College Record 2017

Tweed David Steven (GS 1995–96) on 12 January 2017.
Witcomb Jeanne (Staff 1985–2003) on 14 February 2017.
Van Stigt Walter (MCR 1982–2003) in December 2015.
Professional News
Abramsky, Samson
Al Lily, Abdul
Banks, Marcus
Boehmer, Elleke
Brown, Carol
Bunch, Christopher
Cartlidge, Benjamin
(GBF 2000–) Awarded jointly the 2017 Alonzo Church
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and
Computation.
(GS 2008–12, MCR 2015–) Initiated and mediated a
‘crowd-authoring’ project where 99 academics from
around the world worked together to compose the first
manuscript in the Social Sciences to be written by such a
large group.
(RF 1988–95, GBF 1995–) May 2017 gave the keynote
address at an international conference ‘Visual South Asia’
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized jointly by the University
of Dhaka and SA University, Delhi.
(GBF 2007–) Successfully applied for £500k award from
the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, on behalf of The
Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
Launched the ‘Humanities and Identities’ headline theme
funded by this grant.
(GS 1996–98, MCR 2011–12, GS 2012–17) Appointed
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education, Oxford
Brookes University, from 1 June 2017.
(GBF 1981–94, EF 1994–) Appointed Chairman of the
UK Caldicott Guardian Council, early 2017.
(JRF 2014–27) Awarded a Leverhulme Early Career
Fellowship at Liverpool University.
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