she lived and was educated in Vienna. She and her father escaped the 

Nazis in time, but her beloved mother and extended family died in the Holocaust. 

Gertrud never spoke of these heart-breaking events, but she appears to have turned 

her back on God without ever losing her attachment to her Jewish culture and 

identity. 

Nigel Ramsay has described her careers in teaching and the study of gemstones. 

Her exchanges with stall-holders as she trawled the Portobello Road have become 

the stuff of legend, but despite her eclectic taste, she always focused totally on the 

job in hand and became a widely consulted expert on gemstones ranging from 

Late Antique ‘originals’ to Neoclassical gems, fobs, finger-rings and cameos. Her 

expertise was recognized by election to the Society of Antiquaries in 1986, and a 

Festschrift (Classicism to Neoclassicism: Essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann) in 1999. 

In her mid-80s she embarked on an Oxford MPhil, a biographical study of the 

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Revd Greville Chester, a nineteenth-century benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum. 

She was accepted by Wolfson as a student, and the Record for 2005–06 prints a 

Guardian interview with her (‘In a class of her own’) illustrated by her University 

Card. She loved the College; her short, sturdy figure could often be seen striding 

around the gardens and across the lawns. Unfortunately increasing ill-health meant 

she did not finish her thesis, but to the University’s credit, as well as her own, she 

was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment in March 2011. Its presentation 

in the Divinity School was a source of pride and comfort in her last months. 

Her company invigorated friends and colleagues, in contrast to her driving, which 

was always stimulating and often terrifying. She was a real academic, a formidable 

lady, and always a supportive friend despite her forthright views. We shall miss her. 

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Helen Patterson 

(1962–2012) 

My wife, Helen Patterson, who has died of cancer aged 49, was a doctor, mother, 

rower, marathon runner and scientist. She was extraordinary in everything she did. 

Latterly, Helen led the development of uro-oncological services at Addenbrooke’s 

hospital, Cambridge, and across the West Anglia Cancer Network. She was loved 

and respected for her combination of medical knowledge, clinical judgment, and 

honesty and empathy with patients and their families. 

Helen grew up on Tyneside and remained proud of her working-class geordie 

heritage. We met in 1980 at Churchill College, Cambridge, where she studied 

medicine, the first from her school to gain an Oxbridge place. She took up rowing, 

becoming captain of the college’s women’s rowing club. She was awarded a firstclass 

degree, then moved on to Wolfson College, Oxford, where she completed her 

medical studies, rowed for the university lightweights and undertook a placement 

near Juba, in what was then the south of Sudan, treating refugees from the Ugandan 

civil war. 

In 1996 Helen switched tack to undertake research in sarcoma genetics at the 

Institute of Cancer Research, London, gaining a PhD under Colin Cooper. Moving 

back to hospital medicine, she was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of 

Radiologists in 1998, and in 2000 became a consultant in clinical oncology at 

Addenbrooke’s, specialising in urological cancer, with increasing emphasis on 

prostate cancer. 

During this time she had three sons with her then partner, Phil Mitchell: John 

in 1993 and twins, Robert and Mark, in 1996. In 2000 Helen and I renewed our 

college relationship, this time for good, adding a son, Isaac, born in 2002, and a 

daughter, Sarah, in 2004, to our family. 

In March 2011, a scan to investigate chronic back pain revealed two tumours in 

and around Helen’s spine. She knew at once that it was cancer and that there was 

little chance that it would be curable. A week later it was found to be metastatic 

angiosarcoma, a rare cancer with a desperately poor prognosis. 

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Helen was determined to make the most of the time she had left. Radiotherapy 

proved effective in protecting her from paralysis, and we were able to get married 

and go on honeymoon before she started chemotherapy. Helen had completed the 

London marathon in 2010, raising money for Prostate Cancer UK, and she ran the 

Race for Life for a second time in July 2011, for Cancer Research UK. Typically, she 

was disappointed that her finishing time was slightly slower than the previous year. 

I had nominated Helen as a torchbearer for the London Olympics, and have been 

honoured to carry the torch in her place and to continue raising money for cancer 

charities in her name. 

Paul Barden 

Helen Patterson (GS 1983-86), MA, MRCP, PhD, 

FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Addenbrooke’s 

Hospital, Cambridge, died on 18 April 2012. 

Helen Patterson on her wedding day, 3 April 2011 

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Kirsty Milne 


Kirsty Milne, who has died aged 49, was a highly regarded political journalist and 

academic who grew up near Glasgow and then London, after her parents moved 

there in 1973. Her father, Alasdair Milne, became Director General of the BBC, and 

was renowned for the battles he fought to preserve that institution’s independence 

from government in the 1980s, something of which she was quietly proud. 

Her career in political journalism began at the BBC and the New Statesman, but 

after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 she moved to the Sunday 

Herald and then The Scotsman. As a journalist, she brought her forensic analytical 

ability to bear on political subjects. Her columns were incisive, seeking the real 

issues behind political flannel and the motivations behind politicians’ masks. Writing 

with verve, she challenged the assumptions that all too often go unremarked in 

politics. She had hoped that devolution would re-invigorate political debate, but 

grew frustrated as partisan political point-scoring re-asserted itself as the defining 

characteristic of Scottish politics. It prompted her to seek new horizons and become 

an academic, although she retained an interest in the constitutional debate. 

She had excelled as a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she was awarded 

a First in English, so it is not surprising that her return to academic life was a 

success. She was initially Neiman Fellow in journalism at Harvard, and became a 

Fellow of the Centre for European Studies, where she wrote an influential pamphlet 

for DEMOS asserting the new role of the media in manufacturing single-issue 

dissent as public disengagement from party politics grew. She returned to London 

and gained an MA in intellectual and cultural history at Queen Mary College, 

London. Then back to Oxford and Magdalen College in 2006, where she began a 

DPhil. 

She was a non-smoker, but she was then diagnosed with lung cancer. Despite this, 

she not only completed her thesis – on the evolution of the phrase ‘Vanity Fair’ 

from Bunyan to Thackeray – but also agreed a publishing deal for it. By now she 

was well established in her second career: she loved teaching at Oxford, and her 

academic ability was recognised with the award of a Leverhulme Scholarship. 

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Anyone who spent time in her company quickly became aware of her strong sense 

of her own identity, which ranged from her values to her name: new friends were 

soon expected to remember it was pronounced ‘Kiersty’, not ‘Kursty’. She wanted 

to believe the best of people. She had strong humanitarian beliefs and was appalled 

by prejudice. She had a caring instinct, and great empathy with those in need of 

support. At heart she was private, shy of the spotlight outside her work. Those 

lucky enough to count her as a friend cherished the person as well as enjoying 

her intellect. She was genuine, loyal and warm – not to mention wilful. She took 

an almost childish pleasure in simple things, and broke into a delighted smile 

whenever something appealed to her. 

In 2001 she married Hugh Shaw Stewart, a Scottish architect. They complemented 

each other and were relaxed and happy together. He survives her, together with her 

brothers, Ruairidh and Seumas. Her mother, Sheila, died in 1992 and her father in 

January 2013. 

Sam Ghibaldan, The Herald Scotland for 20 July 2013 

The President writes: 

Our Research Fellow Kirsty Milne, whose Fellowship was renewed only this May, 

was a member of the English Faculty who had been working at Wolfson on turning 

her thesis (on the history of the ‘Vanity Fair’ trope) into a book, and then on a project 

on the diffusion of Greek texts and ideas in Elizabethan literature. Her monograph 

is about to be published by the Cambridge University Press, and she had just been 

awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship. She was a mature student 

who took her first degree at Oxford, and then had a career in journalism, working 

for the New Statesman and other publications. (See http://www.newstatesman. 

com/2013/07/memory-kirsty-milne.) She returned to academic life as a Fulbright 

Scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard, then as an MA student at 

Queen Mary, London, and then doing her DPhil at Magdalen. It was an unusual and 

outstanding research career, and she was a remarkable, impressive and exceptional 

person. She greatly valued her connection to Wolfson and will be deeply missed. 

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Alumni Relations and Development 2012–13 

A message from Bill Conner, the Development Director 

Formal alumni events were hosted by the President, the Development Director 

or the Vicegerent, in eight cities across the world, a new record in our efforts to 

reconnect with alumni. In addition to New York, Washington and Madrid, we made 

our first trip to East Asia for some years, and the Vicegerent’s trip to Australia 

was the occasion to meet Sydney-based alumni. We saw between 20 and 40 former 

members at each, and envisage further informal events. Our second London lecture 

was given by Vlatko Vedral at the Royal Society in March, on ‘Living in a Quantum 

World’. Again we had a full house, and met some people we hadn’t seen for a long 

time. 

Our international community continues to grow, and the activities and interests 

of the greater Wolfson family are breathtaking in their scope. We have invested 

successfully over the last five years in communications and data systems that 

help us stay connected, and will continue to exploit new technology and better 

communications to knit our global family together. 

We continue to be interested in how alumni can help advance the careers of current 

students. Tom Black gave a very interesting career advisory event in Hilary Term 

2013, and other less formal events have taken place from time to time. We want to 

expand our efforts in this direction, as we keep finding examples of alumni who 

have pursued successful careers in business, as entrepreneurs, in non-traditional 

academic settings and in third-sector organisations. As academic careers become 

more difficult to achieve, we want to exploit the resourcefulness of Wolfsonians in 

developing new ideas for Wolfson graduates. 

Fund-raising continues to grow steadily, and Wolfson is now one of the most 

generous Oxford colleges in providing scholarships. The Marriott legacy has been 

a major factor, but the ongoing generosity of alumni and friends has helped greatly, 

with the provision of dedicated scholarships for physics, classical art, early Christian 

Jewish studies, and Korean studies. Annual fund-raising has also raised the research 

profile of the College, one of the highest in Oxford with its eight research clusters 

and more in development. Our trip to East Asia started the development of further 

funding for Korean studies, Buddhist studies and digital methods. The challenge 

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emains of sustaining our present activity by creating funding strategies and 

endowments for the future. 

Giving by alumni still lags behind, with about 6% of those who can be contacted 

giving annually. This is better than most graduate colleges, but can be improved 

significantly: participation-rates at the more successful undergraduate colleges are 

now more than 30%. Over 800 of our alumni have other Oxford college affiliations, 

so we recognise that conflicts and varying priorities are inevitable, but we very 

much appreciate the support of alumni and friends of the College each year. Every 

gift makes a difference and contributes to the College’s ability to do more for our 

community. 

The Marriott legacy was a major event, and has inspired others to consider making 

a legacy. We have nearly doubled the number of people who have expressed their 

intention of providing for the College in their wills, and we would encourage others 

to follow suit. The finances of most Oxford colleges are founded on legacies over 

the centuries, which ensure their continuing excellence. 

In the office, Anna and Katie moved on to new positions during 2012–13. Please 

welcome the two new members of our team, Kathie Mackay who joined as the 

Senior Development Officer in June, and Alex Guerriero as the Development 

Assistant in July. We are now complete again and look forward to another year of 

growth and exciting activity in 2013–14. 

Strategy Group members 

Mr John Adams 

Mr Mueen Afzal 

Dr Thomas Black 

Dr Gerald Chan 

Lord Gowrie 

Mr Peter Halban 

Lady Hoffenberg 

Dr Philip Kay 

Mr Sam Laidlaw 

Ms Rosemary Leith 

Dr Mark Merrony 

Lord Moser 

Mr George Nianias 

Professor Pat Nuttall 

Mr Thomas Sharpe, QC 

Dr Kenneth Tregidgo 

Baron Thyssen- 

Bornemisza 

Mrs Patricia Williams 

Sir Martin Wood 

Dr Allen Zimbler 

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List of donors 

2012‒13 

The Romulus Society 

Principal Gifts (£500,000+) 

Anonymous 

Dorset Foundation 

Estate of Dr Francis Marriott 

Wolfson Foundation 

Oxford Graduate Matched Funding 

Scheme 

President’s Fund (£20,000) 

Berlin Charitable Trust 

Berlin Literary Trust 


Dr Simon Harrison 

International Communication 

Foundation (YBM Si-sa Corporation) 

Mr Christian Levett 

Morningside Group 

Second Aaron Littman Foundation 

Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza 

Ti-Se Foundation 

Sponsor (£5,000+) 

Anonymous 

Mr Gerry Grimstone 

Professor Sir Tony Hoare 

Mr Antony Percy 

Mr Max Watson 

Member (£1,000+) 

Professor Douglas Abraham 

Mr Yip Au 

Mr Stephen Donaldson 

Mr Ts’ong Fou 

Mrs Patsy Fou 

Mr Ian Harris 

Professor Ikuko Kawanishi 

Mr William Kelly 

Mr Richard Percy 

Rothschild Foundation 

Mr Graeme Skene 

Professor Jon Stallworthy 

Dr Derek Wyatt 

Patron (£10,000+) 

Mr Jonathan Rosen 

Mr David Ure 

The President’s Club 

(£500+) 

Mr David Alexander 

Revd Dr William Beaver 

Dr George Barley 

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Dr Roger Booker 

Professor Derek Boyd 

William, Lord Bradshaw 

Professor Roger Burritt 

Dr Timothy Clayden 

Mr Douglas Colkin 

Mr William Conner 

Dr Jean de Vries 

Professor Arthur Every 

Dr Takeo Fujiwara 

Ms Sally Horovitz 

Dr Helen Lambert 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

Dr Roland Littlewood 

Dr Thayne McCulloh 

Professor Pat Nuttall 

Mrs Judith Peters 

Professor Tae Seong 

Mrs Lindsay Stead 

Dr Lloyd Strickland 

Dr Leslie Tupchong 

Dr Anthony Wierzbicki 

Supporters of the College 

(£100+) 

Professor Timothy Aitman 

Professor Jonathan Arch 

Dr Phillippa Archer 

Dr Michael Boda 

Mr Kieran Broadbent 

Mr Richard Burgess 

Professor James Byrne 

Lady Helen Caldwell 

Miss Wendy Capes 

Dr Cyril Chapman 

Ms Leila Cheikh Ismail 

Mr Chia-Kuen Chen 

Mr Howard Clarke 

Dr Adam Clarke 

Dr William Clark 

Dr Yehudah Cohn 

Dr Reuben Conrad 

Dr Linda Cooper 

Dr Stephanie Dalley 

Dr Roberto Delicata 

Professor Kennerly Digges 

Professor Justus Diller 

Professor Robert Easting 

Dr Charles Ehrlich 

Dr Adi Erlich 

Ms Caro Fickling 

Mr David Freestone 

Brigadier Alan Gordon 

Dr Michael Gover 

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Professor Barbara Harriss-White 

Dr Anupama Hazarika 

Dr Sabina Heinz 

Dr Stephen Hemingway 

Ms Barbara Henry 

Dr Peter Herissone-Kelly 

Dr Raymond Higgins 

Mrs Louise Hillman 

Dr David Holloway 

Dr Peter Iredale 

Mrs Judith Iredale 

Mr David Jackson 

Ms Ann Jefferson 

Professor Oliver Johns 

Dr Peter Johnson 

Mr James Kister 

Professor John Koumoulides 

Dr John Koval 

Professor Jan Krajicek 

Mrs Patricia Labun 

Ms Patricia Langton 

Dr Helen Lawton Smith 

Dr Robin Leake 

Dr Ira Lieberman 

Dr Brian Lloyd 

Mr Hiroshi Maeno 

Mr Alan Mapstone 

Professor Jody Maxmin 

Miss Gillian McFarland 

Dr Gregor McLean 

Dr Graham McVey 

Mrs Lesley Murray 

Dr Caroline Mussared 

Mr Karsten Nevermann 

Dr David O’Brien 

Dr Sara Paretsky 

Dr John Pinot de Moira 

Dr Jacqueline Piper 

Mr Raymond Pow 

Mrs Susan Reid 

Dr Julie Richardson 

Dr Donald Ringe 

Professor David Roulston 

Dr Aitor Santamaría-Merino 

Mr Iwan Saunders 

Mr Malcolm Savage 

Ms Michelle Schoch 

Mr Philip Seeley 

Dr John Sellars 

Sir David Smith 

Professor Swee Lay Thein 

Dr Noreen Thomas 

Professor Robert Thomas 

Professor Charles Thompson 

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Dr Edward Thorogood 

Dr Peter Turner 

Dr Walter Van Stigt 

Dr Kevin Varvell 

Dr Anthony Weaver 

Mr Daniel Weiss 

Dr Tim Wolfenden 

Professor Adrian Wood 

Dr David Wright 

Dr Adam Wyatt 

Professor David Zeitlyn 

Friends of the College 

Dr Nadia Abu-Zahra 

Mr Pankaj Agarwalla 

Professor Marcia Allentuck 

Professor Ted Anderson 

Dr Lesley Ashton 

Mr Douglas Ayling 

Professor Marcus Banks 

Dr Janet Barnes 

Mr Jonathan Birt 


Ms Lucy Blaxland 

Dr Steven Bosworth 

Mrs Sonia Boue 

Dr Michael Brock 

Professor Harvey Brown 

Dr Marian Bruce 

Professor James Brudney 

Dr Kurt Burnham 

Dr Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski 

Mr Carl Calvert 

Dr Nidal Chamoun 

Mr Jayesh Chauhan 

Professor David Clarke 

Dr Rochelle Cornell 

Miss Ann Cowell 

Dr Andrew Crane 

Dr Diana Crane 

Professor John Creaser 

Dr Glenn Crocker 

Mr John Cubbon 

Dr Paula Curnow 

Professor Richard Dendy 

Miss Francoise Deniaud 

Professor Robert Dingwall 

Mr Mohit Dubey 

Dr Daniel Dubin 

Mr John Edgley 

Professor Sir Anthony Epstein 

Ms Mary Ferry 

Dr Clare Fewtrell 

Mr Thomas Filbin 

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Mr Sanjay Fynn 

Dr Geoffrey Garton 

Professor Alexander George 

Dr Alun German 

Mrs Barbara Grodecks Lewis 

Dr Roger Hall 

Dr Marion Hanbury Brown 

Professor Paul Harrison 

Professor Jonathan Hart 

Revd Dr Anthony Harvey 

Mr Bjorn Haugstad 

Ms Nancy Hawker 

Professor James Henle 

Professor Michael Hitchman 

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig 

Professor Jeremy Johns 

Professor Gordon Johnson 

Dr Barry Johnston 

Dr Stephen Jones 

Dr Carolyn Kagan 

Ms Joan Kisylia 

Mr Rhett Larson 

Mrs Denise Leigh 

Professor Joseph Little 

Professor Nancy Macky 

Dr Panayotis Marketos 

Miss Leanne Marsay 

Mr David Matyas 

Mr Anthony Maude 

Mrs Audrey Maxwell 

Miss Margaret May 

Ms Claire McKenna 

Professor Stephen Moorbath 

Mrs Elizabeth Mort 

Professor Philip Mountford 

Professor Edgar Palmer 

Dr Carol Peaker 

Dr Christine Penny 

Dr Joanna Perkins 

Dr Marlene Petrie 

Miss Charlotte Purkis 

Mr Vijay Ramnarace 

Dr David Ratner 

Professor Hermann Rauh 

Professor Peter Rhodes 

Ms Naisy Sarduy 

Dr Klara Schure 

Dr Sunay Shah 

Dr St John Simpson 

Professor Haym Soloveitchik 

Mrs Gillian Stansfield 

Mrs Elizabeth Stillwell 

Dr Robert Tanner 

Dr Michael Teper 

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Mr Samuel Thomas 

Dr Mark Tito 

Professor Shawkat Toorawa 

Dr Michael Tully 

Dr Maria Vassiliou Flynn 

Mrs Nancie Villiers 

Mr Christopher Villiers 

Miss Katharine Villers 

Ms Jeannette Voas 

Mr Christopher Walton 

Miss Julia Wheare 

Mr Jonathan Woolf 

Mr Mackenzie Zalin 

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Gifts to the Library 2012–13 

The following have generously donated books to the College Library in the last 

year. Those whose names appear with an asterisk have given copies of works they 

have written or to which they contributed. 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. Thank you. 

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian) 

* Dr Nicholas Allen 

* Mr and Mrs Alpert 

* Dr Timothy Beech 

* Dr Peter N. Bell 

* Dr Marc Brightman and 

Dr Vanessa Grotti 

* Dr Catherine Cantwell and 

Dr Robert Mayer 

Professor Azam Chaudhry 

Dr Andreas Claro 

* Professor Anne Deighton 

Ms Kerrie Doyle 

* Professor Richard Evans 

* Dr Henry Hardy 

Professor Barbara Harris-White 

* Dr Bettina Lange 

Professor Even Lange 

Dr Brian McKenna 

* Professor Michael Marsh 

OUP and the British Branch of the 

International Arthurian Society 

* Dr Yannis Papadongiannakis 

Dr John Penney 

* Dr Richard Riddell 

* Professor Jorg Rupke 

Mr Ben Simpson 

* Professor Richard Sorabji 

Professor Jon Stallworthy 

* Mr Gerard Sullivan 

* Dr Henriette Van der Blom 

Gregory Votruba 

Dr Merryn Williams 

* Professor John Wilkes 

* Dr Zeynep Yurrekli-Gorkay 

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Scholarships, Travel Awards 

and Prizes 2012–13 

The Black Family Scholarship (with Materials Department) 

Andrew London 

The Godfrey Lienhardt Travel Grant 

Marthe Achtinich (Kellogg) 

Andrea Grant (St Hugh’s) 

Lynsey Hoh (St Antony’s) 

Leanne Johanssen 

Ewa Majczak 

Grimstone Foundation Travel Awards for research in India and China 

Miriam Driessen 

Muhammad Ali Jan 

Megan Robb (New College) 

Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship 

Medical Sciences and Chemistry 

Laura Pollum 

Tianshu Feng 

Isaiah Berlin/Clarendon Scholarships 

Humanities 

Ekaterina Kozlova 

Benjamin Sorgiovanni 

Georgiy Grebnyev 

Isaiah Berlin/Classics Department Scholarship 

Alessandro Vatri 

Felix Meister 

Isaiah Berlin ESRC Anthropology Scholarship 

Elo Luik 

Jeremy Black Clarendon Scholarship 

Laura Wisnom 

Life-Writing Cluster Scholarship 

Lucinda Fenny 

Oli Hazard 

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Lorne Thyssen Scholarship 

Helen Ackers 

Mougins Museum Ashmolean Scholarship 

Nicholas West 

Norman Hargreaves Maudsley Scholarship 

Sarah Puello Alfonso 

Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation 

Kerrie Doyle 

The Roger and Fay Booker Travel Award 

Qi Chen 

Thames and Hudson Scholarship 

Gabriela Sotomayor 

Tim and Kathy Clayden Prize for Ancient Near Eastern Studies 

Moudhy Al-Rashid 

Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Archaeology Department Scholarship 

Martin Gallagher 

The Wolfson Marshall Scholarship 

Sophia Veltfort 

Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities 

Daniel Hitchens 

Laurence Mann 

James Norrie 

The Wolfson Socio-Legal Centre Scholarship 

Heather McRobie 

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Sketching Wolfson’s new building 

by Robert Eyles MSAI 

(Member of the Society of Architectural Illustrators) 

I was asked by the project architect, Marion Brereton, to record the construction 

of the new Auditorium with hand-drawn sketches to contrast and supplement the 

more usual photographs and webcam pictures. As snapshots they each took an 

hour, more or less, and were all done on site. 

The sketches were made at about two-week intervals, so that each view changed 

noticeably. Buildings usually appear to grow slowly at first, then speed up, before 

slowing again externally, which is when the interiors exhibit the greatest progress 

once the exterior envelope is ‘watertight’. 

The watercolour wash and pen for the earlier sketches helped to define the different 

elements of the building and the construction paraphernalia, the materials and 

finishes. The media changed for the subsequent sketches to coloured pencil and 

pen; and then to pen and pencil. As the building form and scale became apparent, 

and as the weather became colder, pencil permitted the sketches to be done more 

quickly. But the final view is in watercolour once more, the weather now permitting 

(16 May 2013): the building is practically complete, but one or two clues show that 

it was not quite ready to ‘hand over’. 

The final view is reproduced on the cover. It was exhibited with the others outside the 

Auditorium when it was opened, and a selection follows here. Photographs of the site in 

January and August 2012 appeared in last year’s Record (p. 51). 

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The new building rises from the ground, with the crane, the willow tree and H Block visible beyond (25 May 2012) 

The concrete superstructure has reached first-floor level (19 July 2012) 

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The superstructure has reached the top of the external walls, and the ventilating tower has begun, 

but the seminar rooms to the right are just freestanding columns (21 September 2012) 

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The sloping roof beams are being formed in their plywood formwork, and the tower is now taller, 

but steel reinforcing bars indicate another lift is yet to happen (18 October 2012)

In pencil: the overall scale of the building and its form can now be seen through the scaffolding (11 December 2012) 

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Wolfson’s Architecture, past and present 

Alan Berman, the architect, used these images to 

illustrate a brief presentation at the opening of the 

new Auditorium. 

1a 

1b 

Wolfson’s buildings echo (above) central Oxford and (below) Trinity Garden Quad. 

Its architects Powell and Moya responded sensitively to the landscape setting by 

combining two traditional collegiate forms: the Berlin Quad, central to the social 

functions of the college, is a colonnaded rectangular traditional quad; its two wings 

stretch out to embrace the landscape. 

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2a 

2b 

Elevations of Powell and Moya’s Wolfson, designed by architects who were the most 

subtle followers of Le Corbusier; ‘Jacko’ Moya, also a painter, was also influenced by 

art. Their elevations are subtle compositions of blank areas of granite, white planes, 

and patterned black window frames. 

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3a 

3b 

Powell and Moya used columns throughout as a controlling order, an aesthetic 

followed by Berman Guedes Stretton in their own design. 

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4a 

4b 

The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium is naturally ventilated to avoid air conditioning, 

and uses a tall ventilation shaft to draw warm air out at a high level. Its roof was 

initially rectangular in plan, but was twisted to produce a roof-form that would 

echo Powell and Moya’s Dining Hall. 

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5 

An important aspiration was to create a much more visible and welcoming presence 

for the College, so the ventilating shaft was located intentionally to mark the 

entrance at the end of Linton Road. 

There is a review of the Auditorium in the RIBA Journal for September 2013 (pp. 21-23) 

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Degrees and Diplomas 

Abd Jamil, Amira 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy 

and Genetics, ‘Role of PPARD in the Cardiac 

Metabolic Adaptation to Chronic Hypoxia’ 

Abdull Rahman, Mohd 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Pharmacology 

Akyelken, Nihan 

(GS 2009–11) DPhil Geography and the 

Environment, ‘Capital and Development in 

Social and Cultural Contexts: An Empirical 

Investigation on Transport Infrastructure 

Development and Female Labour Force in 

Turkey’ 

Al–Maadheed, Fatma 

(GS 2006–13) DPhil Educational Studies, 

‘Models of Bilingual Education in Majority 

Language Contexts: an exploratory study 

of Bilingual Programs in Qatari primary 

schools’ 

Alter, Maximilian 

(GS 2011–12) MJuris 

Amenga–Etego, Lucas 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Clinical Medicine, 

‘Plasmodium falciparum population genetics 

in Northern Ghana’ 

Anderson, Robert 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Music (Musicology) 

Armytage, Rosalind 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Earth Sciences, ‘The 

Silicon Isotopic Composition of Inner Solar 

System Materials’ 

Artyushevskaya, Nargis 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Water Science, Policy 

and Management 

Aslany, Maryam 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Contemporary India 

Aspinall, Lois 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Politics Research 

Bagheri, Hani 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Clinical Embryology 

Balachandran, Santhy 

(GS 2009–10) MSc Visual Anthropology 

Bang, Dan (GS 2010–11) MSc Cognitive and 

Evolutionary Anthropology 

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Baranovic, Jelena 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Condensed Matter 

Physics, ‘Structural and functional 

characterization of reconstituted ?–amino–3– 

hydroxy–5–methyl–4–isoxazole propionic 

acid receptors’ 

Barkalina, Natalia 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Clinical Embryology 

Barrett, Guy 

(GS 2010–12) MSt Greek and/or Latin 

Languages and Literature 

Bayer, Lili 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Russian and East 

European Studies 

Beeley, Helena 

(GS 2010–11) MSt General Linguistics and 

Comparative Philology 

Bell, Christian (GS 2007–11) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Structural studies of chemotaxis in 

prokaryotes and higher eukaryotes’ 

Bessman, Matthew–Stephen (GS 2008–09) MSc Management Research 

Bianchetti, Marco 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Mathematical and 

Computational Finance 

Blickhan, Samantha 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Music (Musicology) 

Booz, Patrick 

(GS 2006–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Tea, 

Trade and Transport in the Sino-Tibetan 

Borderlands’ 

Bordas, Rafel 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Life Sciences Interface 

DTC – Computing, ‘Multiscale Modelling of 

the Cardiac Specialized Conduction System’ 

Bordas, Rafel 

(GS 2005–06) MSc Mathematical Modelling 

and Scientific Computing 

Brazil, Kevin 

(GS 2010–11) MSt English (1900 – present) 

Brill, Josephine 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Oriental Studies 

Brixey, Rachel 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Genetic 

analyses of MAP Kinase signalling in mouse 

gonad development’ 

Brocato, Helen 

(GS 2011–12) MSc African Studies 

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Buckens, Ewout 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Global and Imperial 

History 

Carlos, Ana Rita 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Radiobiology, ‘DNA 

damage responses to loss of telomere 

integrity’ 

Chan, Yiu Leung 


‘Analysis of artificial chromosomes and 

factors affecting stability in murine and 

human cultured and embryonic stem cells’ 

Chaudhary, Kshitij (GS 2011–12) MSc Economics for 

Development 

Cheng, Yu Ching Ronald 

(GS 2011–12) MBA Master of Business 

Administration 

Clark, Margaret 



Clark, Teixeira (GS 2010–11) MSc Education (Child 

Development and Education) 

Cohen, Ilana 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Water Science, Policy 

and Management 

Contreras Romero, Carmen (GS 2010–12) MPhil Development Studies 

Daine, Kate 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Evidence Based Social 

Intervention 

Dana, Jessamine 

(GS 2005–11) DPhil Social and Cultural 

Anthropology, ‘Muktinath: An Analysis of a 

Multi-Faith Pilgrimage Site in Nepal’ 

Dean, Benjamin 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Zoology, ‘The at-sea 

behaviour of the Manx shearwater’ 

den Rooijen, Quirijn 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Social Science of the 

Internet 

Devereux, Francesca 


Dhesi, Saheb 

(GS 2007–09) MPhil Modern South Asian 

Studies 

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Di Battista, Andrew 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Engineering Science, 

‘Ultrasound Elastography Techniques 

for the Therapeutic Monitoring of Breast 

Cancer’ 

Djabali, Feyrouz 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Comparative Social 

Policy 

Dodd, Michael (GS 2008–12) DPhil Cardiovascular 

Medicine, ‘The development and application 

of new hyperpolarized magnetic resonance 

spectroscopy techniques for the non-invasive 

assessment of metabolism in the rodent 

heart’ 

Draper, Julia 

(GS 2006–10) DPhil Clinical Laboratory 

Sciences, ‘Regulation of mGatal expression 

by the Cis regulatory element HS+3.5’ 

Dyer, Hellen 

(GS 2004–09) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, 

‘New Lanthanide Complexes as 

Polymerisation Catalysts’ 

England, Duncan 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Atomic and Laser 

Physics, ‘Towards Ultrafast Photoassociation 

of Ultracold Atoms’ 

English, Suzanne 


‘Within-host evolution of HIV–1 and the 

analysis of transmissible diversity’ 

Falconer, Joshua 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Syriac Studies 

Feick, Greer 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Development Studies 

Fejes, Nadina 


Intervention 

Filipovic, Dragana 

(GS 2007–13) DPhil Archaeology, ‘An 

Archaeobotanical Investigation of Plant Use, 

Crop Husbandry and Animal Diet at early– 

mid Neolithic Catalhöyük, Central Anatolia’ 

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Fluharty, John 

(GS 2009–11) MPhil Politics: Political 

Theory 

Fong, Brendan (GS 2011–12) MSc Mathematics and 

Foundations of Computer Science 

Frank, Mirjam 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Music (Performance) 

Friedman, David (GS 2009–11) MPhil Judaism and 

Christianity the Graeco-Roman World 

Gandhi, Yash Rajiv 


Gao, Shan 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Medical Oncology, 

‘Screen for Proteins that Regulate Sensitivity 

to Inhibition of the Insulin-like Growth 

Factor 1 Receptor.’ 

Garcia Alzamora, Meritxell (GS 2011–12) MSc Endovascular Neurosurgery 

(Interventional Neuroradiology) 

Gatt, Leah 


Glomnes, Helene 


Granofsky, Thomas 

(GS 2010–12) MPhil Comparative Social 

Policy 

Groselj, Darja 


Internet 

Groucutt, Huw 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Archaeological Science, 

‘Hominid Dispersals and the Middle 

Palaeolithic of Arabia’ 

Groveman, Tamar 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Modern Japanese 

Studies 

Gu, Siming 


Intervention 

Guo, Sina 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Modern Chinese Studies 

Gutierrez Herrera, Ruth 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Social and Cultural 

Anthropology, ‘The Nukak on the move 

in a shatter zone: a study of nomadism and 

continuity in the Colombian Amazon’ 

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Haase, Helen 



Hadjianastassiou, Maria 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Psychiatry, ‘Maternal 

Postnatal Depression and Anxiety in relation 

to 2 year old children’s development of 

Emotion Regulation and Attention’ 

Halavach, Dzmitry 



Hall, Amelia 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Oriental Studies, 

‘Revelations of a Modern Mystic: The Life 

and Legacy of Kun bZang bDe chen gling pa 

(1928–2006)’ 

Hawker, Nancy 


‘Hebrew Borrowings in the Arabic Speech of 

Palestinians in Three Refugee Camps in the 

West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories’ 

He, Enuo (GS 2008–12) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Stochastic Modelling of the Cell Cycle’ 

Hewitson, Paul (GS 2008–12) DPhil Primary Health Care, ‘A 

Primary Care Based Intervention to Improve 

Participation in the NHS Bowel Cancer 

Screening Programme’ 

Hills, Thomas 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Integrated Immunology 

Hiruta, Kei 

(GS 2004–12) DPhil Politics, ‘Making sense 

of Pluralism’ 

Hoffmann, Nimi 


Hollow, Matthew 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil History, ‘Housing 

Needs: Power, Subjectivity and Public 

Housing in England, 1920–1970’ 

Hornbeck, Ryan (GS 2007–12) DPhil Anthropology, ‘A 

Pure World: Moral Cognition and Spiritual 

Experiences in Chinese World of Warcraft’ 

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Hornbeck, Ryan 

(GS 2006–07) MSc Social Anthropology 

Hoyos Boyd, Carlos 


Huang, Yuanzun 


Hulme, Elliot 

(GS 2010–12) MSt Study of Religion 

Humphreys, Isla 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Host 

and Viral Factors that determine the clinical 

outcome of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype–3a 

Infection’ 

Huschke, Julia 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Women’s Studies 

Huskens, Nicky 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Integrated Immunology 

Im, Hyun Joong 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Management Studies, 

‘Essays in Corporate Finance’ 

Ip, Eric 

(GS 2010–12) DPhil Socio-Legal Studies, 

‘Constitutionalism under China: Strategic 

Interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law 

in Comparative Perspective’ 

Iqbal, Sarah (GS 2007–11) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Molecular Studies of Stiff Skin - Causing 

Mutations in Fibrillin–1’ 

Jain, Gaurav 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Law and Finance 

Javad, Abdulrehman 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Applied Statistics 

Jayaram, Pradipti 


Jing, Jing 


Internet 

Juliusdottir, Thorhildur 


‘Evolution and Function of Metazoan 

Proteins’ 

Kaizik, Stephan 

(GS 2004–11) DPhil Physiology, ‘Analysis of 

mouse models of insulin secretion disorders’ 

Khan, Nada 

(GS 2009–11) DPhil Primary Health Care, 

‘Survivors of adult cancer – their use of 

primary care services and unmet needs’ 

63

Khmelnitskaya, Marina (GS 2004–11) DPhil Politics, ‘Social 

Learning and Policy-Making in Russia: The 

Case of Housing Policy Since 1991’ 

Kim, Pa-Leun 

(GS 2006–07) MSc Forced Migration Studies 

Kim, Sun Woo 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Archaeology, ‘Life and 

Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c.1500– 

400 BC): An analysis of settlements and 

monuments in the mid–Korean peninsula’ 

King, Alex 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Latin American Studies 

Kischka, Claudius 


‘Flexoelectricity in Nematic Liquid Crystals’ 

Kiviorg, Merilin 

(GS 2002–12) DPhil Law, ‘Freedom of 

Religion or Belief – the Quest for Religious 

Autonomy’ 

Koch, Sofia 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘The 

Role of ASPP2 in Intestinal Cell Polarity and 

Homeostasis’ 

Kozlova, Ekaterina 

(GS 2009–10) MSt Classical Hebrew Studies 

Krass, Charlotte 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Politics: European 

Politics and Society 

Kubicka, Hanna 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Film Aesthetics 

Kurahashi, Yusaku 


Kyriakou, Zoe 


‘Use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound 

to Destroy Subcutaneous Fat Tissue’ 

Lam, Sonia 

(GS 2008–10) MPhil Social Anthropology 

Land, Sander 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Computer Science, ‘An 

Integrative Framework for Computational 

Modelling of Cardiac Electromechanics in 

the Mouse’ 

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Lau, Ching Yan (GS 2007–12) DPhil Mathematics, 

‘Probabilistic Wind Power Forecasts: From 

Aggregated Approach to Spatiotemporal 

Models’ 

Lausberg, Philipp 



Layton-Wood, Joshua 

(GS 2011–13) BPhil Philosophy 

Lee, Benjamin (GS 2007–12) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Identification and characterisation of 

alternative forms of SETD2/HYPB (SET 

domain-containing protein 2 / Huntingtin 

yeast partner B)’ 

Lee, Patrick 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Medical Anthropology 

Lenzin, Nathan 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Economic and Social 

History 

Leong, Sau Ping 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Pharmacology 

Li, Ying 

(GS 2009–10) MSc Applied Statistics 

Long, Emma 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Classical Archaeology 

Lowe, John 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Comparative Philology 

and General Linguistics, ‘The Syntax and 

Semantics of Tense-Aspect Stem Participles 

in Early Rgvedic Sanskrit’ 

Maciejuk, Anna-Maria 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Radiation Biology 

Maddison, James 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic 

and Planetary Physics’, ‘Adaptive mesh 

modelling of the thermally driven annulus’ 

Makelberge, Julie 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Computer Science 

Maksoudova, Kouysinoy 


Intervention 

Maminskaite, Monika 



Mamulaishvili, Manana 

(GS 2010–11) MSt Modern Languages 

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Marrazza, Martha 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Refugee and Forced 


Marsay, Leanne 


‘Evaluation of immune correlates to TB 

vaccines’ 

McGann, Claire (GS 2012–13) MSt English (1550–1700) 

McGregor, Michael 

(GS 2005–13) DPhil Educational Studies, 

‘Use of Gestalt Principles in Kodaly-based 

Music Teaching in Lower Secondary School: 

An Evaluation Study’ 

McKeever, Sarah 


Mehta, Stuti (GS 2007–13) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Imprinting at the mouse Gnas cluster’ 

Mendoza Sanchez, Beatriz (GS 2006–12) DPhil Life Sciences 

Interface DTC – Materials, ‘Synthesis of 

Nanostructured Materials and Subsequent 

Processing into Nanometer-thick Films for 

Supercapacitor Applications’ 

Mestek, Lamia (GS 2007–11) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Phenotypic characterization of C. elegans 

latrophilin homolog, lat–1’ 

Mikhalyaeva, Altana 


Moilanen, Karo-Henri 

(GS 2006–11) DPhil Computer Science, 

‘Compositional Entity-Level Sentiment 

Analysis’ 

Moise, Ionut 


Moncayo–Quiros, Gerald 


‘Molecular Mechanisms Regulating 

the Expression of Non-Classical Major 

Histocompatibility Class I Molecules’ 

Moore, Susan (GS 2011–12) MSc Cognitive and 


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Mordasini, Pasquale 

Moro, Joao 

Muftic, Diana 

Mumford, Ceris 

Munt, Thomas 

Myklebust, Trude 

Napierala, Agnieszka 

Nawaz, Sara 

Nevay, Laurence 

Norman, Amy 

O Herlihy, Ciara 

O’Donnell, Thomas 

O’Driscoll, Emma 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Endovascular Neurosurgery 

(Interventional Neuro-radiology) 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Public Policy Latin 

America 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Radiobiology, ‘The 

role of topoisomerase ll in replication in 

mammalian cells’ 


and Genetics’, ‘Coloured filters and literacy 

progress’ 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘The 

Sacred History Of Early Islamic Medina: 

The Prophet, Caliphs, Scholars and the 

Town’s Haram’ 

(GS 2010–13) MSc(Res) Geography and the 

Environment, ‘The role of stock exchanges 

in shaping more sustainable company and 

market practices’ 

(GS 2004–07) MPhil Classical Archaeology 


(GS 2007–12) DPhil Particle Physics, 

‘Results from the Laser–Wire at ATF2 

and Development of a Fibre Laser for its 

Upgrade’ 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Classical Indian 

Religion 

(GS 2011–12) BCL 

(GS 2009–11) MPhil Celtic Studies 


(Research Methods) 

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Papadopoulou, Eleana 

(GS 2008–12) MSc(Res) Primary Health 

Care, ‘The Development of a Complex 

Dietary and Physical Activity Intervention 

to Improve Glycaemic Control and Prevent 

Undesirable Weight Gain Using Novel 

Technology, in Young Adults with Type 1 

Diabetes’ 

Parish, Roisin (GS 2011–12) MSc Economics for 

Development 

Park, Sung 

(GS 2001–08) DPhil Materials, ‘Rheocasting 

of Aluminium Alloys’ 

Pasha, Samir 


Pasquali, Giovanni 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Global Governance and 

Diplomacy 

Pedley, Nicholas (GS 2007–11) DPhil Radiobiology, 

‘Development and results from two cell– 

based phenotypic screens to identify the key 

genetic determinants and small molecule 

modulators of sensitivity to N-methyl-N’- 

nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine’ 

Pender, Sebastian 


Pichulik, Tica 


‘Identification of Novel Interactions between 

Micro RNAs and Pattern–Recognition 

Receptor Signalling in Dendritic Cells’ 

Pickup, Sadie 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Archaeology, ‘Praxiteles’ 

Knidia: the statue and its reception’ 

Pinkney, Justin 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Life Sciences Interface 

DTC – Condensed Matter Physics, 

‘Extending and combining single-molecule 

fluorescence methods to study site-specific 

recombination’ 

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Poole, Rachel 

(GS 2008–11) MSc(Res) Radiobiology, ‘The 

Role of p53 In Hypoxia-Induced Apoptosis’ 

Powell, Adele 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Zoology, ‘Origins 

and Non-Breeding Ecology of Eurasian 

Woodcock’ 

Prapansilp, Panote 


‘Molecular pathological investigation of the 

pathophysiology of fatal malaria’ 

Przybylski, Trajan (GS 2011–12) MSc Economics for 

Development 

Quartermain, Thomas 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Korean Studies 

Ramsay, Lee 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Celtic Studies 

Reibestein, Michael 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Modern Chinese Studies 

Reid, John 


Ren, Ran 



Renzeng, Cuomu 


Rial Franco, Belen (GS 2008–11) DPhil Cardiovascular 

Medicine, ‘Development of Proton Magnetic 

Resonance Spectroscopy in Human Heart at 

3 Tesla’ 

Riley, Genna 


and Genetics’, ‘Exploring the role of IGFN1 

in cardiac muscle’ 

Riveros, Cristian 


‘Repairing Strings and Trees’ 

Roberts, Philip 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Comparative Philology 

and General Linguistics, ‘Towards a 

computer model of the historical phonology 

and morphology of Latin’ 

Roberts, Philip 

(GS 2007–09) MPhil General Linguistics 

and Comparative Philology 

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Roussos, Evangelos 


‘Bayesian Methods for Sparse Data 

Decomposition and Blind Source Separation’ 

Samanani, Farhan 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Migration Studies 

Samara, Sawsan 


Sarduy, Naisy 


‘Iran’s America: Iran’s Post Revolutionary 

Narrative of the United States’ 

Sarkar, Bihani 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘The 

Heroic Cult of the Sovereign Goddess in 

Mediaeval India’ 

Sarkissian, Anna 


Sawyier, Anne 

(GS 2012–13) MSt History of Art and Visual 

Culture 

Saxena, Abhinav 

(GS 2011–12) MBA 

Segerdahl, Andrew (GS 2008–11) DPhil Anaesthetics, 

‘Investigation of the neural correlates of 

ongoing pain states using quantitative 

perfusion arterial spin labelling’ 

Sekiya, Haruka 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Financial Economics 

Sellers, Matthew 

(GS 2012–13) MSt English (1900 – present) 

Shah, Aakash 


Policy 

Shah, Shivang 


‘Examining the relationship between genetic 

variation at G6PD and severe malaria’ 

Shung King, Maylene 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Why 

Child Health Policies in Post-Apartheid 

South Africa have not Performed as Intended: 

the Case of the School Health Policy’ 

Singh, Jessica 


Intervention 

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Sleven, Hannah 

Sneddon, Duncan 

Soosay, Ashley 

Souter, James 

Stanescu, Maria 

Staniczenko, Phillip 

Stepanyan, Arevik 

Sumping, Helen 

Suyama, Shohei 

Taylor, Stuart 

Tembo, Doreen 

Thom, Howard 

Thomas, Guy 

Tordella, Luca 

(GS 2004–12) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Models 

of Neurodegenerative Mitochondrial 

Disease’ 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Celtic Studies 

(GS 2002–10) DPhil Medical Oncology, 

‘Identification of Rab32 within a 

Homozygously Deleted Region on Human 

Chromosome 6q24.3 in Ovarian Cancer’ 






Physics, ‘Structure, Dynamics and 

Robustness of Ecological Networks’ 




(GS 2010–11) MSc Modern Japanese Studies 

(GS 2003–06) DPhil Physical and Theoretical 

Chemistry, ‘Light Emissions Accompanying 

Molecular Double Photoionisation’ 

(GS 2004–11) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Strategies 

for HIV/AIDS Prevention: A study of the 

policy of ABC in Zambia’ 






‘Investigation Of The Role Of ASPP2 in 

Tumourigenesis’ 

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Tuladhar, Kapil 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Clinical Laboratory 

Sciences, ‘Lim-only Domain Proteins in 

Developmental Haematopoiesis’ 

Turner, Mothusi 

(GS 2009–11) MPhil Modern Chinese 

Studies 

Twomey, Hannah 



Uluocak, Pelin (GS 2007–12) DPhil Biochemistry, 

‘Designing a new cross-linkable cohesin 

complex for studying cohesin’s interaction 

with DNA’ 

Vaikath, Maria 


Policy 

Verhoek, Michael 


‘Fast Segmentation of the LV Myocardium 

in Real-Time 3D Echocardiography’ 

Vinko, Sam 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Atomic and Laser 

Physics, ‘Creation and Study of Matter in 

Extreme Conditions by High-Intensity Free- 

Electron Laser Radiation’ 

Voulgarakis, Konstantinos (GS 2012–13) MSc Law and Finance 

Wallooppillai, Gajan 


Walon, Sophie 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Film Aesthetics 

Wang, Jue 

(GS 2009–10) MSc Computer Science 

Wang, Meng 


‘Bidirectional Programming and its 

Applications’ 

Whittaker, Catherine (GS 2011–12) MSc Cognitive and 


Wilkins, Sam 


Williams, Benjamin 


Witte, Marc (GS 2012–13) MSc Economics for 

Development 

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Wohrer, Cyril 

Yahyouche, Asma 

Yapp, Clarence 

Yazdi, Haleh 

Yli-Vakkuri, Tuomo 

Zhang, Wei 

Zhou, Cheng 

Zhu, Cheng 

Zubcevic, Lejla 


(GS 2007–12) DPhil Materials, ‘Evaluation 

of channels for angiogenic cells ingrowth in 

collagen scaffolds in vitro and in vivo’ 


‘Automated Image-Based Recognition and 

Targeted Laser Transfection Techniques for 

Drug Development and Stem Cell Research’ 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Psychological Research 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Philosophy, ‘Essays on 

Semantic Content and Context-Sensitivity’ 

(GS 2010–11) MBA 

(GS 2009–10) MSc Radiation Biology 




Physics, ‘Structure and Function of Bacterial 

Ion Channels’ 

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Elections and 

Admissions 2012–13 

Emeritus Fellows 

Isaacson, Daniel Rufus, AB Harvard, 

MA DPhil 

Neil (Hugh) Andrew Wade, (MB BS 

DSc Lond, MA Camb) MA, FFPHM, 

FRCP, RD 

Governing Body Fellows 

Hargreaves, Gillian, (BA Newcastle) 

MSt 

Jarvis, R Paul, (BSc Durham, PhD 

Norwich) 

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, (Diplom Munish, 

MA PhD Stanford) 

Riede, Moritz, (MSc Camb, PhD 

Konstanz) 

Honorary Fellows 

Chan, Gerald Lokchung, 

(BS, MS California, SM SCD 

Harvard) 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Ehlers, Anke, (Hab. Marburg, MA PhD 

Tübingen) 

Merrony, Mark Woodridge, (BA Wales, 

St David’s), MPhil, MSt, DPhil 

Platteau, Jean-Philippe, MA (PhD 

Namur) 

Zeitlyn, David, (MSc London), MA, 

DPhil (PhD Camb) 


Morero, Elise Hugette, (BA Amiens, 

MA PhD Paris I) 

Toth, Ida, (BA, MPhil Belgrade), DPhil 

Stipendiary Junior 


Jabb, Lama, (BA, MDc SOAS) DPhil 

Lord, Jack, (MA SOAS, PhD Lond) 

Metcalf, Christopher (MA Edin, MPhil) 

DPhil 

Tolstoy, Anastasia, BA, MSt, DPhil 

Junior Research Fellows 

Bowes, Lucy, BA (MSc, PhD KCL) 

Cross, Katherine, BA, MSt (PhD UCL) 

Hiruta, Kei, MSc, DPhil, (BA Keio, MA 

Essex) 

Lidova, Maria, (MA, PhD Lomonosov) 

Meinck, Franziska, MSc (BA Bolzano) 

Kunnath, George, (BA Ranchi, MA 

Poona, MPhil Tata, PhD SOAS) 

Verhoeven, Harry, DPhil (MA Gent, 

MSc LSE) 

Visiting Scholars 

(in residence during the academic year 

2012–13) 

Akae, Yuichi, (MA Univ Ksukuba, MA 

PhD Leeds) 

Arja, Rinpoche, (Qinghan National 

University, Beijing University) 

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Bernier, Celeste-Marie, (BA Durham, 

MLitt NUT, PhD Notts) 

Brown, Richard, (BSc, Victoria, MA, 

PhD Dalhousie) 

Cavalcanti, Eric, (MSc PUC, Rio, PhD 

Queensland) 

Chung, Sungil, (MA, PhD Chonnam 

National University) 

Cohen-Hanegbi, Na’ama, (MA, PhD 

Hebrew Univ Jerusalem) 

Fanis, Maria, (MA Reading, PhD 

Michigan) 

Ferziger, Adam, (MA, Yeshiva, PhD 

Bar-Ilan) 

Flower, Scott, (BA Canterbury NZ, MA 

PhD ANU) 

Guarnieri, Carlo, (Laurea, Florence) 

Hancock, Christopher, the Very Revd, 

MA (BA PhD Durham) 

Hu, Hao, (PhD Zhongshan, China) 

Iossif, Panagiotis, (MA University de 

Liège) 

Kumo, Kazuhiro, (BA Osaka, MA PhD 

Kyoto) 

Lee, Jae-Young, (MA, Hanyang, PhD 

Moscow State, HonPhD Chinggis 

Khaan, Mongolia) 

Matsuzono, Shin, (MA Waseda, PhD 

Leeds) 

Nehru, Lolita, BLitt (MA Calcutta, PhD 

Cambridge) 

Paz-Fuchs, Amir, DPhil (JD Hebrew 

Univ Jerusalem) 

Phillips, Michael, BPhil, (BA Loyola, 

PhD Exeter) 

Rainey, Jan K, (BSc Guelph, MSc PhD 

Toronto) 

Rüpke, Jörg, (MA, PhD Tübingen) 

Stamp, Philip, (BSc, PhD Sussex, MSc 

Lancaster) 

Thicknesse, Philip, (BA Lancaster, MA 

KCL) 

Watt, Jeffrey, 

Williamson, Mark, (BSc Soton, MSc 

ICL, PhD Leeds) 

Zhang, Quan, (BE, PhD National Univ 

of Defence Technology) 

Graduate Students 

Aarholt, Thomas (DPhil Materials) 

Abdi, Miski (MPhil International 

Relations) 

Abdul Rahman, Danial (BCL) 

Agnew, Thomas (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Alarcon, Andrea (MSc Social Science of 

the Internet) 

Ang, Jit Hang Jackie (DPhil Bio- 

Medical Science) 

Ashfold, Thomas (DPhil Geography 

and the Environment) 

Aslany, Maryam (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Bai, Tiantian (MSc Sociology) 

Bailey, Cameron (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

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Barth, Jasper (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Bayer, Lili (MSc Russian and East 

European Studies) 

Bennett, Alice (MSt Late Antique and 

Byzantine Studies) 

Bilton, Matthew (DPhil Clinical 

Medicine) 

Borhade, Anjali (DPhil Public Health) 

Bridges, Alexandra (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Brill, Josephine (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Brown, Carol (DPhil Education) 

Bruff-Robinson, Celeste (MSc Criminology 

and Criminal Justice) 

Buckens, Ewout (MSt Global and 

Imperial History) 

Burroughs, Juliette (MSc Nature, 

Society and Environmental Policy) 

Bygrave, Alexei (DPhil Ion Channels 

and Disease) 

Cameron, Michael (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Capetola, Matthew (MPhil General 

Linguistics and Comparative Philology) 

Castro Quiroz, Sebastian (DPhil Law) 

Choroco Loayza, Vidal Eduardo (PGDip 

Diplomatic Studies) 

Christensen, Sasja (MSc Modern 

Chinese Studies) 

Cloete, Ingrid (MPhil Law) 

Contreras Romero, Carmen (DPhil 

International Development) 

Crisp, Thomas (BCL ) 

Crossley, Adam (MSc Cognitive and 

Evolutionary Anthropology) 

Cutts, Erin (DPhil Structural Biology) 

Da Silva Carneiro, Angelo (MSc 

Endovascular Neurosurgery) 

David, Raluca (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

de Berrie, Isabel (DPhil Music) 

Dessent-Jackson, Louée (MPhil Greek 

and/or Roman History) 

Dhariwal, Chidambra (MSc Clinical 

Embryology) 

Dhir, Neil (DPhil Doctoral Training 

Healthcare Innovation) 

Doyle, Kerrie (MSc Evidence Based 

Social Intervention) 

Dransfield, Katherine (MSc Social 

Science of the Internet) 

Dunkelbarger, Janet (MPhil Classical 

Archaeology) 

Easton-Calabria, Evan (MSc Refugee 

and Forced Migration Studies) 

El Khachab, Chihab (DPhil Anthropology) 

Elhaddad, Abdelrahman (MSc Global 

Health Science) 

Falconer, Joshua (MSt Syriac Studies) 

Fayard, Delphine (MPhil Modern 

Languages) 

Fouirnaies, Christine (DPhil English) 

Francis, Sarah (MSc Clinical Embryology) 

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Gallagher, Martin (DPhil Archaeology) 

Garcia, Anthony (DPhil Education) 

Glenn, Simon (DPhil Archaeology) 

Goering, Nelson (DPhil Comparative 

Philology and General Linguistics) 

Goi, Leonardo (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Goosey, Stuart (BCL) 

Goossens, Anouk (MSt Film Aesthetics) 

Grant, Alarice (PGCert Diplomatic 

Studies) 

Grebnyev, Georgiy (DPhil Oriental 

Studies 

Gudmundsson, Haraldur (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Harskin, Robin (MPhil Politics: European 

Politics and Society) 

Hawkins, Laura (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Hazzard, Oli (DPhil English) 

Hedlund, Erik (DPhil Condensed Matter 

Physics) 

Heemskerk, Anna (DPhil Clinical 

Medicine) 

Hitchens, Daniel (DPhil English) 

Hopkins, Rachel (MSc Archaeological 

Science) 

Hornsby, Jack (DPhil Doctoral Training 


Hoslin, Angela (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Hu, Yiyi (MSc Computer Science) 

Huo, Tairan (MSc Radiation Biology) 

Huskens, Nicky (DPhil Physiology, 

Anatomy and Genetics) 

Ikeda, Fumi (MPhil Modern Japanese 

Studies) 

Jackson, Cailah (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Jackson, Kelvin (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Jain, Gaurav (MSc Law and Finance) 

Jeong Spencer, Eunjin (MLitt Oriental 

Studies) 

Johal, Esha (MSc Pharmacology) 

Jovanovic, Marija (DPhil Law) 

Kahn, Joshua (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Kamra, Lipika (DPhil International 

Development) 

Kanda, Yui (MPhil Islamic Art and 

Archaeology) 

Kassiteridi, Christina (DPhil Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Kaur, Asha (MSc (Res) Public Health) 

Kaur, Jaspreet (DPhil Theology) 

Kelly, Jacqueline (MSc Radiation Biology) 

Kerlouegan, Jerome (DPhil History) 

Kim, Jun Soo (MSc Integrated 

Immunology) 

Kohlhoff, Mike (DPhil Physical and 

Theoretical Chemistry) 

Koubenec, Laura (MSc Social 

Anthropology) 

Kovalaskas, Sarah (MSc Cognitive and 


Kozlowski, Pawel (DPhil Atomic and 

Laser Physics) 

Kubicka, Hanna (MSt Film Aesthetics) 

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Kumpik, Daniel (DPhil Physiology, 


Kurahashi, Yusaku (MSc Law and 

Finance) 

Lamallari, Besfort (MSc Criminology 

and Criminal Justice) 

Lari, Federica (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Lee, Seung Youb (MBA) 

Li, Haiming (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Li, Peilin (DPhil Physical and 

Theoretical Chemistry) 

Li, Zijun (MSc Sociology) 

Lica, Adela (MSc Computer Science) 

Linsell, Louise (DPhil Public Health) 

Lipina, Elina (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Liu, Jiewei (DPhil Condensed Matter 

Physics) 

Liu, Mingzhen (DPhil Condensed 

Matter Physics) 

Lo, Garlen (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Lu, Qiong (DPhil Geography and the 

Environment) 

Luik, Elo (MSc Social Anthropology 

(Research Methods)) 

Lyngs, Ulrik (MSc Cognitive and 


Majczak, Ewa (DPhil Anthropology) 

Majhail, Manjeet (MSc(Res) Organic 

Chemistry) 

Makelberge, Julie (DPhil Computer 

Science) 

Malandraki-Miller, Sophia (DPhil 

Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) 

Maminskaite, Monika (MSc Russian 

and East European Studies) 

Mann, Laurence (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

Markakis, Menelaos (MJuris) 

Marks, Claire (DPhil Bio-Medical 

Science) 

Marquis, Caitlin (MSc Environmental 

Change and Management) 

Martin, Matthew (MSt Study of 

Religion) 

Masamaro, Kenneth (MSc Global Health 

Science) 

May, Joel (DPhil Physiology, Anatomy 

and Genetics) 

McGann, Claire (MSt English (1550– 

1700)) 

McKeever, Sarah (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Meister, Samuel (BPhil Philosophy) 

Minhas, Ahsan (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Mir, Hizer (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Moise, Ionut (DPhil Theology) 

Morrison, Geordie (MSc Comparative 

Social Policy) 

Muhsin, Nor (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha (DPhil English) 

Muller, Julia (MSc Nature, Society and 

Environmental Policy) 

Munro, Heather (MPhil Social 

Anthropology) 

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Naiman, Matthew (MPhil Classical 

Archaeology) 

Najafzada, Masma (MPhil Islamic Studies 

and History) 

Nicholaeff, David (MSc Mathematics 

and Foundations of Computer Science) 

Norrie, James (DPhil History) 

Ocampo Valencia, Sebastian (MSc Law 

and Finance) 

Paine, Jonathan (DPhil Medieval and 

Modern Languages) 

Palmius, Niclas (DPhil Doctoral Training 


Pearcey, Adam (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Pendlebury, Roseanna (MSt Greek and/ 

or Latin Languages and Literature) 

Peterer, Michael (DPhil Condensed 

Matter Physics) 

Pirzada, Pirzada (DPhil Inorganic 

Chemistry) 

Pollard, Alison (DPhil Archaeology) 

Pradhan, Uma (DPhil International 

Development) 

Pusapati, Teja (DPhil English) 

Quartermain, Thomas (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

Rabin, Anthony (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Raghavan, Charumati (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Rajendran, Kylash (DPhil Mathematics) 

Rasheed, Tabassum (MPhil Modern 

Middle Eastern Studies) 

Repetskyi, Viktor (MBA) 

Resnikoff, Ariel (MSt Jewish Studies) 

Ribeiro Tedeschi, Leonardo (DPhil 

Earth Sciences) 

Rodriguez Hernandez, Gerardo (DPhil 

Materials) 

Ross, Emily (MSc Criminology and 

Criminal Justice) 

Ryan, Andrew (MSc Russian and East 


Salimi, Maryam (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Samanani, Farhan (MSc Migration 

Studies) 

Sandhu, Prabhsharandeep (DPhil 

Theology) 

Saurabh, Kritarth (MSc Computer Science) 

Sayer, Rebecca (MSt Islamic Art and 

Archaeology) 

Sellers, Matthew (MSt English (1900 – 

present)) 

Shah, Aakash (MBA) 

Sharma, Rajan (MSc Pharmacology) 

Shen, Qingji (DPhil Physiology, 


Sikic, Ema (MPhil Classical Archaeology) 

Sonthalia, Shreya (MSc Evidence Based 


St John, Sarah (MPhil Geography and 

the Environment) 

Stacey, Laura (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Stellmach, Darryl (DPhil Anthropology) 

Strebler, David (MSt Archaeological 

Science) 

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Tai, Li Yian (MSc Financial Economics) 

Talbot, John (DPhil Archaeology) 

Tao, Wenye (MSc Financial Economics) 

Tesfay, Nardos (DPhil Education) 

Thomas, Guy (MSc Russian and East 


Thomas, Joaquin (BPhil Philosophy) 

Tifrea, Oana (DPhil Computer Science) 

Tiren, Mehmet (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Toth, Dominika (MJuris) 

Tozer, Brook (DPhil Earth Sciences) 

Truesdell, Janamarie (DPhil Anthropology) 

Tsai, Ming-Han (DPhil Paediatrics) 

Twomey, Hannah (MSc Refugee and 

Forced Migration Studies) 

Usher, Natalie (MSc Education) 

Vasilyev, Gleb (MPhil Theology) 

Veltfort, Sophia (MSt English (1900 – 

present)) 

Verghese, Nouri (MPhil Modern 

Middle Eastern Studies) 

Voulgarakis, Konstantinos (MSc Law 

and Finance) 

Wang, Joseph (MSc Financial Economics) 

Wang, Xuan (MPhil Economics) 

Warr, Tashi (MSc Sociology) 

Weisman, Clio (MPhil Evidence Based 


Westhof, Zoe (DPhil Anthropology) 

Westwood, Cameron (MPhil Politics, 

European Politics and Society) 

Wilkinson, Kim (MPhil Modern Middle 

Eastern Studies) 

Williams, Derfel (MSc(Res) Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Wong, Glenn (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Wyman-McCarthy, Timothy (MSt English 

(1900 – present)) 

Yang, Oscar (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Yokoi, Kazuko (MPhil Classical Indian 

Religion) 

Zainudeen, Zarina (DPhil Clinical 

Neurosciences) 

Zarcula, Flavia (MSc Sociology) 

Zhao, Ting (DPhil Education) 

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Elected members of the Governing Body 

Michaelmas Term 2012 and Hilary Term 2013 

Cutts, Andrew Paul (BSc, MSc Reading) [GS 2010–] 

Ghillani, Francesca (MA Universita degli studi di Parma) [GS 2009–] 

Parau, Cristina Elena (BSc Sibiu Romania, MSc Brun, PhD London) [RF 2008–] 

Pfister, Tomas Jon (BA Cambridge) [GS 2011–] 

Pierce, Lillian Beatrix, MScRes (MA, PhD Princeton) [RF 2010–] 

Shanthakumar, Prashanthini (MSc Royal Holloway) [GS 2011–] 

Trinity Term 2013 

Chen, Yi Samuel (AM Harvard) [GS 2009–] 

Cutts, Erin Eloise (BA, BSc Adelaide) [GS 2012–] 

Ghillani, Francesca (MA Universita degli studi di Parma) [GS 2009–] 

Price, David William MPhil (PhD Lampeter) [GS 2005-] 

Rasheed, Tabassum Parveen BA [GS 2012–] 

Shanthakumar, Prashanthini (MSc Royal Holloway) [GS 2011–] 

Chairs of the General Meeting 

Michaelmas Term 2012 and Hilary Term 2013 

Cutts, Andrew Paul 

Trinity Term 2013 

Rasheed, Tabassum Parveen 

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Clubs and Societies 

AMREF Group 

The African Medical and Research Foundation has been the College’s adopted 

charity for many years, and regular events in aid of AMREF are a familiar feature of 

Wolfson life. They include concerts organized jointly by the Group and the Music 

Society, to whom go many thanks, and the Sunday Coffee Shop, which continues to 

be very popular; thanks to the many volunteers, both bakers and servers, it raised 

£961 this year. The Household Goods sale, at the start of each academic year, has 

once again proved its value to new students picking up useful household items, and 

has also introduced them to AMREF; this year’s sale raised £355. The Annual 

Fireworks Display resulted in a record collection of £670. 

An innovation has been the sale of cotton shopping-bags bearing the College arms 

and AMREF logo. They were very popular at £2, and the first batch was soon 

sold out; more have been ordered for sale at the Lodge. Last but not least, the 

generosity of Wolfsonians was once again demonstrated by their response to the 

Annual Battels Appeal, which raised £3,000. 

A total of £6,500 was thus available and enabled the Group to continue funding 

the Wolfson AMREF Annual Bursary which provides financial assistance, mainly 

tuition fees, to a student or students attending the AMREF Training College in 

Nairobi. As in previous years, the College was also able to support two specific 

projects which AMREF has identified as priorities, the training of two African 

midwives as part of AMREF’s midwife training programme, and the purchase of 

fifty second-hand bicycles for them to reach their patients faster. 

None of these fundraising activities could have been achieved without the support 

of members of the Group and many volunteers. Two long-serving members in 

particular, Jan Scriven and Renée Lee, have recently left their posts in College, but 

it is very pleasing to report that they will continue to help whenever possible. At 

a small ceremony at AMREF’s office in London, Jan was presented with a signed 

photograph in recognition of her many years of support for the charity. Renée, 

who has been active as the AMREF Group Representative at the General Meeting, 

has also given unstintingly of her time and energy; she will be long remembered 

for starting the ever-popular Sunday Coffee Shop. Andy Cutts has replaced her as 

Representative. 

Christopher Lethbridge 

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Jan Scriven and Samara Hammond, Chief Executive Officer of AMREF UK, in its London Office 

Arts Society 

Wolfson hosted nine exhibitions during the year, featuring work by artists from 

Spain, Hungary, India and Cuba, as well as from here in Oxford. These ranged 

widely both in theme (from exploring what we are, as revealed by science, through 

the conventionally representational, to abstract) and in media (acrylic and mixed 

media paintings, pen and wash, and photography). 

Katalin Hausel with a group of ten artists including Wolfsonian Sonia Boue 

organized an exhibition related to installations at venues across Oxford, Movement, 

anomalies and distractions. Scientist Lizzie Burns’ Hidden Worlds: arts within science 

next explored the links between the two disciplines. Today these are seen to be 

following increasingly divergent paths, and this relationship was explored during a 

cross-disciplinary discussion between artists and scientists in October, led by Peter 

Bell, which took the ‘Art of Research’ as its theme. 

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Quite coincidentally, Jon Rowland and Soham De, whose exhibitions closed the 

Michaelmas series and opened Hilary’s, were architects; a bold use of colour was 

common to both. Painting ‘en plein air’, Jon Rowland drew on a number of locations 

– Venice, Scotland, France and Andalucia – that influenced his ideas on abstraction. 

Soham De’s work, on the other hand, took as its inspiration the exploration of the 

interaction between figurative art and abstract expressionism to show the energy 

within the colours themselves and the way that paint behaves when in motion. 

The Headington-based Bury Knowle Art Group held their winter exhibition at 

Wolfson for the first time. Reviewed by the Oxford Times, it included around 90 

works, in a variety of media, spanning a wide range of portraits of animals, people 

and buildings, and of land and seascapes. Jonathan Shapley took landscape as the 

central theme for the next exhibition, Edgeland, a striking series of paintings and 

photographs that paid tribute to ‘the marginal, the unloved and the overlooked’. 

Trinity term exhibitions opened with a series of pictures by Oxford-based film 

makers Tim Wilson and Necati Zontul inspired by the travels of Edward Lear in 

Turkey and the Balkans. It included images of Oxford, the UK, Russia and Paris, 

where their use of animated and live action in their film work was reflected in the 

works on show. 

A stark contrast was provided by Wolfson’s contribution to Oxfordshire Artweeks. 

White monks – a life in the shadows was a series of ascetically beautiful black and 

white photographs by Francesca Phillips chronicling the everyday life of Spanish 

Cistercian monks. Taken over a three-year period, and including a number of 

portraits echoing those of the seventeenth-century painter Francisco de Zurburán, 

this astonishing exhibition illustrated a collegiate way of life a millennium away 

from Wolfson today. 

The exhibition year closed with Tricks of Memory, a collection of paintings and 

drawings by Cuban artist Sarahy Martinez, who commits to paper the recollection 

of long-forgotten objects with fragments of the sung and written word and symbols 

which are part of Cuban culture. 

The College has benefited from the generosity of some exhibitors, with Jon 

Rowland, Jonathan Shapley and Sarahy Martinez donating works. Paintings were 

also given by Cairene MacGillivray, mother of Wolfsonian Kirsten Norrie, and by 

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the Alfred Cohen Foundation through Max Saunders. The College is delighted 

to accept these welcome additions to its collection, together with the loan of a 

sculpture by Dominique Loussier which has been installed in the atrium of the 

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. 

To complement the exhibitions programme, Jan Scriven has worked hard to ensure 

that the display cabinets have been filled with objects that intrigue and divert 

the eye. Sometimes they formed part of the main exhibition (Lizzie Burns), but 

on the whole they held unrelated objects: Wendy Hughes showed textiles, Tam 

Frishberg ceramics, and the Oxford Ceramics Gallery showcased works by some 

of its exhibitors. The Loan Scheme continued to offer Wolfsonians the opportunity 

to borrow works to hang in their rooms, and life-drawing classes were held 

throughout the year. 

Like other Oxford colleges, Wolfson has been working with the Public Catalogue 

Foundation whose remit is to catalogue and photograph the nation’s entire oil 

painting collection and make it accessible through the ‘Your Paintings’ website. A 

number of Wolfson’s paintings are now accessible online. The College, represented 

by Mark Norman and Jan Scriven, has also continued its active membership of the 

‘Art in Colleges’ Group which meets socially each term to view and discuss college 

collections across the University. 

Membership of the Society was reviewed in February in response to a request 

from the President and the Secretary to the Governing Body that all College 

committees should review their membership regularly. This followed a meeting of 

the Nominations Committee which noted that some sub-committees had become 

unwieldy in terms of numbers, that membership did not rotate, and did not always 

represent the make-up of the College. In consequence several members generously 

agreed to stand down, and the ratio of students, Fellows and MCRs, was rebalanced 

before the new committee cycle. 

At the end of another busy year, my thanks as Chair, on behalf of the College, go 

to Peter Bell, Sonia Boue, Lesley Cotton, Elena Draghici-Vasilescu, Igor Dyson, 

Barbara Harriss-White, Irina Kukota, Diana Martin, Mark Rowan-Hull, Kat Witt, 

David Zeitlyn and Jarad Zimbler. The Society has greatly benefited from their 

enthusiasm and support over many years, and we remain in touch. At the same 

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time, we have welcomed Catriona Cannon, Sebastian Huempher, Glyn Humphreys, 

Ewa Majczak, Nicole Stremlau, and Oliver Watson, and look forward to working 

with them over the coming months. 

2013, though, has not been without sadness. In May we learned of the death of 

Marianne Bartlett McConnell who, until she became ill late last year, had long been 

associated with the Society. Rarely missing a meeting or exhibition opening, and a 

valued contributor to our discussions, she was equally enthusiastic about helping 

with practical things like installations, the framing of new acquisitions, and the 

running of the Loan Scheme. Her quiet contribution to the arts in Wolfson over 

a period of twenty years or more has been profound. Her family and many friends 

gathered informally in College on 1 June to celebrate her life. 

Finally, a word of thanks to Jan Scriven who, having retired as College Secretary, 

continues to serve Wolfson as its Arts Administrator. This exciting new 

development, a strong indicator of the value placed upon the arts by the College, is 

welcomed by all, but by the Society and its Chair in particular, with whom she will 

continue to work closely. It goes without saying that without her experience and 

wise counsel, much of what has been achieved over the past year simply could not 

have happened. 

Mark Norman 

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The President and Francesca Phillips at the White Monks exhibition

Boat Club 

This has been another triumphant year for the Club, which culminated in both the 

men’s and women’s first VIII achieving the first division of Summer Eights. 

The year began with a Men’s IV and Women’s IV competing in two categories at 

Henley Town and Visitors Regatta in July 2012. This initial success was followed 

by Oxford City Royal Regatta, in which Wolfson won no fewer than 24 pots, with 

a men’s coxed IV and men’s VIII winning their category on both days, a great 

achievement. 

The momentum was carried forward into a strong recruitment drive. Both freshers 

fairs showed there is great interest in the Club, and a large number signed up, 

resulting in several novice crews training to compete in Christ Church Regatta. 

Although the regatta was rained off, this did not stop the Wolfson rowers. An erg 

regatta was held between all colleges of the University Boat Club, and our women 

were victorious. During Michaelmas term, the senior crews were also training hard, 

entering the IWL head races between the colleges, despite sub-zero temperatures. 

Weeks of flooding throughout Hilary Term prevented our crews from training 

on the Isis, but many hours were spent on the erg and in the gym, in addition to 

many weekend outings to Dorney, the rowing venue of the 2012 Olympic Games. 

This training paid off in another very successful Torpids. Five crews (three men’s 

and two women’s) competed in exciting intercollegiate bumps racing: Wolfson, 

with a total of eight bumps over the four days, was ranked eighth on the river. The 

Women’s first VIII moved up two places to the top of Division 2, just missing a 

place in Division 1. The Women’s second VIII also moved up two places, and are 

now top of Division 4. The Men’s first VIII had a more difficult week in the top half 

of Division 1: despite a very strong performance each day, they slipped two places. 

The Men’s second VIII moved up five places during the four days, and the Men’s 

Third VIII moved up four. 

In March two of our rowers, Cynthia Eccles and James Kirkbride, represented 

Oxford against Cambridge in the lightweight crews. 41 Wolfson students, MCR 

and friends, braved the Arctic cold to enjoy the spectacle. James rowed at bow in the 

OULRC boat which beat Cambridge by 1⅔ lengths, and Cynthia rowed at two in 

the OUWLRC boat which beat Cambridge by 4¾ lengths. We toasted their victory 

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in prosecco kindly provided by the Development Office. Two alumni of the Club, 

Nanda Pirie and Jill Betts, were involved in the coaching of OUWLRC, and six 

current members trained with University squads, demonstrating the high quality 

of rowers that the Wolfpack is producing. 

In Trinity Term, after six weeks of solid training, Summer Eights was upon us. The 

first three days’ weather was hardly summer, with heavy rain and wind creating 

tough conditions. We entered six strong crews, two men’s and four women’s. The 

highlight was W1 bumping up into the First Division, the reward of many years 

of investment in the women’s side. M1 maintained its high position in the First 

Division and is now fifth on the river, an amazing achievement, especially for the 

three novices who had worked their way up through the ranks. M2 and W2 are 

steadily climbing the divisions, with W2 being the third fastest ‘second’ boat. M3 

has bumped its way up too and is close to achieving the fixed divisions. 

There have also been some changes off the water. Recently we bought a single scull 

in memory of Bernard Henry, using money raised by alumni. Bernard Henry joined 

the Club in about 1998 and ran its land training. He made a major contribution to 

the fitness of the crews for years, an amazing achievement, given the range of his 

other commitments; and a totally selfless one, as he never rowed himself. 

There have been significant changes in administration, to help the Club run even 

more smoothly in the future. The members of the committee have worked very hard, 

often behind the scenes, and I would like to thank them for the achievements they 

have made possible. Our continued success is also due to continued support from 

the College and St Cross College, to whom we are very grateful. I also thank all our 

dedicated coaches, the coxes, crews and supporters. The new committee has already 

been elected, and training and preparation are well underway. I look forward to 

another year of progress, and wish the Club every success in recruitment, training, 

and bumping up the divisions. 

Katherine Henson 

President 2012-13 

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Cricket 

The combined Wolfson / St Cross team was highly successful, with victories over 

Brasenose, Keble, New College, Merton, and two narrow defeats by Worcester 

and St Catherine’s, which placed them second in the Seconds Div 1 league. In the 

University League Div 3, the combined Linacre / Wolfson / St Cross team defeated 

Lincoln, Corpus, St Anne’s, and drew against Magdalen and St Peter’s, which placed 

them third. 

There were some commendable performances, especially by our openers Kritarth 

Saurabh and Mohsin Javed (Wolfson), who both scored two half-centuries and were 

the season’s top scorers. Edward St. John Gillin (St Cross) was the outstanding 

bowler, but overall it was a matter of teamwork, with everyone contributing wickets 

or runs, and often both. 

Our most memorable match was against New College. We won the toss and put 

them in to bat. We started well with two early wickets by courtesy of Edward, but 

their strong middle-order batsmen took the score to 159 in 25 overs, a respectable 

total. But we were confident of scoring on the flat New College pitch, and in the 

event their bowling was demolished by Mohsin and Kritarth who scored 64 and 67 

not out respectively, and finished the game in style with 163 runs in 20 overs. This 

was a great boost to our morale. Incidentally, the Wolfson / St Cross team won six 

tosses out of six. 

This year we are organizing a one-day unlimited-overs test with BBQ and drinks, 

to celebrate a successful season. It is my second year as Captain, a particularly 

proud one for me, but I will soon be finishing my course, so we will be electing my 

successor. 

Shakya Deb Ganguly 

Entz 

Entz began the year by introducing new students to Wolfson with a BBQ, 

before pitting them against each other in a pub quiz. They were also introduced 

to neighbouring MCR bars with an MCR crawl, and then to the long-standing 

tradition of themed Bops with a Uniform Bop in the cellar bar. Merriment 

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continued throughout the year with at least two Bops a term, on themes such as 

‘The End of the World Bop’, to celebrate the destruction of the world predicted 

by the Mayan calendar, the ‘mmmBop’, featuring cheesy music and the horrifying 

fashions of the 90s, and also classic themes such as ‘science-fiction’, ‘superhero and 

villain’ and ‘heaven and hell’. The Communist Bop proved to be very popular once 

again, attracting over 400 students and guests, and raising several hundred pounds 

for Helen and Douglas House. Themed nights were also held in the bar, including 

an Australia Day party and a Spanish Night, which followed the Spanish-themed 

formal Hall on 31 May. 

Trinity saw us expanding into an Easter party with an Easter Egg hunt, two 

whiskey-tasting events, a Karaoke night and an Open Mic night, the latter featuring 

poetry, music and the quickly-formed ‘Wolfson Band’. The success of these events 

shows that Wolfsonians not only have refined palates, but are musically gifted and 

full of enthusiasm. The academic year ended as it began, with a free BBQ that was 

attended by many Wolfsonians, young and old, new students and final-year DPhil 

students alike. 

Poor weather, flooding and DPhil theses limited external events, but the trips to 

the a cappella group ‘Out of the Blue’ and the Blenheim Palace Prom were very well 

attended. Our special thanks are due to all the members of the hardworking Entz 

team who made all these great events possible. 

Erin Cutts 

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Open Mic Night

Environment 

The College has tried to improve lighting in communal areas with motion sensors 

installed as standard in new and refurbished accommodation blocks, and trials for 

motion sensors in older blocks such as Robin Gandy. The College has also improved 

the insulation in several accommodation blocks as part of ongoing renovations, and 

has tried to introduce a more efficient heating regime within its buildings. 

The new Leonard Wolfson Auditorium is a 

great boost for the College academically and 

environmentally, combining the College’s 

distinctive architecture with state-of-the-art 

environmental design. Most notably the heating 

and cooling system for the lecture theatre uses 

an environmentally sensitive and highly efficient 

heat-exchange system. The building also features 

a mini green roof, enhancing the view from the 

first floor up Linton Road. 

Despite a late spring the College grounds have 

been home to migrant warblers such as blackcaps, 

chiffchaffs and garden warblers, in addition to 

healthy populations of resident woodland species 

such as green woodpeckers, goldcrests and blue 

tits. In 2013, for the first time in eight years, a 

Green Roof on the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium 

pair of mute swans successfully raised a brood of 

cygnets on the Punt Harbour island; much to the relief of studying students, the 

nesting swans also ensured that the College grounds were kept free of Canada 

geese for a good month. 

After the drought of 2010-12, the surprising deluge of the past year resulted in the 

Cherwell bursting its banks six times in less than twelve months. In consequence 

the display of snake’s head fritillary on the island was submerged under floodwaters 

in 2012, but the 2013 display was much appreciated by visitors in April. 

Attempts to view the celestial delights of the various meteor showers, passing 

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comets and asteroids, have been confounded this year by poor weather conditions. 

The only successful viewing was by the most stubborn and enthusiastic students 

who stayed out on the sports fields late at night in late November to witness 

spectacular Leonids shooting-stars. 

A brief survey of ash trees in the College grounds for the presence of Chalara 

dieback was conducted in November 2012. No infected individuals were found, but 

the survey will be repeated during the summer and autumn of 2013. 

The College now sells cotton shopping bags decorated with the College crest for 

£2 from the Lodge. These have been a great success, and the initial order sold out 

within a few months with all profits going to AMREF. Re-useable bags are good for 

the environment (the world needs less plastic carrier bags) and great for students, 

who not only get an unusual souvenir but save money in the long term, since more 

supermarkets are now charging for plastic carrier bags. 

The successes of the past year are due to the work of many people in the Wolfson 

community, in particular Andy Cutts, Tracy Fuzzard, Barry Coote the Home 

Bursar, and Ed Jarron the Bursar. 

Zoë Goodwin 

Environmental Representative 

Family Society 

The first event this year was the Meet and Greet party, to help members get to 

know each other. Some 40 attended, most of whom had not met before, so this 

party achieved its purpose. The Hallowe’en Party was later in the term, when the 

children went trick-or-treating in their costumes, despite the very cold and wet 

weather, and we visited over 20 houses in College and collected huge amounts of 

candy. We also had a get-together in the Buttery, where we carved pumpkins and 

each family got to take their pumpkin home. 

The Christmas Party was held in the Buttery, with Santa Claus paying his visit 

with presents for all the children who attended. As in all our parties throughout the 

year, there was lots of food, drinks, desserts, coffee and tea provided by the Society. 

Each and every party was festive, with appropriate music and decoration. 

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Parties for Valentine’s Day and Easter were held in February and May, and they 

were lots of fun too. The egg-hunt was indoors because of the bad weather, but 15 

children enjoyed themselves finding 50 eggs in 30 minutes. Both parties helped 

families to unwind in this year’s cold spring, and the children appreciated having 

somewhere warm to play with other children. Needless to say, the parents enjoyed 

this too! 

In feedback, people have said they are grateful for having these events organized, as 

they help students with families relax for a while in socializing with other students 

who share the same problems and interests. With the food and drink being provided 

by the Society, they can also relax about the cooking, even if for just one afternoon. 

Carving pumpkins in the Buttery 

Football Club 

The combined Wolfson / St Cross team enjoyed a trophy-winning season for the 

fourth year in succession, by heading the MCR League for the second time in three 

years. We began with a 3–0 victory over our perennial rivals Mansfield, and won 

every single League game. Highlights included mauling Nuffield 5–0, defeating 

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St Antony’s 3–1, a hard-earned victory over the eventual runners-up, and twice 

coming from behind to defeat Christ Church 3–2. Celebrations erupted after the 

3–0 victory over Univ which made us Champions. In this run of victories, special 

praise goes to Gido Van der Ven, top goal-scorer, midfield general Jamie Cockfield 

and defensive stalwart Matteo Gianella-Borradori, who all helped lead the team 

both on the pitch and off it. 

After beating St Antony’s in the semi-finals, we reached the final of MCR Cuppers 

for the fourth year in a row. Once again we faced Mansfield, whom we beat in last 

year’s final. This year the lead changed hands three times and we lost 3–2, the 

deciding goal coming in the last seconds of extra time, in somewhat controversial 

circumstances. 

Having succeeded in bonding our players old and new into a cohesive team, we 

look forward to the Double next year, building on our League success to reclaim 

the Cuppers trophy. 

Joe Martin, Captain 2012-13 

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Wolfson St. Cross celebrate winning the MCR League Championship

Women’s football 

The Foxes, consisting of graduate women from Nuffield, St Antony’s, St Cross, 

Univ and Wolfson, enjoyed its most successful season to date. The abysmal weather 

meant that many games had to be rescheduled because the pitch was flooded or 

frozen, but this did not chill or dampen our love of football. We trounced our 

opponents in the first rounds of Cuppers, but lost in the final to St Catherine’s. 

Overall, it was a very strong season, and we improved as a team over the course of 

the year. We will strive for the cup again next year! 

Rebecca Merkley 

The Women’s Football Team 

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Karate 

For many years Wolfsonians have enjoyed at least 

one Martial Arts club, and when the Bujinkan club 

suddenly came to an end at the beginning of the 

academic year 2012/13, they did not have to wait 

for long for a new club to form. One would think 

the holistic and cosmopolitan approach of Wadoryu 

style Karate was made with the College in mind. 

Its beautiful and direct movements flow like water, 

switching between soft agility and hard force in an 

instant. Like the College itself, Wado-ryu Karate 

bridges the gap between arts and science, between 

beauty and efficiency, between body and mind. 

As a small team of students and Fellows, we have faced the challenge of improving 

our skills even in areas where we consider ourselves to be untalented, under the 

guidance of a black-belt instructor. The friendly and helpful atmosphere has given 

us the opportunity to succeed in areas beyond our studies and research, while 

simultaneously providing us with the energy and balance of mind needed to achieve 

our academic goals. The newly refurbished Games Room has proved to be an ideal 

dojo (training area), the martial-arts mats giving us the security to practise locks, 

throws and falling, from the simplest to the more advanced. Every Sunday we train 

outdoors in the University Parks or in the College grounds, where the environment 

forces us to adapt and adjust techniques previously learnt and practised in the 

training hall. Meditation before and after each session gives us time to reflect on 

what we want to achieve as well as on what we have achieved already. We have 

been able to improve step by step, and form close friendships along the way. As a 

Wolfson club run entirely on a voluntary basis for the benefit of Wolfsonians, we 

look proudly to the future and all that it is waiting to teach us. 

Rachel J A Hopkins 

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Knitting Society 

The Society continued its Sunday meetings for a third year, with both new and 

returning members. Michaelmas Term was busy with the making of Christmas 

decorations and gifts, while the following terms saw the beginning of larger 

projects, sweaters and scarves, all of which were completed successfully. 

Camille Geisz 

Meditation 

The Society continued to meet weekly in Michaelmas Term under the leadership 

of Ciara Williams, a teacher of transcendental meditation. In Hilary Term 

responsibility passed to Trajan Przybylski, who teaches the traditional Buddhist 

meditation called Vipassana. This Pali term is usually translated as ‘insight’, but in 

the West the practice is commonly known as Mindfulness Meditation. 

Despite the Buddhist origin of Vipassana meditation, the Society has maintained its 

original lay spirit and welcomes anyone to its meetings. While Buddhist meditation 

envisages more recondite goals such as liberating the mind, it is also well known for 

its mundane benefits of reducing stress, relaxing the mind and body, sharpening the 

intellect and improving concentration. The current teaching approach employs the 

same meditation ‘technique’ as the Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy developed 

by Professor Mark Williams, a clinical psychologist at Oxford University, who 

founded the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice to collect evidence on 

the medical benefits of Mindfulness Meditation. 

Each class begins with a short talk about meditation, psychology or philosophy, 

followed by a meditation session and a group discussion. The Society remains 

popular at Wolfson, and we expect it to continue. 

Trajan Przybylski 

Middle Eastern Dance 

Once again we enjoyed classes for all three terms taught by the talented professional 

dancer Caitlyn Schwartz, and many of us found this weekly lesson to be a relaxing 

refuge from the stressful life of a graduate student. Highlights for the Society 

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included the annual performance at Wolfson Summer Event, where some of our 

members performed for the very first time. Long-term members Katherine Allen, 

Penny Feng and alumna Jo McGouran, are also proud members of the Oxford 

Middle Eastern Dance Society (OMEDS) dance troupe. This year they have danced 

at Oxford Christmas Light Night, Hypnotic Belly Dance Night (in Reading), 

OMEDS Spring and Winter Hafla, Hathor Hafla, and Oxford RAG Ball. However, 

their favourite performance was at the opening of the new Auditorium: Wolfsonians 

are fantastic audiences! 

Penny Feng 

Music Society 

This year Wolfson participated for the first (but we hope not the last) time in 

the OxJam, a month-long series of performances to raise money for Oxfam. Our 

performance was in two parts: a classical concert in the afternoon with a cake sale, 

and later a series of bands in the College bar. A good sum was raised, and we hope it 

will become a regular event. Wolfson members also performed at the annual Winter 

Concert and the Summer Event. The Alternative Choir, conducted by Isabel de 

Berrie, has had a good year, while the newly formed Isaiah Choir, directed by John 

Duggan, is gathering pace. John Duggan has included samples of both groups in his 

Wolfscape 1, a collage of College sounds. The Society has responded to Wolfson’s 

strong interest in forming new bands as well as in existing groups and solo acts, by 

planning to purchase an electronic keyboard to complement the recent purchase of 

an electronic drum kit by the Entz Committee. This will enable students to practise 

without disturbing others, and will facilitate performance outdoors and in the bar. 

The Fournier Trio continues its association with Wolfson, giving a fine performance 

of music by Brahms in January in the Hall, in support of the Grand Piano Campaign. 

Two of its members, Sulki Yu (violin) and Pei-Jee Ng (cello), returned to perform at 

the Naming of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium on 6 June. They played a duo by 

Kodaly with great sensitivity to universal admiration. We are delighted that they 

have agreed to continue their association with the College for a further five years. 

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A number of other high-quality recitals have taken place this year: we have hosted 

visiting performers including pianists Susana Gómez Vázquez, Sarkis Zakarian and 

Isata Kanneh-Maso. Wolfson members Antica Culina and Hakon Sandvik also gave 

a well-attended piano duet recital. A number of concerts, involving both Wolfson 

members and outside performers, are already planned for next year. 

Isabel de Berri 

Old Wolves Lunch 

Sulki Yu (violin) and Pei-Jee Ng (cello) of the Fournier Trio, 

perform at the Naming of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium 

The first informal lunch for Old Wolves was held on 2 May 2013, a sociable 

gathering we hope to repeat once a term. An ‘Old Wolf ’ can be self-defined: anyone 

with memories of Wolfson in former days – Emeritus Fellows, but also ‘old’ Fellows, 

students and support staff – who would like to share these memories with others of 

that ilk. A table will be reserved in Hall; pay for your own lunch, but Archives will 

stand you a glass of wine, and eavesdrop as you reminisce. You will meet others of 

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your era, but without the dressing-up and formality of a Gaudy, and Archives will 

glean a better-rounded picture of College history than just from written documents. 

The Michaelmas lunch is planned for 7 November 2013, and thereafter on 6 

February, 8 May and 6 November 2014, all on Thursdays at 12.30. But please check 

the date with the College Newssheet, and RSVP to archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 

Liz Baird, Assistant Archivist 

Glen Dudbridge (EF), Jim Kennedy (EF), Alison McDonald (MCR), Ken Burras (MCR), 

Derek Wyatt (EF), Fay Booker, Roger Booker (EF) 

Punt Club 

The punts were lifted in late October for their annual repairs, two of them for 

the last time: Nos. 1 and 6 were retired from use after many years of service. The 

remaining punts were returned to the harbour at the end of April, with Wolfson 

students defying the coldest spring in fifty years with regular outings to the Vicky 

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Arms and University Parks. In mid-June, the fleet was returned to full strength 

with the addition of two brand-new punts, built to order by the neighbouring 

Cherwell Boathouse. These state-of-the-art punts – the first the College has 

purchased in over eight years – were built to an innovative design with a single 

marine-ply bottom in place of the traditional pine planks, greatly increasing both 

their resistance to leaks and overall durability. We hope they will serve Wolfson 

punting for many years to come. 

Chris Malone, Admiral of the Punts. 

Reading Group 

The Group, now in its ninth year, continues to thrive and meets every couple of 

months. Books read and discussed this year were The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky; 

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford; The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies; 

Nana by Emile Zola; My Antonía by Willa Cather; The Merchant of Prato: Francesco 

Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo. 

At our first meeting next term we will be talking about Effi Briest by Theodor 

Fontane. New members are always welcome. Suggestions for books are considered 

at each meeting. My own wish is to get more women writers on the list next year. 

We are grateful to the Academic Committee for its continued support which enables 

us to offer refreshments at our meetings. 

Jan Scriven 

Romulus 

We began with a wine reception to choose this year’s theme, ‘Revolutions’. A 

5-member editorial board was formed, and to complement the printed version 

we brought Romulus online at http://romulusmagazine.wordpress.com. The site 

features John Duggan’s sound composition ‘Wolfscape 1’, readings by authors 

Darren Tan and Stephanie Yorke, and a video by Garlen Lo. This year’s contributions 

to Romulus include essays on revolutions in Hungary, Germany, Romania and 

Egypt, and a series of dramatic photographs of murals and graffiti from Tahrir 

square taken by Kim Wilkinson. A review by Isabel Stoppani de Berrie of the newly 

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translated A Countess in limbo: Diaries in war and revolution 1924-1920 praises a 

compelling personal narrative. D W Bester calls attention to an ongoing revolution 

in internet and computing freedom, and comedian Phil Brown provides an account 

of Oxford’s threatening weather. Consistent contributor Merryn Williams adds 

a poem in which ‘the avant-garde turns orthodox’, and playwright/Assyriologist 

Selena Wisnom stumbles through the weight of history in her poem St. Petersburg. 

The previous Editor Stephanie Yorke continued her involvement with a short essay 

on her cycle ride across Canada, a meditation on the revolutions of her wheels. 

Kate Kelley, Editor-in-chief 

Squash 

The Club enjoyed a good year. It met regularly, every Wednesday and Sunday 

evening during term. For the first time in several years it entered a team in 

the University Squash League and Cuppers competition. This team comprised 

graduate students from Wolfson and St Hugh’s Colleges, as well as MCR, and 

performed admirably, topping the 2A league in Michaelmas Term and reaching the 

third round of Cuppers. We look forward to doing even better next year. 

Ben Sorgiovanni 

Summer Event 

This year’s Summer Event coincided with the Naming of the new Academic Wing 

and Leonard Wolfson Auditorium on 8 June. Wolfsonians, their guests and friends 

of the College, were treated to drinks and canapés in an adjoining marquee. Then 

the building was opened by the President, and performances were given by Out of 

the Blue, Oxford Middle Eastern Dancers, and the Oxford University Brass Band. 

The festivities then moved to the Harbour Quad for the traditional Summer Event, 

with activities such as a bouncy castle, gladiator wrestling, face-painting and 

garden games, together with refreshments of various kinds supplied by AMREF, 

the Boat Club and BarCo. Music was provided by College musicians out of doors 

and in the Bar. The event concluded with a delicious Hog Roast from the Chef 

and his team, followed by more music (including an excellent performance by the 

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Wolfson College band) and merriment in the Bar. 

This was a splendid afternoon, enjoyed by all. Many thanks to Tracy Fuzzard, 

Louise Gordon, Barry Coote, Hermione Lee and Amy Richards, for their help and 

guidance, and to everyone who provided entertainment and help on the day. 

Andy Cutts 

Wolfson Balloons at the opening of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium 

Tennis 

The Wolfson / St Cross team put in a sterling performance, reaching the Quarter 

Finals in Cuppers and dominating the League. After a disappointing defeat in the 

second round of Cuppers last year, this year we overcame Oriel in the last 16, by 

6 sets to 3. This put us into the Quarter Final against last year’s winners and 

first seeds, LMH. These youngsters were obviously reluctant to play our seasoned 

team, for they kept postponing the match while they finished their final-year exams. 

Finally we met in Week 7, on the bouncy and poorly marked LMH courts. It was 

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a warm day, and the top seeds looked confident in their team jerseys. We were 2–4 

down at the final change, and needed to win the final round 2–1. Our second pair 

quickly beat their second pair, making the score 3–4. Then our first team overcame 

their first-ranked pair, which included a university Blue: the score was now 4–4. 

Alas, their third-ranked team was too strong for us, and they took the last set. The 

final score was 5–4 to LMH. 

Wolfson / St Cross is slowly redeeming itself after being demoted to the bottom 

of the League divisions for missing the 2011 season. The first team dominated 

Division 6, winning its matches 12–0, 12–0, 12–0, 9–3, and finishing in first place. 

This will allow it to move into Division 5 next year. The second team was equally 

successful in Division 7, winning 8–4, 12–0, 4–8, 6–6, and finishing in first place. It 

will move into Division 6 next year. 

The Cuppers team was Sebastian Castro, Samuel Clark, Ben Dean, Stuart Goosey, 

Patrick Lee, Kun Liang, and Alberto Pino. The League first team was Myrto 

Aloumpi, Samuel Clark, Ben Dean, Stuart Goosey, and Alberto Pino. The second 

team was Sebastian Castro, Kun Liang, Darren Tan, and Mengyin Xie. 

This is sadly my final year as Captain, but fortunately I leave the team in capable 

hands. Sebastian Castro, who did so well in leading the second team this year, will 

take over in 2014 and lead the charge! 

Samuel Clark 

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Winter Ball 2012 

This highlight of the social calendar was on 1 December. 500 guests arrived in a 

wonderful array of masks, for the theme was Masquerade. Acts included a swing 

band, cover band, silent disco, as well as entertainments such as swing dancers and 

laser quest. Diners were treated to a three-course formal dinner with champagne 

reception and dinner pianist, while the other guests enjoyed the cocktail bar, coffee 

bar, and other activities on offer. One highlight was Adam Reilly’s on-stage proposal 

to Leanne Minall, and the party went on until after 4 a.m. Many thanks to all the 

committee members and helpers who made it possible, and no doubt the next ball 

will be even better! 

Fiona Whelan 

Masked guests at the Masquerade Ball 

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Wolfson/Darwin Day 2013 

This year’s exchange day with our sister college took place in Cambridge. After a 

week of cold weather and snow, Darwin organized an eventful day of games and 

competitions to entertain the travelling Wolfsonians. Activities included regular 

sports such as rowing, basketball and football, and some more unusual ones such 

as egg and spoon races, tug-of-war and croquet. Darwin took the lead early, but 

Wolfson fought back to win the day and bring the trophy back to Oxford. Many 

thanks to Darwin for being this year’s hosts, and for making it a memorable day for 

many a fortunate traveller. 

Matteo Gianella-Borradori,Wolfson Sports Rep 

Yoga 

My name is Beatrice Barbareschi, and I have been teaching yoga at Wolfson since 

Hilary 2012. Classes have continued regularly over the past two academic years, 

and we recently had the wonderful opportunity of moving to a permanent location: 

after years of nomadism, the newly refurbished Games Room has become the new 

home for Yoga students at Wolfson. No longer do they need to look where to go 

every Wednesday evening, and the Games Room has a lovely space for storing all 

of our equipment; so farewell to the days of hauling blankets and mats all round 

the College! 

Regular yogis and yoginis have been cultivating a dynamic and mindful practice 

throughout the year, developing their awareness of breath, body and mind. I have 

had the pleasure of observing the practices of many students, some of whom 

have shown interest in developing their own personal practice, probably the most 

challenging step in yoga. But Trinity 2013 will be my last term at Wolfson, as I will 

be going on maternity leave. We are now in the process of finding a new teacher, so 

that the Yoga tradition can continue uninterrupted into the next academic year. I 

will miss our classes at Wolfson, and wish its students all the best as they continue 

on their learning path. 

Beatrice Barbareschi 

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Research Clusters 

The Ancient World Cluster sponsored a number of events in Wolfson, the 

most notable being a Day (7 December 2012) to celebrate the publication of the 

hundredth volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project led by 

Professor Richard Sorabji, and a three-day Workshop (12–16 March 2013) on 

Translation and Bilingualism in Ancient Near Eastern texts, to which speakers 

were invited from Paris, Amsterdam and elsewhere. The Cluster has also worked 

with colleagues in Oxford and at the British Museum to bring the Leverhulmefunded 

project Empires of Faith to Wolfson, and has continued to sponsor a wide 

range of individual research projects covering all aspects of the Ancient World. 

The Tibetan and Himalayan Cluster organized the conference ‘Beyond Biography: 

New Perspectives on Tibetan Life-Writing’ on 28–29 September 2012. The first 

JRF in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Lama Jabb, was appointed. In Michaelmas 

Term Jeff Watt (VS 2012) gave inspiring lectures and seminars on Tibetan Buddhist 

art. In Hilary Term there was an evening of Tibetan film and poetry, and Arjia 

Rinpoche was a visiting scholar. 

For information about these and other clusters, see https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ 

clusters 

How to be a Research Cluster: the South-Asian experiment 

A centre for the study of China at Wolfson was proposed in 1987, on the site where 

the new Auditorium now stands, but the College was not then ready physically 

to house thematic disciplines focused on countries, however big and consequential 

they might be. In the case of South Asia, while it welcomed South-Asian scholars, 

the College awaited three kinds of trigger: a growth in the number of Fellows 

working on the sub-continent, the emergence of new ways of creating knowledge 

appropriate to the times, and the President’s vision of dynamising the College’s 

intellectual life by creating ‘clusters’ of scholarship. In late 2011, the green light 

was given to Wolfson’s biggest regional grouping, the South Asia Research Cluster. 

Rapidly Tibetan and Himalayan Studies to the north were also consolidated as a 

research cluster under Ulrike Roesler. 

So what have we done with this opportunity? It’s a case of herding cats! 

Matthew McCartney has been responsible for the mailing-list of interested 

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students and Fellows – vital for information but quite difficult to construct – 

and the monthly lunches, which are vital for all kinds of academic interchange. 

Kate Sullivan has been responsible for talks by students and Fellows on work in 

progress, Sneha Krishnan for a reading group. These activities have also attracted 

scholars from outside College and South Asia, and have suggested another idea 

which has proved a success. 

There are many scholars in and around College who come from South Asia while 

not working on it professionally, or who simply have an interest in the region, its 

science, history, culture, literature, politics and economy. The Cluster has drawn 

them in deliberately, with a series of lecture on ‘Big Themes: Public Intellectuals’. 

We have learned about corruption from the lawyer Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of 

the new Jindal Global University; about South Asia’s own great political thinkers 

from the essayist Pankaj Mishra; and about the controversial critique of the ‘Indian 

Ideology’ from UCLA historian Perry Anderson. 

Workshops and conferences have linked the Cluster with other research groups in 

College and beyond. The centenary of Leonard Woolf ’s important novel of Ceylon, 

The Village in the Jungle, was celebrated with the Life-Writing cluster. Two doctoral 

students then organized a conference with help from Wolfson and Oriental Studies, 

‘Juxtapose’, on the problems of comparing China and India, which brought twenty 

participants to the Buttery and was supplemented by skyped presentations from 

Los Angeles, Pretoria, New Delhi and Beijing, and watched by some 200 other 

participants worldwide on the Internet. We hope it will be the crucible of a book, a 

journal, and another conference. A Bangladesh Day was hosted in College, attended 

by the High Commissioner. Academic links are also being forged with Pakistan, 

and contacts fostered with alumni in South Asia. Thanks to our close ties with the 

Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme in Area Studies led by Matthew 

McCartney, Wolfson scholars played major roles in the ‘India at Oxford’ Day on 

14 June, which was addressed by the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, and by 

the Indian Opposition leader Arun Jaitley, and the Indian Minister for External 

Affairs, Salman Kurshid. In September we will be examining more than 250 years of 

evidence for a sex-ratio unfavourable to girls and women. We welcome suggestions 

of future South Asia events at Wolfson. 

Barbara Harriss-White (EF 2010–), Co-ordinator 

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Mind, Brain and Behaviour 

This cluster (MBBC) was founded in 2012 to promote an inter-disciplinary 

dialogue between scholars interested in the interaction between mind and brain 

and its implications for behaviour change. Key members come from various 

disciplines which include Experimental Psychology, Psychiatry, and Social Policy 

and Intervention, but membership is open to a wider range of fields from lifewriting 

to quantum physics and philosophy. MBBC aims to use both internal and 

external sources of support to create a series of talks and workshops, integrating 

the interests of Fellows, Graduate Students and Common Room Members in this 

area. 

MBBC was launched in Trinity 2013 with a series of lectures on the theme of 

Neuroscience and Education, the speakers being leaders in the application to 

education of evidence drawn from basic research on mental and neural processes. 

Professor Anne Castles (Macquarie University) spoke on ‘Reading and dyslexia’, 

and Professor Charles Hulme (UCL) on ‘Identifying causal factors in dyslexia’. 

There were presentations by Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL) on ‘The 

adolescent brain’, and by Professor Sue Gathercole (Director of the MRC Cognitive 

and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) on ‘Working memory and learning during 

childhood’. A ‘speed-dating’ exercise followed by members of the Cluster, who each 

spoke briefly about their research interests and what topics they would like to be 

discussed at meetings. Several clear topics of interest emerged, including the design 

of complex intervention studies and the use of new technology for diagnosis and 

intervention, and they will be the subjects of a talk each term next academic year, 

linked to a Wolfson guest night. In 2014 we also plan a workshop linked to the visit 

by Professor Stephen Pinker to give the Haldane Lecture. 

Glyn Humphreys (GBF 2011–), Co-ordinator 

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Life-Stories Event 

The fourth annual Life-Stories Event was held in the Haldane Room on 13 May 

2013, organized by Timothy Wyman-McCarthy, Grace Egan, Nicoletta Demetriou 

and Andy Cutts, in collaboration with the President, Hermione Lee. 

A 40-strong audience was treated to a wonderful variety of contributions by 

eleven Wolfsonians, which ranged from learning about how noisy Wolfson is to an 

unfortunate food incident whilst travelling in Beijing, with some songs and poetry 

thrown in for good measure. Speakers used their four-minute contributions to 

reveal aspects of their lives and to show hidden passions or talents, each participant 

being given a fictitious and humorous biography before they performed. An interval 

allowed audience members to discuss what had been seen over a glass of wine. 

Before this humorous and thought-provoking set of life-stories, the audience and 

participants dined on a sumptuous international buffet where there were many 

opportunities to meet new friends and catch up with old ones, whilst speculating 

about the evening to come. It was an extremely enjoyable evening, and the event is 

now very much a key part of College life. 

Andy Cutts 

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The President’s Seminars 

Our speakers as in past years responded to the challenge of five broad themes 

chosen with the whole range of faculties and departments in mind, ‘Archives’, 

‘Ageing’, ‘Hunger’, ‘Ethics’ and ‘Systems’. The President began with an account 

of her experiences amongst the papers and letters of her biographical subjects. 

She was followed later in Michaelmas by Professor Jon Austyn, who spoke of his 

work on dendritic cells and the potential efficacy of vaccine crystals. In Hilary we 

welcomed back Professor Barbara Harriss-White, who spoke on ‘Capital’ in 2011; 

she now discussed the difficulties besetting food production and food management 

in South Asia. The Development Director discussed the ethical dilemmas faced by 

fundraisers, and made a convincing case for social-impact investments. In our final 

seminar Dr Jonathan Barrett, the newly appointed Lecturer in Computer Science, 

discussed the possibilities and limits of quantum computing. 

Our research fellows and graduate students were no less interesting and entertaining. 

The first seminar gained a Gallic flavour when Dr Glenn Roe described the value 

of digital archives in studying eighteenth-century French literary culture, and 

Ruth Bush shed light on the archives of publishers associated with the beginnings 

of Francophone African literature. In subsequent seminars, speakers explored 

different aspects of health. Dr Mark Boyes considered the psychological harms to 

which poor South African adolescents are exposed; Francesca Ghillani sketched the 

differences in attitudes to beauty and the body found in native and migrant Italian 

communities; Dr Carolina Arancibia took us on a tour of the human gut; Darryl 

Stellmach surveyed the ways in which humanitarian organizations understand and 

respond to famine; Dr Omer Dushek outlined the uses of systems biology in the 

study of the immune system; and the Emeritus Chair of General Meeting, Andrew 

Cutts, gave an amusing précis of systematic reviews in Medicine. A more sombre 

note was struck by Dr Alexander Leveringhaus, who discussed the ethics of robotic 

weapons, and by Chris Malone, in his impressive analysis of our thinking about the 

moral wisdom of groups. 

Once again we thank Louise Gordon and Karl Davies for the support which ensures 

the smooth running of the seminars and the enjoyable dinners afterwards. We also 

welcomed Nisha Manocha and Christos Hadjiyiannis to the organizing group. 

Nisha has now completed her DPhil and has left Wolfson, to our regret, but we 

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thank her for her hard work, imperturbability, good humour and generosity of 

spirit. 

Jarad Zimbler 

Speakers and Sessions 

Michaelmas Term 

‘Archives’ 

Professor Hermione Lee (President); Dr Glenn Roe (RF); Ruth Bush (GS) 

‘Ageing’ 

Professor Jon Austyn (GBF); Dr Mark Boyes (RF); Francesca Ghillani (GS) 

Hilary Term 

‘Hunger’ 

Professor Barbara Harriss-White (EF); Dr Carolina Arancibia (RF); Darryl 

Stellmach (GS) 

‘Ethics’ 

William Conner (GBF); Alexander Leveringhaus (RF); Chris Malone (GS) 

Trinity Term 

‘Systems’ 

Dr Jonathan Barrett (GBF); Dr Omer Dushek (RF); Andrew Cutts (GS) 

Organizers: Dr Christos Hadjiyiannis, Nisha Manocha, Dr Jarad Zimbler 

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 

This was the second full year of OCLW, which is firmly establishing itself as a 

hub for research into auto/biography in Britain and further afield. It welcomed 

speakers who included psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, architectural historian Susie 

Harries, and art critic Alex Danchev speaking about his new biography of Cézanne. 

Its successful series of Weinrebe Lectures on Life-writing was themed around the 

relationship between life-writing and portraiture, and featured Stella Tillyard, 

Ludmilla Jordanova, Paula Byrne and Martin Gayford. OCLW also hosted a 

number of conferences, seminars and symposia, exploring areas including Tibetan 

life-writing, war and life-writing, comparative auto/biography, state bureaucracy, 

Leonard Woolf, and the role of life-writing in research into Alzheimer’s. One 

of the Centre’s notable achievements was the establishment of a new series of 

practical workshops, and our customary life-writing lunch seminar also continued 

successfully, with talks from historians Selina Todd and Alison Light, and literary 

scholar Oliver Herford. It gains by its association with graduate and postdoctoral 

researchers at Wolfson engaged in work on life-writing, including Nicoletta 

Demetriou, Grace Egan, Christine Fouirnaies and Oli Hazzard. Altogether, by 

means of its events, a burgeoning presence on-line (in a blog, discussion board 

and website), and by the establishment of visiting-scholar schemes and conference 

grants, it is bringing together a diverse and lively collection of researchers engaged 

in various exciting aspects of auto/biography. 

Rachel Hewitt 

Weinrebe Fellow in Life-Writing and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow 

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Wolfson’s Early Printed Books 

by John Sellars (JRF 2004–7, MCR 2007–). 

In the Library’s Hornik Room there is a small collection of old books, locked away 

behind metal grilles. The books came from the collection of Marcel and Tessa 

Hornik, after whom the room is named. The Horniks were émigré intellectuals who 

settled just outside Oxford at Boars Hill. Marcel Hornik had run an antiquarian 

bookshop in Vienna in the 1920s, before studying at the University of Vienna and 

then at Oxford. Once settled at Boars Hill the Horniks set up the ‘Lincombe Lodge 

Research Library’ in 1952. They issued a number of short pamphlet publications, 

one of which describes their library as ‘an independent research body’ devoted 

to integrating modern psychology with ‘traditional views on myth and religion, 

language and art’. Part of their aim, it seems, was to develop an integrated study 

of Man, reconnecting scientific psychology with the traditional humanities. The 

Horniks were keen for their library eventually to find an academic home, and in one 

of their pamphlets they expressed a desire for it to be ‘incorporated in an Institute 

of Higher Education in Israel’. But in the end the books did not travel so far, and 

they came to Wolfson in the 1980s. 

The collection is a mixture of classical authors, works of theology and history, and 

items connected to the history of scholarship. Although there are no incunabula 

(books printed before 1501), there are a number of important sixteenth-century 

books produced by the most important publishers of the day, notably Aldus 

Manutius and Robert Estienne. Some of the oldest and most interesting books in 

the collection are editions of ancient philosophical texts, including the first printed 

editions of a number of ancient philosophical commentaries. 

In December 2012 Richard Sorabji (HF) organized a three-day conference devoted 

to the ancient commentators on Aristotle, celebrating the publication of 100 

volumes of translation into English under his editorship, and the final day of the 

conference was held at Wolfson. In conjunction with the conference I organized 

a small display of the most relevant books from the Hornik collection, writing a 

few notes about them which were printed as a pamphlet. In March 2013, the book 

display was repeated and I gave a short talk based on the text in the pamphlet. A 

revised version was published in the April 2013 issue of the Bodleian Library Record. 

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Display of books at the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle conference, December 2012 

In what follows I shall describe some of the books that we put on display (and refer 

readers to the article in the Bodleian Library Record for a fuller account and further 

references). But I should stress at the outset that this selection reflects my own 

interests and knowledge, and others could no doubt make an equally interesting 

selection focused on other subjects. Here, though, my focus is on ancient philosophy. 

One of the most famous early printers is Aldus Manutius (1451-1515), and Wolfson 

has a number of books published by his printing firm. It is difficult to overstate 

the importance of Aldus in the history of printing. His fame rests on a number 

of important achievements. He introduced the italic typeface for the first time, 

combining this with the octavo format to produce a series of compact pocketbooks 

that could be taken and read almost anywhere, allowing learning literally to 

escape from the confines of the medieval library. His legacy is perhaps greatest 

as a publisher of Greek texts. From Aldus’ press were issued the first printed 

editions of Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plutarch 

(the Moralia), Plato and Aristotle. Wolfson has a copy of a collection of Neoplatonic 

philosophical texts translated into Latin by Marsilio Ficino and printed by Aldus’ 

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firm in 1516. It includes a variety of texts including Proclus’s commentary on 

Plato’s Alcibiades and Priscian’s commentary on Theophrastus’ De Sensu. A second 

volume published by Aldus and his successors in 1536 is the first printed edition 

of a commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by the Byzantine commentators 

Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus. Long before Aldus, this commentary had been 

translated into Latin in the thirteenth century by Oxford’s first Chancellor, Robert 

Grosseteste. As well as these two philosophical books, Wolfson also has Aldine 

editions of Ovid (1516) and Lucian (1522). 

A third philosophical text, printed in Florence, is the first edition of Porphyry’s 

On Abstinence from Killing Animals, issued with Michael of Ephesus’ commentary 

on Aristotle’s On Parts of Animals in 1548. This edition was assembled by Petrus 

Victorius (Pietro Vettori, 1499-1585), who has been described as ‘possibly the 

greatest Greek scholar of Italy’ and ‘the outstanding personality of the period’; 

he also wrote his own commentaries on Aristotle. Texts in all three of these early 

editions have been translated into English in volumes edited by Richard Sorabji, and 

at the conference we showed the first printed editions and the modern translations 

side by side, probably for the first time. 

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The first printed edition of Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Killing Animals

Also in the collection is an edition of Proclus’ commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus and 

Republic printed in Basel in 1534 and edited by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541). The 

famous bibliophile Thomas Dibdin reports that Grynaeus visited England, staying 

with Sir Thomas More, and during that visit came to Oxford where he was shown 

manuscripts of Proclus’ commentaries and was given permission to take them away 

so he could publish them. This edition also contains some fine woodcut initials that 

were produced by Hans Holbein, who was active in Basel at the time as a designer 

of engravings, title pages and initials. 

Woodcut initial by Hans Holbein 

Other books in the collection and put on display include an edition of the complete 

works of Plato from 1556, and a copy of the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (1536). 

The Parisian printer Robert Estienne is represented by his large four-volume folio 

edition of Cicero, printed in 1538, and Wolfson also has a copy of his edition of 

Virgil (1532). Both are especially fine examples of early printing and typography. 

The final book included in the display was an edition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura 

printed in Paris in 1514. The edition is noteworthy for containing the first modern 

commentary on Lucretius, although Lucretius’s modern bibliographer Cosmo 

Gordon has noted that ‘collectors have not been eager to acquire its pages, where a 

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few lines of text are surrounded by a sea of comment or consist sometimes of solid 

comment with no text at all’. 

The first line of Lucretius surrounded by a sea of commentary 

The copy at Wolfson may also be noteworthy in another way, for across the top of 

the title page is the signature of ‘Petrus doosterlinc a Gandavo’. This may be Petrus 

a Gandavo (c. 1486-1572), i.e. Pedro de Gante or Peter of Ghent, a Franciscan Friar, 

relative of King Charles V, and one of the earliest European missionaries to Mexico. 

He is remembered for founding the first school in the Americas and as the author 

of Doctrina cristiana en langua mexicana, published in 1547. If this identification is 

correct, it is possible that this copy of Lucretius travelled with Peter to the New 

World and back in the middle of the sixteenth century. 

There are approximately eighty early printed books (before 1800) in the Hornik 

collection and here I have briefly mentioned just eight in some way connected 

to ancient philosophy. One could easily imagine other selections (and perhaps 

displays) focused on ancient history, theology and early bibles, the Renaissance, and 

the history of scholarship – topics all represented in the collection. 

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With special thanks to Fiona Wilkes for allowing access to and permission to display the 

books, and to Liz Baird for all her help with staging the exhibitions. For further information 

about the books briefly mentioned here see J. Sellars, ‘Some Sixteenth-Century Editions of 

Ancient Philosophical Texts in Wolfson College Library’, Bodleian Library Record 26/1 

(2013), 92-100. 

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Music is Everywhere 

by John Duggan, Creative Arts Fellow 

One question that I’m asked frequently is: ‘What do you actually do in your role as 

Creative Arts Fellow?’ It’s a good question. I have no teaching responsibilities and 

my research doesn’t involve visits to a laboratory, or sitting in the Bodleian poring 

over ancient manuscripts. My job description states that the College expects me 

‘to contribute towards the cultural life of the College and to increase awareness 

of and interest in Music.’ I sometimes joke that the description is broad enough 

that I could probably get away with popping in for lunch every now and again, and 

wandering around the quads looking tortured and interesting. But where’s the fun 

in that? 

Actually, contributing to the cultural life of the College does involve a certain amount 

of dining because it is here that I get the opportunity to meet other Wolfsonians: 

Fellows, Research Fellows, graduates, technical and administrative staff. It is here, 

over food and wine, that we get to discuss the collaborative possibilities. During 

lunch I might find myself arguing the technical and aesthetic pleasures of the 

counter-tenor voice; over dinner it might be hearing about the Greek Cypriot folk 

tradition, or discussing the possibility of combining music with images from an 

electron microscope. 

Each term I put on at least one event, open to all members of College, which in 

some way illuminates an aspect of the world of music. In Michaelmas term, I kicked 

off my Fellowship with a talk based on the words of the American composer, John 

Cage: 

Music is everywhere, you just have to have the ears to hear it 

I wanted to encourage people to open their ears and listen. We humans have learned 

to screen out most of the data that bombards our senses. If we didn’t it would 

probably drive us to insanity. What’s interesting though – and what I think John 

Cage is driving at – is that this world of noise can become music when mediated 

through time and space. Sounds occur at particular moments and in particular 

places. Our finely honed gift for pattern recognition and our delight in spotting 

differences and anomalies can transform these seemingly random events into 

something that has (or appears to have) meaning. 

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Imagine sitting on the London Underground. You can hear the clackety-clack 

of the wheels on the track, which modulates as the train passes through stations 

and junctions. Over this repetitious background, you might notice the squeaking 

and creaking as the carriage sways in the momentum of travel. If you have fellow 

passengers you might overhear snatches of conversation; different voices, accents, 

languages. You might hear the spill from the headphones of a personal stereo; and 

you can’t miss the official announcements: Mind the Gap! 

This is not music per se. During rush hour it may be a form of torture that you share 

with thousands of fellow commuters. For what it’s worth, I find listening to other 

people’s music is frequently a form of torture. Noise can become music and music 

can become noise. Time is a factor, and so is space. 

You are sitting in the Harbour Quad. The buildings amplify and distort all sounds. 

A plane goes overhead, the volume increasing as it approaches. The noise has a 

particular density as it bounces around the surfaces of the College buildings. A 

goose calls in alarm, another responds and, before you know it, the quad is awash 

with sound. Then the plane passes over, the geese cease their fretting … someone 

comes out of their room in B Block, the door slams and their footsteps ring out 

as they head towards an unknown destination. This kind of audio narrative is 

something that underpins one of my main pieces of work over the last year. 

I had the idea to make a collage using sounds recorded around College. Recording 

and manipulating audio is immensely enjoyable, and a different process from what 

we might consider traditional composition. There are three distinct stages: first, 

I go out into the field and gather sounds. I use a hand-held recorder with builtin 

microphones, which is discreet and portable. I might carry it whilst walking 

past the (now complete) building work, through quads and into the Library or 

Hall. I might leave it recording in the Harbour Quad near to where the geese and 

ducks roost at night. In essence, I gather raw material. Next, I load the audio onto 

my computer and listen through it. I isolate sections and play with them: looping, 

reversing, processing them through an array of effects that warp and distort the 

sound. Finally, I order these sections into a narrative or set of discrete, linked events. 

In this way, I finished Wolfscape I in the spring, and Wolfscape II just in time for the 

opening of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. I’ve gathered all my source material 

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for the final part, and the Wolfscape Trilogy will have its first complete broadcast in 

the Auditorium at 6.00 p.m. on Thursday 14 November 2013. 

Alongside the electronica, I have been busy with new choral works, several of which 

are about to be published. One has just been released by Naxos on a CD entitled 

Down by the Sea: A collection of British Folk Songs. Another three have just been 

recorded by my choir, Sospiri, and are due for release in 2014; two of these works 

feature the Fournier Trio, which is formally associated with Wolfson. Early in 

February, Chris Watson (tenor) and James Martin (piano) gave a recital of English 

Song in the Hall and, later that month, the composer Cecilia McDowall gave a talk 

in the Haldane Room about her work, and members of Sospiri sang a selection of 

her music to illustrate her words. 

All in all it’s been a fruitful year, and I’ve barely mentioned the new ensemble – the 

Isaiah Choir – or the Sospiri performance for the opening of the Auditorium, or the 

many friendships that have blossomed over the months, and the wonderful support 

I’ve had from so many people. 

I’m brimming with ideas for the coming year … 

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Adventures of an Oxford Househusband 

by Alan Mendelson (MCR 1973-76, VF 1989-90). 

Since I had promised to follow my wife where’er she should go, when she became 

a graduate student at Wolfson in 1973, I became an official resident of the United 

Kingdom. One of my rights was that I was entitled to work. Before going to Oxford, 

I had been calmly assured that finding work would be easy. Following the advice 

given me – free advice being worth what you pay for it – I faithfully read all the 

academic ads in the newspapers. 

I applied for posts in far-flung places, but to no avail. I must admit that I did not 

apply to Belfast. This was during the Troubles and, although I was desperate, I was 

no fool. I didn’t think of going to a head-hunter, if such animals existed in England 

at the time. I am sure they wouldn’t have been interested. An American with a 

doctorate in the History of Culture? A doctorate in what-did-you-say? The concept 

of History of Culture didn’t even translate into English English. 

Since one had to retain a certain academic respectability, I decided to study Greek 

(not for the first time). My teacher was a charming and generous Welshman, and 

we met in his ‘rooms’ in Jesus College. Actually he had only one chilly room with 

a three-bar electric heater he was loath to use, even on the coldest day. It is still a 

mystery to me why such a place was referred to in the plural, but I suspect, like 

many other things in Oxford, this usage goes back to something in the seventeenth 

century. The Welshman was a firm believer in the efficacy of body heat to warm his 

allotted space. And he was right. By the end of the session we were just shivering, 

not chattering. 

One other salient fact about our teacher: his hobby was collecting ancient (and very 

expensive) silver Greek coins he would buy at auction. Athenian coins with the owl 

of Minerva and Syracusan coins with marvellous leaping dolphins were some of the 

treasures he showed us. Being a genuine collector and slightly eccentric, he would 

tell us that these coins were gifts for his wife. It is not recorded how she felt about 

the coins he bestowed upon her. I can only hope that she loved Greek coins half as 

much as he did. 

We met to study Greek about three times a week; my humiliation was constant. My 

classmates had begun their Greek and Latin studies shortly after they were weaned 

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so, with a little gentle prodding, they could recollect what they once knew by heart. 

I was not so lucky. My Greek was no better than my Latin or my Yiddish for that 

matter. That is, they were all on life-support. 

What I needed was a room of my own where I could study. I found such a place 

in the attic of the house which Sara and I shared with nine other students at 10 

Chadlington Road. If I am not mistaken, after renovations, various Presidents of 

Wolfson have lived in this house. I would be willing to wager that not one of them 

knew that an American once used a cupboard in their attic to study Greek. It was 

no larger than an isolation cell at Alcatraz but, at the time, it was heaven. 

A year passed, my Greek improved, and I finally found a job. My employer was none 

other than Wolfson College; I was allowed to be a night porter. In the Americas, 

a porter might have to carry something heavy. To my relief, at Wolfson a night 

porter didn’t carry anything heavier than a letter or a key. This was good. One of 

my jobs was to sell laundry detergent: 3p for one cup (rounded down from 3.4p a 

cup). But if you bought two cups you would be charged 7p (rounded up from 6.8p 

a cup), unless of course you bought the cups separately, in which case the total 

amount owed would be 6p. If this confuses you, just think how I felt when I tried to 

explain the economics of soap-selling to various Rhodes Scholars and their spouses. 

I once dealt with an emergency. A distinguished Israeli academic (whose 

magnificent lectures on the period between the two World Wars I had actually 

heard in Jerusalem) had put his electric kettle on his electric stove and had turned 

everything on. The smell of burning plastic filled his apartment. There was black 

smoke. I defused the emergency by turning everything off and removing his melting 

kettle. I left it to him to explain to the Domestic Bursar the next day how he had 

managed to set his kettle and his stove on fire at the same time. A night porter, after 

all, is not an engineer or a solicitor. 

For my labours, I received about 75p an hour, the equivalent of maybe twenty cups 

of laundry detergent, depending on how you count. There were, however, fringe 

benefits. Once I got to stand in the lift with a young Emanuel Ax, who was about 

to give a recital. Sara, who is an excellent amateur pianist, claimed that Ax played 

too loud. ‘He’s a real banger’, she concluded. Maybe she was right on that particular 

evening in that particular hall, which had not been built with acoustics in mind. 

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But she has had to eat her words since. Ax is now among the front rank of classical 

pianists in the world. As he has shown time and time again, he is fully capable of 

playing pianissimo. I, of course, was too shy to speak to him in the lift. 

Then there was Rosalyn Tureck, a more established pianist, who lived in the College 

full-time. I think she was there by favour of Sir Isaiah. I clearly remember that Ms 

Tureck would sit by the river for hours at a time, like patience on a monument, 

smiling at grief. Or maybe she was simply going over the complete works of Bach 

in her head. At times she would permit me to do her a favour. I always gave her 

requests top priority and all my attention. She took my efforts in her stride. In the 

tradition of English butlers in the movies, I was honoured to be of service. 

In the end, the most important thing about my sojourn in Oxford came down to 

my gender. Almost every man of my age in Oxford at the time was either a student 

or a beginning tutor. Most of the women were either undergraduates, graduate 

students, or spouses of the same. The wives had the job of making life comfortable 

for their highly stressed husbands. This meant repeated visits to the Newcomers’ 

Club, a wonderful place for foreigners who might have arrived in Oxford without 

so much as a pot or a fork to their names. I would frequent the place looking for 

domestic treasures of that or previous ages. 

It was a cold Thursday morning in November. The Newcomers’ Club was open to 

the public only once a week. I made a point of being on time – 11 o’clock sharp – in 

the hope of finding a Ming vase before anyone else saw it. That, of course, never 

happened, but hope springs eternal. As I got there, a tea shop was just opening 

for business. Uncharacteristically, I was tempted by a cuppa so I went over to the 

server. ‘Could I please have a cup of tea?’ I asked, with as much English polish as I 

was capable of mustering. 

The tea lady looked at me quizzically, visibly taken aback. She looked at me as if I 

had just asked her to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Then she walked over 

to her colleague and whispered something in her ear. More muttering followed. 

Finally she returned: ‘Well, we’ve never served a man before, but I suppose it’s all 

right.’ I could barely contain the laughter welling up inside me. ‘No, thanks, that’s 

quite all right’, I said in all seriousness. ‘I don’t think I’m cold any more.’ 

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The Death of a King 

by Martin Henig (SF 1998–2009, MCR 2009–) 

King George VI died a month and a half before my tenth birthday, when I was a 

pupil at a school run by a headmaster who could be at one moment imaginative 

and inspirational and at another positively deranged and abusive: he was a creature 

of whims. At one moment, without any thought of planning permission, he 

knocked up a two-storey tower of plywood with a small room at the top, which he 

intended to serve as a classroom for the youngest boys. The authorities, inevitably, 

intervened and told him to demolish it by the next day or else! We delighted in 

the large tanks of tropical fish and the cage of locusts which ate each other as we 

tried to consume lunches which were incredibly unappetising, except when we were 

organized to raid the next-door garden for soft fruit while the owner was absent. 

Our headmaster had little time for the law, and indeed ended up in jail for assaulting 

the boarders, but he displayed a fanatical patriotism with a decidedly fascist tinge, 

and flew the Union Jack from the flagpole every day. 

I well remember the day the King died, 6 February 1952. The flag was lowered to 

half mast and we all knew what that meant: someone important had died. Then 

the form teacher announced in a sombre tone that the Head was going to address 

the entire school. Rumour was rife amongst us boys, and rumour indeed delivered 

the utterly appalling news. The whole class, eighteen or so of us, were sobbing 

profusely. Did that happen in other classes, in other schools in England, I wonder? 

Rumour had changed a name, a title, a species, and so the awful news was relayed 

to my ears and to the ears of my weeping friends as ‘Prince has died!’ These words 

were enough to bring tears to our eyes, for Prince was the name of the headmaster’s 

Labrador. We might not love his master, an unpredictable creature at one point 

building model railways for us and at the next beating our hands with strips of 

wood from old orange boxes, but we all adored Prince, ever friendly and affectionate, 

whereas the Head could be savage and vindictive. 

And so we were drawn to the school assembly, and there to our relief was Prince, 

very much alive, and looking remarkably happy dozing at the headmaster’s feet. 

With ashen countenance, his master solemnly informed us that King George VI, 

King and Emperor – to the Head he would of course always be King and Emperor, 

for we lived in a fantasy world – was dead, and so we sang the National Anthem 

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substituting ‘Queen’ for ‘King’, and in the second verse beseeching the Lord of 

Heaven and Earth to sow confusion on the enemies of Queen Elizabeth II. The 

mood amongst my friends, however, very rapidly changed to one of relief and, I 

regret to say, joy, because rumour again intervened to tell us we would have a day 

off school to assuage our ‘grief ’. I imagined that I would have time to spend with my 

pet snakes and lizards, newts and fish, or perhaps wander down to the woods with 

my best friend Roger in order to observe birds or woodlice, or get up to no good 

with Peter and George, two tearaways who led me into very bad ways, stealing 

goldfish from a neighbouring estate, an activity perhaps less dangerous than some 

of the other activities of my feral childhood such as throwing stones at passers-by 

over the hedge or, in the guise of a medieval knight (history was always a passion), 

firing a flight of arrows over the house which came down to form a corona around 

the pram of a sleeping baby three houses away. Who said the 1950s weren’t fun! 

Alas, we were soon told that the day off would have be postponed until the 

Coronation the following year, which felt like an age away. When that came round, 

however, it turned out to be quite fun, though in retrospect just a little confused 

in my mind with the Festival of Britain which took place a year or so before the 

death of King George. That Festival, with all its quirkiness, made an impression on 

my imagination, from the Skylon ( nicknamed ‘Churchill’s Cigar’) to the Dome of 

Discovery with its models of life in Ancient Britain designed by Jacquetta Hawkes. 

These ended up in Leicester Museum where I got to know them well in later years, 

and they made me determined to become an archaeologist. There was also the 

funfair in Battersea Park, and especially the grotto, with this over its entrance: 

Please remember the grotto 

Father’s gone to sea 

Mother’s gone to fetch him back 

So will you remember me. 

Things always seemed to be going on in London, and the Coronation when it came 

– on 2 June 1953; we have just been celebrating its sixtieth anniversary – was a 

wonderful pageant for the young mind: all those stands along the Mall, bunting 

everywhere, an air of anticipation, excited children eating ‘knickabocker glories’ in 

Selfridges. And always those images of the pretty young Queen on every hoarding. 

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I suppose we were a generation lost in fantasy, living in the aftermath of a big war 

before we were properly conscious, an Empire falling apart around us, and a future 

in which all the grown-ups wanted to get back to the sixteenth century. My mother 

certainly did, educated at UCL by Professor Neale, and her abiding love of history 

entered my inner world and became coupled with the tortoises, terrapins and stick 

insects which shared my bedroom. Television played a minimal part in my life, but 

we had a set early on, and I still recall a newsreel which pretended that Elizabeth I 

was still on the throne and there were potato riots in the countryside. King George 

was dead; and we were the new Elizabethans, each of us given a little blue book and 

a medal by the government to prove it. 

Meanwhile the real drama of daily life continued. I survived the horror and grit of 

Prep School, and almost being drowned in a flooded quarry in North Wales on a 

nightmare school camping-trip; instead I escaped to the wilds, or to Stonehenge, 

or to West-Country castles and ancient abbeys where I could be respectively an 

ancient Briton, King Arthur, or a monk. And what of Prince? He – or rather she – 

lived on to the end of my Prep-School days: I took my Common Entrance exam in 

the Head’s awesome study where Prince had just given birth to a litter of puppies. 

Finally I escaped to Merchant Taylors’ School where they thought I was mad, but 

which was, on the whole, far more humane and much less traumatic. No nightmare 

lessons from a deranged Head; but no Prince either! 

Whenever I recite the evening office in church using an ancient copy of the Book of 

Common Prayer and see those words: 

O Lord, save the King 

I sigh in memory of King George VI or, rather more, in memory of Prince … and 

then I pull myself together remembering that I am, after all, a ‘new Elizabethan’, 

a match for Drake, Raleigh, or even the Earl of Essex. So I write this in memory 

of my best friend in those days, Roger, who died in August 2006 as Roger Deakin, 

author of Waterlog (1999) and (published posthumously) Wildwood and Notes from 

Walnut Tree Farm, books which have become instant classics. 

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The wonders of tick-spit 

by Pat Nuttall (JRF 1977–80, RF 1990–95, GB 1995– 

2001; SF 2001–) 

Have you ever been bitten by a tick? If you have, you probably didn’t feel a thing. 

Maybe you only noticed the little black speck attached to your skin after it had 

started feeding, growing fatter as it sucked your blood. 

So how does a tick manage to feed for long periods – up to two weeks or more 

– without being ejected by the host on which it is feeding? The picture hanging 

in my office gives some insight into what the tick is doing. It shows a cartoon of 

a tick attached to the skin surface with a cut-away through the skin showing the 

skin epidermis, dermis, and red and white blood cells. To achieve this position, the 

tick must first locate a host, which it does by picking up chemical signals in the air 

such as carbon dioxide, sensed through receptors at the tip of its first pair of legs. 

It then climbs onto the host and finds a suitable spot to attach: usually a site that 

can’t easily be groomed, such as the ears of a mouse or the rear end of a cow. It 

then uses a pair of appendages (known as chelicerae) of its intricate mouthparts, to 

saw through the skin epidermis. Into the resulting cut, the tick inserts its feeding 

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tube or hypostome (shown orange in the centre of the picture), which has backward 

pointing barbs that help secure it in the skin. Just to make sure the tick mouthparts 

are firmly attached and do not allow any blood to leak out, the tick secretes a 

milky fluid which solidifies around the hypostome forming a cement cone (grey in 

the picture). All of this helps explain why it is so tricky to remove a tick once it’s 

attached. 

Imagine, though, that this had been a splinter wedged in your skin. First, you would 

feel a hurtful prick and then your skin would become inflamed and possibly swollen. 

Why doesn’t this happen when a tick bites? The reason lies in the tick’s large and 

complex salivary glands. These produce the cement fluid and hundreds of other 

molecules (proteins, peptides, and small molecules), which are secreted in tick saliva 

while the tick attaches and then feeds on blood. Saliva molecules have different 

activities that help make ticks invisible to the host’s protective mechanisms, and 

keep the blood flowing so they can suck it up. Saliva molecules include anaesthetics, 

anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, and immunomodulators. It’s not surprising 

ticks have been called sophisticated pharmacologists. And it’s all in their spit! 

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Cross-cultural collaboration with China 

by Professor James Crabbe (MCR 1977-79, JRF 1979- 

82, RF 1982-87, SF 1988-). 

Wolfson College is truly international; indeed a friend of mine once said that you 

could fly the UN flag over the College. Cross-cultural sensitivity and exchange is at 

the core of a global system of higher education, where we can understand, respect, 

and learn from the strengths of other nations. As Executive Dean of Creative Arts, 

Technologies and Science at the University of Bedfordshire, my collaboration with 

leading institutions in China over the last four years has made me sensitive to 

cultural differences, innovation in ideas of communication, and growing partnership 

networks. 

China is trying to develop its own pedagogy, free from Russian and Western models. 

In doing so, it needs to embrace new forms of creativity and critical thinking. In 

2009, after I had given a lecture on creativity to staff and students at the China 

University of Communications in Beijing, the Head of Department said to me: ‘We 

have a different definition of creativity; it is not the same as yours.’ 

This difference is underpinned by a major cultural distinction. We in the West 

tend to be task-oriented, and the Chinese to be culture-oriented. There have been 

many attempts by writers and researchers in the West to embrace Chinese culture, 

but one example may illustrate the pitfalls. In 1820 Robert Morrison published 

his Dictionary of the Chinese Language. In trying to introduce Chinese culture to 

Westerners, he adopted a culture-oriented approach, incorporating information 

from selected Chinese works. However, despite his excellent intentions, there were 

three important factors he could not disguise: his Protestant mission, his view of 

cross-cultural communication between China and the West, and the patronage of 

the East India Company which printed his book. 

It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, for Westerners to embrace Chinese culture 

completely. It is not for nothing that ‘Propriety, Righteousness, Integrity, and a 

Sense of Shame’ is carved in Chinese on the gate to Chinatown, Boston (Mass.). 

Confucianism values shame as an emotion which promotes self-examination and 

motivates one toward toward socially and morally desirable change. It does not 

share the Western assumption that shame is harmful to one’s health. 

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In trying to develop creativity in education in China, it may be helpful to think 

about the Chinese view of self-fulfilment – an expression of one’s personal creativity 

within a harmonious context. Creativity is important in all aspects of pedagogy and 

research, from science to the arts, from social science to business. It is not confined 

to the arts; in all disciplines we wrestle with our imagination to produce ideas 

that are better and more beautiful than before. In China, as in other countries, the 

creative industries include advertising, architecture, arts, antiques, computer and 

video games, crafts, design, designer fashion, film and video, music, performing 

arts, publishing, software, TV and radio. The creative economy is not just another 

sector alongside agriculture, manufacturing and services, but a transformation of 

all sectors. It transforms the ways in which all organisations acquire, use and trade 

ideas, resulting in a ‘creative ecology’ based on groups of people in high-energy 

environments. 

Educational programmes in the creative industries need to balance the teaching of 

technological skills and thinking skills, critical and creative thinking. Reworking 

that balance in China may help in developing the highly qualified men and women 

who are currently lacking. In my view there is no better way of developing cultural 

awareness about China than reading the four Chinese literary classics (see below), 

which provide an altogether modern insight into Chinese culture and the way in 

which the Chinese treat each other. 

Immersing oneself in Chinese culture has many benefits, not just in developing 

teaching and learning, but also in collaborative research. My own links with 

Fudan University in Shanghai since 2007 have resulted in four joint peer-reviewed 

research papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA and other 

well respected journals. This year with colleagues from Fudan I visited rainforests 

and coral reefs in and around Hainan island, the southernmost province of China, 

and I look forward to further collaboration in the future. 

As we continue to work with China on all aspects of higher education, we need to 

understand each other as much as possible. Exchange is of paramount importance, 

and social contact outside educational institutions will foster mutual understanding 

and respect. 

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The four Chinese literary classics: 

The President and Professor Crabbe at the White Monks exhibition 

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Pawdle across the chumba 

John Penney (GS 1971–72, MCR 1972–73, GBF 1973– 

2012, EF 2012– ) spoke at this year’s Iffley Dinner which 

celebrates the origins of Wolfson. 

Iffley is the name of a rather charming village, now a southern suburb of Oxford, 

set beside the Thames and reachable by a pleasant walk following the towpath 

downstream from the far side of Folly Bridge. There is a wonderfully ornate 

Norman church, its doors and windows covered with zig-zag decoration on the 

mouldings, and one of these arches figures in the College coat of arms: above the 

normal shield (which you can see on the plates), the full coat of arms has a helmet 

with a crest surmounted by symbols, one of which is an Iffley arch. 

When I first joined the College, the coat of arms was still under discussion and 

I remember the disappointment (in some quarters) that greeted the news that 

the Royal College of Heralds had vetoed the inclusion of a representation of two 

chromosomes crossed in meiosis – that would certainly have been a heraldic first. 

It was in a house in Iffley that the University established in 1965 a new college, 

Iffley College, chiefly to make provision for some of the many people who held 

University posts but had no college attachment. The 36 Fellows were determined 

to create a proper college, not just a dining club for senior members, and they had 

the inspired idea of inviting Isaiah Berlin to be the first President: Isaiah accepted 

on condition that he was able to raise sufficient funds to build and endow a college 

(the building at Iffley was far too small), and this he achieved with remarkable speed, 

so that in October 1966, duly established by University Statute, Wolfson College 

was born out of Iffley College, rather like Athena from the head of Zeus. So Iffley 

College was in one sense short-lived; but the ideals of the Iffley Fellows persist and 

still inform all aspects of College life today, which is why it is appropriate to keep 

their memory bright. 

In the early days of the College, Isaiah Berlin used to say: ‘Of course, it’s not a real 

college yet: there is not enough bad feeling between the Fellows.’ 

We have been working on this. But I have to confess that we have still not 

managed to replicate the deep-seated rancours and festering resentments that once 

characterised certain older colleges. Here by way of illustration is a passage from a 

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letter written in 1987 by Isaiah Berlin, that most genial and kindly of men and most 

acute observer, about a well-known Oxford character (now deceased): 

He is not exactly a stupid man, but the megalomania and the vanity are (as 

everyone points out) of a loony variety. The thing about X which is not so often 

noticed is that underneath the nonsense, the vanity, the ludicrous and dotty and 

boring and egotistical layers, he is quite a nasty man – very cruel to those who 

do not recognise his genius if they are weak and defenceless, and filled with 

hatred if they are in any degree formidable: a man who I think perhaps has some 

of the temperament of genius without a spark of genius, which is quite difficult 

to live with. 

If such colleagues are the price of authenticity for a college, no doubt we are better 

off as we are. 

But the distinctive ethos of Wolfson goes well beyond harmony within the 

Fellowship: the College prides itself on its democratic spirit and the way that 

only minimal distinctions are made between Fellows and graduate students. This 

openness is a legacy from the aspirations of the Iffley Fellows to create a new type 

of Oxford society. And this is why we have, for instance, a single Common Room to 

which we all belong. 

When we first moved into these buildings, apart from the Upper and Lower 

Common Rooms, there were also two small common rooms off the front quad 

(one is still there as a television room, the other has since been absorbed into 

the Library), and there was a suggestion that one of these might be reserved for 

Fellows, who might need to have confidential discussions about College matters 

or even individual graduate students. This suggestion was robustly seen off at a 

General Meeting (in those days almost everyone attended General Meetings), and 

one of the graduate students offered a rather appealing counter-suggestion: one of 

the churches in town, High Anglican or Catholic, was being refurbished and was 

offering for sale some of its old wooden confessionals – surely just the thing for 

Fellows wishing to have a private conversation. Of course this came to nothing, but 

with some amusement I see that there are currently moves afoot to create just such 

isolation booths within the Common Room by means of grotesquely high-backed 

furniture. I trust that this will be stoutly resisted and that the essential unity of the 

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Common Room, as a space where everyone can mingle freely and be seen, will be 

vigorously defended. That would be in the true Wolfson tradition. 

Maintaining the ideal of a single community does of course require some effort 

on all sides, and I should like to say particularly to the graduate students: ‘Don’t 

leave it to the Fellows to make all the running. Bear in mind that some of us are 

rather shy and easily intimidated by bright young people. If we seem occasionally 

crotchety, it may be that we are just insecure. We may need to be gently coaxed into 

congeniality. And above all never forget that anyone over a certain is age is always 

glad to find a new audience for the jokes and anecdotes that colleagues have already 

heard rather too often.’ 

Gently coaxed into congeniality in Fethiye (SW Turkey) 

Here, I’m afraid, is an example. Sorting my books at home the other day, I came 

across a half-forgotten volume by George Borrow, first published in 1874, called 

Romano Lavo-Lil, about gypsy language. It contains an alleged gypsy song, which 

I am quite sure Borrow himself wrote, that has always given me great pleasure. The 

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grammar is perfectly English, which makes it pretty easy to follow, even though 

some Romany words are slotted in. A young man is trying to persuade a girl to run 

away with him. All you need to know is that gry-choring is ‘horse-stealing’: 

Av, my little Rumni chel, 

Av away with mansar; 

We will jal a gry-choring 

Pawdle across the chumba. 

The girl reasonably points out that horse-stealing is a risky business and usually 

ends in hanging; they would do better to stick to fortune-telling and tinkering. The 

young man agrees: 

Kusko my little Rumni chel, 

Your rokrapen is kusko; 

We’ll dukker and we’ll petuls ker 

Pawdle across the chumba. 

I am very fond of the phrase ‘pawdle across the chumba’. Borrow glosses it as ‘o’er 

the hills so far away’, which is rather wistful and dreamy: whereas ‘pawdle across 

the chumba’ seems to me far more punchily romantic, more mystery-filled, more 

redolent of exotic lands, but at the same time with its macaronic mix of English and 

Romany, utterly absurd. When I finally get round to writing my travel memoirs, 

I have the title now ready to hand, so watch out for the book in Blackwell’s in due 

course and be sure to give it to all your aunts and cousins for Christmas – Pawdle 

across the Chumba. 

But enough of these maunderings. This is a wonderful College to belong to, so let 

us all make the most of it, and tonight let us remember what we owe to the Iffley 

Fellows who brought it into being. 

The experimental furniture denounced by Dr Penney has since been removed. 

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The Record 

Adam Reilly proposes to Leanne Minall 

Personal News 

Births 

Alter 

To Maximilian (GS 2011–12) and Elisabeth Behrens, a 

daughter, Marie Viktoria, on 4 May 2013. 

Belfield 

To Eric (MCR 2012–15) and Jenny Handford, a daughter, 

Amy, on 11 May 2013. 

Borhade To Anjali (GS 2013-) and Subhojit Dey, a son, Arhat, on 3 

July 2013. 

Grotti 

To Vanessa (RF 2008–) and Marc Brightman, a second 

son, Dario, on 27 September 2012. 

Ismail 

To Raveem (GS 2004–05) and Khadija, a son, Solomon, 

on 29 March 2012. 

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Langlois 

To Leanne (née Allhouse) (GS 1994–98) and Tim, a son, 

Carsten Andrew Joseph, on 6 August 2012. 

Leonard To Anthony (GS 1994–98) and Sarah Scarth (GS 1994– 

99), a son, Magnus Robert William, on 8 September 2012, 

brother to Britt Elizabeth Anne and Inga Alexandra 

Sofia. 

Meri 

To Josef (GS 1995–99, MCR 2003) and Maryam al– 

Kilani, a son, Omar, on 25 January 2013. 

Odumboni 

To Adeniyi (GS 2000–04, MCR 2002–04) and Victoria 

Navauro-Dominguez a daughter, Sofia Adenike, on 9 

January 2012. 

Paus 

To Karl Christian (GS 1982–87, DPhil 1988) and 

Elizabeth, a son, Karl-Otto, on 14 February 2013. 

Pettitt 

To Julie (née Connell) (GS 1999–2000) and Wayne, 

a daughter, Lauren Mary, on 21 July 2012, a sister for 

Emily and Isabel. 

Qureshi 

To Kaveri (RF 2011–12, MCR 2012–) and Ayaz, a 

daughter, Ruhi, on 7 September 2012. 

Ryder 

To Judith (JRF 2007–09, RF 2009–10, RF 2011–) and 

Simon, a son, Stephen Dominic, on 11 January 2013, 

brother to John, Elizabeth (Lizzie) and Peter. 

Sidhu 

To Inderjit Kaur (Sue) (GS 1994-99) and Kam Singh 

Gossal, a daughter, Khivi Asess, on 2 March 2013. 

Marriages 

Langton 

Patti (GS 1975–79, MCR 1979–) to Lawrence, Lord 

Collins of Mapesbury, on 9 September 2012. 

Ruby Wedding 

Hemp John (MCR 1971–) and Merryn Williams (MCR 1971–2, 

MCR 2004–) on 14 April 2013. 

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Deaths 

Baldick Robert Julian (GS 1972–77, JRF 1977–78, MCR 1981– 

2012) on 3 December 2012. 

Brack O M ‘Skip’ (VF 1986–87, MCR 1991–2012) on 8 

November 2012. 

Glancy Ann Josephine (GS 1977–79) on 6 April 2002. 

May David (Staff 2005–12) on 28 September 2012. 

Milne Kirsty (RF 2010-13) on 18 July 2013. 

Patterson Helen (GS 1983–86) on 18 April 2012. 

Purvis 

Ian (Staff 1974–88, MCR 1998–2012) on 9 November 

2012. 

Seidmann Gertrud (MCR 2000–04, GS 2004–07, GS/MCR 2007– 

13) on 15 February 2013. 

Stanley Michael (MCR 2009–12) on 21 September 2012. 

Vermes Geza (GBF 1965–91, EF 1991–2013) on 8 May 2013. 

Walker 

Michael (GS 1970–74, VS 1991, 1998) on 1 December 

2009. 

Professional News 

Arancibia, Carolina V 

Beebe, Steven A 

Carver, John 

Casadei, Barbara 

(RF 2012–14) Appointed Translation Medicine Lead 

in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, NDM- 

Experimental Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. 

(MCR 1993, VS 2002, MCR 2005–) Currently serving as 

President of the National Communication Association. 

(MCR 1983–86, VS 1998–99) Appointed Director of 

the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National 

University in Canberra. 

(SF 2011–18) Appointed a Fellow of the Academy of 

Medical Sciences. 

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Crabbe, James (MCR 1977–79, JRF 1979–82, RF 1982–87, GBF 

1987–88, SF 1988–2015) Appointed Executive Dean 

of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and 

Science, University of Bedfordshire. Invited member of 

the ‘Bridge’ Advisory Board at the Royal Opera House, 

London. Elected Freeman of the Worshipful Company of 

Musicians, and Freeman of the City of London. 

Dushek, Omer (RF 2010–16) Awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship in 

September 2012. 

Giustino, Feliciano (RF 2008–09, GBF 2009–) Awarded a Leverhulme 

Research Leadership Award to explore how ‘biomimetic’ 

solar cells – those that mimic natural systems – turn light 

into electricity at the atomic scale. 

Illingworth, John (GS 1979–83, MCR 1983–86) Awarded 2012 

Distinguished Fellowship of the British Machine Vision 

Association. 

Johns, Jeremy (JRF 1982–84, MCR 1985–89, GBF 1990–2018) With 

Michael Macdonald (SF 1997–) awarded a grant from 

the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the Online 

Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia 

project (2013–17). 

Lawton Smith, Helen (GS 1984–90, MCR 1990–99, MCR 1999–) Appointed 

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of 

Management, Birkbeck, University of London. Awarded 

the European Commission Framework 7 Award 

TRIGGER (Transforming Institutions by Gendering 

Contents and gaining Equality in Research). Five 

Country applied action led by Italian Ministry of Equal 

Opportunities: four year project, beginning January 2014. 

Mayo, Oliver 

(VF 1976, VF 1984, MCR 2002–) Appointed Treasurer 

of the Australian Academy of Science for four years 

McGinley, John (GS 1976–80) Appointed Research Fellow at the 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial 

College, London. 

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Mendoza, Blanca (GS 1980–85, MCR 1985–86) Appointed Lead Author of 

the fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, vol. 1, and the 

only Mexican scientist to work on this volume. 

Morofke, Darren (GS 2006–09, GS/MCR 2009–10, MCR 2010–) Promoted 

to Project Manager at Molecular Devices in Sunnyvale, 

California. 

Newton, Paul (GS 1979–84, MCR 1985–86, GS 1986–89, MCR 1989– 

97, MCR 1999–) Appointed Visiting Professor, École des 

hautes études en santé publique (French National School 

of Public Health), Rennes, France. Appointed Honorary 

Professor, National University of Laos, Vientiane, Lao 

PDR. Appointed Honorary Professor, London School of 

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. 

Paxton, Tony (GS 1984–87, MCR 1993–94, RF 1994–95, MCR 2011–) 

Recently moved from Queen’s University, Belfast, to take 

up a chair in the Physics Department at King’s College, 

London. Also holds a joint appointment at the National 

Physical Laboratory, Middlesex. 

Piotrowicz, Wojciech (MCR 2011–13) Awarded Highly Commended Paper 

Award from the Emerald Literati Network. 

Roberts, Kim (GS 1971–74) Present position Managing Director of SJI 

Group Pty Ltd, Perth, Western Australia. 

Sellars, John 

(JRF 2004–7, MCR 2007–) Appointed lecturer in the 

Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of 

London. 

Thompson, Mark (GS 1994–7) Appointed Principal of Moore Theological 

College. 

Wood, John V (FInt 2001–07, SF 2007–14) Nominated by the European 

Commission to be the Council representative for Europe 

on the newly formed Research Data Alliance (a global 

alliance to assist in the sharing of research data). 

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Books published by Wolfsonians 

Aldiss, Brian W (MCR 1996–) Finches of Mars. The Friday Project, 2013. 

Allen, Nick J 

(GBF 1976–200, EF 2001–) Miyapma: traditional narratives 

of the Thulung Rai. Vajra, Kathmandu. 

Alpert, Bernard and Bernard (GS 1986–87), Fran (GS 1986–87, MCR 1987– 

Fran 

97) Archaeology and the Biblical Record. Hamilton Books, 

2012. 

Anderson, Ted R (VS 1992–2000, CR 2008–) The Life of David Lack, Father 

of Evolutionary Ecology. OUP. 

Bano, Masooda (JRF 2006–10, RF 2008–13) The Rational Believer: 

Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan. Cornell 

University Press. South Asia edition published by 

Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2013. 

Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid is Eroding Institutions for 

Collective Action. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 

South Asia edition published by Cambridge University 

Press, New Delhi 2013. 

Bangha, Imre (GBF 2009–) It’s a City-Showman’s Show: Transcendental 

Songs of Anandghan (with Richard Fynes). Penguin 

Classics. 

Beebe, Steven A (MCR 1993, VS 2002, MCR 2005–) Communication: 

Principles for a Lifetime (with Susan J Beebe, and 

Diana K Ivy), fifth edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 

Public Speaking Handbook (with Susan J 

Beebe), fourth edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 

Public Speaking: An Audience–Centered Approach (with 

Susan J Beebe), eighth edition. Boston: Pearson, 2012. 

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practice (with 

John T Masterson), tenth edition. Boston: Pearson, 2012. 

Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others (with Susan 

J Beebe, and Mark V Redmond), seventh edition. Boston: 

Pearson, 2013. 

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Beebe, Steven A Business and Professional Communication: Principles 

and Skills for Leadership (with Timothy P 

Mottet), second edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 

Training and Development: Enhancing Communication and 

Leadership Skills (with Timothy P Mottet, and K David 

Roach), second edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 

Bell, Peter 

(MCR 2007–) Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian: its 

Nature, Management and Mediation. OUP. 

Brock, Sebastian (GBF 1974–2003, EF 2003–) The Gorgias Encyclopedic 

Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (ed. with A Butts, G 

Kiraz, L van Rompay). Piscataway NJ, 2011. 

Two Early Lives of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (ed. with 

B Fitzgerald). Translated Texts for Historians 59, 

Liverpool University Press, 2013. 

Cauchi, Ruben (GS 2005–08, MCR 2009–) Drosophila melanogaster Models 

of Motor Neuron Disease (ed.). Nova Science Publishers, 

2013. 

Chamberlain, Lesley (GS 1974–81) Anyone’s Game. Harbour Books, 2012. 

Cohen, Robin (MCR 2007–) Global Sociology (with Paul Kennedy) 

Palgrave Macmillan. 

Dalley, Stephanie (MCR 2010–) The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of 

Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder traced. OUP, 2013. 

Davidova, Evguenia (MCR 1999, VF 1999–00) Balkan Transitions to Modernity 

and Nation-States through the Eyes of Three Generations of 

Merchants, 1780s–1890s. Brill, 2013. 

Dresvina, Juliana (MCR 2011–) Authority and Gender in Medieval and 

Renaissance Chronicles (ed.with Nicholas Sparks). 

Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, 2012. 

Dudbridge, Glen (GBF 1966–1985, EF 1985–) A portrait of Five Dynasties 

China, from the memoirs of Wang Renyu (880–956). OUP, 


Eliav-Feldon, Miriam (GS 1974–78, MCR 1978–97) Renaissance Impostors and 

Proofs of Identity. Palgrave Macmillan. 

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Fujii, Takashi (RF 2010–) Imperial Cult and Imperial Representation in 

Roman Cyprus. Franz Steiner. 

Furnham, Adrian (GS 1977–81) Humanitarian Work Psychology. Palgrave 

Macmillan 2012. 

Ghazarian, Jacob G (MCR 1982–) The Treasures of the Silk Road: The Religions 

that Transformed China. New–Generation Publishing, 


Gray, Tony 

(GS 1992–96, MCR 2007–) Maternal Mortality: Human 

Rights and Accountability (ed. with Paul Hunt and Tony 

Gray). Routledge Taylor and Francis. 

Grotti, Vanessa (GS 2000–01, MCR 2002–10, RF 2008–16) Animism in 

Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and 

Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (ed. with 

Marc Brightman and Olga Ulturgasheva). Berghahn. 

Hardy, Henry (GS 1972–76, MCR 1976–90, RF 1990–97, SF 

1997–16) Recently edited the following by Isaiah 

Berlin, published by Princeton University Press: 

Against the Current: Essays in the History 

of Ideas, foreword by Mark Lilla. 

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in 

the History of Ideas, foreword by John Banville. 

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s 

View of History, foreword by Michael Ignatieff. 

The Roots of Romanticism (A W Mellon Lectures in the 

Fine Arts, 1965), foreword by John Gray. 

Harriss-White, Barbara (RF 1987–88, GBF 1988–2011, EF 2011–) Three Essays 

and an Atlas of Dalit and Adivasi Participation in the Indian 

Business Economy (with K Vidyarthee, A Parakash, E 

Basile, P Joddar, A Desai). Three Essays Press, New Delhi. 

Micro Finance and Development (ed. with C Fouillet and M 

Hudon). Oxford Development Studies, Special Issue. 

Agrarian Questions and left politics in India (ed. with Alpa 

Shah and Jens Lerche). Journal of Agrarian Change, 

Special Issue. 

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Hodges, Christopher (MCR 2011–) Consumer ADR in Europe (with I Benohr 

and N Creutzfeldt-Banda). Hart Publishing, 2012. 

Hoelscher, Michael (MCR 2006–) Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance (ed. 

with Helmut K Anheier and Yudhisthir Raj Isar), vol. 5 of 

the Cultures and Globalization Series. SAGE, London. 

Knowles, Kevin (GS 1976–79, MCR 1979–81) Crystallography and Crystal 

Defects (with A Kelly), second edition. Wiley, 2012. 

Lehnus, Luigi (VS 1995, MCR 2004, MCR 2005–) Incontri con la filologia 

del passato. Dedalo, Bari, 2012. 

Ma, Yuge 

(GS 2010–) Grow up in India: contemporary India from a 

Chinese perspective. Lijang Publishers, China. 

MacClancy, Jeremy (GS 1978–83, MCR 1984–) Anthropology in the Public 

Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts. Wiley, 2013. 

Centralizing fieldwork (ed. with A Fuentes). Berghahn, 

2012. 

Ethics in the field: contemporary challenges (ed. with A 

Fuentes). Berghahn, 2013. 

Marquez-Grant, Nicholas (GS 1999–2006, MCR 2006–) The Routledge Handbook 

of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation: An 

International Guide to Laws and Practice in the Excavation 

and Treatment of Archaeological Human Remains (ed. with L 

Fibiger). Paperback edition, Routledge Abingdon, 2013. 

Forensic Ecology Handbook: from Crime Scene to Court (ed. 

with J Roberts). Wiley–Blackwell, Chichester. 

McLoughlin, Kate (VS 2009, MCR 2010–) The Modernist Party. Edinburgh 

University Press. 

Ohira, Akira 

(VS 2011–12) The Complete Poems of D H Lawrence 

translated into Japanese. 

O’Rorke, Margaret (VF 1999–2002, MCR 2008–) Clay, Light and Water. A 

and C Black, 2010. 

Okely, Judith M (MCR 2004–) Anthropological Practice: fieldwork and the 

ethnographic method. Berg/Bloomsbury. 

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Riddell, Richard (GS 1985–96) ‘Temple Beauties’: the Entrance–Portico in 

the Architecture of Great Britain 1630–1850. Archaeopress, 

2011. 

Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh (MCR 2008–11, RF 2009–) Quantum Physics and 

Linguistics: A Compositional, Diagrammatic Discourse (ed. 

with Chris Heunen and Edward Grefenstette). OUP. 

Schulting, Rick (GBF 2007–) Sticks, Stone and Broken Bones: Neolithic 

Violence in a European Perspective (ed. with L Fibiger). 

OUP. 

Schwarzwald, Ora (VS 2002–03, VS 2007–08, MCR 2008–) Seder Nashim: 

Sidur para mujeres en Ladino: Salonica, siglo XVI. Ben Zvi 

Institute, Jerusalem. 

Sellers, Mortimer (GS 1981–86, MCR 1987–88, MCR 2005, MCR 2006–) 

Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of 

International Law. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 

Shaw, Sarah 

(MCR 2009–) Illuminating the Life of the Buddha: an 

Illustrated Chanting Book from Eighteenth-Century Siam 

(with Naomi Appleton). Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

Shapo Marshall (TMCR 1975) An Injury Law Constitution. OUP. 

Shapo on the Law of Products Liability. Wolters-Kluwer. 

Shapland, J (GS 1972–76, MCR 1976–79, JRF 1979–83, RF 1983– 

88, MCR 1988–) Restorative justice in practice (with G 

Robinson and A Sorsby). Routledge, London. 

Simpson, St John (GS 1987–93, MCR 1993–94) Indian Ivories from 

Afghanistan: the Begram Hoard. British Museum Press. 

Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on the 

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12–16 April 2010. 

The British Museum and UCL, London. 

Smithburn, John E (VS 2000, MCR 2001–02) Cases and Materials in Juvenile 

Law, second edition. Lexis Nexis, 2013. 

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Sorabji, Richard (MCR 1991–96, SF 1996–02, HF 2002–) Ghandi and the 

Stoics: Ancient Experiments on Ancient Values. Oxford and 

Chicago University Presses, 2012. 

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (100th volume of a 

series of translations founded and edited by R Sorabji). 

Bloomsbury. 

Sunderland, David (GS 1993–6) Financing the Raj: The City of London and 

Colonial India, 1858–1940. Boydell & Brewer, London, 


Van der Blom, Henriette (RF 2009–) Community and Communication: Oratory and 

Politics in Republican Rome (ed. with C Steel). OUP. 

Wardhaugh, Benjamin (RF 2012–13) Poor Robin’s Prophecies: The life and times of 

a Georgian astrologer. OUP, 2012. 

Professor Robin Cohen (MCR 2007-) is the 

general editor of the International Library of 

Studies on Migration (Edward Elgar publisher), 

a series founded by him in 1996, five of which 

he has edited or co-edited himself. The fifteenth 

volume, Migration and Climate Change (ed. 

Graeme Hugo), has just appeared, achieving a 

total of 10,000 pages for the series. As Robin 

admits, ‘the cost of one of these books can feed 

a family for a week or two, but bear in mind the 

publishers are paying large fees for reprints. 

For some libraries getting digital access is even 

more expensive, while some of the original 

introductions have served to delineate the key 

sub-fields in migration studies.’ 

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