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College Record 2022/23

The 2023/24 edition of the College Record, the formal record of the academic year at Wolfson College, Oxford. As well as recording the fellowship and membership of the College as it stood in 2023/24, the Record is a chance for members to look back on the previous academic year and take stock of the activities of our many research clusters and societies, to celebrate the achievements of our students, researchers and alumni, and to share news of interest with the whole Wolfson community. This year, alongside updates from members across the world, readers can find reflections on the life of Anders Celsius, Byzantine art, the legal fight for clean rivers in the UK, and Wolfson’s own mysterious Second World War bunker. The Record is edited by Dr Roger Tomlin.

The 2023/24 edition of the College Record, the formal record of the academic year at Wolfson College, Oxford.

As well as recording the fellowship and membership of the College as it stood in 2023/24, the Record is a chance for members to look back on the previous academic year and take stock of the activities of our many research clusters and societies, to celebrate the achievements of our students, researchers and alumni, and to share news of interest with the whole Wolfson community. This year, alongside updates from members across the world, readers can find reflections on the life of Anders Celsius, Byzantine art, the legal fight for clean rivers in the UK, and Wolfson’s own mysterious Second World War bunker. The Record is edited by Dr Roger Tomlin.

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COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2022</strong>/<strong>23</strong>


WOLFSON<br />

COLLEGE<br />

RECORD<br />

<strong>2022</strong>/<strong>23</strong>


WOLFSON<br />

Published by Wolfson <strong>College</strong><br />

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going to print (October 20<strong>23</strong>). Every effort has been<br />

made to verify details and no responsibility is taken for any<br />

errors or omissions, or any loss arising therefrom.<br />

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record and to meet their requirements. The publishers<br />

apologise for any omissions, which they will be pleased to<br />

rectify at the earliest opportunity.<br />

Edited by Roger Tomlin and George Mather<br />

Reviewed by Huw David<br />

Cover photo by John Cairns<br />

Many thanks to Victoria, Luke, Chris, Dan, Fiona, Judith,<br />

Alice, Alex, and all our members who submitted reports.<br />

Correction: in last year’s <strong>Record</strong><br />

(p. 11, ‘A Fond Farewell’), we said that Ellie Clifton was a<br />

Wolfson gardener for seven years. This should have been<br />

‘twenty-four years’, from 1998 until <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

Discover more news on our social channels.<br />

@Wolfson<strong>College</strong>


CONTENTS<br />

Introduction<br />

2 Letter from the President<br />

8 Letter from the Bursar<br />

12 Letter from the Development Director<br />

15 List of Donors <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong><br />

19 Gifts to the Library<br />

Clubs and Societies<br />

21 AMREF Group<br />

22 Arts Society<br />

25 AstroClub<br />

25 BarCo<br />

26 Boat Club<br />

29 Darwin Day<br />

30 Engineering Society<br />

30 Family Society<br />

31 Feminist Society<br />

32 Music<br />

33 Old Wolves and Archives<br />

Research Clusters<br />

36 Ancient World<br />

38 Law in Societies<br />

40 Mind, Brain and Behaviour<br />

41 Oxford Centre for Life-Writing<br />

43 Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care<br />

44 Quantum Hub<br />

45 Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre<br />

Lectures and Seminars<br />

48 Annual Lectures<br />

48 The President’s Seminars<br />

The <strong>Record</strong><br />

49 <strong>College</strong> Officers and Membership<br />

50 President and Fellows<br />

58 Elections and Admissions<br />

60 Visiting Scholars<br />

61 Graduate Students<br />

64 Elected Members of GB and GPC<br />

65 Scholarships and Prizes <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong><br />

68 Degrees completed <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong><br />

Personal News<br />

80 Appointments and Awards<br />

84 Books published by Wolfsonians<br />

88 Births and Marriages<br />

88 Deaths<br />

89 Obituaries<br />

Memories<br />

97 From Tibet to Oxford<br />

98 From Uruguay to Oxford<br />

98 Wolfson in History and Today<br />

Other Contributions<br />

103 Byzantium Then and Now<br />

105 Celsius at Wolfson<br />

108 The Jungle Book illustrated<br />

109 The Bunker<br />

111 Christmas Cards for Prisoners<br />

112 The Marsh Project<br />

114 The Legal Fight for Clean Rivers<br />

118 Editor’s Note


Sir Tim Hitchens receiving the Vice Chancellor’s Sustainability Award on behalf of the <strong>College</strong><br />

Photo: Ed Nix<br />

Follow Sir Tim on X @SirTimHitchens<br />

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Photo: Judith PalmerPhoto: Salix Finance<br />

The President’s Letter<br />

SIR TIM HITCHENS<br />

O<br />

ne of the great joys of Wolfson <strong>College</strong> is its annual rhythm. When Michaelmas<br />

term starts Walter Sawyer’s glorious garden bursts into autumnal colour, designed<br />

to welcome students who may not be here through the summer vacation. The last<br />

punts are taken out of the water. Sturdy souls try to eat their lunch on Harbour Quad, but<br />

their numbers dwindle. The café fills up. The cold weather hits. We take photos of frosty<br />

mornings. After Christmas the meads start to flood, and we watch to see whether the<br />

island is marooned. Then the first snowdrops appear. Crocuses emerge in Tree Quad. Mike<br />

and the gardening team start mowing the lawn again. Students and researchers emerge<br />

from their libraries and labs to enjoy the lengthening evenings. The punts come out again<br />

and the Victoria Arms is once more within reach. Graduation ceremonies start in earnest.<br />

Students try their hand at croquet. Exam season goes on longer for some than they would<br />

like, while others celebrate the end of an academic year. We plan our summer research.<br />

The lawns start to go brown. And then, as autumn arrives, the gardens burst into colour<br />

again.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

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An Oxford college, even a very modern one like ours, thrives on that sense of natural<br />

rhythm and continuity. We provide a predictable setting for people’s lives.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

I’m conscious too that for the last few years we have lived a disrupted life here in <strong>College</strong>.<br />

The pandemic, of course, locked the world up in a solipsistic cell. Everyone is struggling<br />

with the cost of living crisis. And for the last two years we have been going through our<br />

latest epic adventure, the complete decarbonisation of the <strong>College</strong>. The <strong>College</strong> houses<br />

along our neighbouring roads have in many cases been gutted and rebuilt, without fossil<br />

fuels, better insulated, and now much better<br />

provided. The Annex is now a real asset to<br />

the <strong>College</strong>, not just something we couldn’t<br />

avoid, and its garden, thanks to Mike and<br />

the team, is looking wonderful. Other<br />

improvements: we have also doubled the<br />

Private Dining Room in size, just next to the<br />

Upper Common Room, so we have another<br />

space – known now as the Levett Room,<br />

in honour of its funder – the size of the<br />

Sir Tim opens the newly refurbished Annex<br />

Photo: John Cairns<br />

Haldane Room for art exhibitions, events<br />

and entertaining.<br />

Hammers and scaffolding can of course be a sign of a healthy organisation, and they will no<br />

doubt in time return. But for the moment it is wonderful to have an uninterrupted view<br />

and something near a monastic silence in <strong>College</strong>, at least during the daytime. At a personal<br />

level, things took a little longer to get back to normal. Sara and I spent four months<br />

enjoying the pleasures of student accommodation in Block C while the lodgings were being<br />

insulated and decarbonised in their turn. We very much enjoyed watering flowers and<br />

herbs on the balcony, meeting other residents in the laundry, and listening to the late-night<br />

chatter from the <strong>College</strong> bar.<br />

Students in one of the refurbished Annex kitchens / Photo: John Cairns<br />

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So let me look back on what has been a normal, extraordinary year.<br />

I begin with Emeritus Fellow Ellen Rice, who died in April, having been a member of the<br />

Governing Body, Fellow for Archives, Senior Research Fellow and, earlier in her career,<br />

Domestic Bursar. There is an obituary of her in this <strong>Record</strong> by another Emeritus Fellow,<br />

her husband Jim Kennedy, and we will be planting a tree in her memory in Tree Quad, just<br />

next to the Nursery to which she devoted so much of her time. There is also an obituary<br />

of the art historian Kiyoko Hanaoka, a long-term Member of Common Room, who died in<br />

January. We were pleased to provide her family from Japan a place in <strong>College</strong> to grieve and<br />

celebrate her extraordinary life.<br />

Among those Governing Body Fellows who have left their positions is Jeremy Johns, who<br />

deserves special mention since he has been part of the <strong>College</strong> fabric for many decades. I’m<br />

delighted he is now an Emeritus Fellow, and his wife Nadia also became a Fellow at Wolfson<br />

last year. We also bid a fond farewell to Tarje Nissen-Meyer, who has left us for a wonderful<br />

new opportunity at Exeter University; he too is now Emeritus.<br />

Among our new Governing Body Fellows is Rebecca Nichols who joined us in April as<br />

Professor of Materials Modelling, and Jack Hanson and Frédérique Duyrat who join us as<br />

Professor of Roman Archaeology and the new Keeper of the Collections at the Ashmolean<br />

respectively. Liam McNamara also joins the Governing Body as the Ashmolean’s new<br />

Keeper of Antiquities. We also welcome Meron Piotrkowski who joins us from Princeton<br />

as our new AP in Jewish History. We also welcome our first Isaiah Berlin Junior Research<br />

Fellow, Tania Shew.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Photo: Judith Palmer<br />

The intellectual life of the <strong>College</strong> has returned to a state of vigorous good health. Three<br />

new Clusters have burst into life, Mind, Brain and Behaviour; Law in Societies; and the<br />

Cross Disciplinary Machine Learning Cluster. The Centre for Life-Writing has gone from<br />

strength to strength, with significant new philanthropy and a growing community of<br />

distinguished visiting scholars. Martin Goodman has overseen an expanding programme<br />

for the Ancient World Research Cluster. Tibetan and Himalayan Studies has benefited<br />

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from several new scholarships. For me perhaps the most intriguing Cluster event this year<br />

was the investigation of AI and Music, involving the BBC Philharmonic and hip hop, under<br />

the guidance of Dave de Roure and the Digital Research Cluster – what kind of music can<br />

humans co-create with AI? Vlatko Vedral also gave us this year’s London Lecture in the<br />

House of Lords on quantum entanglement, including evidence that quantum effects are not<br />

limited to subatomic particles but can be seen in living creatures – as Vlatko said at various<br />

points throughout the lecture, ‘now it really gets weird!’.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Cyril Almeida delivering the <strong>2022</strong> Sarfraz Lecture / Photo: John Cairns<br />

I’ve found the three President’s Seminars this year very interesting, with wonderfully<br />

engaged audiences. We’ve looked at the way bees’ brains work; how to identify an exoplanet;<br />

and the legality of anti-bias recruitment algorithms, among many other topics.<br />

Our Haldane Lecture by Nobel prize winner Paul Nurse posed what to the non-biologist<br />

is the deceptively simple question: ‘what<br />

is life?’. Nathaniel Coleman challenged<br />

us in this year’s Berlin Lecture to think<br />

harder about the legacy of Section 28, the<br />

1980s law which banned the promotion<br />

of homosexuality. Katherine Dunbabin<br />

guided us elegantly through Roman mosaics<br />

during the Syme Lecture. The journalist<br />

Cyril Almeida explained the interactions of<br />

army and politicians in Pakistan. The Kyivbased<br />

British artist and photographer Mark<br />

Neville, whose works hang in our corridors,<br />

spoke passionately about making art in<br />

the midst of war. Our two CARA Fellows,<br />

Shaharzad Akbar and Katya Kovalchuk, gave<br />

intriguing presentations on their specialisms:<br />

human rights in Afghanistan, and the<br />

Katherine Dunbabin / Photo: John Cairns<br />

iconography of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.<br />

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As the heavy engineering of the decarbonisation project comes to a close, I am grateful<br />

to all those who, in a variety of ways, continue both to drive our legacy fossil fuel use<br />

down and to build our biodiversity: the arrival of our electric minibus this autumn, our<br />

collaboration with Oxbikes to encourage more cycling around, the arrival of electric<br />

scooters. To reduce the use of fossil fuels<br />

by vans who deliver to us we’ve pioneered<br />

the Pedal and Post initiative which is rolling<br />

out to other colleges this autumn. We’ll be<br />

paying for that from the fund we’ve now<br />

established to offset our small amount<br />

of remaining Scope 3 carbon emissions.<br />

Thanks to the volunteers who have tended<br />

the <strong>College</strong> kitchen garden, and all those<br />

who this year and over many years have<br />

done such wonderful work to support<br />

and nurture our natural environment,<br />

from those volunteers working to increase<br />

the species which populate our meads<br />

and marshes, to those in the kitchens<br />

ensuring that the food we eat is local and<br />

sustainable. Our nature and our climate are<br />

two sides of the same coin.<br />

A Pedal and Post delivery arriving in the Lodge<br />

Photo: Femke Gow<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Other personal highlights of the last year have been the annual May Day music concert<br />

in this Hall, marking my five years since becoming President, with music from Brazil, India,<br />

China, and the Beatles; and taking part in January’s life drawing classes in the Haldane<br />

Room, where I was very relieved for the model’s sake that the heating was so good. I’m<br />

delighted that these classes will be a regular fixture this coming year. I was also very pleased<br />

to take part in the very first graduate college Christmas carol service in the University<br />

Church, a tradition I hope will become annual. The <strong>College</strong> was also sad to see the end of<br />

Photo: George Mather<br />

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the long association we have had with the Fournier Trio, who have been playing here as<br />

Artists-in-Residence since 2011 – they have held concerts here every term or so for the<br />

last twelve years. As they have grown more internationally successful and in demand, it has<br />

been harder for them to continue that commitment. We heard their last regular concert<br />

with us in early March – Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D major and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio<br />

in A minor – and they have promised to keep coming back when there are gaps in their<br />

schedule. It’s sad to say farewell, but only because they have been so successful – nurturing<br />

talent and then setting it free is, I suppose, part of the mission of a college. We are now in<br />

the process of identifying a successor artist-in-residence, and were delighted to have the<br />

Scottish / Hong Kong / Chinese Asaka Quartet playing for us in June. I should add that we<br />

have also run a competition to identify the best visual artist among our own community,<br />

and congratulations are due to Junior Research Fellow Amaia Salazar, Emeritus Fellow<br />

Barbara Harriss-White, and Graduate Student Jean Kearney.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

On behalf of the <strong>College</strong> I was also very pleased to travel this Easter to the United States<br />

and meet our alumni and supporters there: in Chicago, Boston and New York. We have a<br />

wide range of people who care about this <strong>College</strong>. I was particularly thrilled to meet one of<br />

America’s leading detective novelists, Sara Paretsky, who lives in and writes about Chicago.<br />

She has very fond memories of her time as a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson at the start of her<br />

career, when only a handful of her now twenty-one hard-boiled detective novels had been<br />

published.<br />

Next year, on 29 June, we will be celebrating fifty years since we moved into these<br />

extraordinary Powell and Moya buildings on the banks of the river Cherwell. It’s both<br />

a built environment, reflecting the optimistic values of the late ’60s, and a living culture,<br />

which means as much now as it did when it was created then. The care that’s been taken<br />

with every detail of this architecture, both the original and the additions over the years, is<br />

wonderful; the way our values and culture have been nurtured by many of you over the<br />

years is equally remarkable. We’re custodians as much as residents. And as the annual<br />

rhythm turns and turns again, I can only reflect that we’re lucky to be here.<br />

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Letter from the Bursar<br />

RICHARD MORIN<br />

This has been another challenging year<br />

for the <strong>College</strong> finances as inflation has<br />

continued to spiral and the increase in the<br />

cost of borrowing has brought about the<br />

inevitable write-down of investment values.<br />

Nevertheless, the underlying health of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> finances, along with our prudent<br />

and cautious approach, has enabled us to<br />

just about balance the books once again.<br />

Thanks to the kindness of alumni and others<br />

we have continued our decarbonisation<br />

programme and have managed to establish<br />

a new, permanently endowed research<br />

fellowship in memory of Sir Isaiah Berlin.<br />

This endowed Fellowship has been created<br />

from the amalgamation of small donations<br />

received for this purpose over many<br />

Richard Morin / Photo: John Cairns<br />

years, and shows that even the smallest of<br />

donations can grow into something substantial and important over time.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

The adjustment in asset prices because of the increase in the cost of borrowing has<br />

resulted in a substantial fall in the value of our investments, with both public and private<br />

equity, as well as property, being challenged by the changing landscape. A predicted sharp<br />

drop in inflation has yet to happen, but it is still generally believed that inflation will diminish<br />

by the end of this calendar year, assuming of course that no other major catastrophes befall<br />

the economy.<br />

One of the saddest impacts of the current cost of borrowing is that we are no longer able<br />

to raise the £14 million that we had hoped to raise through the private markets to fund<br />

a new ‘Garden Building’ to accommodate fifty new student rooms on our south car park.<br />

The design has now been completed and planning permission achieved, and, originally, we<br />

had intended to borrow the money and service the debt through the income that the new<br />

rooms would have generated. The rise in the cost of interest rates unfortunately means<br />

that this is no longer possible, and we are therefore looking at other options, including<br />

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fundraising, to fund the finance gap. It would be terrific to be able to complete this<br />

important project, as it would enable another fifty students to live on site and be immersed<br />

in the full Wolfson experience.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

The proposed Garden Building / Image: Penoyre and Prasad<br />

We have also been working on completing the design for a new sports and wellbeing<br />

centre, and we hope to submit this for planning permission in the coming months. This<br />

work has been instigated and supported by the kindness of a generous donor, to whom<br />

the <strong>College</strong> will be eternally grateful. While full funding is not yet in place for the building<br />

phase, we are hopeful that more funds can be raised and construction can start as soon as<br />

finances allow.<br />

With the value of our investments having fallen by around 4% over the last twelve months,<br />

the <strong>College</strong>’s buying power has been reduced, especially when set against inflation of 10%,<br />

but with very careful budget and cost management we achieved a small surplus at the<br />

end of the last year: that small surplus was committed to the extensive decarbonisation<br />

programme as per Wolfson’s five-year plan. The decarbonisation programme is almost<br />

complete, with the whole of the main site now zero carbon emitting, with no fossil fuel<br />

heating. Our houses in Garford, Linton and Chadlington Roads are also almost fossil fuel<br />

heating-free, with the last few properties being insulated and having heat pumps installed<br />

this autumn. This has been a challenging programme of work for the <strong>College</strong>, and many<br />

people have told me how proud they are to be a member of a college so committed to<br />

being truly zero carbon at a time when it is most needed.<br />

Having reached net zero this year and having completed the current programme of<br />

decarbonisation works, we are now looking for funding for the next stage, which will be to<br />

increase the number of photovoltaic panels on our flat roofs, so we can generate more of<br />

our own electricity locally. We also need to put more insulation in place in the remaining<br />

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uninsulated parts of Wolfson’s estate and want to buy a large storage battery so that we<br />

can draw down electricity from when it is available in its greenest form and store it for later<br />

use. There is also work underway in <strong>College</strong> amongst staff, Fellows and students, to reduce<br />

our own individual carbon footprints wherever we can.<br />

We are currently offsetting those residual individual carbon footprints, as well as the carbon<br />

footprints of our operations, by reinvesting in green initiatives at the <strong>College</strong>. Other, smaller<br />

projects completed across <strong>College</strong> include the refurbishment of the Private Dining Room<br />

through the kindness of a donor (now renamed the Levett Room), and the purchase of<br />

an electric minibus (again through the kindness of a donor), which is due to arrive in the<br />

autumn and will ensure carbon-free travel between the <strong>College</strong> and town.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

The Levett Room / Photo: John Cairns<br />

So, despite all these challenges, there is much to be pleased about in terms of the progress<br />

being made. The day-to-day running of the <strong>College</strong> continues to be blessed by an amazing<br />

team of managers and staff who look after us all so very well. Our Head Chef, Michael<br />

Godfrey, an award-winning international executive chef, and his team, including Sofia Miron<br />

Sardiello, recently promoted to be the new <strong>College</strong> Steward, continue to produce the most<br />

dazzling catering experience, and an environment in which the academic magic continues to<br />

happen.<br />

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INTRODUCTION<br />

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Letter from the Development Director<br />

HUW DAVID<br />

Looking back on the <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> academic year, it’s satisfying to reflect on what the President<br />

in his Foundation Dinner speech called ‘a normal, extraordinary year’. ‘Normal’ in the<br />

full resumption, for the first time in three years, of the regular patterns of lectures,<br />

seminars, lunches and dinners that are the hallmark of Wolfson life; ‘extraordinary’ for the<br />

accomplishments of our students and Fellows, the generosity of our alumni and friends, and<br />

the progress of our decarbonisation and other building projects around <strong>College</strong>.<br />

Once again, Wolfson benefitted from remarkable philanthropic support. For the zero<br />

carbon project, the Wolfson Foundation’s grant of £500,000 enabled us to complete<br />

the replacement of the remaining single-glazed windows in our original Powell and Moya<br />

buildings. A hugely generous and anonymous gift of $500,000 enabled us to embark upon<br />

the final stages of decarbonising our built estate, funding the installation of air-source heat<br />

pumps, removal of gas boilers and comprehensive insulation of our Linton Road properties<br />

during the summer vacation. And starting this autumn, Wolfson will have Oxford’s first<br />

electric minibus thanks to a donation of £86,000 from an alumnus, eliminating many<br />

tonnes of diesel emissions as it shuttles back and forth to Broad Street. With Wolfson’s<br />

crest emblazoned on the side, it will also be a powerful embodiment of the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />

commitment to clean energy and, we hope, a catalyst for other colleges and institutions to<br />

electrify their fleet.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

While the zero carbon project has specialized in transforming Wolfson’s hidden<br />

infrastructure – the heating, plumbing and electrics that make the <strong>College</strong> run – other<br />

building projects have had a much more visible impact. Over the winter, the Private<br />

Dining Room and Coffee Room were amalgamated by removing a partition wall and<br />

comprehensively redecorated to create a bright modern space overlooking Harbour<br />

Quad. The Levett Room, as it is now named in gratitude for the generosity of Honorary<br />

Fellow Chris Levett, has become an outstanding space for events, art exhibitions and<br />

entertaining. Two other projects in the coming months will similarly transform much-used<br />

but tired spaces, both thanks to exceptional gifts: the Music Practice Rooms underneath the<br />

Marble Hall and the Lower Common Room. Across the Cherwell, in Wolfson’s floodplain<br />

meadows, the generosity of the Aspen Foundation in memory of the late Sir Martin Wood<br />

is restoring and enhancing the biodiversity of these SSSI grasslands.<br />

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Wolfson’s vibrant research clusters have also attracted some tremendous gifts. For the<br />

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, we are hugely grateful for two donations of £100,000,<br />

one from the Dorset Foundation and one from an anonymous benefactor, and for the<br />

support of OCLW’s many friends in sustaining its outreach work with disadvantaged<br />

communities and neurodivergent young people. The new Law in Societies cluster revived<br />

Wolfson’s longstanding expertise in socio-legal studies thanks to significant philanthropic<br />

support. We were once again indebted to Honorary Fellows Lorne Thyssen for enabling<br />

so much outstanding research under the Ancient World Research Cluster’s aegis and<br />

Simon Harrison for his remarkable support for the Boat Club, towards our planned new<br />

Sports and Wellbeing Centre, and for scholarships in Physics and Quantum Computing. In<br />

January we established the Baruch Spinoza Scholarship in solar physics, named in honour<br />

of the Enlightenment philosopher and inspiration to Isaiah Berlin, thanks to a kind gift from<br />

alumnus Matthew Levy.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Physics – of the quantum kind – was at the heart of this year’s London Lecture by Vlatko<br />

Vedral. Attended by a rapt capacity audience at the House of Lords, it was one of several<br />

memorable alumni events throughout the year. September’s alumni reception in <strong>College</strong><br />

was for the first time preceded by a talk, livestreamed for Wolfsonians across the world, by<br />

Christoph Bachhuber on ‘The Unfolding Story of the Hittite Empire and its Collapse’. Our<br />

Christmas drinks reception at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London as ever brought<br />

together alumni of many eras. And following three years of Covid confinement to British<br />

shores, the President and I were delighted to travel to the USA in March to meet alumni<br />

and friends in Chicago, Washington, New York and Boston, where a drinks reception<br />

brought Wolfsonians from across New England together at Tufts University, thanks to the<br />

kindness of Tufts’ President Tony Monaco and his wife Zoia Larin Monaco, an alumna.<br />

With a full programme of events scheduled for 20<strong>23</strong>–24 we look forward to meeting you<br />

on our travels or to welcoming you back to <strong>College</strong> soon. Thank you again to everyone<br />

whose generosity, at all levels, helps to make Wolfson the special place it is.<br />

STAY IN TOUCH<br />

The Alumni and Development<br />

Office is here to help keep you<br />

connected with the University after<br />

you leave. Don’t hesitate to contact<br />

Alice Marsh (left) and Alex Fels (right)<br />

who are happy to help if you have<br />

any questions.<br />

alumni.office@wolfson.ox.ac.uk<br />

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List of Donors<br />

The <strong>College</strong> thanks all these<br />

people and organisations for their<br />

generous donations in the last academic year.<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

The Romulus Circle (£50,000+)<br />

The Augustus Foundation<br />

Derek Boyd<br />

Simon Harrison<br />

Matthew Levy<br />

The Wolfson Foundation<br />

Four anonymous donors<br />

The Lycidas Circle (£20,000+)<br />

John Adams<br />

Christian Levett<br />

The Morningside Foundation<br />

Mark Pengelly<br />

The Berlin Circle (£10,000+)<br />

The Aspen Trust<br />

The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust<br />

Vera Fine-Grodzinski<br />

Reid Hoffman and Michelle Yee<br />

Pritam Singh<br />

Suzy Assaad Wahba<br />

The Harbour Circle (£5,000+)<br />

The Derrill Allatt Foundation<br />

Felix Appelbe<br />

Michael Berman<br />

The Khyentse Foundation<br />

Andrew Prentice<br />

The Pritzker Family<br />

Marie Richards<br />

Lord Aamer Sarfraz<br />

George Smith<br />

Two anonymous donors<br />

The Tree Circle (£1,000+)<br />

Thomas Black<br />

Timothy and Kathy Clayden<br />

Jean Pierre de Vries<br />

Stephen Donaldson<br />

Anthony Gray<br />

Jeremy Johns<br />

Ira and Phyllis Lieberman<br />

James Lowe<br />

Thayne McCulloh<br />

Pat Nuttall<br />

Carol O’Brien<br />

Jonathan Paine<br />

Walter Sawyer<br />

Varda Shiffer and Doron Shiffer-Sebba<br />

Ken and Veronica Tregidgo<br />

Anthony Wierzbicki<br />

Mzia Wilkinson<br />

The Heathfield Charitable Trust<br />

The Jefferson Trust<br />

Simon Fraser University<br />

Three anonymous donors<br />

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Patrons of the <strong>College</strong> (£500+)<br />

Marie-Laure Aris<br />

William Beaver<br />

Jacob Biamonte<br />

James Byrne<br />

Joshua Curk<br />

Julie Curtis<br />

David Dalgarno<br />

Roberto Delicata<br />

Clifford Jones<br />

Helen Lambert<br />

Patricia Langton<br />

Roland Littlewood<br />

Gideon Makin<br />

Marc Mangel<br />

Gregor McLean<br />

John McManigle<br />

Andrew Neil<br />

Andres Reyes<br />

Alison Salvesen<br />

Lesley, Lady Smith<br />

Christopher Staker<br />

Lindsay Stead<br />

Leslie Tupchong<br />

Peter Turner<br />

The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation<br />

The Richard Brown Research Foundation<br />

One anonymous donor<br />

Sponsors of the <strong>College</strong> (£100+)<br />

Philippa Archer<br />

Marie-Laure Aris<br />

Liz Baird<br />

Simon Barker<br />

Robert Baron<br />

Steve Barry<br />

Christopher Bartley<br />

Michael Bevir<br />

John Bidwell<br />

Mary Bispham<br />

David Blackman<br />

Michael Bloom<br />

David Bounds<br />

William Bradshaw<br />

Diana Briggs<br />

Harvey Brown<br />

Nicholas Brown<br />

Harry Bryden<br />

Richard Buch<br />

Rhys Burriss<br />

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski<br />

Robin Buxton<br />

Helen Caldwell<br />

Carl Calvert<br />

Juliet Campbell<br />

Sarah Carpenter<br />

Anne Carwardine<br />

Alfred Cerezo<br />

Choon Chai<br />

Cyril Chapman<br />

Chia-Kuen Chen<br />

Samuel Clark<br />

Nicola Clarke<br />

James Crabbe<br />

Andrew Crane<br />

Ken Cranstoun<br />

Gail Cunningham<br />

Paula Curnow<br />

Norman Davies<br />

Margaret Dick<br />

Kennerly Digges<br />

Sarah Donaldson<br />

Simon Dowell<br />

Madhuri Dutta<br />

John Edgley<br />

Charles Ehrlich<br />

Georgina Ferry<br />

Caro Fickling<br />

Alex Finnegan<br />

Peter Flewitt<br />

Martin Francis<br />

Jane Gardner<br />

Penelope Gardner-Chloros<br />

Evan George<br />

Sally Gold<br />

Alan Gordon<br />

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INTRODUCTION<br />

Patricia Halligan<br />

Sabina Heinz<br />

James Henle<br />

Paul Henry<br />

Martin Henry<br />

Ray Higgins<br />

Michael Hitchman<br />

Timothy Horner<br />

Chris Howgego<br />

Dan Isaacson<br />

Lama Jabb<br />

Ann Jefferson<br />

Carolyn Kagan<br />

Lorcan Kennan<br />

Graham Klyne<br />

John Koval<br />

Johanna Kuila<br />

Yusaku Kurahashi<br />

Matthew Landrus<br />

Bettina Lange<br />

David Langslow<br />

Ann Laskey<br />

Helen Lawton Smith<br />

Robin Leake<br />

Jane Legget<br />

Jay Lewis<br />

Nancy Macky<br />

Marc Mangel<br />

Alan Mapstone<br />

Colin McDiarmid<br />

Alison McDonald<br />

Tom Mclean<br />

Carol McQuire<br />

Paul Metzgen<br />

Caspar Meyer<br />

Francisco Mora<br />

Victoria Mort<br />

Lucia Nixon<br />

Robert Owens<br />

Lucinda Phillips<br />

John Pinot de Moira<br />

Raymond Pow<br />

Anthony Rabin<br />

Moritz Riede<br />

Julie Richardson<br />

Mary Ritter<br />

Paul Roberts<br />

David Roulston<br />

Judith Ryder<br />

Louise Samuel<br />

Malcolm Savage<br />

David Scobey<br />

John Sellars<br />

Joanna Shapland<br />

Ben Simpson<br />

Richard Sorabji<br />

Alan Spivey<br />

Gillian Stansfield<br />

John Strachan<br />

Nikita Sud<br />

Anne Sykes<br />

Heinrich Taegtmeyer<br />

Michael Taylor<br />

Swee Thein<br />

Noreen Thomas<br />

Robert Thomas<br />

Charles Thompson<br />

Chris Thompson-Walsh<br />

Edward Thorogood<br />

Michael Tully<br />

Nouri Verghese<br />

Lynn Villency Cohen<br />

Richard Walker<br />

Jonathan Webber<br />

Scott Weenink<br />

Samuel Williams<br />

Lizzie Wingfield<br />

Henry Winstanley<br />

Jonathan Wolff<br />

John Woodhead-Galloway<br />

Christopher Woodruff<br />

Adam Wyatt<br />

Hubert Zawadzki<br />

Sibo Zhu<br />

Four anonymous sponsors<br />

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Supporters of the <strong>College</strong><br />

Shaharzad Akbar<br />

Faisal Alomari<br />

Sarah Anderson<br />

John Barford<br />

Peter Berkowitz<br />

Mary Black<br />

Michael Bloom<br />

Steven Bosworth<br />

Iben Brinch<br />

Kurt Burnham<br />

Andrew Busby<br />

Petra Caruana Dingli<br />

Timothy Claridge<br />

Diana Crane<br />

Claudia Davidson<br />

Catharine Frances Doherty<br />

Michael Durrant<br />

Kate Elliott<br />

Adlai Englard<br />

Vernil Ferdinand<br />

Janet Floyd<br />

Alun German<br />

Veronica Ghirardi<br />

Nicky Grace<br />

Claudia Gualtieri<br />

Anthony Hall<br />

Paul Harrison<br />

Jonathan Hart<br />

David Holloway<br />

Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig<br />

Aidan Lomas<br />

Viviana Mabombo<br />

Davide Di Maio<br />

Jessica Malay<br />

Diana Martin<br />

Caitlin McDonnell<br />

Carol McQuire<br />

Keith Meadows<br />

Rana Mitter<br />

Mir Mohiuddin<br />

Elle Montoya<br />

Michael Murphy<br />

Paul Murphy<br />

Lisa Napoli<br />

Hana Navratilova<br />

Andrew Neil<br />

Jonathan Noble<br />

Jason Oke<br />

Lucy Palmer<br />

Debbie Parker Kinch<br />

Naama Potok<br />

Caroline Prance<br />

Tabassum Rasheed<br />

Christina Redfield<br />

Niyati Sharma<br />

John Shelton<br />

St John Simpson<br />

Robert Tanner<br />

Chelsea Wallis<br />

David Wiggins<br />

Jonathan Woolf<br />

Norman Yoffee<br />

Mackenzie Zalin<br />

Seven anonymous supporters<br />

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Photo: Femke Gow<br />

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GIFTS TO THE LIBRARY<br />

The Library welcomes gifts of books from all its members, past and present, which enhance<br />

its academic collections and add to the pleasure of its readers. Books have generously<br />

been donated by those whose names follow, authors or contributors being identified by an<br />

asterisk. There are also some exciting donations to come, of which there will be news in<br />

the coming year.<br />

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian)<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Julian Ashton<br />

*Dr S A Beebe<br />

Eduardo Benítez-Inglott y Ballesteros<br />

*Professor John and Mrs Mary Brockington<br />

*Marta Cerrito<br />

*Dr Timothy Clayden<br />

*Professor Bob Coecke<br />

*Professor J A E Curtis<br />

*Professor Louis de Koker<br />

*Dr Judy Dlamini<br />

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society<br />

*Professor Itzhak Galnoor<br />

*Dr Amy Garnai<br />

*Kent Gilges<br />

*Dr Kevin Grecksch<br />

*Dr Henry Hardy<br />

Professor Barbara Harriss-White<br />

*Ian Hembrow<br />

*Professor Cliff B Jones<br />

*Dr Alon Kadish<br />

Dr Jay Lewis<br />

*Dr J P Linstroth<br />

*Dr Hana Navratilova<br />

Dr Colm O’Reardon<br />

*Dr Olivera Petrovich<br />

*Dr Fernanda Pirie<br />

*Professor Tariq Rahman<br />

Dr Andres Reyes<br />

*Dr Maria Sandri<br />

*Dr John Sellars<br />

Dr Katsuri Sen<br />

Ben Simpson<br />

*Professor Sir Richard Sorabji<br />

*Dr John Strachan<br />

*Dr Rachel Stevens<br />

*Professor David Zeitlyn<br />

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Clubs and Societies<br />

AMREF GROUP<br />

The group coordinates fundraising for Amref Health Africa, which has been the <strong>College</strong><br />

charity since the late 1970s. From its base in Nairobi Amref operates throughout East<br />

Africa, working closely with local communities to create lasting health change; it is as well<br />

known there as Oxfam, and has a great reputation internationally.<br />

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES<br />

In 1994 the group worked with the <strong>College</strong> and Amref to create the Wolfson-Amref<br />

Bursary, which provides financial assistance every year to students taking Amref’s flagship<br />

Diploma in Community Health Practice. The annual value of the bursary was increased<br />

from £2.5k to the current £3k in 2016.<br />

Egza Zino Riko, a refugee from the war in South Sudan, who is nearing the end of her<br />

diploma studies, was assisted by a full scholarship in 2021. She writes: ‘The Wolfson<br />

Scholarship Award has given me courage, motivation and boosted my self-esteem and I<br />

now believe that after my studies, I will be a skilled and more passionate community health<br />

practice officer. I aspire to effectively identify and implement impact interventions within my<br />

community in South Sudan or other countries, prioritizing the children, pregnant women,<br />

and the elderly.’<br />

During a recent visit to her family in South Sudan, Rhodah Nyareath Hoth, who gained a full<br />

scholarship in <strong>2022</strong>, ‘witnessed the suffering my community goes through.’ ‘Women are not<br />

empowered, children lack access to immunization, and the men lack the understanding on<br />

the importance of healthcare for all. Upon completion of my course, I will be fully enriched<br />

with knowledge and skills to share with my household, my community and with the number<br />

of people I will be able to reach out to in the wider South Sudan. I must confess, I am<br />

getting enriched with knowledge I never expected to have.’<br />

The funds sent to Amref from Wolfson over the years are the result of lots of generosity<br />

and hard work from the whole community here, and we would like to thank you all. More<br />

than £1,000 was donated by the spectators at last November’s Fireworks Night; over £300<br />

was raised in donations in the <strong>College</strong> bar, where a quiz also raised more than £40; and Tim<br />

Key, who annually pipes in the haggis during the Burns Night Supper, once again gifted his<br />

fee. The annual battels appeal raised more than £2,000.<br />

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Coordinating these efforts are individuals such as the group’s two student representatives,<br />

Nameerah Khan and Ryan Walker, who very sadly leave us this year after completing their<br />

studies: they have given such great service and we will miss them a lot. Thanks also to Alex<br />

Messenger in Accounts, and everyone in the Lodge and in Housekeeping.<br />

In July <strong>2022</strong> Wolfson hosted a well attended<br />

panel discussion ‘Healthcare in Africa: fit for the<br />

future?’ that included contributions from Dr<br />

Githinji Gitahi, CEO of Amref Health Africa; Dr<br />

Anne Makena, Co-Director of the Africa Oxford<br />

Initiative; and Tilly Alcanya, a Senior Research<br />

Consultant at the Red Cross Climate Centre.<br />

The discussion was chaired by the head of Amref<br />

UK, Camilla Knox-Peebles, and introduced by our<br />

President, Sir Tim Hitchens.<br />

Before he left the Amref Group, Ryan Walker ran<br />

the 20<strong>23</strong> London Marathon for Amref, raising<br />

over £2,200. He remembers the Marathon as<br />

‘an incredible experience, and one I will never<br />

forget. It’s hard to find the words to describe the<br />

noise from the crowd on Tower Bridge, and it<br />

was great to see the Amref UK team stationed at<br />

Mile 25 to cheer us to the end.’<br />

Mark Pottle, Chair of the Amref Group<br />

Ryan Walker, running the 20<strong>23</strong> London Marathon<br />

for Amref Health Africa / Photo: Mark Walker<br />

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ARTS SOCIETY<br />

The <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> exhibition programme<br />

opened with And so runs the year (in<br />

yesterdays many) – a technically rich and<br />

diverse collection of new paintings and<br />

drawings by Helen Leith Spencer. This was<br />

a subtle and intellectually rich series of<br />

reflections on nature and place, literature<br />

and community, influenced at times by the<br />

experience of pandemic and lockdown.<br />

Helen Leith Spencer, Topples Wood (acrylic on canvas)<br />

Photo: Peter Stewart<br />

During Hilary term the Society’s normal<br />

exhibition spaces were closed for<br />

renovation, but they reopened in Trinity<br />

with new lighting perfect for an exhibition<br />

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that was full of light, colour and gold. Byzantium Then and Now, curated by Elena Draghici-<br />

Vasilescu, presented the work of a group of artists associated with the Prince’s Foundation<br />

School of Traditional Arts in London, who have sought to replicate and revive the<br />

techniques used by icon-painters in the Byzantine Middle Ages. Their work is discussed later<br />

in this <strong>Record</strong> by the curator herself. It is an exercise in recreation, but also reinvention, the<br />

paintings often applying the traditional idiom to the artists’ experiences and perspectives.<br />

We were also delighted to be able to use other parts of the <strong>College</strong> to exhibit different<br />

media. Babar Suleman’s film Unfeeling, which opened last year, continued in the Marble<br />

Hall through Michaelmas term, and Gilles Le<br />

Corre brought a stunning collection of new<br />

ceramics to the Old Lodge and library display<br />

cases.<br />

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Two purchases of small works were made<br />

for Wolfson’s permanent collection: Like a<br />

Wave in this Slope, a recent gouache by the<br />

exiled Afghan artist Kubra Khademi, and<br />

[transcript of] one way ticket, a very special<br />

paper sculpture by Mau Samayoa, intended<br />

to record the moment of his departure from<br />

his home country of El Salvador in 2010.<br />

Both will go on display in the autumn. We<br />

were also thrilled to receive as a gift a major<br />

work for the gardens, a playful and reflective<br />

bronze by Rob Ward entitled Ladder, which<br />

has been installed at the end of B Block. It<br />

replaces the more mundane scaffolding poles<br />

which have dominated the site during the<br />

decarbonisation project.<br />

Sculptor Rob Ward with his newly installed Ladder<br />

Photo: Peter Stewart<br />

Meanwhile, John Robinson’s bronze, Bonds of<br />

Friendship, has returned from conservation<br />

in dazzling form to take up its former place<br />

in front of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />

John Robinson, Bonds of Friendship<br />

Photo: Peter Stewart<br />

Life-drawing classes twice a term continued<br />

to attract enthusiastic and creative<br />

participants under the expert guidance of<br />

Stacey Gledhill. We had a powerful and very<br />

moving presentation from the renowned<br />

photographer Mark Neville, who updated<br />

us on his current work in Ukraine, and a<br />

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staged conversation with former Wolfson Fellow Carey Young, marking her major solo<br />

show Appearance at Modern Art Oxford. Thematic tours of the Wolfson collections and<br />

architecture were offered by Tim Hitchens and Peter Stewart.<br />

Finally, in May we launched a new art competition for the whole community, which was<br />

won by Amaia Salazar (JRF). Second and third prizes went to Barbara Harriss-White (EF)<br />

and Jean Kearney (GS) respectively. After the terrific response to the call for submissions,<br />

we plan to repeat the competition in future years. We are grateful to the Creative Arts<br />

Fellow, Tom Brennan, for convening the judges and administering the process. The 20<strong>23</strong><br />

winners’ works will be put on temporary display in <strong>College</strong>.<br />

Peter Stewart<br />

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Above: Amaia Salazar, Hallucinations Part 3 (photograph) / Photo: the artist<br />

Left: Barbara Harriss-White,<br />

Ypres–Reims–Raqqa–fascist Toledo<br />

(enamel, carbon debris and grit on<br />

copper)<br />

Photo: the artist<br />

Right: Jean Kearney,<br />

Exploring the Borders<br />

(pen and pencil on paper)<br />

Photo: the artist<br />

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES<br />

ASTROCLUB<br />

Wolfson’s latest exhibition is the night<br />

sky. On the night of 25 April, 20<strong>23</strong>, the<br />

Astroclub held its inaugural session, and<br />

it was a success. We gazed upon the<br />

radiant Moon and the dazzling beauty of<br />

Venus. But that was only the beginning of<br />

an extraordinary adventure. Fast-forward<br />

to <strong>23</strong> May, and our second session was<br />

even better. We gathered under the vast<br />

expanse of the night sky for an evening<br />

which began with the engaging introduction<br />

‘What are we observing tonight?’ We<br />

were told how the marvellous night sky is<br />

part of a grand celestial puzzle composed<br />

of stars and planets. The highlight was to<br />

look through a telescope at the Moon and<br />

Venus, the Moon’s craters and the phases<br />

Photo of the Moon taken using the Wolfson telescope<br />

Photo: Oscar Barragán Villanueva<br />

of Venus. For some of those who came, it was the first time they had looked through<br />

a telescope: they said it was a life-changing experience. That night also we glimpsed the<br />

International Space Station passing overhead, a bright moving point reminding us that<br />

humankind’s curiosity knows no bounds.<br />

The night sky has a unique way of drawing us together and reminding us of the vastness of<br />

our universe and the boundless possibilities that lie beyond our horizon. Whether you are<br />

a seasoned stargazer or a curious novice, join us at the Astroclub. Discover the wonders<br />

of the night sky and let the beauty of the universe ignite your imagination and curiosity.<br />

Prepare to be amazed, as we delve into the depths of the cosmos and find ourselves<br />

forever changed by the enchanting allure of the night sky.<br />

Oscar Barragán<br />

BARCO<br />

The Cellar Bar has continued to be a thriving hub of socialising and entertainment. For<br />

new and old <strong>College</strong> members alike, it has been a valuable space both for relaxing and for<br />

making connections with fellow members of the community. We have hosted a number<br />

of events: a stellar series of bops hosted in conjunction with Internal Entz, including the<br />

infamous Freshers’ Week Alphabop, a Hilary term Bop to the Future – replete with<br />

DeLorean aesthetics and ’80s dance floor fillers – and the Trinity term Surreal Subfusc,<br />

where revellers blended the world of Dali with traditional Oxford dress. There have been<br />

pub quizzes, karaoke nights, live bands, cocktail evenings, bar exchanges with other colleges,<br />

a launch night for the <strong>College</strong>’s Garden of Earthly Delights Spring Ball, giving <strong>College</strong><br />

members endless opportunities for mingling and diversion.<br />

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We have expanded the drink and snack options available to our patrons, all at prices that<br />

any comparable establishment in Oxford would find it hard to beat. Fresh pints of draught<br />

ale from cask will soon be permanently available, complementing our already broad choice<br />

of beer in bottle and on tap. For those who crave savoury snacks beyond the usual crisps<br />

and nuts, we are now delighted to serve a British pub classic: pickled eggs. We are proud<br />

of how well our own gin – Spirit Wolf, developed in conjunction with Chalgrove Artisan<br />

Distillery – has been selling since its introduction in 2021. While stocks last, sealed bottles<br />

remain available for purchase whenever the Bar is open, for £45.<br />

Our premises have seen some modernisation and glamourisation. The outdated toilet<br />

facilities have been given a much-needed refresh; the ceiling of the Games Room is now<br />

permanently adorned with a verdant and floral fitting; and we now have a dedicated storage<br />

space for our barrels and kegs, thanks to the kind help of the Home Bursary.<br />

Our overall project to maintain and improve the Bar as the best community space in<br />

Oxford never ends. We have ambitions to widen our selection of drinks and to give the<br />

Games Room a major refresh: updating the lights and equipment, and improving the<br />

soundproofing, to make it a venue for bigger, bolder and more exciting events. We will<br />

continue to promote the Bar as a nucleus of <strong>College</strong> activity over the summer and into<br />

the autumn, when the new cohort of freshers will arrive. We look forward to welcoming<br />

patrons, old and new, and are always looking for volunteers to join our service rota and the<br />

Bar committee (BarCo), the team that keeps the Bar ticking.<br />

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES<br />

Will Thurlwell, BarCo Chair<br />

BOAT CLUB<br />

Training camp in Henley / Photo: Thomas Chapman<br />

<strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> was a year of change. Previous seasons had been dominated by the success of<br />

the women’s squad, and it was time for the men to emulate them. In Torpids and Summer<br />

Eights the men’s first boat (M1) rose to its highest-ever position on the river, narrowly<br />

missing the Torpids headship, whilst in Torpids M2 held the second-boat headship briefly<br />

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efore bumping the bank on the final day. The men’s squad also saw success in some big<br />

external regattas, winning the college category at Bedford Regatta, and qualifying for the<br />

Temple Challenge at the world-renowned Henley Royal Regatta; this was in a composite<br />

boat with Christ Church, the first time any college has qualified since 2014 except for 2021,<br />

when entries were severely reduced by the pandemic.<br />

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W1 at Summer Eights / Photo: Nikola Boysova<br />

This is not to deny the hard work and commitment of the women’s squad. It was always<br />

going to be a challenging season, with a relatively new and inexperienced squad of athletes,<br />

but everyone rose to the challenge admirably. In Torpids and Summer Eights W2, W3 and<br />

W4 all held on to their headship, with the Torpids W4 crew achieving elusive blades. W1<br />

ended in the middle of the pack in Division 1, after a vicious fight with colleges returning<br />

to full strength after the pandemic. At Nottingham Regatta the women qualified for the A<br />

final, finishing respectably in fourth position, and earlier in the year they entered two mixed<br />

novice / senior crews into Quintin Head on the Tideway in London.<br />

The year also marked a noticeable change in the relationship between the two squads. The<br />

playful rivalry between them still exists, but the Club is united in expressing the egalitarian<br />

ethos of Wolfson. With a large intake of new members, we had men jumping into<br />

women’s boats, women hopping into men’s boats, coxes running back-to-back sessions to<br />

support outings for both squads, and even coaches volunteering to row or cox to ensure<br />

that outings could go ahead. At our annual training camp in Henley, between sessions<br />

of working hard to improve our technique – the saying is that ‘miles make champions’ –<br />

everyone was chatting to everyone else, and there was little separation seen according to<br />

squad or level of experience.<br />

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As we head into the Long Vacation, work does not stop for our members from Wolfson<br />

and St Cross. There are pots to be won at summer regattas, new coxes to be given a seat,<br />

the chance of sculling in our small boats. Summer is also when we welcome new volunteers<br />

and say goodbye – or at least ‘au revoir’ – to those finishing their degrees and leaving<br />

Oxford. We bid a special farewell to one of our long-standing coaches, who is moving to<br />

the USA. He marked his last day with us by repeating the first, taking some new members<br />

out on the water for their first outing with the Club.<br />

As always, we thank our generous sponsors and alumni for the ongoing support which<br />

makes everyone remember to Fear the Wolf.<br />

Finishing positions (with the change in brackets)<br />

(1) Torpids, out of 73 qualifying crews:<br />

M1: 2nd (+2); M2: 32nd (–1); M3: 56th (+4); M4: 64th (+2)<br />

W1: 6th (–5); W2: 25th (–4); W3: 37th (–4); W4: 44th (+6)<br />

(2) Summer Eights, out of 85 qualifying crews:<br />

M1: 4th (+1); M2: 41st (+1); M3: 55th (+1); M4: 69th (–3)<br />

W1: 7th (–4); W2: 27th (–4); W3: 48th (–3); W4: 67th (+3)<br />

Aimee Ruffle, Boat Club President<br />

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M1 about to bump Oriel at Torpids 1 / Photo: Al Craigie<br />

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DARWIN DAY<br />

On Saturday 18 March 20<strong>23</strong>, we welcomed fifty students from our Cambridge sister<br />

college, Darwin, for the first Darwin Day since Covid. We began with a classic brunch<br />

together in Hall, before splitting up for a range of morning activities. They began with<br />

rowing, tennis, board games and croquet. Darwin wanted to give croquet a try, and the<br />

Wolfson team were obviously excellent teachers as Darwin just kept beating them: they<br />

quickly mastered the game, and everyone had a lot of fun. Upstairs, a range of board games<br />

were being played, but the tennis players only just escaped the rain. A taxi or two took the<br />

rowers on a quick tour of Oxford before dropping them at the boathouse, where the Boat<br />

Club was ready and waiting to show Darwin why they had boats in Division 1 for both men<br />

and women. But it was not quite possible: Wolfson’s mixed boats were overshadowed by<br />

Darwin’s last-minute crew.<br />

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Returning to Wolfson, the Darwin students had a short break, a chance to see the <strong>College</strong><br />

and a packed lunch in the dry, before another session of activities. This time there was<br />

squash, the ultimate frisbee taster, a university challenge competition which went to the<br />

very final buzzer, and some carnival games by the harbour enjoyed by all. The last activity<br />

session was on the sports field, where children, students, parents and family watched<br />

sports day games and football matches. There was a tug of war, beanbag toss, sprints,<br />

an egg and spoon race, and a three-legged race, of course, for everyone to relive their<br />

childhood.<br />

The day ended with the Darwin Cup being formally awarded to Darwin, before everyone<br />

migrated to the bar for an evening of live music and karaoke. Overall, it was a very<br />

successful Day, and Darwin thanked us for our wonderful hosting. Special thanks must go<br />

to Lizzie Horton, Oana Diaconescu and Rebecca Crossley, for organizing the Day; and to<br />

everyone from Wolfson and Darwin who attended or volunteered their services to make it<br />

the fun it was.<br />

Next year Wolfson will go to Cambridge, where it must try to bring the Cup home again.<br />

Rebecca Crossley<br />

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ENGINEERING SOCIETY<br />

This is a new society which has<br />

attracted more than a hundred<br />

members of the <strong>College</strong> from all<br />

disciplines. It celebrated its inaugural<br />

Open Day on 31 May.<br />

It has hosted informal dinners to<br />

foster interdisciplinary discussion,<br />

and an intricate paper-folding event<br />

on 1 March 20<strong>23</strong> called ‘Let’s make a<br />

flexagon’.<br />

Photo: Ping Lu<br />

The committee is planning more events for Michaelmas term, to include a welcome for<br />

new members and workshops on cuneiform learning and chess playing.<br />

Ping Lu<br />

FAMILY SOCIETY<br />

The Society has had a year full of events without restrictions, despite a drastically reduced<br />

number of organisers, and it has been wonderful to see families new and old coming<br />

together.<br />

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We began with our traditional Welcome Party in October, which brought together lots<br />

of new arrivals to Wolfson, with good food, games and music. This party enabled new<br />

families in <strong>College</strong> to meet their neighbours, and ask any questions they may have. October<br />

was a busy month since it also saw the welcome return of the pumpkin-carving party, in<br />

which pumpkins from a local farm were picked, gutted and carved into all sorts of creative<br />

and spooky designs. We even welcomed some students without children, who had never<br />

carved a pumpkin before, to join in the messy fun. The food waste was all donated to the<br />

gardening team for their compost heap. Halloween celebrations continued with the annual<br />

trick or treating, which began as always with a visit to the President’s house. Our thanks go<br />

to everyone who opened their doors to the children, who were thrilled with all their treats.<br />

The annual fireworks display in November provided another great opportunity for student<br />

families to get together, with the <strong>College</strong> providing the Private Dining Room as an indoor<br />

viewing room for those who were not fans of loud explosions.<br />

We were unable to put on our usual Winter Party because of time constraints, but those<br />

who stayed in <strong>College</strong> during the Christmas break got together for drinks and snacks in the<br />

Family Room on Christmas Eve.<br />

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The new year began with one of our most popular events, the International Party, to which<br />

families were encouraged to bring a dish from their home country, whether home-cooked<br />

or shop-bought. The result was a cornucopia of delicious food which included Japanese<br />

sushi, Korean noodles, African meat pies and Bulgarian baklava. The children also enjoyed a<br />

great game of flag bingo, using their bingo card to locate flags of the world which had been<br />

hidden around the room.<br />

Spring saw the welcome return of the Easter Egg Hunt. This event was a great success,<br />

beginning with an indoor picnic and ending with a fast and furious hunt for edible and toy<br />

eggs hidden all round the Tree Quad, which was enjoyed by children of all ages.<br />

The academic year concluded with the summer barbecue, which was somewhat hampered<br />

by rain but still well-attended, with delicious food being provided by the talented <strong>College</strong><br />

catering team.<br />

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The Society was able to comment to the <strong>College</strong> on a proposal to revamp the playpark.<br />

Two quotations have come from outside developers, and it is hoped that work will start in<br />

summer 2024.<br />

Thanks to discussion with the <strong>College</strong>, the partners of students who are not themselves<br />

Members of Common Room can now be provided with fobs which give them access to the<br />

Family Room, the pigeon holes and the laundrette.<br />

After two years as Chair, let me say what a privilege it has been to help and support the<br />

families of Wolfson; and let me conclude with a big thank you to all those who have helped<br />

me. I will be succeeded by Emilia Antonio and Harriet Hanson, who I know will continue to<br />

provide families with the help and support they require.<br />

Judith Palmer, Chair of the Family Society 2021–<strong>23</strong><br />

FEMINIST SOCIETY<br />

‘Where are the women?’ This seemingly simple question is advocated by Cynthia Enloe<br />

in her book Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. It leads us to uncover the ideas,<br />

unequal relationships and policies, that reveal the gendered workings of our society. This<br />

helps us discover ‘exactly how the world works’.<br />

We asked ourselves this question in the Feminist Society this year, hosting a panel<br />

discussion on ‘Women in Academia’, a reading group on ‘Women in international relations’<br />

and a dance workshop on the ‘unease’ of embodying gender roles in art. Our studentled<br />

‘flash presentations’, ‘tea conversations’ and film screenings promoted the greater<br />

involvement of diverse groups of students. The Society allied itself with Lady Margaret Hall<br />

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MCR, Linacre <strong>College</strong> and Wolfson Film Society for these events. Their format and location<br />

varied, so as to encourage different sorts of conversation. Their diverse range was intended<br />

to make participants aware of the question of ‘gender’ and to ask of their own fields of<br />

research, ‘Where are the women?’<br />

MUSIC<br />

This academic year has seen a number of concerts and musical activities at Wolfson. Under<br />

its outgoing conductor and former Wolfson student Callum Salisbury, the Choir delivered<br />

end-of-term concerts which were well received. The Music Society offered a platform and<br />

organised recitals in the Auditorium by JongSun Woo, En Yuan Khong, David Earl, Felix<br />

Tennie and Amy Thakurdas. A special type of recital was played by Magdalene Ho, which as<br />

a ‘Concert for Ukraine’ helped raise funds for Save the Children.<br />

The Fournier Trio’s residency at Wolfson has come to an end after ten years with a<br />

beautiful concert this spring by the original Trio, Chiao-ying Chang (piano), Pei-Jee Ng (cello)<br />

and Sulki Yu replaced by Soojin Han (violin). But the Society is excited to announce a new<br />

residency with the Asaka Quartet which starts in Michaelmas 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Felix Tennie<br />

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The Fournier Trio / Photo: Luisa Summers<br />

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OLD WOLVES and ARCHIVES<br />

Last year, in <strong>2022</strong>, a bunker or underground<br />

shelter was discovered in the <strong>College</strong><br />

grounds, as described later in this <strong>Record</strong>,<br />

and in June this year (20<strong>23</strong>) it was visited<br />

by a party of Old Wolves under the expert<br />

guidance of Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant<br />

(MCR). The Archivist has been liaising with<br />

interested parties for its restoration and<br />

preservation.<br />

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The Archivist worked with Dr Roger Tomlin<br />

(EF) on a display relating to the antique<br />

Kurdish rugs hanging in Hall, which the<br />

<strong>College</strong> has from him on long-term loan.<br />

Our returning volunteer, Old Wolf Mary Thomas, kindly gave her services to the Archives<br />

again this winter. Alfred Ye (GS) spent time with the Archivist learning about archives in<br />

general, and also generously did some work in the Archives on a voluntary basis. Another<br />

Wolfson student, Alicia Vergara Steinmann, continued as Archives Assistant. We are grateful<br />

to them all for their help and support.<br />

Donations<br />

Items received this academic year include<br />

photos of our former Fellow Archivist, the<br />

late Dr Ellen Rice, from Professor<br />

W J Kennedy (EF); images of the snowdrop<br />

Galanthus ‘Natalie Garton’ (named after<br />

the widow of the late Dr Geoff Garton, a<br />

former Fellow and Bursar of Wolfson), from<br />

Walter Sawyer (HF); and a postcard from<br />

1910 showing the Haldane family’s house,<br />

‘Cherwell’, apparently just after it had been<br />

built, from Dr Geraint Jones (GBF). This<br />

Maria Cunningham and Nicholas Márquez-Grant tell<br />

some Old Wolves about the bunker in the garden of 14<br />

Chadlington Road / Photo: Alicia Vergara Steinmann<br />

Postcard of ‘Cherwell’ seen from Linton Road in 1910<br />

Photo: Wolfson <strong>College</strong> Archives<br />

postcard is a real find as it shows the house, which once stood on the <strong>College</strong> site, from a<br />

different angle than the few other photos we have of it.<br />

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Photo: Wolfson <strong>College</strong> Archives<br />

We also received a commemorative stone incised with<br />

the initials E R for Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Regina),<br />

discovered in the course of building work in the garden of<br />

one of the <strong>College</strong> houses. It does not look particularly<br />

old, and it carries no date or other information, but it was<br />

probably bought from a builders’ yard by the Bursar who<br />

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Old Wolves Events<br />

On 24 November <strong>2022</strong>, Dr Susan Walker<br />

(EF) described the Emperor Caracalla’s<br />

disastrous visit to Alexandria in AD 215.<br />

We learned that gigantic Roman granite<br />

columns were regularly recycled, since they<br />

reappear as part of other buildings all over<br />

the Mediterranean. And we were delighted<br />

to learn that a ‘column’ is often known in<br />

French as ‘un Camembert’.<br />

On 9 February 20<strong>23</strong>, the Wolfson alumnus<br />

Dr Hubert Zawadzki, author and historian,<br />

gave us a moving talk on ‘Captivity, Military<br />

Service and Survival’ – his own parents’<br />

wartime story (1939–45). It was made all Susan Walker and the Emperor Caracalla<br />

Photo: Alfred Ye<br />

the more poignant by the presence of invited<br />

members of the audience who had personal connections to the events described.<br />

On 18 May 20<strong>23</strong>, Professor James Crabbe (SF) gave a wide-ranging and informative talk on<br />

the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, asking if we could achieve them by 2030. His talk<br />

covered life under water, and the importance of education to reduce the inequity of health<br />

provision. It is now available on the <strong>College</strong>’s Youtube channel.<br />

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Hubert Zawadzki and his parents<br />

Photo: Alicia Vergara Steinmann<br />

James Crabbe and Sustainable Development<br />

Photo: Margaret O’Rorke<br />

The talks were preceded, as usual, by a very enjoyable lunch in Hall. The Archivist is grateful<br />

to all who contributed to the success of these events and looks forward to attending future<br />

events herself, now that she has retired. They will be announced on the <strong>College</strong> website.<br />

Liz Baird, <strong>College</strong> Archivist<br />

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Research Clusters<br />

ANCIENT WORLD<br />

The fundamental aim of the Ancient World Research Cluster is to support members<br />

of <strong>College</strong> and Common Room working on Ancient World topics and to promote<br />

interdisciplinary working and exchange between scholars of different age groups and<br />

experience through meetings and lectures, through grants and sponsorship of research<br />

events, and through the organisation of a variety of other activities intended both for our<br />

members and for the wider University and public. The breadth of our members’ research<br />

interests is reflected in the wide variety of events we have been able to organise and<br />

fund.<br />

Public talks and related events<br />

The AWRC organised eight Lunch Table and Talks, one special evening lecture with<br />

drinks reception, and one book launch evening event. New initiatives included the<br />

inauguration of the termly Early Career Research Festival (three events), which have been<br />

organised as an opportunity for members of the Cluster early in their research careers to<br />

present and discuss their research and to meet in a casual setting both with others at the<br />

same career stage and all other members of the Cluster. In Hilary term we organised a<br />

display of books in the Library Corridor featuring the works of Cluster members, which<br />

was accompanied by an exhibition of photographs made by one of our graduate student<br />

members during fieldwork in Jordan and Lebanon. In Trinity term, to mark the end of<br />

the academic year, we inaugurated the AWRC Maritime Day. Here is a list of events in<br />

<strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong>:<br />

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David Wiles, ‘Democracy, demagoguery and theatre: lessons from the ancient world’;<br />

Rafiullah Khan, ‘South Asian Archaeology in the 1920s and 1930s: the Archaeological<br />

Survey of India, Archaeological Laws and the Swat State’; Talah Anderson (for the Early<br />

Career Research Festival), ‘Divine kinship at the Assyrian royal court’; Paul Roberts, ‘An<br />

important excavation salvaged: the Roman Villa Rustica at Matrice (Molise) in Central<br />

Italy’; Thea Sommerschield, ‘Restoring, dating and placing Greek inscriptions with<br />

machine learning: the Ithaca project’; an opening event for the book display and photo<br />

exhibition; the Early Career Research Festival included short presentations by Christie<br />

Carr (Assyriology/Sumerology), Buki Fatona (Science and Religion), Toby Hudson (Indo-<br />

European Linguistics), Alessandra Rocchetti (Roman Studies), Svenja Arlt (Prehistoric<br />

Archaeology), Tom Gavin (Ancient History), Thomas Nelson (Classics), and Émilie Pagé-<br />

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Perron (Assyriology); there was a book launch for S.J. Barker, C. Courault, J. Á. Domingo,<br />

and D. Maschek (eds), From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the<br />

Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine; Izabela Ephal, ‘Who is considered a<br />

usurper in the Ancient Near East?’; Israel Ephal, ‘When and how did the Arabs become<br />

an organic component of the Fertile Crescent?’; Anahide Kéfélian, ‘Roman coin circulation<br />

from ancient Armenia’; Eleanor Dickey, ‘Latin loanwords in ancient Greek: why are they<br />

so misunderstood?’; Roland Fletcher, ‘The urban conundrum’; the Maritime Day included<br />

presentations by David Blackman (ancient Mediterranean seafaring), Nesreen Elgaly<br />

(ancient Egyptian ship and boat models), and Cristina Gonzalez-Esteban (digital maritime<br />

archaeology). The presentations were followed by a punting expedition up the Cherwell<br />

to the Victoria Arms for a pub dinner.<br />

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Grants, awards, bursaries<br />

Thanks to generous funding from Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemiszma and the Augustus<br />

Foundation, the Cluster has been able to support the second year of Lorne Thyssen<br />

scholar Tom Gavin for the DPhil project ‘Homonoia and Inter-Polis Cooperation in<br />

Roman Asia Minor (1st to 3rd cent. AD)’ beginning in Michaelmas 2021. He has now<br />

been awarded a third year of funding.<br />

The AWRC has created a new scholarship for a fully funded one-year MSt in any ancient<br />

world subject, to be advertised for the 20<strong>23</strong>–24 academic year.<br />

This academic year the AWRC awarded six grants in support of travel for archaeological<br />

fieldwork and laboratory analyses on archaeological materials, and for a field school.<br />

These include: excavation fieldwork in Greece; archaeological survey fieldwork in Mayan<br />

landscapes in Guatemala; excavation fieldwork in Mozambique; radiocarbon dating of<br />

human remains from pre-Columbian burials in the Bahamas; study of human remains<br />

from a Roman mausoleum in Spain; survey / architectural recording fieldwork in Tunisia,<br />

France and Croatia; an archaeological summer school programme in Italy.<br />

Four grants were made to support travel to study archives and museum collections,<br />

and for equipment to digitally record museum collections, for historical linguistic<br />

research, and for a fieldtrip to study animal behaviour relevant to research on ancient<br />

representations of animals. They included a trip to the British School at Rome to study<br />

archives and collections, a trip to India for ethno-linguistic research on ancient and<br />

historical language change in Indic; a trip to Malawi to observe elephants in their natural<br />

habitat with reference to ancient representations of elephants; Reflective Transmission<br />

Imaging of archaeological collections in the Ashmolean Museum.<br />

One grant was made to support the extension of a research stay in Oxford / Wolfson by<br />

a visiting Pakistani scholar and Cluster member working on Gandharan archaeology with<br />

a focus on the Swat valley (1895–1947).<br />

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Three grants were made to support the organisation of a conference and workshop in<br />

Oxford, and a conference session abroad. They were ‘Oxford Postgraduate Conference<br />

in Assyriology’ at St John’s; ‘Games, Gaming and the Ancient World’ at Wolfson;<br />

‘Cuneiform in the Age of Digital Archaeology’ in Copenhagen.<br />

Three grants were made to support the publication of research. Imaging and translation<br />

costs for the forthcoming monograph Landscapes of the First Farmers, Cities and States on<br />

the Konya Plain, Turkey: Results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project; printing<br />

and publication costs for the forthcoming edited volume Architectures of the Roman<br />

World: Models, Agency and Reception; printing and publication costs for the forthcoming<br />

monograph Trattati greci sui tropi. Introduzione ed edizione critica.<br />

Five grants were made to support travel to present research at conferences. The papers<br />

were called ‘Where’s the chief? Household autonomy and matriarchal authority in ’Ubaid<br />

Mesopotamia (Edinburgh)’; ‘A Survey of Neuroanatomical Networks in Early Medieval<br />

Period via St Augustine’s Philosophy of Mind’ (Leeds); ‘Staging the Near Eastern Goddess<br />

in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé’ (Sacramento); ‘Carian chiefs, Hittite heads, and other Anatolian<br />

etymologies’; ‘Building Materials and Construction Techniques in Antiquity’ (Belfast).<br />

Other initiatives<br />

The AWRC supported the transfer and custodianship of the Manar al-Athar Library from<br />

the Ioannou Centre to the <strong>College</strong> Library. The library comprises some 2,500 books and<br />

offprints and 100,000 images, relating mostly to the architecture and archaeology of the<br />

Middle East and North Africa from the Hellenistic, Roman and Islamic periods.<br />

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Running the Cluster<br />

The AWRC developed a new website which went live in<br />

Michaelmas <strong>2022</strong>, with information about the Cluster, member profiles, information<br />

on AWRC grants and awards, and an Events page. The administrator is developing a<br />

‘Member Activity’ page that features the research projects and media activities of Cluster<br />

members, including an interactive map.<br />

Martin Goodman (Director)<br />

Christoph Bachhuber (Administrator)<br />

LAW IN SOCIETIES<br />

This is a new Research Cluster, led by Dr Marina Kurkchiyan and Professor Linda Mulcahy,<br />

which provides an opportunity for members of Wolfson, external speakers and a mixed<br />

academic and public audience to explore various facets of law and legal phenomena. Its<br />

launch continues the long tradition of socio-legal scholarship and engagement at Oxford,<br />

where the UK’s first Centre for Socio-Legal Studies was launched fifty years ago and was<br />

based at Wolfson for more than twenty years. The new cluster is generously supported by<br />

the <strong>College</strong> and by John Adams, a longtime friend and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson.<br />

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It is an interdisciplinary scholarly platform which seeks to bring together those with an<br />

interest in the rules, formal and informal, by which social order has been organised at<br />

different times and in different cultures. By initiating exchanges between lawyers, political<br />

scientists, sociologists, human geographers, anthropologists, historians and philosophers,<br />

it seeks to generate new ideas and debate solutions. It aims to work closely with other<br />

research clusters, and will sponsor events jointly where an appropriate overlap exists.<br />

The Cluster plans to arrange a variety of events each year, including public lectures, panel<br />

discussions, ‘author meets reader’ sessions, film screenings and reading groups. Autumn<br />

lectures will focus on a topic which lies at the interface of law and political science; winter<br />

lectures on a law and humanities theme; and the summer lecture will be given by an<br />

eminent international scholar and organised in partnership with the Centre for Socio-Legal<br />

Studies.<br />

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In its first year the Cluster organised five events, in addition to informal meetings with<br />

the students’ discussion group and an all-members <strong>College</strong> lunch. The events programme<br />

began with a workshop session led by Marina Kurkchiyan, Fernanda Pirie and Kimberley<br />

Czajkowski on socio-legal readings of historical texts. This was followed by a lecture given<br />

by Professor Jeremy Johns on Islamic Law in Norman Sicily. In Trinity term, Professor Des<br />

Manderson of the Australian National University delivered a lecture on socio-legal and<br />

critical readings of colonial artworks.<br />

Professor Manderson enjoys a drink after his lecture at Wolfson.<br />

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Other events included a discussion of two prominent new publications which addressed<br />

populism and constitutional democracy. The discussion was led by Professor Chris Thornhill<br />

from Manchester University and Professor Nick Barber from the Oxford Law Faculty. In<br />

June the Cluster hosted an early career workshop co-sponsored by Cambridge University<br />

Press and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, providing an opportunity for scholars in the<br />

early stages of their career to receive detailed feedback from experienced colleagues. It also<br />

provided an opportunity to learn more about the publishing process. Places for this event<br />

were allocated in a competitive international competition.<br />

The programme for 20<strong>23</strong>–24 will begin with a public lecture by Professor Colin Crouch<br />

which will address the idea of post-democratic societies.<br />

Linda Mucalhy (Director)<br />

Marina Kurkchiyan (Director)<br />

MIND, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR<br />

The Cluster was relaunched in November <strong>2022</strong> at a special President’s Seminar on<br />

the ‘Mind and Brain’. Dr Tim Viney (RF) discussed the origins of spatial memory and<br />

memory loss in humans, Dr Rachel Parkinson (RF) talked about bee vision and taste in<br />

the agricultural landscape, and Buki Fatona (GS) provided a fascinating account of the<br />

imagination as a vehicle for mental travel. This was followed by a drinks reception and guest<br />

night.<br />

The aim of the Cluster is to bring together diverse members of the <strong>College</strong> community<br />

interested in exploring questions concerning the nature of the mind and the brain, and<br />

the factors that guide or influence behaviour. Drawing upon the rich variety of research<br />

backgrounds, meetings are intended to take ideas and concepts that are very familiar to<br />

some experts, and share them with other experts from very different backgrounds, leading<br />

to a greater understanding and novel insights.<br />

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The Cluster held two events in Hilary term, which were well attended. Building upon<br />

the wide range of questions raised by the attendees at the President’s Seminar, the<br />

first meeting was held as a ‘mutual tutorial’ featuring Dr Rachel Parkinson and Dr Tim<br />

Viney, who contrasted navigation strategies in bees and mammals. We found a surprising<br />

overlap in terms of scientific terms and concepts, and the discussion even extended to<br />

‘social navigation’ in ants. We were delighted that such a variety of experts from different<br />

backgrounds could contribute. This was followed by lunch in Hall. The second meeting<br />

featured an external speaker, Dr Abhishek Banerjee from Newcastle University, who<br />

provided an interesting account of flexible decision-making, in which the prefrontal cortex<br />

takes a leading role. This was followed by a Cluster dinner in Hall.<br />

Two further meetings were held in Trinity term. Given that many Cluster members live far<br />

from <strong>College</strong>, this term’s events were organised as hybrid meetings (in-person and online).<br />

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Following lunch in Hall, Dr Mootaz Salman (GBF) discussed brain-on-a-chip technology<br />

and humanised models for brain disorders. We benefited from his clear and open appraisal<br />

of this exciting research area. The final meeting of the academic year was another mutual<br />

tutorial, featuring Dr Abhishek Dutta (RF) (on machine learning for fish behaviour) and Dr<br />

Sarah Skeels (MCR) (on behaviour of weakly electric fish).<br />

We are grateful to the Events Office for efficiently coordinating room bookings as well as<br />

arranging lunch tables via the Catering Team. We also thank the Academic Proposals and<br />

Funding Sub-Committee, the Academic Committee, and the Governing Body for approving<br />

the revival of the Cluster, and we look forward to future events held in the next academic<br />

year.<br />

Tim Viney (Director)<br />

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OXFORD CENTRE FOR LIFE-WRITING<br />

This academic year we have expanded both our online and in-person events series, ensuring<br />

we maintain connections with our global community. Our lectures and talks at Wolfson<br />

remain very well attended and in <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> we have especially enjoyed lectures from Anna<br />

Beer and Ike Anya.<br />

Lectures and speaker events<br />

Our lecture series brought high-profile writers to Oxford, including Miranda Seymour (on<br />

writing Jean Rhys’s biography, with live readings by Diana Quick), Ann Jefferson (on writing<br />

Nathalie Sarraute’s biography), and Jennifer Homans in conversation with Hermione Lee (on<br />

twentieth-century choreographer George Balanchine). This year our Weinrebe Lecture in<br />

Birmingham was given by Alexandra Walsham on ‘Writing the Generations: Time, Place and<br />

Family Memory in Early Modern England’.<br />

At the end of <strong>2022</strong> we launched a new international Life-Writing Research Network,<br />

an online seminar series which welcomed four speakers in its first two terms, including<br />

Margaretta Jolly and Tamarin Norwood.<br />

<strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> has also seen the launch of the Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops in<br />

partnership with Oxford’s English Faculty. Convened by Hermione Lee, they have welcomed<br />

speakers including Marion Turner, Bart van Es and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, alongside OCLW<br />

Co-Directors Elleke Boehmer and Kate Kennedy, to explore topics in life-writing and to<br />

encourage Oxford students to share their own work in a workshop format.<br />

Conference and Linton Lecture<br />

In January 20<strong>23</strong> we ran a conference on ‘Women Writing Women’ which featured Michelle<br />

Deininger, Kate Kirkpatrick and Siân Brooke among others. Topics discussed included<br />

‘Confronting Apocalypse’ from an ecofeminist perspective, how women communicate<br />

online, and a case study on writing the life of Simone de Beauvoir. The day was attended by<br />

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over one hundred people, and concluded with our first Linton Lecture, delivered by Anna<br />

Beer on ‘Eve Bites Back: an Alternative History of English Literature’.<br />

Visiting Scholars and Doctoral Students<br />

During the <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong> academic year we hosted twenty-three Visiting Scholars from around<br />

the world. Each week in term time our visitors gather for a closed seminar to share work in<br />

progress and reflect on trends in the field. Among our current scholars we are supporting<br />

projects as diverse as a psychological account of lies, lying and liars, and a biography of the<br />

German anti-Nazi political activist Sophie Scholl.<br />

This academic year we welcomed nine Visiting Doctoral Students, and have three new<br />

students arriving in the autumn. Our own doctoral student Freya Marshall-Payne is now in<br />

her third year, working on a life-writing project with Oxford’s homeless women.<br />

Education and outreach activities<br />

We have continued our relationship with the Unicorn School in Abingdon, which caters for<br />

children with special education needs such as autism and dyslexia. We have also developed<br />

partnerships for a new life-writing project with adopted children. In April we ran a five-day<br />

course with Joanna Wheeler of Transformative Story and youth theatre troupe Four-Eyed<br />

Theatre to train the actors in workshop-running skills and to equip them with the tools and<br />

methodologies necessary to work with vulnerable young people to articulate and express<br />

their own stories in different ways.<br />

Supporting writers in our community<br />

Our events are attended by many members of the public as well as by academics and<br />

students. To provide a space for these participants, in September <strong>2022</strong> we hosted a lifewriting<br />

book group and in Hilary term (January–March) we ran a very successful reading<br />

group on the subject of autofiction, focusing on the work of Maurice Blanchot. We have<br />

also run day conferences to support aspiring writers: in January 20<strong>23</strong> we ran a workshop<br />

on ‘Writing about Living People’, partnering with the Society of Authors to discuss legal<br />

issues surrounding copyright; and in April we welcomed author Patrick Gale, editor Richard<br />

Milbank, and creative writing tutor and author Alice Little (who is also our Administrator<br />

at OCLW) to talk about the blurred line between fact and fiction when it comes to lifewriting.<br />

These practical workshops have been a popular addition to our programme and<br />

demonstrate the value of life-writing to a range of audiences.<br />

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OCLW remains at the forefront of global conversations about life-writing and our work<br />

continues to consolidate our international reputation for excellence. We have achieved a<br />

wide reach working with many audiences, and are able to extend this impact by running<br />

online and hybrid events and outreach programmes.<br />

Kate Kennedy (Co-Director)<br />

Alice Little (Administrator)<br />

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OXFORD TRAUMA AND EMERGENCY CARE<br />

Each term we hold two open invitation meetings, preceded by lunch in <strong>College</strong>. The agenda<br />

includes an update on Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care, followed by presentations on<br />

subjects within trauma care and the methodology surrounding trauma and emergency care<br />

research. This year our sessions have been in-person, but included hybrid options for those<br />

to which we invite our Patient and Public Involvement members, since this makes the event<br />

more accessible to them, some of whom have mobility issues or live prohibitively far away.<br />

This blend has enabled a wider group to attend and take advantage of the connections and<br />

networking opportunities of face-to-face meetings.<br />

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Wednesday 28 September <strong>2022</strong><br />

In our first meeting we met in person and enjoyed the benefits of catching up with<br />

colleagues. Our guest speaker was Dr Paul Mitchell, an international expert in fragility<br />

fracture guidelines and tool kits, who joined us online from New Zealand. His subject was<br />

fragility fracture care in Asia Pacific, including the unique challenges and opportunities of<br />

treating these injuries. Then Professor Steve Gwilym gave a presentation entitled ‘Trauma:<br />

are we forgetting the X factor?’ which encouraged his audience to ask more expansive<br />

research questions, in particular about patient experience and pain.<br />

Wednesday 7 December<br />

Our final meeting of <strong>2022</strong> consisted of two presentations. First Dr Ping Lu talked about<br />

the classification of tetanus severity in intensive-care settings for low / middle income<br />

countries using wearable sensing. Then Professor David Keene of Exeter University,<br />

who works closely with the Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care team and runs several<br />

clinical trials in trauma rehabilitation, presented an update on the ‘AFTER’ (Ankle Fracture<br />

Treatment: Enhancing Rehabilitation) trial. This has recently gone from feasibility study to<br />

full randomised trial.<br />

Wednesday 25 January 20<strong>23</strong><br />

Professor Dan Perry of Liverpool University introduced two new trials which will soon<br />

begin: ‘ODDSOCKS’ will compare surgery and casts for treatment of Displaced Distal tibial<br />

fractures in children, and ‘BIGBOSS’ will assess the best way of treating a problem of the<br />

hip (slipped epiphysis) in children and young people. Then Kathryn Lewis, a senior research<br />

nurse in Oxford, gave a talk entitled ‘Recruiting to studies: what makes it work?’. She has<br />

led the trauma research team at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for<br />

many years, and works very closely with many of our clinical trials.<br />

Wednesday 29 March<br />

Professor David Keene introduced us to a new clinical trial, ‘PROMOTE’, which will assess<br />

the feasibility of a psychological intervention to improve pain management and improve<br />

recovery after major trauma. Then Lydia Underdown, Information Governance Manager<br />

in our department at Oxford, gave an overview of relevant information governance<br />

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considerations for clinical research. And finally Professor Matt Costa gave an update on new<br />

trial interventions which are being set up under the WHiTE (World Hip Trauma Evaluation)<br />

Platform.<br />

Monday 10 July<br />

Our final meeting of the academic year began with a talk from Dr Stephen Gill, Senior<br />

Research Fellow at St John of God Hospital and Deakin University, Geelong (Australia), who<br />

spoke about injury profiles in American Football. Then En Lin Goh, a DPhil student within<br />

our department, gave an update on his DPhil research project into complications following<br />

hip fracture surgery. The third talk was by Martin Holt, who leads the research finance<br />

team in our department at Oxford.<br />

Other Cluster activities<br />

We have also held Senior Management and Operational Group meetings on the mornings<br />

of Cluster meetings, and have hosted ad hoc events related to trauma and emergency care<br />

research. An example is the visit of Gerard Slobogean, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma<br />

at the University of Maryland, who came to Oxford in July to exchange ideas about clinical<br />

trial design. We also plan to host Dr Maoyi Tian, Senior Research Fellow from the George<br />

Institute in China, who will be visiting this summer to discuss fragility fracture care in a<br />

global context.<br />

Matt Costa (Director)<br />

Jessica Ryan-Phillips (Executive Assistant)<br />

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QUANTUM HUB<br />

The New Frontiers Quantum Hub has celebrated the seventieth birthday of David Deutsch<br />

(HF) with a collection of essays from world-leading experts in fundamental quantum<br />

physics. See <br />

The pianist Rakhat Bi has been elected a Visiting Scholar to explore connections between<br />

quantum physics and music.<br />

The economist Francesca Loria from the Federal Reserve has visited the Cluster to foster<br />

interaction between the quantum computing researchers in the Cluster and macroeconomy<br />

research.<br />

The Cluster has been actively seeking further funding from various donors, including the<br />

Agnelli Foundation in Turin, to enhance the collaboration with the INRIM laboratories on<br />

quantum optics.<br />

On the horizon there is a series of podcasts to be realised with support from the Eutopia<br />

Foundation, on how to foster creativity in tailored research environments; and a focussed<br />

physics meeting on constructor theory and its applications, between the INRIM quantum<br />

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optics group and the Cluster representatives, their postdocs and students, to be held in<br />

Turin, in-person in August.<br />

Vlatko Vedral<br />

TIBETAN AND HIMALAYAN STUDIES CENTRE<br />

It has been a productive academic year for the Centre. As in previous years, it has hosted<br />

a broad range of academic and cultural events with lectures on a diversity of topics ranging<br />

from Tibetan history and literature to Tibetan Buddhism and the treasure traditions.<br />

On 24 November <strong>2022</strong>, we organised a book launch for Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche’s<br />

The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge. Khentrul<br />

Rinpoche, an accomplished Tibetan spiritual master with an international following, gave<br />

an illuminating talk on the central theme of his book – the Buddhist training of the mind.<br />

He demonstrated how everyone could cultivate compassion, altruism and wisdom, and<br />

transform oneself and others. His talk was masterfully translated by Paloma Lopez Landry,<br />

who translated and edited the book.<br />

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On 1 December we held the seventh of the annual Aris Lectures, established in 2015 in<br />

memory of Michael and Anthony Aris and their immense contribution to Tibetan and<br />

Himalayan Studies. Professor Sarah Jacoby delivered ‘Women and Wit in Tibetan Buddhist<br />

Literature’ to a packed audience in the Auditorium. Her lecture explored the life and work<br />

of Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé, one of the most esteemed, revered, and prolific writers in<br />

Tibetan history. Whilst drawing attention to Sera Khandro’s unique wit and wisdom, it also<br />

discussed the weighty themes of female agency, Buddhist misogyny and sexual violence. By<br />

demonstrating the ways in which Sera Khandro’s life and eloquent writings record Tibetan<br />

social history and resonate with contemporary concerns, Professor Jacoby enlightened and<br />

enraptured her audience.<br />

On 27 January 20<strong>23</strong> we hosted a lecture on ‘The Art of Tibetan Literature’ by Professor<br />

Geshe Beri Jigme Wangyal, a prolific poet and scholar who lectures at the Central Institute<br />

of Higher Tibetan Studies in Saranath, India. In his lecture, he gave a brief yet informative<br />

introduction to the long, rich and diverse history of Tibetan literature while discussing its<br />

origins, development, scope, legacy, shortcomings and the role of women.<br />

On 24 February we held our annual celebration of the Tibetan New Year, Losar, with<br />

Tibetan prayers, music, poetry, dancing and traditional food and drinks. Local Tibetans<br />

joined current students of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies in organising the party, which<br />

was a great success. Our Losar parties have gathered momentum year by year, and provide<br />

a rare and jovial social space for students of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, and other<br />

members of the <strong>College</strong> and University, to interact with Tibetans and experience Tibetan<br />

culture at Wolfson.<br />

On 13 June Professor Georgios Halkias delivered an insightful lecture on ‘The Secret Path<br />

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to the Copper-Colored Mountain: Jigme Lingpa on Rebirth in Padmasambhava’s Pure Land.’<br />

Introducing a famous Tibetan aspiration prayer, he discussed the Buddhist notion of a pure<br />

land and its lasting influence on Tibetan religion, culture and landscape.<br />

Dr Robert Mayer has continued to organise his hugely successful Treasure Seminar Series<br />

with their eclectic and interdisciplinary focus on Tibetan and other treasure traditions.<br />

The fourth series, in Hilary and Trinity terms, consisted of seven well-attended online<br />

lectures with a diversity of esteemed speakers from the UK and abroad covering revelatory<br />

traditions in Tibetan, Indian and Chinese religion.<br />

The Cluster has been able to give out scholarships and research grants thanks to the<br />

enduring support and generosity of the Margot and Tom Pritzker Art Collaborative, the<br />

Khyentse Foundation and Marie-Laure Aris. This year we awarded three £4,000 Khyentse-<br />

Pritzker scholarships and two £300 Anthony Aris Research Awards to current students of<br />

Tibetan and Himalayan studies. These grants are vital for easing students’ financial burdens,<br />

assisting them with their studies and boosting their overall morale.<br />

It has been a productive and constructive year, and we thank Wolfson, its Events Office and<br />

all our colleagues and friends for their constant support.<br />

Lama Jabb (Director)<br />

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Lectures and Seminars<br />

ANNUAL LECTURES<br />

Syme Lecture (3 November <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Professor Katherine Dunbabin, ‘Writing on the Floor. Inscriptions on Roman mosaic<br />

pavements: uses, locations, audiences’<br />

Safraz Pakistan Lecture (24 November <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Cyril Almeida, ‘Beyond the hybrid regime: establishing a stable locus of power in Pakistan’<br />

Haldane Lecture (2 February 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Professor Sir Paul Nurse, ‘What is Life?’<br />

Berlin Lecture (25 May 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, ‘Black Brummie Schoolboy’<br />

COLLEGE LECTURES AND SEMINARS<br />

THE PRESIDENT’S SEMINARS<br />

Michaelmas term (10 November <strong>2022</strong>): ‘Mind and Brain’<br />

Buki Fatona, Rachel Parkinson, Tim Viney<br />

Hilary term (30 January 20<strong>23</strong>): ‘Ways of Seeing’<br />

Oscar Barragán Villanueva, Clara Fortes Brandao, Rachel Wood<br />

Trinity term (15 May 20<strong>23</strong>): ‘Less Bias’<br />

Jinghe Fan, Pablo Mukherjee, Amaia Salazar<br />

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<strong>College</strong> Officers and Membership<br />

(with date of appointment)<br />

The <strong>Record</strong><br />

at 1 October 20<strong>23</strong><br />

THE RECORD<br />

President: Sir Tim Hitchens (May 2018)<br />

Vicegerent: Professor Peter Stewart (Oct <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Bursar: Richard Morin (Nov 2015)<br />

Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare: Emily Eastham (Mar 2017)<br />

Development Director: Dr Huw David (Apr 2019)<br />

Secretary to Governing Body: Professor Frances Gardner (Oct <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Fellow for Archives: Professor Erica Charters (Oct 2020)<br />

Fellow for Library: Professor Erica Charters (Mar 2021)<br />

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer: Professor Loren Landau (Oct 2020)<br />

Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer: Professor John (Jack) Hanson (Oct 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Data Protection Officer: Ben Bridle (North Oxford Shared <strong>College</strong> Services)<br />

Assistant Data Protection Officer: Luke Jackson-Ross<br />

Dean of Degrees: Professor Wolfgang de Melo (Oct 2016)<br />

Deputy Deans of Degrees: Dr Imre Bangha (Oct 2017),<br />

Professor Erica Charters (Oct 2017), Dr Roger Tomlin (Oct 2017)<br />

Editor of the <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong>: Dr Roger Tomlin (Oct 2007)<br />

Wine Steward: Professor Jacob Dahl (Oct 2021)<br />

Abbreviations:<br />

EF<br />

GBF<br />

GS<br />

HF<br />

HMCR<br />

JRF<br />

MCR<br />

RF<br />

RMCR<br />

SF<br />

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Emeritus Fellow<br />

Governing Body Fellow<br />

Graduate Student<br />

Honorary Fellow<br />

Honorary Member of<br />

Common Room<br />

Junior Research Fellow<br />

Member of Common<br />

Room<br />

Research Fellow<br />

Research Member of<br />

Common Room<br />

Supernumerary Fellow<br />

SRF<br />

VF<br />

Senior Research Fellow<br />

Visiting Fellow<br />

<strong>College</strong> Membership<br />

Governing Body Fellows 58<br />

Honorary Fellows 41<br />

Emeritus Fellows 53<br />

Supernumerary Fellows 45<br />

Research Fellows 40<br />

Junior Research Fellows 52<br />

Visiting Fellows 1<br />

Graduate Students 947<br />

Members of Common Room 775<br />

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President<br />

Hitchens, Sir Tim, KCVO, CMG, MA (MA Cambridge)<br />

Governing Body Fellows<br />

Andersson, Ruben, MA (BA SOAS, MA City London, MSc, PhD LSE)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Social Anthropology<br />

Aveyard, Paul, MA (BSc, MB, BS London, MPH, PhD Birmingham)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Behavioural Medicine<br />

Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest, PhD Santineketan)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Hindi<br />

Barrett, Jonathan, MA (MA, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science<br />

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA Rhodes University, South Africa)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World Literature in English<br />

Charters, Erica, MA, DPhil (BA Carleton, MA Toronto)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of the Global History of Medicine;<br />

Fellow for Archives<br />

Cosmidis, Julie, MA (MA, PhD Paris)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Geobiology<br />

Costa, Matthew, MA (MB, BChir, PhD East Anglia, MA Cambridge)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery<br />

Dahl, Jacob, MA (BA Copenhagen, PhD California)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Assyriology; Wine Steward<br />

David, Huw, MA DPhil (MA Warwick)<br />

Ordinary Fellow; Development Director<br />

De Melo, Wolfgang, MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology<br />

Duyrat, Frédérique (MA, PhD Sorbonne)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Director of Collections at the Ashmolean<br />

Eastham, Emily, MA (MA Oxford Brookes)<br />

Ordinary Fellow; Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare<br />

El Khachab, Chihab, DPhil (BA Ottawa)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Visual Anthropology<br />

Fellerer, Jan, MA (MA Vienna, Dr phil Basel)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Non-Russian Slavonic Languages<br />

Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology; Secretary to<br />

the Governing Body<br />

George, Alain, MSt, DPhil (BSc LSE)<br />

Professorial Fellow, I M Pei Chair in Islamic Art and Architecture<br />

Giaccia, Amato (BA Lafayette, PhD Pennsylvania)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Oncology and Biology<br />

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Hanson, (John) Jack, MSt, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology; Visiting Scholars’<br />

Liaison Officer<br />

Harrison, Paul, MA, BM, BCh, MRCPsych, DM<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Psychiatry<br />

Howgego, Christopher, MA, DPhil<br />

Professorial Fellow, Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek<br />

and Roman Numismatics<br />

Jarvis, Paul, MA (BSc Durham, PhD Norwich)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Plant Cell Biology<br />

Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Computation<br />

Kamnitsas, Konstantinos, MA (MSc, PhD London)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor in Biomedical Imaging<br />

Landau, Loren, MA (MSc London, PhD Berkeley)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Migration and Development; Research Fellows’ Liaison<br />

Officer<br />

Lange, Bettina, MA (BA, PhD Warwick)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Law and Regulation<br />

Lewis, James, MA (BA University of the South, MA, PhD Hawaii)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Korean History<br />

Lowe, John, MA, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Sanskrit<br />

Mathur, Nayanika, MA (MA Delhi, MPhil, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies<br />

McNamara, Liam, BA, MSt<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean<br />

Morin, Richard, MA (MA KCL)<br />

Ordinary Fellow; Bursar<br />

Mukherjee, Pablo, MPhil (MA Calcutta, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Anglophone World-literature<br />

Mulcahy, Linda, MA (LLB Southampton, LLM, MA, PhD London)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies<br />

Nanchahal, Jagdeep (BSc, MBBS, PhD London)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery<br />

Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Cambridge)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Materials Modelling<br />

Pila, Jonathan, MA (BSc Melbourne, PhD Stanford)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Reader in Mathematical Logic<br />

Piotrkowski, Meron (BA Berlin, MA, PhD Jerusalem)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Jewish History<br />

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Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics<br />

Ray, David (MBChB, PhD Manchester)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Endocrinology<br />

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics<br />

Riede, Moritz, MA (MSc Cambridge, PhD Konstanz)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials<br />

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD Münster, Habilitation Munich)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies<br />

Rushworth, Matthew, MA, DPhil<br />

Professorial Fellow, Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology<br />

Schmid, Annina, MA (MManipTher Curtin, PhD Queensland)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Pain Neurosciences<br />

Schulting, Rick, MA (BA, MA Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE Queen’s Belfast)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology<br />

Sen, Arjune, BM, MA (PhD UC London, FRCP)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Global Epilepsy and Head, Oxford Epilepsy<br />

Research Group<br />

Stewart, Peter, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Ancient Art; Vicegerent<br />

Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Delhi, MA Mumbai)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of the Politics of Development<br />

Taylor, David, MA, DPhil<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Aramaic and Syriac<br />

Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD Imperial)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science<br />

Ventresca, Marc, MA (AM, PhD Stanford)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Strategic Management<br />

Vevaina, Yuhan, MA (BA Tufts, MA, PhD Harvard)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies<br />

Wood, Rachel, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Durham)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Radiocarbon Science<br />

Wolff, Jonathan, BA, MPhil<br />

Professorial Fellow, Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy<br />

Woodruff, Christopher, MA (BSc Chicago, MA California, PhD Texas)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Development Economics<br />

Yoshida, Nobuko, MA (BSc, MSc Keio, PhD Manchester)<br />

Professorial Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing<br />

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep, MA (BArch, MArch Istanbul, PhD Harvard)<br />

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture<br />

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Honorary Fellows<br />

Adams, John (BA Rutgers, JD Seton Hall, LLM New York)<br />

Armitage, Simon (MA Manchester)<br />

Barnard, John, MA, BLitt<br />

Berman, Alan (MA Cambridge, Dip Arch UCL)<br />

Bostridge, Ian, MA, DPhil (MPhil Cambridge)<br />

Bradshaw, William, the Rt Hon Lord (MA Reading), FCIT<br />

Brendel, Alfred, KBE<br />

Burgen, Sir Arnold (MB, MD London, MA Cambridge), FRCP, FRS<br />

Chan, Gerald (BS, MS California, SM, SCD Harvard)<br />

Davies, Dame Kay, MA, DPhil<br />

Deutsch, David, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge)<br />

Ekert, Artur (MSc Kraków) DPhil<br />

Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA, MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London, Hon MD<br />

Edinburgh, Prague, Hon DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath, Hon FRCPA, FRS,<br />

Hon FRSE, FMedSci<br />

Gellner, David, BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Ghosh, Amitav, DPhil<br />

Halban, Martine (BA Sussex)<br />

Halban, Peter (BA Princeton)<br />

Hamilton, Andrew, MA (BSc Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD Cambridge), FRS<br />

Hardy, Henry, BPhil, MA, DPhil<br />

Harrison, Simon, (BSc London) DPhil<br />

His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigme Wangchen<br />

Hoffman, Reid (BS Stanford) MSt<br />

Kennedy, Baroness Helena, QC, FRSA<br />

Khalili, Sir Nasser (BA New York, PhD SOAS)<br />

Lee, Dame Hermione, GBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL<br />

Levett, Christian (BTEC Durham)<br />

Lewis, David (BSc London)<br />

Macdonald, Michael, MA<br />

Mance, Jonathan, the Rt Hon Lord, MA, LLD<br />

Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD Edinburgh)<br />

Monbiot, George, BSc<br />

Reed, Robert, the Rt Hon Lord, DPhil (LLB Edinburgh, Hon LLD Glasgow)<br />

Rezek, Francisco (DipL LLB, DES Minas Gerais, PhD Paris)<br />

Robinson, Dame Carol (MSc Wales, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Sawyer, Walter, MA<br />

Segal, Karen<br />

Sorabji, Sir Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA<br />

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne<br />

Vike-Freiberga, President Vaira (MA Toronto, PhD McGill)<br />

Whitty, Sir Chris, BM BCh, MA, DSc (MSc London, FMedSci Medical Sciences)<br />

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Williams, Patricia (MA Cambridge)<br />

Emeritus Fellows<br />

Abraham, Douglas, MA, DSc (BA, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London)<br />

Anderson, David, MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St Andrews)<br />

Austyn, Jonathan, MA, DPhil<br />

Benson, James, MA (BA Macalester <strong>College</strong>, MA Minnesota, PhD Stanford)<br />

Briggs, (George) Andrew, MA (PhD Cambridge)<br />

Brock, Sebastian, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge, Hon DLitt Birmingham), FBA<br />

Brown, Harvey, MA (BSc Canterbury New Zealand, PhD London)<br />

Bryant, Peter, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London), FRS<br />

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB, BCh Birmingham, FRCP, FRCP Edinburgh)<br />

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil<br />

Cluver, Lucie, MSc, DPhil<br />

Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Brussels)<br />

Conner, William, MA (BA Grinnell)<br />

Curtis, Julie, MA, DPhil<br />

Davis, Christopher, MA, DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George Washington, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, PhD Reading)<br />

Delaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD Adelaide)<br />

Dercon, Stefan, BPhil, DPhil (BA Leuven)<br />

Francis, Martin, MA, DPhil<br />

Galligan, Denis, BCL MA DCL (LLB Queensland, AcSS)<br />

Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc Torino, PhD Lausanne)<br />

Gombrich, Richard, MA, DPhil (AM Harvard)<br />

Goodman, Martin, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA<br />

Gordon, Alan, CBE, MA, FCMI<br />

Harriss-White, Barbara, MA (DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East Anglia)<br />

Hoare, Sir (Charles) Antony, MA, DFBCS, FRS<br />

Isaacson, Daniel (AB Harvard) MA, DPhil<br />

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward (MA Cambridge)<br />

Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil<br />

Kennedy, (William) James, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD London)<br />

Kurtz, Donna, MA, DPhil (BA Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA<br />

Langslow, David, MA, DPhil<br />

Mann, Joel, KNZM, DM (MBChB, PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP, FRSNZ<br />

McDiarmid, Colin, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Edinburgh)<br />

McKenna, (William) Gillies, MA (BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert Einstein)<br />

Neil, (Hugh) Andrew (MB, BS, DSc London, MA Cambridge) MA, FFPHM, FRCP, RD<br />

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, MA (Diplom Munich, MA, PhD Princeton)<br />

Penney, John, MA, DPhil (MA Pennsylvania)<br />

Perrins, Christopher, MA, DPhil, (BSc London), FRS, LVO<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Ramble, Charles, MA, DPhil (BA Durham)<br />

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas, MA DPhil<br />

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA PhD Cambridge)<br />

Robey, David, MA<br />

Robinson, Chase, MA (BA Brown, PhD Harvard)<br />

Sanderson, Alexis, MA<br />

Shotton, David, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Tomlin, Roger, MA, DPhil, FSA; Editor of the <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong><br />

Walker, Susan, MA (BA, PhD London), FSA<br />

Watson, Oliver, MA (BA Durham, PhD London)<br />

Watts, Anthony, MA (BSc London, PhD Durham, DSc Oxon), FRS<br />

Wilkie, Alex, MA (MSc, PhD London), FRS<br />

Wyatt, Derek, MA, DPhil<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Supernumerary Fellows<br />

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Bays, Martin, MMath, DPhil<br />

Bhaskaran, Harish, MA (BE Pune, MS PhD Maryland)<br />

Brockdorff, Neil, MA (BSc Sussex, PhD Glasgow)<br />

Clemit, Pamela, BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Coleman, John, MA (BA, DPhil York)<br />

Collins, Paul (MA, PhD UCL)<br />

Crabbe, (Michael) James, FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD, DSc Manchester) FRSA, FRSC,<br />

CChem, CBiol, FIBiol, FLS<br />

De Roure, David, MA (PhD Southampton)<br />

Ehlers, Anke (Hab. Marburg) MA (PhD Tübingen)<br />

Ferreira, Pedro, MA (Licentiate Lisbon, PhD Imperial)<br />

Franklinos, Tristan, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St Andrew’s)<br />

Graham, Simon (MBChB, MSc Leeds, PhD Edinburgh)<br />

Gwilym, Stephen, DPhil (MBBS London)<br />

Hohee, Cho, DPhil (BA, MA Korea)<br />

Jabb, Lama, MA, DPhil (MSc SOAS)<br />

Jamil, Nadia, DPhil (MA Edinburgh)<br />

Kaski, Kimmo, DPhil (MSc Helsinki)<br />

Kay, Philip, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FSA<br />

Kennedy-Allum, Kate (BA, PhD Cambridge, MA KCL, Dip RC Mus)<br />

Key, Timothy, DPhil (BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London)<br />

Kihato, Caroline, (BA Nairobi, MSc Witwatersrand, PhD South Africa)<br />

Kureshi, Yasser (BA Pennsylvania, PhD Brandeis)<br />

Kurkchiyan, Marina (MSc Yereven, PhD Vilnius)<br />

Lachman, Jamie, MA, DPhil (BA Yale)<br />

Landrus, Matthew, MA, DPhil (MA Louisville)<br />

Leeson, Paul (MB BChir, PhD Cambridge, BSc St And, FRCP)<br />

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Merrony, Mark, MPhil, MSt, DPhil (BA Wales St David’s)<br />

Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH Zurich)<br />

Nuttall, Patricia, OBE, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD Reading)<br />

Ogude, Helidah (BA Witwatersrand, MS, PhD New York)<br />

Paine, Jonathan, BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Park, Albert, Bsc, MIT, MPhil (PhD Cambridge)<br />

Penn-Barwell, Jowan (MB Birmingham, MSc Wales, PhD Newcastle)<br />

Pottle, Mark, MA, DPhil (BA Sheffield)<br />

Quinn, Catherine, EMBA (BA Birmingham, MA Ohio State)<br />

Roberts, Paul, MA (BA Cambridge, MPhil Sheffield)<br />

Ryan, Cressida, BA, MPhil Cambridge, PhD Nottingham<br />

Sheldon, Benjamin, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD Sheffield)<br />

Titchener, Andrew (MA Cambridge, MSc Cardiff)<br />

Toth, Ida, MA, DPhil (BA, MPhil Belgrade)<br />

Tucker, Margaret, MA, DPhil<br />

Vanderslott, Samantha, MSc (BSc Bath, PhD UCL)<br />

Willett, Sir Keith, MA (MB BS London), FRCS<br />

Zeitlyn, David, MA, DPhil (MSc London, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Research Fellows<br />

Ashkenazi, Shaked (MSc, PhD Weizmann)<br />

Avdokhin, Arkadii (MA Russia, PhD London)<br />

Bales, Adam (MA Monash, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Bardelli, Martino (MSc Switzerland, PhD London)<br />

Banerjee, Abhirup (BSc Calcutta, MStat PhD India)<br />

Bolla, Jani (MSc Pondicherry, PhD Iowa)<br />

Bongianino, Umberto, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Bortone, Pietro, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Bowden, Thomas, DPhil (MA St Andrews)<br />

Bruche, Susann (Diplom Leipzig, MCRS, PhD Imperial)<br />

Cohn, Martin, MA (MSc Denmark, PhD Copenhagen)<br />

Collins, Katherine (MA, PhD West of England)<br />

Constantin, Andrei, DPhil (MSc Munich)<br />

D’Alessandro, William (BA Canisius, MS PhD Illinois)<br />

Dafinca, Ruxandra, MSc, DPhil (BSc Jacobs Bremen)<br />

Dutta, Abhishek (BEng Nepal, MSc York, PhD Twente)<br />

Frampton, Sally (BSc Bristol, MA PhD UCL)<br />

Fransham, Mark, MSc, DPhil<br />

Gardner, Matt Hunt (BA King’s, MA Newfoundland, PhD Toronto)<br />

Georgieva, Antoniya (BSc Technical Univ Sofia, PhD Portsmouth)<br />

Geurds, Alexander (MA, PhD Leiden)<br />

Godin, Marie, MSc (PhD London)<br />

Grecksch, Kevin (MA Leipzig, PhD Oldenburg)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Han, Qing (BA Guangzhou, MSc Changchun, PhD Bristol)<br />

Haruda, Ashleigh (BA Mount Holyoke, MSc UCL, PhD Exeter)<br />

Hass, Binesh, MSt, DPhil<br />

Hilkens, Andy (MA Louvain, PhD Gent)<br />

Lutomski, Corinne (BSc Wayne, DPhil Indiana)<br />

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc Turin)<br />

Martinez-Sanchez, Noelia (MSc Madrid, PhD Santiago)<br />

Minassian, Angela, DPhil (BA Cambridge, MBBS Imperial)<br />

Molina-Munoz, Adriana (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois)<br />

Montelongo, Yunuen (MSc Dundee, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Nimura, Courtney (MA London, PhD Reading)<br />

Palacios-Gonzalez, Cesar (MPhil Mexico, PhD Manchester)<br />

Parkinson, Rachel (BSc, PhD Saskatchewan)<br />

Schmid, Nora (MA, PhD Berlin)<br />

Shalev, Nir, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv)<br />

Viney, Tim (MBiol Bath, PhD Basel)<br />

Williamson, Victoria (BSc, PhD Bath)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellows<br />

Daneshmand, Parsa, MPhil, DPhil Assyriology<br />

Page-Perron, Emilie (BA Quebec, MA Geneva, PhD Toronto) Assyriology<br />

Shew, Tania, MPhil (BA Sussex, PhD Manchester) Isaiah Berlin<br />

Junior Research Fellows<br />

Agrawal, Utkarsh (BA Panjab, MA India, PhD Nottingham)<br />

Almeida-Warren, Katarina, DPhil (BSc Sheffield, MSc UCL)<br />

Al-Rashid, Moudhy, MPhil, DPhil<br />

Araneda Machuca, Gabriel (MA Chile, PhD Innsbruck)<br />

Arantes, Virginie (MA Liege, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Barragan Villanueva, Oscar (MSc Guanajuato, PhD Turin) Dennis Sciama<br />

Bianconi, Michele, DPhil (BA, MA Pisa)<br />

Browning, Alex (BA, MA, PhD Queensland)<br />

Cerveux, Alexandre (BA, MA, PhD Sorbonne)<br />

Davranoglou, Leonidas-Romanos, DPhil<br />

Decharneux, Julian (BA, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Duan, Baihui (MA South Korea, PhD Barcelona)<br />

Gao, Min (BA China, MD Beijing, PhD Peking)<br />

Garcia-Garcia, Carlos (MSc Madrid, PhD Barcelona)<br />

Hamper, Josie (MA St Andrews, MSc, PhD London)<br />

Hauk, Cathrin (MSc, PhD Tübingen)<br />

Herskowitz, Daniel, DPhil (BA Israel, MA Hebrew)<br />

Hu, Zhiyuan, DPhil<br />

Im, Becky, DPhil (BSc UCL, MPhil Cambridge)<br />

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Jing, Yifan (BSc, MSc Simon Fraser, PhD Illinois)<br />

Joyce, Jack (BA, MA York, PhD Loughborough)<br />

Kelegama, Thiruni (BA Peradeniya, MA London, PhD Zurich)<br />

Kim, Young Chan, DPhil (MRes Nottingham)<br />

Krell, Dominik, MSc (BA Berlin, PhD Hamburg)<br />

Lau, Doreen (BSc Singapore, MA Imperial, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Linos, Marie, (BA, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Metcalfe David, DPhil (MSc Edinburgh)<br />

Middleton, Steven, DPhil<br />

Muir, Jack (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois)<br />

Nelson, Thomas, BA, MSt (PhD Cambridge)<br />

New, Katherine, BA, MSt, DPhil<br />

Niksaite, Vaida (BA, MA Vilnius, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Nozimova, Shahnoza (BA Central Asia, MA Bishkek, PhD George Mason)<br />

Oncioiu, Sinziana (MSc Sweden, PhD Bordeaux)<br />

Piron, Anthony (MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Porqueres, Natalia (BSc, MSc Barcelona, PhD Munich)<br />

Ramble, Olivia, BA (MA, PhD Paris)<br />

Robertson, David (BA, MA Sydney, PhD Princeton)<br />

Robinson, Natasha, MSc, DPhil<br />

Salazar, Amaia (BA, MA, PhD Madrid)<br />

Salman, Mootaz (MSc, PhD Sheffield)<br />

Sarkisyan, Nikolay (MA St Petersburg, PhD Oslo)<br />

Tadesse, Amde Zafu (BSc, MSc Addis Ababa, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Titelboim, Danna (MSc, PhD Israel)<br />

Votruba, Nicole (BA, MA Munich, MSc, PhD London)<br />

Wilkinson, Hayden (BSc Queensland, PhD Australia)<br />

Wu, Wenchuan, DPhil (MSc Tsinghua)<br />

Ye, Jinhe (BSc Singapore, PhD Notre Dame)<br />

Zubani, Alessia (BA, MA Venice, PhD Bologna)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Creative Arts Fellow<br />

Brennan, Tom (BA American Theatre Arts)<br />

ELECTIONS AND ADMISSIONS <strong>2022</strong> –<strong>23</strong><br />

Governing Body Fellows<br />

Duyrat, Frédérique (MA, PhD Sorbonne)<br />

Hanson, (John) Jack, MSt, DPhil<br />

McNamara, Liam, BA, MSt<br />

Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Cambridge)<br />

Piotrkowski, Meron (BA Berlin, MA, PhD Jerusalem)<br />

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Emeritus Fellows<br />

Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil<br />

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, MA (Diplom Munich, MA, PhD Princeton)<br />

Supernumerary Fellows<br />

Bays, Martin, MMath, DPhil<br />

Gwilym, Stephen, DPhil (MBBS London)<br />

Hohee, Cho, DPhil (BA, MA Korea)<br />

Jamil, Nadia, DPhil (MA Edinburgh)<br />

Kihato, Caroline (BA Nairobi, MSc Witwatersrand, PhD South Africa)<br />

Kureshi, Yasser (BA Pennsylvania, PhD Brandeis)<br />

Lachman, Jamie, MA, DPhil (BA Yale)<br />

Ogude, Helidah (BA Witwatersrand, MS, PhD New York)<br />

Park, Albert, Bsc, MIT, MPhil (PhD Cambridge)<br />

Penn-Barwell, Jowan (MB Birmingham, MSc Wales, PhD Newcastle)<br />

Roberts, Paul, MA (BA Cambridge, MPhil Sheffield)<br />

Vanderslott, Samantha, MSc (BSc Bath, PhD UCL)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Research Fellows<br />

Avdokhin, Arkadii (MA Russia, PhD London)<br />

Banerjee, Abhirup (BSc Calcutta, MStat PhD India)<br />

D’Alessandro, William (BA Canisius, MS PhD Illinois)<br />

Dutta, Abhishek (BEng Nepal, MSc York, PhD Twente)<br />

Frampton, Sally (BSc Bristol, MA PhD UCL)<br />

Gardner, Matt Hunt (BA King’s, MA Newfoundland, PhD Toronto)<br />

Han, Qing (BA Guangzhou, MSc Changchun, PhD Bristol)<br />

Haruda, Ashleigh (BA Mount Holyoke, MSc UCL, PhD Exeter)<br />

Minassian, Angela, DPhil (BA Cambridge, MBBS Imperial)<br />

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellows<br />

Daneshmand, Parsa, MPhil, DPhil Assyriology<br />

Shew, Tania, MPhil (BA Sussex, PhD Manchester) Isaiah Berlin<br />

Junior Research Fellows<br />

Agrawal, Utkarsh (BA Panjab, MA India, PhD Nottingham)<br />

Almeida-Warren, Katarina, DPhil (BSc Sheffield, MSc UCL)<br />

Bianconi, Michele, DPhil (BA, MA Pisa)<br />

Browning, Alex (BA, MA, PhD Queensland)<br />

Gao, Min (BA China, MD Beijing, PhD Peking)<br />

Hamper, Josie (MA St Andrews, MSc, PhD London)<br />

Hauk, Cathrin (MSc, PhD Tübingen)<br />

Im, Becky, DPhil (BSc UCL, MPhil Cambridge)<br />

Jing, Yifan (BSc, MSc Simon Fraser, PhD Illinois)<br />

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Joyce, Jack (BA, MA York, PhD Loughborough)<br />

Krell, Dominik, MSc (BA Berlin, PhD Hamburg)<br />

Lau, Doreen (BSc Singapore, MA Imperial, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Niksaite, Vaida (BA, MA Vilnius, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Nozimova, Shahnoza (BA Central Asia, MA Bishkek, PhD George Mason)<br />

Piron, Anthony (MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Porqueres, Natalia (BSc, MSc Barcelona, PhD Munich)<br />

Robertson, David (BA, MA Sydney, PhD Princeton)<br />

Tadesse, Amde Zafu (BSc, MSc Addis Ababa, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />

Ye, Jinhe (BSc Singapore, PhD Notre Dame)<br />

Zubani, Alessia (BA, MA Venice, PhD Bologna)<br />

Visiting Scholars in residence during the academic year <strong>2022</strong>-<strong>23</strong><br />

Akbar, Shaharzad (MPhil, BA Kabul)<br />

Anand, Nikhil (BA Reed, MESc Yale, PhD Stanford)<br />

Arnaut, Fedora (BA Azerbaijan, MA Gazi, PhD Azerbaijan)<br />

Beattie, Geoffrey (BSc Birmingham, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Bigg, Charlotte, BA (MPhil, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Black, Mary (BA, Trinity Dublin, MPH Harvard, MD Trinity Dublin)<br />

Broadhead, Edwin (BA Mississippi, MDiv, PhD Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,<br />

PhD Zurich)<br />

Chester, Diana (BA Mount Holyoke, MA Columbia, PhD Porto)<br />

Cochrane, Thandeka (BSocSci Cape Town, MPhil Cambridge, MSc Amsterdam,<br />

PhD Cambridge)<br />

Culkin, Katherine (BA Middlebury, PhD New York)<br />

Daneshmand, Mohammad, MPhil, DPhil<br />

De Koker, Louis (LLB Free State, LLM Free State, LLM Cambridge, LLD Free State)<br />

De Vita, Lorena (BA Rome, MSc LSE, PhD Aberystwyth)<br />

Di Chiara, Francesco (MA Palermo, PhD Messina)<br />

Djagalov, Rossen (BA Williams, PhD Yale)<br />

Donner, Rebecca (BA Berkeley, MFA Columbia)<br />

Ferrer, Ada (BA Vassar, MA Texas, PhD Michigan)<br />

Gandhi, Ajay (BA Alberta, MA McGill, PhD Yale)<br />

Gualtieri, Claudia (BA Bologna, MScR Leeds, PhD Leeds)<br />

Harwood, Larry (BS North Carolina, MA Trinity Seminary, PhD Marquette)<br />

Hembrow, Ian (BSc Reading)<br />

Hooberman, Lucy, BA, MA<br />

Jin, Jue (BA Shanghai, MA Shanghai, PhD Shanghai)<br />

Komisarof, Adam (BA Brown, MA Antich, PhD International Christian)<br />

Kovalchuk, Kateryna (BA Lviv, MPhil Budapest, PhD Leuven)<br />

Mahmoudian, Safa (BA, MSc, DPhil Shahid Beheshti)<br />

Meuret, Isabelle (BA, MA, PhD Louvain)<br />

Morand, Anne-France, MStud, MLitt (PhD Geneva)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Mukherjee, Mitali (BA Delhi, PGDip India)<br />

Muller, Tobias (BA Munich, MPhil Cambridge, MA Munich, PhD Cambridge)<br />

Newheiser, David. MPhil (BA Washington and Lee, PhD Chicago)<br />

Norwood, Tamarin, BA, DPhil (BFA St Martins, MFA Goldsmiths)<br />

Potenza, Francesca (MA Rome, PhD Rome)<br />

Quartermain, Thomas, MSt, DPhil (BA California, MA Korea)<br />

Robertson, Mitchell, MSt, DPhil (BA Melbourne)<br />

Rodkey, Elissa (BA Gordon, MA York, PhD York)<br />

Stalla, Heidi, MPhil, DPhil (BA Stanford)<br />

Stockwell, SeongHee (BA, MA Bond, PhD Queensland, PhD RMIT)<br />

Tung, Shirley, MSt (BA Berkeley, PhD Los Angeles)<br />

Ui Chionna, Jackie (BA Dublin, MA Cork, PhD Galway)<br />

Vertiienko, Hanna (MA Kyvi, PhD Ukraine)<br />

Yetisen, Ali (BS Arizona, PhD Cambridge)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Graduate students<br />

Abdul, Adewunmi Oluwaseun (DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time))<br />

Agarwal, Poorvi (EMBA (Jan))<br />

Agarwal, Anirudh (MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology))<br />

Agon, Roxane Claire Andréa (DPhil Socio-Legal Studies)<br />

Ahsan, Nawara Faiza (MSc Genomic Medicine)<br />

Ahuja, Ketan Kamal (DPhil Law (Part-time))<br />

Alkhodari, Mohanad A R (DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />

Ambrosio, Maria Da Graca (DPhil Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation)<br />

Antoine, Sebastian Joseph (MSc Social Anthropology)<br />

Ao, Xiang (DPhil Geography and the Environment)<br />

Arvo, Peter Lewis Eckblad (MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies)<br />

Ayim, Olivia Vashti (DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics)<br />

Baracco, Chiara (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics)<br />

Barucic, Lilli Dalila (MPhil Islamic Studies and History)<br />

Bellviure Pérez, Joel (MSt Classical Archaeology)<br />

Berg, Olga (Executive MBA (Jan))<br />

Bhargava, Sudeep Solanki (MSc Social Science of the Internet)<br />

Binti Kamal Koh, Syamilah Heng (MSt Islamic Studies and History)<br />

Bolte, Lara (DPhil Psychiatry)<br />

Boyle, Joseph Scott (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management)<br />

Cameron, Emma Farquhar Young (MPhil Music (Musicology))<br />

Canning, Erin Elizabeth (DPhil Engineering Science)<br />

Cao, Nengzhi (MSt History of Art and Visual Culture)<br />

Carcano, Leone Giorgio (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance)<br />

Caslin, Ellie Jean (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time))<br />

Chai, Shaokang (DPhil Organic Chemistry)<br />

Chang, Chih-Wei (DPhil Chemical Biology)<br />

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Chen, Xingyu (MSt History, British and European History 1700–1850)<br />

Chen, Siyuan (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics)<br />

Chowdhury, Forhad Uddin Hasan (DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />

Chueh, Hung-Ju (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences)<br />

Colledge, Isobel Florence (MPhil Russian and East European Studies)<br />

Collett, Max Gordon (MSc Environmental Change and Management)<br />

Cooper, Hallam (MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Political Evaluation)<br />

Debo, Brian Murphy (DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />

Delattre, Catherine Brennan Flaherty (DPhil Psychiatry)<br />

Dengu, Pondai Farai (EMBA (Jan))<br />

Deva, Zaid Abdul Mohsee Ul Latief (MPhil Law)<br />

Di Benedetto, Filippo (MPhil Economic and Social History)<br />

Duan, Haozhe (MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry))<br />

Dumigan, Matthew Stephen (MSc Russian and East European Studies)<br />

Elrayah, Alhussein Abdelrahman (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management)<br />

Elzayat, Haya Sayed Ahmed Fathy (MPhil Development Studies)<br />

Engel, Katharina (DPhil International Relations)<br />

Falvey, Brigid Teresa (MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology)<br />

Fawal, Ninar (MPhil International Relations)<br />

Field, Elena Bethany (MSt History, Early Modern History 1500–1700)<br />

Fleming, Hannah Maree (MSc Clinical Embryology)<br />

Fortes Brandao, Clara (DPhil Anthropology)<br />

Fujikake, Aki (Master of Public Policy)<br />

Giri, Ashish (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine)<br />

Goh, En Lin (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences)<br />

Goldie, Alexander David (Auto Intelligent Machines and Systems (EPSRC CDT))<br />

Gonzalez Esteban, Cristina (DPhil Archaeology (Full-time))<br />

Grabarczyk, Radosław Piotr (DPhil Particle Physics)<br />

Gracias Baptista, Eduardo Luís (MJur)<br />

Guevara Becerra, Martha Cristina Abigail (MSc Integrated Immunology)<br />

Gutiérrez Martínez, Julián Felipe (MSc Sociology)<br />

Harun, Azhar Bin (Executive MBA (Jan))<br />

Head, Samuel Frederick Michael (DPhil History)<br />

Herchenröder, Tilmann David (MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment)<br />

Hickfang, Theo (DPhil Politics)<br />

Holmquist, Chloe Ray (MSt English (1550–1700))<br />

Honda, Trenton (DPhil Primary Health Care (Part-time))<br />

Howard, Anthony (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time))<br />

Huang, Yujia (MPhil Economics)<br />

Iqbal, Noorin (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Full-time))<br />

Irlenkäuser, Jonas (MPhil Economics)<br />

Isik, Merve (MSc Clinical Embryology)<br />

Ivanova, Radoslava (MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry))<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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THE RECORD<br />

Iyer, Samyuktha Ramakrishnan (MSc Modern South Asian Studies)<br />

Jain, Tulika (MSc Economics for Development)<br />

Jamshidi Yeganeh, Sepideh (DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)<br />

Joshi, Shivani (MSc Sociology)<br />

Kane, Gaurang Ramakant (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics)<br />

Kapp, Joshua Rainer (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time))<br />

Karthikesan, Dharmaraj (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time))<br />

Kekere-Ekun, Aisha Toluwalope (MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology)<br />

Kosche, Jade Christina (DPhil Socio-Legal Studies)<br />

Koukouravas, Stelios Alexander (DPhil Oncology)<br />

Krexi, Dimitra (DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />

Krexi, Lydia (DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />

Krzyzanska, Katarzyna (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics)<br />

Lan, Xinhui (DPhil Oncology)<br />

Leung, Wing Ting (MSc Clinical Embryology)<br />

Li, Yicong (DPhil Archaeology (Full-time))<br />

Li, Junyi (MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry))<br />

Liang, Lixing (MPhil Economics)<br />

Lim, Rachyl Rui Qi (MSc Sociology)<br />

Lin, Shannon (MPhil Social Anthropology)<br />

Liu, Yaxi (DPhil History)<br />

Liu, Shumin (MPhil Traditional East Asia)<br />

Liu, Wanyi (MSc Sociology)<br />

Lo, Wing Ching (BCL)<br />

Lowther, Toby Samuel (DPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics)<br />

Lu, Yifan (MPhil Sociology and Demography)<br />

Lucenario, Maria Dominique Arada (Master of Public Policy)<br />

Luo, Yingbo (MPhil Economics)<br />

Mahmood, Zean Farhan (MPhil Law)<br />

Makena, Anne (Executive MBA (Jan))<br />

Mason, Anna Bronwen (MSc Digital Scholarship)<br />

Mealiffe, Ryan Preston (MPhil History - Medieval History)<br />

Mohamed, Sahra Bashir (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time))<br />

Mozumdar, Nandini (DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />

Naik, Jivika (MSc Genomic Medicine)<br />

Navarro Rosales, Francisco (DPhil Biology)<br />

O’Neil, Christy Anne (BCL)<br />

Orazulike, Ngozi Clare (MSc Medical Education (Part-time))<br />

Paulus, Estelle Laura Verena (DPhil Geography and the Environment)<br />

Petrosyan, Eduard (DPhil Oncology)<br />

Pham, My Khanh (DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />

Potticary, James Joseph (MSc Energy Systems)<br />

Probert, Jake (DPhil Population Health (Part-time))<br />

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Prospero, Lorenza (DPhil Engineering Science)<br />

Proudfoot, Jack (Future Propulsion and Power (EPSRC CDT))<br />

Raad, Tamara (MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience)<br />

Sahajwalla, Tanishka Anil (MSc Law and Finance)<br />

Salehi Fashami, Amirhossein (DPhil Law)<br />

Samuel, James Alexander Ronald (MSt History, Medieval History)<br />

Seaton-Burn, William (DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />

Seger, Marcel (DPhil Geography and the Environment)<br />

Shiva, Kasra (MSt Islamic Studies and History)<br />

Statheos, Paul Mark (MPhil Cuneiform Studies)<br />

Sutton, Millicent Mai (MSc Environmental Change and Management)<br />

Sze, Samuel Tian Hong (MSc(Res) Engineering Science)<br />

Tarcevski, Andreas (DPhil Paediatrics)<br />

Tarka, Veronica Mae (DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)<br />

Tartarotti, Mira Susanna (MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science)<br />

Tias, Pisca Ayuning (DPhil Geography and the Environment)<br />

Tiburzi, Andrea (Executive MBA (Jan))<br />

Van Assche, Kerlijn Marie-Jeanne (DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />

Wang, Chongyao (DPhil Law)<br />

Wangmo, Singye (DPhil Biology)<br />

Waugh, Lucy Rose (MSt Korean Studies)<br />

Wilcox, Eleanor Grace Walsh (MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics)<br />

Wu, Haoran (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Mgt)<br />

Wu, Wenhui (MSc Pharmacology)<br />

Wymes, Samantha (MSt Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)<br />

Xu, Tianhuai (MSc(Res) Engineering Science)<br />

Xu, Xiaomeng (MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science)<br />

Xu, Yunbei (MSc Archaeology)<br />

Yan, Jiani (DPhil Sociology)<br />

Yeung, Yui Chi Richie (DPhil Computer Science)<br />

Yiu, Chi Him Kendrick (DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />

Yu, Yaqi (MSc Digital Scholarship)<br />

Zhang, Kaiyue (DPhil History)<br />

Zhang, Shu Yuan (MSc Education (Digital and Social Change))<br />

Zhang, Xulin (MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry))<br />

Zhao, Feiyu (MSc Integrated Immunology)<br />

Zheng, Ziyue (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Full-time))<br />

Zugravu, Anca-Marina (MPhil Development Studies)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Elected Members of Governing Body until Hilary 2024<br />

Min Gao (JRF)<br />

Theodor Borrmann (GS)<br />

Paulo de Souza (GS)<br />

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Sylvia Gattas (GS)<br />

Julián Felipe Gutiérrez Martínez (GS) until Trinity 20<strong>23</strong><br />

Estelle Paulus (GS)<br />

Elected Members of General Purposes Committee until Hilary 2024<br />

Min Gao (JRF)<br />

Nawara Ahsan (GS) until Trinity 20<strong>23</strong><br />

Katerina Levinson (GS)<br />

Estelle Paulus (GS)<br />

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES <strong>2022</strong>–<strong>23</strong><br />

Baruch Spinoza Scholarship in Physics<br />

Zhenlong Li<br />

Dr Liu Chak Wan Scholarship<br />

Jiawei Zhang<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Jeremy Black Clarendon Scholarship<br />

Sepideh Jamshidi Yeganeh<br />

Lorne Thyssen Scholarship in Ancient World Studies<br />

Gregory Thompson<br />

Thomas Gavin<br />

Lorne Thyssen Scholarship in Imperial History<br />

Euan Huey<br />

Ken and Veronica Tregidgo Scholarship in Atomic and Laser Physics<br />

Johannes Van De Wetering<br />

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Derrill Allatt ESRC Graduate Scholarship<br />

Freya Marshall Payne<br />

Oxford Wolfson Marriott Graduate Scholarships<br />

Christie Carr<br />

Elsa Kugelberg<br />

En Lin Goh<br />

Fatme (Fatima) Ramadan<br />

Grant Rowley<br />

Jade Kosché<br />

Kirsty Peacock<br />

Lesley Nelson-Addy<br />

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Melissa Little<br />

Olivia Gough<br />

Rebecca Crossley<br />

Sophie Harbord<br />

Sriraj Aiyer<br />

Svenja Arlt<br />

William Thurlwell<br />

Oxford Wolfson Reginald Campbell Thompson Scholarship in Assyriology<br />

Awarded, but the name of the recipient has been withheld<br />

Andrew Prentice Bursary in Physics<br />

Ming Zhu<br />

Wolfson Clarendon Rachel Conrad Scholarship<br />

Catherine (Brennan) Delattre<br />

Wolfson Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship<br />

Daniya (Dana) Aynetdinova<br />

Cooper Malanoski<br />

Veronica Tarka<br />

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Physics Scholarship<br />

Joost Wardenier<br />

Francisco De Paula Rodriguez Montero<br />

Gavin Lamb<br />

Radosław Grabarczyk<br />

THE RECORD<br />

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Quantum Foundation Scholarship<br />

Alexander Cowtan<br />

Alexander (Alex) Koziell-Pipe<br />

Yui Chi (Richie) Yeung<br />

Wolfson Khyentse-Pritzker Scholarship<br />

Yui Cheong (Richards) Chang<br />

Shuchita Grover<br />

Scottie Nicholson<br />

Jiaqi Shao<br />

Wolfson Scholarship in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies<br />

Darig Thokmay<br />

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COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2022</strong>/<strong>23</strong>


Degrees<br />

Start and end Dates<br />

Aengenheyster, Matthias<br />

Ahmad, Mirza Rizwaan<br />

Ahmad, Haseeb<br />

Aktar, Anjum Lia<br />

Alkazemi, Badria A A A R<br />

Almoajil, Hajar<br />

Abdulhamid S<br />

Anrod, Reid Allen<br />

Anscombe, Rachel Anne<br />

Rachel<br />

Attard, Megan Jing Hsien<br />

Babin–Heynard,<br />

Lila Aurore Julie<br />

Bartha, Benedek Andras<br />

Beal, Samuel Jacob<br />

Bhadauria, Ananya<br />

Bica, Ioana<br />

Biering–Sørensen, Tor<br />

Bílik, Matej<br />

Bisel, Olivia Louise<br />

Blythe, Charlotte Emily<br />

Bolch, Kimberly Blair<br />

Bonner, Scott Edward<br />

Brash, Jamie Gregor<br />

Bretherton, Christopher<br />

Patrick<br />

Brooks, Ruthanne Joy<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) Environmental Research (NERC DTP) ‘Ocean Heat<br />

Uptake: Drivers, Variability and Impacts’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Modern South Asian Studies<br />

(2021–<strong>23</strong>) EMBA (Jan)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Integrated Immunology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Integrated Immunology<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences ‘Development<br />

of a core outcome set for lower limb orthopaedic surgical<br />

interventions in ambulant children and young people with<br />

cerebral palsy’<br />

(2021–22) MSt English and American Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Integrated Immunology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Clinical Embryology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Comparative Social Policy<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies<br />

(2020–22) MSt History, History of War<br />

(2021–22) MSc Education (Higher Education)<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Engineering Science ‘Causal Inference<br />

Methods for Supporting, Understanding, and Improving<br />

Decision-Making’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Education (Higher Education)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment<br />

(2021–22) MSt History, Early Modern History 1500–1700<br />

(2019–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil International Development ‘Incorporation<br />

beyond income: Cash transfers and trajectories of citizenship in<br />

contemporary Brazil’<br />

(2018–22) Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP)<br />

‘Understanding extracellular vesicle biology for the<br />

development of bioinspired nanotechnology platforms’<br />

(2021–22) MSt History of Art and Visual Culture<br />

(2019–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences ‘Rehabilitation<br />

After Ankle Fracture Treatment (RAAFT): Facilitating safe<br />

weightbearing after ankle fracture surgery’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Classical Hebrew Studies<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Brown, Daniel Stuart<br />

Brown, Kaelyn Maia<br />

Brustad, Lila Raquel<br />

Buck, Richard Anthony<br />

Burns, Jamal Terrell<br />

Cader, Fathima Aaysha<br />

Cann, Sean Thomas<br />

Carrascosa Marzo, Rafael<br />

Carrillo Magna, Francisco<br />

Javier Marcelo<br />

Carroll, Gregory David<br />

Chan, Long Landon<br />

Chan, Song San<br />

Chen, Yang<br />

Chen, Hsintsung<br />

Chia, Chris<br />

Chin, Nathan Jun Loong<br />

Chiu, Alvin Heng<br />

Christofyllakis,<br />

Konstantinos<br />

Civetta, Nicholas Anthony<br />

Cowzer, Darren<br />

Cronin, Michael James<br />

D’Aquila, Matthew Daniel<br />

De Felice, Giovanni<br />

De Liedekerke De Pailhe,<br />

Alexis Emmanuel J<br />

Dennis, Liam Sharle Meads<br />

Desebrock, Clea Elizabeth<br />

Grendon<br />

Deshpande, Shubham<br />

Ashish<br />

Dhesi, Jagdeep<br />

(2017–22) Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP) ‘Alkyne<br />

Probes and Natural Products’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience<br />

(2021–22) MSc Medical Anthropology<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Theology (Full-time) ‘Stories Theology Lives<br />

By: A Narrative and Phronetic Theology of Liberation’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Education (Digital and Social Change)<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSt Slavonic Studies<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Condensed Matter Physics ‘Powered motion<br />

for molecular robotic devices via chemical and photochemical<br />

reactions’<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2020–22) MSc Mathematical Sciences<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc(Res) Oncology ‘Developing recombinant<br />

overlapping peptides of prostate specific antigen as vaccine’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Pharmacology ‘Development of Novel<br />

Quantitative Methods for Monitoring Neurodegenerative<br />

Phenotypes in Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Mice’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance<br />

(2021–22) MSc Law and Finance<br />

(2021–22) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2020–22) MSc Energy Systems (24 Months)<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2020–22) EMBA (Sep)<br />

(2021–22) MSt Modern Languages (French and Spanish)<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Computer Science ‘Categorical Tools for<br />

Natural Language Processing’<br />

(2021–22) MBA<br />

(2021–22) MSc Energy Systems<br />

(2015–22) DPhil Experimental Psychology (Direct Entry) ‘Self–<br />

prioritization in motor responses’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Theoretical and Computational Chemistry<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific<br />

Computing<br />

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Ding, Nanxi<br />

Ding, Yifu<br />

Dong, Shi<br />

Duan, Chengchen<br />

Ebeze, Odera Chiamaka<br />

Eden, Kimberley Amber<br />

Ee, Joshua Shao Hong<br />

El Hassan El Rifai,<br />

Wael Omar<br />

Elswah, Mona Abdelsattar<br />

Ibrahim Ibrahim<br />

Erdal, Erkin<br />

Erlwanger, Alison Stephanie<br />

Evans, Robert Philip<br />

Faghih, Amir Hossein<br />

Fang, Jiaxin<br />

Farrar, Olivia Summerville<br />

Fasano, Eduardo<br />

Federer, Simon John<br />

Ferder, Romi<br />

Ferdinand, Vernil<br />

Franke, Charlotte<br />

Friederich, Ethan Thomas<br />

Gafencu, Grigore–Aristide<br />

Galdeano Solans, Mateo<br />

Gapper, Yasmin Nafisa<br />

Dastgir<br />

Geddes, Thomas Joseph<br />

Des Garets<br />

(2021–22) MSc Law and Finance<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Engineering Science ‘Bridging machine learning<br />

probabilistic forecasting design and power system optimization<br />

considering uncertainty: A joint chance-constrained<br />

perspective’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Sociology and Demography<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health ‘Dual<br />

Functional Theranostic Nanoparticles for Rhabdomyosarcoma<br />

Treatment’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology)<br />

(2020–22) EMBA (Sep)<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Information, Communication, and Social<br />

Sciences ‘Online Tactical Innovation and Stagnation: Insights<br />

from the Aftermath of the Arab Spring in Syria and Tunisia’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Economic and Social History<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2020–22) MSc Musculoskeletal Sciences<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Politics: Political Theory<br />

(2021–22) MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics<br />

(2018–22) DPhil History (HSM and ESH) ‘Fevers in the<br />

Garden. A History of Malaria in Colonial Assam from 1826–<br />

1939’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Medical Sciences ‘The impact of ageing on<br />

the human haematopoietic stem cell and memory T cell<br />

compartments through the lens of single cell transcriptome<br />

analysis’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Mathematics ‘The geometry and<br />

superconformal algebras of string compactifications with a<br />

G-structure’<br />

(2021–22) MSt History of Art and Visual Culture<br />

(2020–22) MSc Sociology (Part-time)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Geden, Munir Siracettin<br />

Ghazali, Marc<br />

Gonçalves De Oliveira,<br />

Mauro César<br />

Gonzalez Guerrero,<br />

Ana Fernanda<br />

Goohs, Harrison<br />

Grey, Hannah Charlotte<br />

Grey, Rhieve–Sheridan<br />

Samuel<br />

Gurney, Rhiannon Laura<br />

Haddad, Ali Abdul–Rehman<br />

Mahmoud<br />

Haith, Chelsea<br />

Hanson, Charlotte<br />

Adelaide<br />

Hansrod, Humaira<br />

Harris, Jordan John<br />

Harris, Katherine Alicia<br />

Hasnain, Alia<br />

Hinrichsen, Laura Jannie<br />

Mirjam<br />

Houet, Antoine André A<br />

Hughes, Austin Tyler<br />

Hulot, Camille Eva<br />

Alexandra<br />

Humberstone, Andrew<br />

Richard<br />

Hutchence, Laurence<br />

Michael Jack<br />

Hyslop, Andrew Michael<br />

Ichim, Andrei Abdulah<br />

Jackson, James Thomas<br />

(2016–<strong>23</strong>) Cyber Security (EPSRC CDT) ‘Runtime Protection<br />

of Software Programs against Control- and Data-Oriented<br />

Attacks’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Anthropology<br />

(2021–22) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment<br />

(2021–22) MSt History, British and European History 1700–<br />

1850<br />

(2021–22) MSt Jewish Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy<br />

Evaluation<br />

(2021–22) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

(2020–22) EMBA (Sep)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil English ‘Spaces of Paradox: The Poetics of<br />

Disruption in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction’<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil International Development ‘Exploring Agency<br />

Enactments of Women Farmworkers in South Africa’s Western<br />

Cape Province’<br />

(2021–22) MSt History, Modern British History 1850–present<br />

(2021–22) MSt Modern Languages (RUS)<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2016–22) DPhil Oriental Studies ‘Looted Letters: Book<br />

Culture of Hafsid Ifrīqiya (1229–1574) and Arabic Manuscripts<br />

in Early Modern Europe after the Sack of Tunis (1535)’<br />

(2021–22) MJur<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Japanese Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Environmental Change and Management<br />

(2020–22) MSc Teacher Education<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Archaeology (Full-time) ‘The skill spectrum:<br />

methods for identifying variable skill-levels amongst handaxemaking<br />

hominins in the Middle Pleistocene’<br />

(2018– 20<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Engineering Science ‘Force Measurement<br />

Techniques in Short Duration Hypersonic Facilities’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Integrated Immunology<br />

(2021–22) MSt English (1830–1914)<br />

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Jinno, Shogo<br />

Jockyman Roithmann,<br />

Andre<br />

Jungbluth, Anna Laura<br />

Kadayifci, Nida<br />

Karpauskaite, Egle<br />

Kasanga, Chishimba<br />

Katz Roberts, Lola<br />

Gertrude<br />

Kawatani, Megumi<br />

Kelley, Jessica Rose<br />

Khaund, Shreya<br />

Klausmeyer, Eleanor Ruth<br />

Koussiounelos, Deborah<br />

Kovacs, Boldizsar<br />

Kowalski, Rachel Caroline<br />

Krastev, Pancho Borisov<br />

Kundi, Brayshna<br />

Kupka, Danny<br />

Kwon–Salkin, Sekoah<br />

Onnuri<br />

Kyriacou, Basil Demetrios<br />

Lam, Man-Wah<br />

Landman, Mattie Susan<br />

Lang, Paul Frieder<br />

Langdon, Annabel Mitsuko<br />

Yorikawa<br />

Lawson, Adrienn Hai–Binh<br />

Lazell, Christina Melanie<br />

Lee, Jing<br />

Leung, Ka Po<br />

(2021–22) MBA<br />

(2017–22) DPhil History ‘Republicanism and the State between<br />

Brazil and the River Plate: Rio Grande do Sul, 1808–1845’<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Condensed Matter Physics ‘Sensitive External<br />

Quantum Efficiency Measurements for Studying Charge<br />

Transfer in Organic Solar Cells’<br />

(2021–22) BCL<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Data Science<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Science of the Internet<br />

(2021–22) MSt English (650–1550)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Biochemistry ‘Characterising the molecular<br />

basis of WDR82 binding in multiple contexts’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Global and Imperial History<br />

(2021–22) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Classical Archaeology ‘Late Bronze Age<br />

and Early Iron Age Laconia: Settlements, cemeteries and<br />

sanctuaries (1200–700 BC)’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2016–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil History (Part-time) ‘Micro-Patterns of<br />

Violence: Disaggregating Provisional Irish Republican Army<br />

Activity, 1969–1979’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Statistical Science<br />

(2021–22) MSc Environmental Change and Management<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Mathematics ‘Modular network comparison<br />

with application to labour flow networks’<br />

(2017–22) Synthetic Biology (EPSRC and BBSRC CDT)<br />

‘Improving our Mechanistic Understanding of Cell Cycle<br />

Dynamics’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Korean Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Data Science<br />

(2021–22) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2021–22) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Lewin, Thomas David<br />

Leygonie, Jacob<br />

Li, Bai<br />

Liaqat, Numair<br />

Lim, Soon Tjin<br />

Lim, Hyun-min<br />

Liu, Dimin<br />

Lloyd, Hannah<br />

Lomas, Aidan James<br />

William O’Rourke<br />

Lourenço Baião Dias, Rita<br />

Louzan, Ignacio<br />

Lowe, Christopher<br />

Sebastian<br />

Luber, Diana Winfield<br />

Ma, Yue<br />

Markworth, David Cassian<br />

Mavrogiannis, Matthew<br />

McGivern, Alexis Marie<br />

Mensa–Bonsu, Maame<br />

Abena Siem<br />

Merkel, Katharina Christina<br />

Merle, Quentin Moritz Carl<br />

Albert<br />

Michalski, Anton Thomas<br />

Mills, Cameron James<br />

Mohiuddin, Mir Abid<br />

Mukambetov, Aibek<br />

Muminoglu, Ali Mark<br />

Muthukumarapillai,<br />

Premavathanan<br />

Nasreddin, Nadia<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP) ‘Fastevolving<br />

homeobox genes in mammalian preimplantation<br />

development’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Mathematics ‘Differential and Fiber of<br />

Persistent Homology’<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Education (Full-time) ‘Learning to Read the<br />

Complex Manchu Writing System: A Mixed Methods Study of<br />

Novice Learners in a Chinese University’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Economics for Development<br />

(2021–22) MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry ‘Exploring the Behaviour<br />

of Lanthanide-appended Metallocenes and d-f Hybrid<br />

Complexes’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Economics<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2021–22) BCL<br />

(2021–22) BCL<br />

(2021–22) MSt Modern Languages (FRE and ITA)<br />

(2020–22) MPhil History, Modern British History 1850–present<br />

(2021–22) MSt Islamic Art and Architecture<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Physical and Theoretical Chemistry<br />

‘Modification of Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes for<br />

Application in Electrochemistry’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Law and Finance<br />

(2020–22) BPhil Philosophy<br />

(2021–22) MBA<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Law ‘Customary Law and the 1992<br />

Constitution of Ghana: A Comparative Theoretical Study’<br />

(2019–22) MPhil Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy<br />

Evaluation<br />

(2021–22) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Economics<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance<br />

(2021–22) MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy<br />

(2021–22) MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine<br />

(2021–22) MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Clinical Medicine ‘Molecular and Histological<br />

Characterisation of Colitis-associated Colorectal Cancer’<br />

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Navarro Rosales, Francisco<br />

Needham, Heather Sarah<br />

Thomson<br />

Negribs, Valters<br />

Nelis, Basil Leo Peter<br />

Nguyen–Kim, Michael<br />

Khuong<br />

Nomoto, Kyoko<br />

Ossorio Carballo, Laura<br />

O’Sullivan, Jennifer<br />

Parkinson, Madeleine Rose<br />

Patnaik, Sarita Anna<br />

Pavlova, Irina<br />

Pham, Huu Dang Nhat<br />

Phan, Han Angela Ngoc<br />

Pienkowski, Thomas<br />

Pierson, Michael Aaron<br />

Pietzsch Amora, Raphael<br />

Pinto De Almeida Lima,<br />

Barbara<br />

Polaskova, Marie<br />

Poletto, Alice<br />

Poór, Boldizsár<br />

Proctor, William Henry<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Oriental Studies ‘Ascetic Teachings for<br />

Householder Kings in the Mahābhārata’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Classical Languages and Literature (Full-time)<br />

‘Feminine Voices of Vengeance in Senecan Tragedy and its<br />

Reception’<br />

(2021–22) BCL<br />

(2013–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Archaeology (Full-time) ‘Dressing as<br />

horsemen: The universalization of steppe dress in the first half<br />

of the Tang China (618–755)’<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Plant Sciences ‘Analysis of the extracellular<br />

battlefield of potato late blight disease’<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Medical Sciences ‘Mechanisms of disease<br />

transformation in myeloproliferative neoplasms’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Ancient Philosophy<br />

(2021–22) MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (Fulltime)<br />

‘“Literary studies must be a science” (Yury Lotman):<br />

representing and interpreting character relationships in Russian<br />

drama by means of quantitative methods’<br />

(2020–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Computer Science ‘Enabling human<br />

physiological sensing by leveraging intelligent head-worn<br />

wearable systems’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2017–22) Environmental Research (NERC DTP)<br />

‘Understanding neglected connections between nature,<br />

conservation, and mental health’<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Anthropology ‘Disability’s Costs and Coasts<br />

in Mombasa, Kenya’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time) ‘From atoms to<br />

landscapes through time: The chemical controls on carbonate<br />

precipitation and phosphate concentration in alkaline lakes’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Medieval Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry)<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Classical Archaeology ‘Imperial Villas in Italy,<br />

Antoninus Pius to Maxentius: A Study in Architecture and<br />

Functions’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Advanced Computer Science<br />

(2021–22) MSt Slavonic Studies<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Qing, Shanlingzi<br />

Quiroz Fernandez,<br />

Javiera Ignacia<br />

Rabin, Molly Andrea<br />

Tuulikki<br />

Rajpal, Aditi<br />

Reyes, Luis Felipe<br />

Richter, Anton Oli<br />

Rodríguez Fanlo, Arturo<br />

Rogova, Tatiana<br />

Roy, Praveen Kumar<br />

Ruiters, Emma Lilian<br />

Russell, Ishbel Sophie<br />

Salisbury, Callum Ruaraidh<br />

Salvatori, Tommaso<br />

Sarkar, Ambika<br />

Savory, Stephanie Ayse<br />

Schulte, Rainie Lynn<br />

Seale, Thalia Eleni<br />

Shatrunjay, Arjun<br />

Shaw, Eleanor Caitlin<br />

Sherif, Sana Mohamed<br />

Yasser Elsaid Gabr<br />

Shliakov, Iurii<br />

Shu, Yu<br />

Simons, Alexander<br />

Watkin Bjerve<br />

Singler, Samuel William<br />

Siu, Yiu<br />

Smarrelli, Gabriela Lina<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics<br />

(2020–<strong>23</strong>) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Theoretical and Computational Chemistry<br />

(2021–22) MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine<br />

(2021–22) MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Mathematics ‘Model Theory and Rough<br />

Approximate Subgroups’<br />

(2017–22) Synthesis for Biology and Medicine (EPSRC CDT)<br />

‘Designing Tandem Catalytic Reductive Functionalisation<br />

Strategies of Carbonyl Derivatives’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Japanese Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSt Oriental Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSt Music (Musicology)<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Computer Science ‘Learning and<br />

Memorization via Predictive Coding’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Study of Religions<br />

(2021–22) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2021–22) MSc Statistical Science<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2017–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Materials ‘A new texturing technique for<br />

silicon solar cells using gas phase etching’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance<br />

(2021–22) MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Materials ‘Nanomanufacturing towards<br />

Flexible Electronic and Photonic Devices’<br />

(2021–22) MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies<br />

(2019–22) DPhil Criminology ‘Security Technologies and<br />

the Global Criminalization of Migration: Midas, the IOM, and<br />

Outsourcing Border Control’<br />

(2016–22) DPhil Oriental Studies ‘Maritime exclusion policy in<br />

Ming China and Chosŏn Korea, 1368–1450: Dynastic authority,<br />

national security, and trade’<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil International Development ‘Essays on Human<br />

Capital Development and Effective Public Policy Delivery in<br />

Peru’<br />

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Smith, Sydney Paula<br />

Benjamin<br />

Sooka, Jainisha Navin<br />

Sourlas-Kotzamanis, Kimon<br />

Srirangarajan, Arjun<br />

Staphorst, Luan<br />

Stavrakakis, Michail<br />

Stephenson, Hannah Maria<br />

Storey, Ian Miller<br />

Storey, Oliver James Daniel<br />

Stricker, Miriam Katharina<br />

Strugale, Michael<br />

Summers, Luke<br />

Swe, Myo Maung Maung<br />

Takehana, Mei<br />

Tax, Jessica Nicky<br />

Teng, Michael Siyang<br />

Thind, Puninda Singh<br />

Toumi, Alexis Naim Hubert<br />

Trespalacios Leal, María<br />

Mónica<br />

Treviño Salce, Maria<br />

Trinh, Hoai Son<br />

Ughi, Giuseppe<br />

Vaiciukynaite, Justina<br />

Vally, Zahir<br />

Van Beest, Marieke<br />

Vasconcelos, Andre<br />

Antonio<br />

Vatsa, Divya<br />

Vernon, Kieran Samuel<br />

(2021–22) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology<br />

(2021–22) MBA<br />

(2020–22) BPhil Philosophy<br />

(2021–22) MSt Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (AS)<br />

(2021–22) MSc African Studies<br />

(2021–22) MJur<br />

(2020–22) MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)<br />

(2021–22) MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) Systems Approaches to Biomedical Sciences (EPSRC<br />

and MRC CDT) ‘Computational methods for the analysis of<br />

epigenomic activity in the human immune system’<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time) ‘Basement geology,<br />

tectono-stratigraphic and diagenetic evolution of the presalt<br />

succession in the northern Campos Basin, Brazil’<br />

(2021–22) MSt History, Modern British History 1850–present<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Clinical Medicine ‘Defining empirical<br />

management of acute febrile illness in Myanmar’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Development Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Engineering Science ‘Applications of Timeseries<br />

Generative Models and Inference Techniques’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Computer Science ‘Category Theory for<br />

Quantum Natural Language Processing’<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2021–22) Master of Public Policy<br />

(2021–22) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling<br />

(EPSRC CDT) ‘Studies on Neural Networks: Information<br />

Propagation at Initialisation and Robustness to Adversarial<br />

Examples’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Russian and East European Studies<br />

(2020–22) MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Mathematics ‘Strongly-Coupled QFTs from<br />

String Theory’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management<br />

(2021–22) MSc Comparative Social Policy<br />

(2021–22) MSt Oriental Studies<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Wai, Cheuk Yee<br />

Waite, Isobel<br />

Walker, Ryan James<br />

Wang, Jingsi<br />

Wang, Xianlingchen<br />

Ward, Philippe Pierre<br />

Rainham<br />

Watts, Aimee Katherine<br />

Wei, Minhui<br />

Wiest, Christoph<br />

Williams, Archie John<br />

Wolffenbuttel, Alexander<br />

Romboud<br />

Woodgate, Samuel James<br />

Wrightson, Rebecca<br />

Stevens<br />

Wuerzinger, Jonas<br />

Wyatt, Edward<br />

Xu, Zihan<br />

Xu, Juntong<br />

Yang, Yuqi<br />

Yang, Zhengyuan<br />

Yang, Jingyi<br />

Yao, Bohao<br />

Zeng, Chijing<br />

(2019–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Oriental Studies ‘Sisters in Crimes: Women<br />

and illicit sexual affairs in late imperial Chinese erotic fiction’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology)<br />

(Part-time)<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Clinical Medicine ‘Can building a community<br />

of practice improve pharmacovigilance in low-resource<br />

settings?’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Data Science<br />

(2021–22) MSt History, Modern European History 1850–<br />

present<br />

(2021–22) MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry)<br />

(2016–22) DPhil Education (Full-time) ‘Investigating English<br />

Medium Instruction (EMI) Students’ Vocabulary Learning and<br />

Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies: A Longitudinal Study in<br />

China’s Tertiary Context’<br />

(2019–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Clinical Neurosciences ‘Modulation of basal<br />

ganglia local field potentials by deep brain stimulation in<br />

Parkinson’s disease and dystonia’<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture<br />

(2021–22) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)<br />

(2019–22) MSc Energy Systems (36 Months)<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Oriental Studies ‘Legibility, Visual Ambiguity,<br />

and the Patterning of Arabic Script: Epigraphic Ceramics of the<br />

Early Islamic World’<br />

(2018–<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Particle Physics ‘Of Triggers, Supersymmetry<br />

and Photons: Triggers for Dark Matter and a Search for Gauge-<br />

Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking with the ATLAS detector<br />

at the LHC’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Russian and East European Studies<br />

(2020–22) MPhil Medical Anthropology<br />

(2020–22) MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry)<br />

(2021–22) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies<br />

(2021–22) MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language<br />

Acquisition (Full-time)<br />

(2018– 20<strong>23</strong>) DPhil Engineering Science ‘Origami- and<br />

Kirigami-Adapted Thick-Panel Folding’<br />

(2018–22) DPhil Statistics ‘Algebraic Properties of Linear<br />

Structural Equation Models’<br />

(2020–22) MSc Statistical Science<br />

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Zhang, Xinxin<br />

Zhang, Yuan<br />

Zhang, Yuxuan<br />

Zhao, Fangwei<br />

Zoechbauer, Patrick<br />

Andreas<br />

(2017–22) DPhil Organic Chemistry ‘Evolved P450 Mutants as<br />

General Oxidation Catalysts for Target Synthesis via Early-<br />

Late-Stage Hydroxylation’<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Data Science<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Data Science<br />

(2021–22) MSc Social Science of the Internet<br />

(2021–22) MSc Advanced Computer Science<br />

THE RECORD<br />

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Photo: John Cairns<br />

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Personal News<br />

Appointments and Awards<br />

Ruben Andersson (GBF 2016–) was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship<br />

for 20<strong>23</strong>–26 for work on the expansion of global security agendas in times of crisis.<br />

Eduardo Benitez-Inglott y Ballesteros (GS 2019–) was elected a Postgraduate<br />

Member of the Royal Historical Society.<br />

Abhirup Banerjee (RF 20<strong>23</strong>–) was elected a Royal Society University Research Fellow.<br />

Cristián Bonacic (GS 1996–2001, MCR 2009–) was awarded a prize by the Pontifical<br />

Catholic University of Chile and CMPC Maderas in recognition of three decades of work<br />

protecting nature in Chile and Latam.<br />

Alexander Brunner (GS <strong>2022</strong>–) represented Oxford University at the global Hult Prize<br />

competition in Lisbon this year, which aims to reward social entrepreneurship. His startup,<br />

appliqué, co-founded with Khansa Maria (Harris Manchester), aims to produce technology<br />

to improve online shopping for the visually impaired. The company was also chosen as one<br />

of twenty rising startups for the EnSpire Oxford #StartedinOxford Demo Night.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Matthew Costa (GBF 2015–) was elected a Fellow of the International Orthopaedic<br />

Trauma Association in late <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

David Cranston (GS 1983–86, MCR) was appointed Emeritus Associate Professor of<br />

Surgery in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Green<br />

Templeton <strong>College</strong>.<br />

David Deutsch (GS 1975–79, JRF 1979–80, MCR 1980–2001, RF 1987–94, HF 2016–)<br />

was awarded the 20<strong>23</strong> Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, together with Charles<br />

Bennett, Gilles Brassard and Peter Shor, for ‘foundational work in the field of quantum<br />

information’.<br />

Elena Draghici-Vasilescu (MCR 2012–) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical<br />

Society and was appointed Visiting Professor in Byzantine culture at Macquarie University,<br />

Sydney (Australia). She also curated the art exhibition ‘Byzantium Then and Now’ at<br />

Wolfson.<br />

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Anke Ehlers (SF 2013–) was awarded the International Society for Traumatic Stress<br />

Studies Lifetime Achievement Award in November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

Tristan Franklinos (SF) was elected a Fellow of the Società Internazionale per lo Studio<br />

del Medioevo Latino for his international contribution to the study of medieval Latin texts.<br />

Barbara Harriss-White (EF) was appointed a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Max<br />

Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi (India), from 20<strong>23</strong> until 2027; Chair of<br />

the Young Scholars’ Seminar in Agrarian Studies in India, Foundation for Agrarian Studies,<br />

Bangalore; and Commissioner of the Food Systems Economics Commission (Potsdam<br />

Institute for Climate Impact Research / EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health).<br />

Mark A Hill (RMCR 2016–19, MCR 2019–) was elected a Fellow of the Institute of<br />

Physics and Engineering in Medicine, and was made an honorary Member of the Royal<br />

<strong>College</strong> of Radiologists.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Christopher Hodges (MCR 2011–, SF 2014–) was appointed Chair of the Horizon<br />

Compensation Advisory Board, which advises Ministers on the compensation schemes for<br />

former postmasters and postmistresses arising out of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.<br />

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato (SF 20<strong>23</strong>–) has curated an exhibition at La Biennale<br />

Architettura 20<strong>23</strong> entitled You Will Find Your People Here, in collaboration with pianist Mareli<br />

Stolp (South Africa), composer Clare Loveday (South Africa) and artist Sedinam Awo<br />

Tsegah (Ghana). The project is supported by the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab.<br />

Young Chan Kim (JRF 2020–) was awarded a grant by the Medical Research Council to<br />

develop serological assays against typhoid and paratyphoid fever; and a grant by the Medical<br />

and Life Sciences Translational Fund to develop a vaccine against Chagas disease.<br />

Ilya Kuprov (RF 2010–11, MCR) has been appointed Professor of Physics at the<br />

University of Southampton.<br />

David Lewis (HF 2016–) was made CBE in the New Year Honours 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Chenying Liu (GS 2021–) was awarded a highly commended prize (Runner-Up) in the<br />

Peter Watson Competition organized by the Engineering Integrity Society. The award aims<br />

to support young engineers at the start of their career.<br />

Yi Lu (JRF 2020–) has been offered the post of Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese<br />

History at Dartmouth <strong>College</strong> in Hanover, New Hampshire (USA).<br />

Andrew Mackintosh (MCR 1985–) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of<br />

Engineering.<br />

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Freya Marshall Payne (GS 2020–) has been awarded the inaugural Orwell Prize for<br />

Reporting Homelessness. The Orwell Prizes are the most prestigious prizes for political<br />

writing in the UK.<br />

Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz (GS 1993–2000) was appointed Senior Advisor and<br />

Deputy Chief Observer in the EU Election Observation Mission to the Zimbabwe general<br />

election, <strong>23</strong> August 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Francisco Mora (GS 1974–78, MCR 2012–) was appointed an Honorary Member of the<br />

Ateneu Cultural Ciutat de Manises [School of Art, Music, Dance, Theatre and Cinema] in<br />

Valencia (Spain) for his contribution to the development of education and educators.<br />

Heather L Munro (GS 2012–15) has been appointed a Lecturer in Social Anthropology<br />

in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s <strong>College</strong>, London.<br />

Shrenik Nalupogu (MCR 2019–) has had a book commissioned by Penguin Random<br />

House, provisionally titled Merchants of Maesolia.<br />

Mircea Negru (VS 2001, MCR) was appointed a member of the Romanian National<br />

Committee of Archaeology, Associate Lecturer at the University of Craiova, and Scientific<br />

Researcher at the Central Research Institute, University of Bucharest.<br />

Paul Newton (GS 1979–84, 1986–89, MCR 1989–) was elected a Distinguished<br />

International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Ayo Oguntade (GS 2020–) graduated from the two-year World Stroke Organization<br />

Inaugural Future Stroke Leaders Programme, a competitive fellowship to raise the next<br />

generation of stroke researchers and physicians. He was selected for this programme in<br />

2020.<br />

Martin Ovens (VS 2005–7, MCR 2007–) has been selected as the incoming Editorin-Chief<br />

of Culture and Dialogue, an international peer-reviewed journal of cross-cultural<br />

philosophy and humanities published by Brill, having previously served as Associate Editor<br />

and (currently) Editor.<br />

Jonathan Pila (GBF 2010–), together with his colleagues Jacob Tsimerman (Toronto) and<br />

Ngaiming Mok (Hong Kong), received one of the ‘Frontiers of Science Awards’ announced<br />

at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing in July 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Barry Potter (GS 1977, JRF 1980, MCR 2016–21) was awarded an honorary Doctor<br />

of Science degree by the University of Bath in <strong>2022</strong> for his work in Chemical Biology<br />

and Medicinal Chemistry. He was also elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British<br />

Pharmacological Society. Honorary Fellows are elected for life in recognition of sustained<br />

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excellence and leadership in science, healthcare, and public service.<br />

David J Roberts (RMCR 2013–15, MCR 2017–22) was elected a Fellow of the Academy<br />

of Medical Sciences.<br />

Alan J Ross (GS 2005–11; MCR 2011–) received tenure at Ohio State University and was<br />

appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Classics.<br />

Marya Sabir (GS 2019–) received a Young Investigator Award at the 18th Annual<br />

WORLDSymposium, a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the latest advances in the basic<br />

science of lysosomal biology, translational studies, and clinical applications for lysosomal<br />

diseases.<br />

Erica Sheen (JRF 1982–86, VS 1998, MCR 1986–) has been appointed Professor of<br />

Literature and Film in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of<br />

York.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Daniel Wojahn (GS 2019–) has been awarded a 20<strong>23</strong> Robert H N Ho Family Foundation<br />

Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies. Ten Fellows at universities in Hong Kong,<br />

the United Kingdom and the United States, were awarded $30,000 each for dissertation<br />

fieldwork, archival research, and writing. The Fellowships are administered by the American<br />

Council of Learned Societies.<br />

Jonathan Wolff (GBF 2016–) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.<br />

Quan Zhang (RMCR 2009–) was appointed Associate Professor of Endocrine Cell<br />

Physiology at Oxford University.<br />

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Books published by Wolfsonians<br />

Ruben Andersson (GBF 2016–)<br />

Geoffrey Beattie (VS 20<strong>23</strong>–)<br />

Steven A. Beebe (VF 1993, 2005, 2009,<br />

2015, MCR)<br />

—<br />

With David Keen, Wreckonomics: Why it’s Time<br />

to End the War on Everything (Oxford: Oxford<br />

University Press, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Doubt: A Psychological Exploration (Abingdon:<br />

Routledge, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

With Susan J. Beebe, Public Speaking: An<br />

Audience-Centered Approach. Twelfth Edition<br />

(Boston: Pearson, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

A Concise Public Speaking Handbook. Sixth<br />

Edition (Boston: Pearson, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Elleke Boehmer (GBF 2007–)<br />

Carol Brown (GS 1996–98<br />

and 2012–17, MCR)<br />

With Shaun A. Johnson, The Audacious<br />

Experiment: The Mandela Rhodes Story (Cape<br />

Town: Oxford University Press, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research:<br />

Considering Challenges and Risks in Practice<br />

(Maidenhead: Open University Press, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Geoff Cottrell (JRF 1981–86, RF 1986–93,<br />

MCR 1993–)<br />

L S Cousins (MCR 2001–07<br />

and 2009–15, SF 2007–09)<br />

David Cranston (GS 1983–86, MCR)<br />

Ilya Kuprov (RF 2010–11, MCR)<br />

Partha Mitter (MCR)<br />

Observational Astronomy: A Very short<br />

Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press,<br />

20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

With Sarah Shaw (MCR), Meditations of the<br />

Pali Tradition: Illuminating Buddhist Doctrine,<br />

History, and Practice, ed. Sarah Shaw (Boulder,<br />

Colorado: Shambala Publications, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Peter Morris and his Legacy to Transplantation<br />

(Upper Heyford: Words by Design, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Spin: From Basic Symmetries to Quantum Optimal<br />

Control (New York: Springer, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

With Parul Dave Mukherji and Rakhee Balaram,<br />

20th Century Indian Art (London and New York:<br />

Thames and Hudson, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

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Francisco Mora (GS 1974–78, MCR 2012–)<br />

NEUROEDUCADOR: Una nueva profesión<br />

(Madrid: Alianza Editorial, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Mircea Negru (VS 2001, MCR)<br />

Thomas J Nelson (JRF <strong>2022</strong>–)<br />

Olivera Petrovich (GS 1981–88, MCR<br />

1989–)<br />

ROMULA II, Cercetările arheologice din anul<br />

2013 / Report on the Archaeological Research<br />

from 2013 (Cluj–Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă,<br />

<strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry<br />

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Developmental Psychology and Young Children’s<br />

Religious Education (Abingdon: Routledge, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Jonathan Pila (GB 2010–)<br />

Point-Counting and the Zilber-Pink Conjecture<br />

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Philomen Probert (GB 1999–)<br />

John Sellars (JRF 2004–7,<br />

MCR 2007–)<br />

With Stephanie Roussou, Ancient and Medieval<br />

Thought on Greek Enclitics (Oxford: Oxford<br />

University Press, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

With C R Hogg, Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic<br />

Ethics (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Helen Lawton Smith<br />

(GS 1984–90, MCR 1990–)<br />

Norman Solomon (MCR 1996–)<br />

The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship:<br />

Spin-offs, Firm Growth and Regional Impact<br />

(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Making Sense of ‘God’: What God-Talk Means and<br />

Does (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Robert S D Thomas (VS 1998–99,<br />

2002–03, MCR 2005–)<br />

Christopher Whelan<br />

(MCR 1977–)<br />

Merryn Williams (GS 1970–71,<br />

MCR 1971–)<br />

With Nathan Sidoli, The Spherics of Theodosios<br />

(Abingdon: Routledge, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and<br />

Professional Responsibility (London: Bloomsbury,<br />

<strong>2022</strong>)<br />

After Hastings (Nottingham: Shoestring Press,<br />

20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

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Stephen Wilson (MCR), translator<br />

Hubert Zawadzki (GS 1968–73,<br />

JRF 1973–76, MCR 1976–)<br />

David Zeitlyn (SF)<br />

Albert Memmi, Térésa and Other Women<br />

[Térésa et Autres Femmes] (Market Harborough:<br />

Troubadour, 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

With Irena Protassewicz, Róże pogryzę z<br />

kolcami cierni ... Wspomnienia wojny i pokoju /<br />

Though the rose thorn wounds ... memoirs of war<br />

and peace (Warsaw: Neriton, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts<br />

(New York and Oxford: Berghahn, <strong>2022</strong>)<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

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Births<br />

To Roger Ciza (GS <strong>2022</strong>–): a daughter, Ciza Kaza Michaella Eliora, on 6 June 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

To Etienne Hanelt (GS 2017–) and Hansol Hanelt: a son, Perseus Linus, a brother for<br />

Ulysses and Callista, on 1 August 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

To Ignacio Ros (GS 2019–): a son, Sebastián Andrés, on 17 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

Marriages<br />

William Proctor (GS 2021–22) to Ksenia Ananyeva on 14 July 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Sam Williams (GS 2013–15) to Nisha Ramisetty on 31 March 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Golden Wedding Anniversary<br />

Merryn Williams (GS 1970–71) and John Hemp: fifty years on 14 April 20<strong>23</strong>.<br />

Deaths<br />

Maxine Backus<br />

(GS 1971) on 13 January <strong>2022</strong>, aged 71.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Simon R Barker<br />

(GS 1979–82) on 15 August <strong>2022</strong>, aged 67.<br />

Colin Hastings Barlow<br />

(VF 1990, VS 1999–2000, MCR 2000–<strong>23</strong>) on 11 November <strong>2022</strong>, aged 89.<br />

Kiyoko Hanaoka<br />

(GS 1982–95, MCR 1996–20<strong>23</strong>) on 25 January 20<strong>23</strong>, aged 79.<br />

William Kelly<br />

(GS 1972–75) on 13 July 20<strong>23</strong>, aged 73.<br />

Alex Orenstein<br />

(VF 1987, MCR 1988–) in June 2018, aged 82.<br />

John Henry Peters<br />

(GS 1968–74) on 3 November <strong>2022</strong>, aged 76.<br />

Ellen Elizabeth Rice<br />

(JRF 1978–82, GBF 1988–2020, EF 2020–<strong>23</strong>) on 5 April 20<strong>23</strong>, aged 71.<br />

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Obituaries<br />

Kiyoko Hanaoka<br />

(1943–20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Graduate Student 1982–95, MCR 1996–20<strong>23</strong><br />

There were many remarkable facets to the life of Kiyoko Hanaoka and, despite having<br />

known her well for four decades, there were some that I only became aware of in preparing<br />

this obituary.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

She was a scholar and teacher as well as working for a number of years for her father’s<br />

trading company. Her impressively broad range of intellectual interests embraced Japanese<br />

and Chinese painting, Eastern ceramics, Japanese poetry and aesthetics. She had a real<br />

talent for organising exhibitions which brought together her scholarship, her feel for art<br />

and, above all, her understanding of the needs of others. By every account she was a<br />

wonderful teacher. Her energy was striking right to the end.<br />

Everyone appreciated Kiyo’s kindness and gentleness. She was courageous and independent,<br />

charming and calm with a wonderful sense of humour which somehow reflected the depth<br />

of her feeling for life. She had a gift for friendship maintaining contacts with a vast range<br />

of people. Whilst her Japanese identity was very much a part of her, she could relate to<br />

anyone no matter what their background. This made her well-suited to Wolfson <strong>College</strong><br />

with its immense diversity of members.<br />

Kiyoko Hanaoka was born on 24 January 1943 in Tokushima, Japan. In 1966 she completed<br />

a BA in History and Aesthetics at Kwansei Gakuin University in Kyoto. From 1974 to<br />

1981 she undertook research and teaching on Art History and Eastern Ceramics in<br />

Japanese universities. In 1981 she came to Wolfson to work on a doctorate on Chinese<br />

ceramics. She had a long association with the Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean<br />

Museum where she contributed through research, cataloguing, organising exhibitions and in<br />

numerous other ways. She taught Japanese language and literature at St Clare’s <strong>College</strong> and<br />

continued to support the family business in Japan. She even found time in her late 40s to<br />

take a Master of Studies in Visual Art.<br />

I first met Kiyo in 1983 after I had left Oxford when I was visiting her partner, David Finn,<br />

also a Wolfsonian. Like everyone else, I immediately felt at ease with her. After David’s<br />

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premature death in 1987 we remained in close contact. In fact, she came to know my late<br />

mother because of their shared artistic enthusiasms. This was the first and only time that a<br />

friend of mine became a genuine friend on equal terms of either of my parents.<br />

Kiyo’s passing has left a gap that can never be filled in the lives of the people who knew<br />

her and the institutions she was a part of. As well as the marvellous memories, she has left<br />

contributions to those lives and institutions which preserve her unique qualities and will<br />

always be greatly appreciated.<br />

John Cubbon (GS 1979–81)<br />

Alex Orenstein<br />

(1936–2018)<br />

Visiting Fellow 1987, MCR 1988–2018<br />

Alex Orenstein, Professor of Philosophy at<br />

the Graduate Center and Queens <strong>College</strong><br />

of the City University of New York, died<br />

in June 2018 at the age of 82. Alex had a<br />

close and enduring association with Wolfson<br />

<strong>College</strong> which began in 1987 when he<br />

was elected a Visiting Fellow. He remained<br />

a Member of Common Room until his<br />

death, and for nearly thirty years spent a<br />

substantial amount of each academic year in<br />

Oxford and Wolfson. Though in many ways<br />

a quintessential New Yorker, Alex made<br />

Wolfson and Oxford his second home, both<br />

intellectually and socially.<br />

Alex Orenstein, 1936-2018 / Photo: Claire Parker<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Alex Orenstein was born in New York City on 5 March 1936, and earned an AB from<br />

Hunter <strong>College</strong> in 1956. From 1957 to 1960 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Hunter<br />

<strong>College</strong>, and then worked for three years as a computer programmer and systems analyst.<br />

He returned to academia in 1964 with a graduate assistantship at New York University<br />

and as an Instructor in Philosophy at Drew University and then at Long Island University<br />

1965–67. In 1968 he was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at Queens <strong>College</strong> and<br />

then Assistant Professor. He completed his PhD at NYU in 1972 and was promoted to<br />

Associate Professor at Queens <strong>College</strong>. In 1974 he became a faculty member of the PhD<br />

Program in Philosophy of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In<br />

1981 he was promoted to Professor of Philosophy at Queens <strong>College</strong>, a post he held until<br />

retirement in 2011, at the age of 75.<br />

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Internationally recognized, Alex Orenstein published extensively on his wide-ranging<br />

philosophical interests, encompassing the philosophy of logic and language, epistemology<br />

and metaphysics, and including determinism, scepticism, fictional entities, and the<br />

ontological argument. He developed striking ideas on ontology and the interpretation of<br />

quantifiers, and in 1978 published a book, Existence and the Particular Quantifier, a subject<br />

to which he returned throughout his career. He developed original and challenging views<br />

on the relationship of Aristotelian and medieval logic to Fregean and post-Fregean logic.<br />

He was a significant expert on the philosophy of W V Quine, on which he published two<br />

books, in 1977 and 2002. At the time of Quine’s ninetieth birthday, he co-edited Knowledge,<br />

Language and Logic: Questions for Quine, which included replies by Quine, and was published<br />

in 2000. His last publication, in 2017, was an article ‘Quine and Consciousness’. He also<br />

energetically pursued interests outside philosophy, including cinema, literature, music and<br />

art. He loved animals, especially cats.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Alex Orenstein was a valued member of the philosophy community in Oxford, both as<br />

a productive colleague and as a generous and considerate friend. In 2005 he met Claire<br />

Parker at a dinner party in Wolfson. They embarked on a transatlantic relationship, shared<br />

many interests, and enjoyed holidays together in Europe and Egypt. They were married<br />

in New York in March 2010, which they celebrated with friends and family in a party<br />

at Wolfson that summer. Their transatlantic relationship did not sustain their marriage,<br />

however, and they divorced the following year.<br />

Alex continued his pattern of spending substantial periods of time in Oxford. In 2015<br />

he underwent treatment for cancer, from which he afterwards suffered ‘brain fog’, to his<br />

great distress, though he managed to get to Oxford that summer. This was his last visit.<br />

He hoped to come again in the summer of 2016, but was too ill to travel. He remained<br />

in touch with friends in Oxford and New York until the summer of 2017, after which<br />

communication ceased. Friends then had no information about Alex until, by dint of<br />

strenuous effort in 2021, they learned that he had been suffering from dementia, possibly as<br />

a result of a brain tumour, and had been looked after by his two sisters in Las Vegas, where<br />

they lived, and that he died in June 2018. He is fondly remembered and greatly missed.<br />

Daniel Isaacson (EF)<br />

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John Henry Peters<br />

(1946–<strong>2022</strong>)<br />

Graduate Student 1968–74<br />

John Henry Peters, general counsel and<br />

later CEO of Zoetrope Studios, died from<br />

brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme) on<br />

the evening of Thursday, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

He was at home in San Francisco, in the<br />

company of his wife and three daughters.<br />

He was 76.<br />

John Henry Peters, 1946–<strong>2022</strong><br />

Photo: Laura Peters<br />

Educated under the supervision of Isaiah<br />

Berlin and A J Ayer at the University of<br />

Oxford and then at Yale Law School, Peters<br />

was hired as the first general counsel of<br />

Zoetrope Studios in 1980. Following the<br />

studio’s acquisition of Desilu Studios in Los<br />

Angeles and the production of One From<br />

the Heart, Peters accepted the position of<br />

CEO. He oversaw the studio from 1983 to 1991, guiding it through financially turbulent<br />

times and facilitating its operation during the production of The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got<br />

Married and several other films directed by Francis Ford Coppola among others.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Peters was born on 18 April 1946 in Alexandria, Virginia, the second son of Roger and Mary<br />

Lou Peters. He and his brothers Roger and Edward, and his sister Catherine, grew up in<br />

South Bend, Indiana, where his father taught constitutional law at the University of Notre<br />

Dame.<br />

Early on, Peters distinguished himself intellectually as a National Merit Scholar and earned<br />

a place in the first class of the newly-created New <strong>College</strong> of Florida for his undergraduate<br />

study of philosophy. He continued his philosophical studies at the University of Oxford<br />

as a Fulbright Scholar, where he joined the first group of students at Wolfson <strong>College</strong>. He<br />

studied under A J Ayer and Isaiah Berlin, whom he had admired as an undergraduate, before<br />

returning to the USA and graduating from Yale Law School.<br />

After law school, Peters joined Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco, where he managed the<br />

international and domestic distribution of Zoetrope’s film library, directed all studio business<br />

affairs, liaised with labour unions, and oversaw all legal services for Zoetrope and its several<br />

subsidiaries. He then moved to Los Angeles with his family to become the CEO of Epic<br />

Productions, a role that he carried until he sold the company on behalf of Credit Lyonnais<br />

in 1998.<br />

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Peters and his family enjoyed life in the Los Angeles area, living in Studio City and then<br />

Calabasas. It was there that he turned their 2.5 acre hillside home into Headwaters<br />

Vineyard, which produced hundreds of bottles of cabernet, pinot noir, viognier and<br />

chardonnay.<br />

In 2014, John and Laura moved to Sausalito, a step forward in their long-term plan to<br />

return to San Francisco. There he enjoyed hiking in the Marin Headlands, taking the ferry<br />

into the city, enjoying the local opera and jazz scene, and lots of time spent reading.<br />

Peters was an avid hiker throughout his life and active in local ecological restoration efforts,<br />

reflected by his receipt of the Carl Gibbs Environmental Excellence Award from the City of<br />

Calabasas in 2006.<br />

Travel was another of Peters’ lifelong interests. He had a special love of Hawaii, where he<br />

spent time solo, as a couple with Laura, and as a family with their children. When their<br />

children moved abroad to Sweden, Germany, England, China and Japan, he spent time<br />

travelling with them.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

In September 2021, Peters was diagnosed with Grade 4 glioblastoma multiforme. The<br />

talented team of medical professionals at the University of California, San Francisco, and<br />

Marin General Hospitals gave him excellent treatment and developed a strong, trusting<br />

relationship with him and Laura. True to form, Peters handled the entire process stoically<br />

and calmly, never once complaining.<br />

Peters died peacefully at his home in San Francisco on 3 November <strong>2022</strong>, in the house<br />

where he and Laura were married. He was surrounded by his daughters and wife, and<br />

donated his body to the Willed Body Program of the University of California, San Francisco,<br />

to support new generations of doctors and scientists. At Wolfson a bench has been<br />

dedicated to his memory in Berlin Quad.<br />

Peters is survived by his loving wife Laura, his daughters Hana, Claire and Rebecca; their<br />

partners, Jan Brockhaus, Anthony Di Franco and Stephen Honan; his grandchildren, his<br />

sister Catherine Graham and brother Edward Peters, as well as nieces and nephews. He is<br />

also survived by his first car, a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle named Sancho. Sancho remains part<br />

of the family, now in Alexandria, Virginia, living with Rebecca and her husband Stephen.<br />

Throughout his life, John Peters built lasting friendships and a sense of community wherever<br />

he was. He will be celebrated for his integrity, sense of humor, kindness to all people, and<br />

his deep connection with people from each chapter of his life. His fondness for cooking and<br />

sharing love through food will continue to be cherished by those who love him.<br />

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Ellen Elizabeth Rice<br />

(1952–20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

Junior Research Fellow 1978–82, Research Fellow<br />

1982–88, Senior Research Fellow and member of<br />

Governing Body 1988–2020, Appeals administrator<br />

for the Wolfson <strong>College</strong> Development campaign<br />

1988–94, Domestic Bursar 1994–2004, sometime<br />

Dean of Degrees, sometime Fellow Librarian, and<br />

Fellow Archivist until retirement in 2020, Emeritus<br />

Fellow 2020–<strong>23</strong><br />

Ellen was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 19<br />

November 1951. Her father Phil was a school<br />

teacher and basketball coach; her mother,<br />

Anita worked as an administrator for a range of<br />

organisations.<br />

Ellen Elizabeth Rice, 1952–20<strong>23</strong><br />

Photo: Jim Kennedy<br />

Between 1965 and 1969, she attended the Ellis School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and<br />

there began her lifetime fascination with the ancient world of Greece and Rome. Between<br />

1969 and 1973 she attended Mount Holyoke <strong>College</strong> in South Hadley, Massachusetts,<br />

gaining BA Summa Cum Laude in Classics, with a major in Latin and Greek (the compulsory<br />

science course was in geology). A visit to Cambridge after graduation led to a successful<br />

application to Newnham <strong>College</strong>, to which she was admitted in 1973, gaining BA in Classics<br />

in 1975. One of her tutors was the redoubtable Joyce Reynolds, and Saturday morning<br />

classes with her on epigraphy led to a long relationship with Greek inscriptions. In 1975 she<br />

began doctoral research in Somerville <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, the fourth female-only institution at<br />

which she studied. Her thesis topic was the analysis of a fragmentary text of a larger work<br />

about ancient Alexandria by the Hellenistic author Kallixeinos of Rhodes. It described a vast<br />

and spectacular procession staged by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the pharaoh of Ptolemaic<br />

Egypt from 284 to 246 BC. Ellen’s conclusions were published in 1983 by Oxford University<br />

Press under the title The Grand Procession of Ptolemy Philadelphus. The last part of her thesis<br />

was completed after her election, in 1978, to a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson<br />

<strong>College</strong>, Oxford, an institution that she would serve in diverse roles until retirement in<br />

2020.<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

Elements present in Kallixeinos’ text included many curiosities that were discussed and<br />

explained, including a cast of thousands: maenads, satyrs, and the rest; tableaux, automata,<br />

a giant phallus etc. The birds and animals fascinated Ellen: asses, bears, camels, cattle, dogs,<br />

elephants, giraffes, goats, horses, lynxes, onagers, oryx, peacocks, Saiga antelope, sheep, and<br />

a single rhinoceros. The elephants intrigued Ellen: surely not elderly survivors of Alexander<br />

the Great’s army (he died in 3<strong>23</strong> BC), but what else? A possible solution lay in descriptions<br />

of what might have been elephant-training facilities in northern Sudan. Such is the folly of<br />

youth that we took off in the spring of 1979 to Khartoum, and, with Sudanese colleagues,<br />

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visited sites by the Nile in the ancient Kingdom of Meroe, specifically the site of Mussawarat<br />

es Sofra, with a great enclosure and carvings of elephants, originally thought to be a training<br />

area for the beast (not so, we concluded: the entrances were too narrow), but now, alas,<br />

interpreted as a walled garden.<br />

This trip, our first (and nearly last) was followed, during most Easter vacations, with trips<br />

related to Ellen’s research interests, across mainland Greece, Turkey from the Aegean Shore<br />

to the Syrian border, but notably to ancient Rhodes, and also to Cyprus, Crete, France,<br />

Italy, and Albania. Sometimes the two of us, but frequently with friend and colleague John<br />

Penney (they shared the driving; I cowered in the back, attempting to navigate).<br />

PERSONAL NEWS<br />

In the late 1990s, Ellen was approached by Sutton Publishing to contribute biographies of<br />

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra to their Sutton Pocket Biographies series. Alexander was<br />

first published in 1997, with a second edition in 2004; there was a Greek version, one with<br />

a cover at least in Chinese, and a version published in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro in 2005;<br />

in all there were seven editions. Cleopatra was published in 1999. Otherwise there were<br />

biographies in Who was Who in the Greek World, publications on ancient Rhodes (notably<br />

the grottos), texts of Rhodian family monuments, and innumerable reviews.<br />

To return to Wolfson. Ellen was successively a Junior Research Fellow and then Senior<br />

Research Fellow, and was elected to the Governing Body in 1988, where she served until<br />

2020: 32 years in all. Of these six were devoted to the <strong>College</strong> Development Campaign,<br />

with ten as Domestic Bursar, presiding over the running of everything from the gardening<br />

staff, day nursery and catering, to accommodation. As successive Bursars and Presidents<br />

learnt, she was a woman of firm principle. There were other contributions, as Dean of<br />

Degrees, student advisor, member of every committee from Academic Policy (which she<br />

chaired) to Wine, and organiser of lecture series and editing the results: Revolution and<br />

Counter-Revolution (1991) and The Sea and History (1995). She was Senior Pro-Proctor<br />

during Jeremy Black’s term as Senior Proctor (1995–96); such was the excellence of her<br />

Latin pronunciation that she became part of the cast of the proctorial training cassette. Her<br />

last contribution, extending to retirement, was as Fellow Archivist.<br />

<strong>College</strong> responsibilities did not preclude other contributions to University life: tutoring,<br />

lecturing (the Alexander the Great option), acting as assessor and examiner in Ancient and<br />

Modern History, and (unlikely as it may seem) as a member of the University Delegacy of<br />

Military Instruction.<br />

We met on her first evening in Wolfson on 25 October 1978, and our friendship, and then<br />

marriage, lasted for nearly forty-five years.<br />

A full and busy life, cut short.<br />

Jim Kennedy (EF), 3 June 20<strong>23</strong><br />

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Memories<br />

From Tibet to Oxford<br />

by Darig Thokmay (GS 2018–)<br />

Greetings. I am Darig Thokmay, a DPhil student committed to the in-depth exploration of<br />

Tibetan and Chinese History. My life narrative unfolds from eastern Tibet – Amdo, where I<br />

was born under Chinese occupation. My story echoes many Tibetans’ courageous narrative<br />

as I fled my homeland as a political refugee. I braved the towering, frost-kissed peaks of the<br />

Himalayas, a treacherous trek to freedom on foot, an odyssey of survival and hope.<br />

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />

The dreams I nurtured in the verdant<br />

expanse of my father’s farm fields in the<br />

Tibetan countryside found their fulfilment<br />

within the intellectual walls of Oxford<br />

University. A dream that seemed so distant<br />

beneath the vast Tibetan skies has assumed<br />

a tangible form here in Oxford.<br />

The University has been my intellectual<br />

abode for four memorable years, learning<br />

and engaging with various scholars. The<br />

sun is swiftly setting on this chapter of my<br />

journey: within two months I will finish my<br />

thesis and bid farewell to my remarkable life<br />

in Oxford.<br />

Photo: Phuntsok Dhundop<br />

My <strong>College</strong> years are richly embroidered with countless memorable and transformative<br />

experiences. Every thread of camaraderie, every hue of learning and pattern of growth<br />

bears testimony to the nurturing environment fostered by the <strong>College</strong> and its dedicated<br />

staff. Their unyielding support and friendship have woven a cocoon of warmth around me,<br />

fostering my personal and academic growth.<br />

In gratitude, I dedicate these words to each <strong>College</strong> member whose unwavering<br />

commitment has breathed life into my years here. You have turned my Oxford journey into<br />

a mesmerising dance of memories, each step steeped in meaning and filled with significance.<br />

Thank you for weaving my <strong>College</strong> years into an unforgettable narrative.<br />

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From Uruguay to Oxford<br />

by Edith Sim (GS 1973-76, HMCR 2021–)<br />

The Bob Sim Uruguay Award was established at Wolfson in 2021 to commemorate the<br />

collaboration between the late Bob Sim (an alumnus) and the University of the Republic<br />

of Uruguay. It was officially inaugurated in April <strong>2022</strong> by the Uruguayan Ambassador, at a<br />

memorial dinner in Wolfson. One of its first recipients in <strong>2022</strong> was Dr. Álvaro Díaz, also<br />

an alumnus, who is now a professor in Montevideo. The other two recipients were Ana<br />

Ferreira and Florencia Irigoín, Uruguayan academics who had collaborated with Bob Sim.<br />

In 20<strong>23</strong>, Mariana Suárez received the Award. She is a graduate student of Álvaro Díaz and<br />

has already spent time in the UK, working with Professor Judi Allen in Manchester on a<br />

joint project on the proliferation of macrophages in the context of so-called type 2 immune<br />

responses, such as those mounted against worm infections.<br />

In June, Mariana visited Oxford and<br />

resided fruitfully in Wolfson where she<br />

was hosted by Edith Sim (HMCR) and<br />

Professor Christina Redfield (GBF), both in<br />

<strong>College</strong> and on a visit to the Biochemistry<br />

Department. She met other members<br />

of the <strong>College</strong>, including the President,<br />

at a Thursday dinner. She gave talks on<br />

her research to the Nuffield Department<br />

of Medicine and the Department of<br />

Pharmacology. Her trips included a visit to<br />

Bourton-on-the-Water, where she enjoyed<br />

the model village. Other highlights were<br />

punting on the Cherwell with Milan Fowkes<br />

wielding the pole, a concert in Wolfson, and<br />

Mariana Suárez (L) and Edith Sim (R) / Photo: Edith Sim<br />

dinners at famous spots which included the<br />

Trout Inn and the Victoria Arms. This memorable interlude of science, Wolfson memories<br />

and warm sunshine, culminated in a final dinner with other Spanish-speakers and Professor<br />

Ken Reid FRS, a former colleague of Bob Sim.<br />

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />

Wolfson in History and Today<br />

by Philomen Probert (GBF), who spoke at this year’s Iffley Dinner which celebrates the origins of<br />

Wolfson<br />

You know you’re getting old when you’re asked to give the Iffley Dinner speech – you’re<br />

suspected of knowing something about the history of the <strong>College</strong>. It’s a great honour, but<br />

it’s also a bit scary, because looking around the room I can see plenty of people who<br />

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know a good deal more about the history of the <strong>College</strong> than I do: the two authors of<br />

the wonderful book about the <strong>College</strong>’s first fifty years; the author of the wonderful<br />

book about the Meads across the river; the architect who designed a large portion of the<br />

buildings we enjoy today; people who were at 60 Banbury Road; people with personal<br />

connections to the <strong>College</strong>, going back decades; people with personal connections to Isaiah<br />

Berlin … I’ve learnt a great deal from many of you over the years, and I hope you’re not<br />

going to find this like one of those exam scripts where you get your own words repeated<br />

back to you in a rather garbled form.<br />

But I’d like to start by mentioning Ellen Rice, who sadly passed away recently. She came to<br />

Wolfson as a Junior Research Fellow in 1978, and when I came to the <strong>College</strong> in 1999 she<br />

was a Governing Body Fellow and Domestic Bursar. On my first day at Wolfson she said to<br />

me: ‘Welcome to Wolfson. This is a nice college.’ That was a lovely thing to hear on my first<br />

day, and I’ve often thought it’s surprisingly true, and I’ve been asking myself quite how we<br />

manage to have such a genuinely nice college.<br />

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />

I don’t think there’s any one thing, and I’m not going to try to mention everything. I won’t<br />

mention the egalitarian ethos, the international outlook, the democratic governance, the<br />

participation of students in the governance of the <strong>College</strong> … I’m not sure the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />

motto is the key thing – humani nil alienum, ‘nothing human is alien’ – because I’m not sure<br />

how much difference mottoes really make to the feel of a place.<br />

Incidentally, as a classicist I can’t really read that motto without thinking of its original<br />

context in a comedy by the Roman playwright Terence. The character who says it has just<br />

been accused of poking his nose into things that are none of his business, and he delivers<br />

this off-the-cuff retort: I’m a human, there’s no such thing as human affairs that are none of<br />

my business. But the practice of quoting this line out of context starts already in antiquity<br />

– it’s quoted by Cicero, it’s quoted by Seneca – and over the centuries it’s been used and<br />

re-used in many different ways. Sometimes it stands for something like brotherly love<br />

towards fellow humans: St Augustine links it to the Christian concept of doing unto others<br />

as we would have them do unto us. Sometimes it stands for the idea that we shouldn’t be<br />

too judgemental – we should take all human behaviour in our stride. Sometimes it stands<br />

for the idea that we all have human failings. In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment there’s a<br />

character who quotes the line to excuse his own appalling behaviour: I’m a human – what<br />

do you expect? To the founding Fellows of Wolfson it seems to have meant something like<br />

We support the study of Humanities subjects. And it stands to reason that it’s not all about<br />

Terence, if we consider the history of human habitation in this area.<br />

Our species arrived in Britain around 40,000 years ago; there were Neanderthal humans<br />

before that (I’m not going to go back to Homo heidelbergensis, that’s too long ago) – but<br />

it was cold then. And yet it wasn’t desperately cold. It wasn’t ice everywhere: there was<br />

grassland, there were large herds of grazing animals. But then around 25,000 years ago, it<br />

got really cold – too cold for humans, and they disappeared from Britain. Around 15,000<br />

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years ago they perhaps tried to come back, but that didn’t really work for long. But then<br />

around 12,000 years ago, the ice melted. In this area, it released a layer of limestone gravel;<br />

and on top of this, over the centuries the river Cherwell deposited sediment from the<br />

Cotswolds, making the slightly alkaline alluvial soil which supports the grasses and flowers<br />

that thrive on the Meads. (In a couple of weeks the buttercups should be in flower.) And<br />

with the warmer weather, humans found their way back, and in due course there’s evidence<br />

from the Neolithic Period and the Bronze Age of human activity near here. The University<br />

Parks were a Bronze Age cemetery, it seems.<br />

But if we fast-forward to the Roman period, this wasn’t a Roman site. I’m drawing now on<br />

a lecture at Wolfson by Martin Henig, ‘Were there Romans at Wolfson?’ It turns out there<br />

were Romans in Oxfordshire at least: I once had the privilege of seeing the Roman villa<br />

at North Leigh with Susan Walker, when we had an Away Day nearby for the Governing<br />

Body, and some of us sneaked off in one of the breaks to look at the villa. But there were<br />

no Romans at Wolfson, only evidence that the river was in use; so if they were at Wolfson,<br />

they were probably punting past it. But they wouldn’t have stopped here, because there<br />

was no punt harbour in those days. In fact, even centuries later, if you look at Alison<br />

McDonald’s beautiful book about the Meads, there is a map of Marston from 1605, which<br />

shows our bend of the Cherwell and the fields on the other side – but no punt harbour. It<br />

was part of Powell and Moya’s design for the <strong>College</strong> when it came here.<br />

When Wolfson moved to this site in 1974, it was radical and ahead of its time. In 20<strong>23</strong><br />

it’s difficult – or at least I find it difficult – to picture the scepticism Isaiah Berlin faced for<br />

his belief in graduate education in Oxford and in embracing the whole range of academic<br />

subjects, including the natural sciences. Despite having the humanities in its motto, the<br />

natural sciences were to be a key part of the whole operation.<br />

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />

A challenge which an institution faces that was ahead of its time in the 1960s is one that<br />

the London Underground also faces. In 1863, London opened the first underground railway<br />

in the world. Today, London has a tube system with rather old infrastructure. Some of it’s<br />

been upgraded over the years; some of it was going to be upgraded before the Second<br />

World War, and then the war got in the way; some of it is still desperately in need of<br />

upgrading. Until recently we had college buildings consisting to an alarming extent of singleglazed<br />

windows, put in at a time when energy was cheap and it wasn’t yet clear that life on<br />

this planet faces a serious threat, this time not from things getting too cold but from things<br />

getting too warm. I’m very proud of the decarbonisation work the <strong>College</strong> has done, and of<br />

everybody who has put up with inconvenience while that work has been going on. To me<br />

that’s a sign of a college that keeps on caring, and taking the bull by the horns, and not only<br />

when it’s convenient to do so.<br />

The writer finished by toasting the memory of Iffley and the future of Wolfson. She is indebted to<br />

the sources below, and to conversations with members of Wolfson; and also (for the afterlife of<br />

the line of Terence) with Aneta Kliszcz at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków.<br />

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R Beckley and D Radford, 2012. ‘Oxford archaeological resource assessment 2011:<br />

Neolithic to Bronze Age’. Version 28/1/2012. <br />

L Hendry, ‘Human evolution: first Britons’. (accessed 14 April 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

H D Jocelyn, 1973. ‘Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence, Heauton<br />

timorumenos 77)’. Antichthon 7, 14–46.<br />

J McAlhany, 2014. ‘Crumbs, thieves, and relics: translation and alien humanism’. Educational<br />

Theory 64, 439–61.<br />

Alison W McDonald, 2009. A history and ecology of North and South Meads. Oxford:<br />

Wolfson <strong>College</strong>.<br />

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />

G Masefield, letter of 14 September 1966. <strong>College</strong> Archives.<br />

Oxford University Museum of Natural History and <br />

(accessed 14 April 20<strong>23</strong>)<br />

John H W Penney and Roger S O Tomlin, 2016. Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, Oxford: the first fifty years.<br />

Oxford: Wolfson <strong>College</strong>.<br />

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Byzantium Then and Now<br />

by Elena Drăghici-Vasilescu (MCR)<br />

Other Contributions<br />

Byzantium Then and Now is the art exhibition I curated at Wolfson between <strong>23</strong> April and<br />

24 June 20<strong>23</strong>, with works by the artists Aleksandras Aleksejevas, Christabel Anderson,<br />

Irina Bradley and Elena Narinskaya. Most of their pieces are made in techniques inherited<br />

from Byzantium, such as painting on wood panel or making icons out of metal. Ivory also<br />

was used in the Eastern Roman Empire (AD 330–1453), and examples can be found in<br />

museums and art galleries around the world, but now that elephants are protected, there<br />

was no ivory in the exhibition, only paper, wood and metal.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

The Archangel Gabriel, egg tempera and ‘shell gold’ on paper, by Christabel Anderson<br />

Photo: Elena Draghici-Vasilescu<br />

The Byzantines used the same visual motifs to decorate not only their houses, their shrines<br />

and public places, but also their manuscripts. They ‘illuminated’ them, sometimes with<br />

letters which are ‘historiated’ or ‘inhabited’, examples of which were in the exhibition. It<br />

was impossible to include frescoes and mosaics, for obvious reasons, despite these being<br />

favourite Byzantine media, but many of their visual themes are shared by ‘post-Byzantine’<br />

art, making them familiar to anyone who came to the exhibition.<br />

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At the formal opening, it was mentioned that the display was very suitable for teaching<br />

purposes. Most of the icons were at eye-level, and could be examined closely so as to<br />

observe the brush-strokes and the individual style of each artist. The artists who once<br />

worked – like those who are still working – in accordance with Byzantine manuals<br />

(hermeneias) are called ‘iconographers’. But while their work is guided by a written typicon<br />

which they follow strictly, their individual styles are still quite distinctive.<br />

I might add to the exhibition a few remarks about the art of the Byzantine Empire and of<br />

what specialists call ‘Byzantium beyond Byzantium’. Many of the pigments used in ‘Meta-<br />

Byzantine’ or post-Byzantine painting are obtained in traditional ways: either from plants<br />

or from the soil – from stones such as lapis lazuli, which from very early in history has<br />

been ground up to make the colour ultramarine. The ancient Egyptians used it before<br />

the Byzantines, and it is still used by iconographers today. But it is very expensive, so in<br />

Byzantium the colour is usually seen in royal foundations or in those established by other<br />

rich patrons. This can be seen in Göreme, Cappadocia, a Byzantine province from the<br />

fourth century until the eleventh, where I did a few years’ research. In Göreme there are<br />

two churches called Tokalı – the Old Tokalı and the New – both dating from the tenth<br />

century. They stand next to each other, but by comparing the two, it becomes obvious<br />

that the New Tokalı was erected by imperial initiative: not only were gold and silver added<br />

to its wall-paintings, but it was embellished with generous quantities of lapis lazuli. In fact<br />

inscriptions there indicate that the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (963–69) and his family<br />

funded the decoration, which may well have the work of iconographers drawn from the<br />

capital itself, from Byzantium. Nikephoros was born in Cappadocia in 912, and in 945<br />

achieved high office under the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913–59) as<br />

strategos of the Anatolikon Theme.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

The exhibition at Wolfson attracted many visitors – often specialists – from Europe as far<br />

as Athens, from various cities of the USA, from Quebec in Canada, and of course the UK<br />

and Oxford. A school in Birmingham sent fifteen pupils and their teacher, and my own<br />

students in the Faculty of History came, not to mention others from Wolfson itself and the<br />

University’s Byzantine Society. In some weeks I was addressing large and small groups at the<br />

exhibition almost every day, and often I met artists and art historians, and colleagues in my<br />

own field of Byzantine and medieval culture, who provided me with scholarly discussion of<br />

great value.<br />

May I suggest for further reading two of my own books, Between Tradition and Modernity:<br />

Icons and Iconographers in Romania (2009) and Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and<br />

Arts (Oxford, 2021); and my paper ‘Shrines and Schools in Byzantine Cappadocia’ in Journal<br />

of Early Christian History, 9.1 (2019), 1–29. I have also posted a film of the exhibition: The<br />

exhibition of Post Byzantine icons ‘Byzantium then and Now’ 20<strong>23</strong> – YouTube .<br />

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Celsius at Wolfson<br />

by Ian Hembrow (VS)<br />

Two images of Wolfson will linger from the past year: the punt harbour baked dry by the<br />

scorching summer heat of <strong>2022</strong>, and the buildings cloaked in scaffolding during the net zero<br />

transformation.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Above: The Punt Harbour in August <strong>2022</strong><br />

Photo: Ian Hembrow<br />

Both images signal the dramatic climate<br />

change happening here on our doorstep<br />

and everywhere else in the world. And<br />

both are connected to why I found myself<br />

studying at Wolfson: Celsius.<br />

Most people know about the United<br />

Nations’ target to limit the increase in<br />

average global temperatures to no more<br />

than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial<br />

levels by 2050. But what else do<br />

we know about the person behind this<br />

unit of measurement, whose name is now<br />

stamped on the future of humanity?<br />

Left: Anders Celsius aged 22, newly appointed as<br />

professor of astronomy. Portrait by Olof Arenius, c.1730<br />

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Who was Celsius?<br />

What do we know about him? Until recently, my answer would have been ‘not very much’.<br />

I knew there once was someone called Celsius, just as there was a Fahrenheit. But that was<br />

about all, until I came across the former observatory of Professor Anders Celsius<br />

(1701–44) in the centre of Uppsala in southern Sweden. When my friend pointed out the<br />

squat, yellow building standing at an angle to the modern street, it stopped me in my tracks.<br />

I resolved there and then to find out more about this little-known man with the wellknown<br />

name.<br />

Uppsala is much like Oxford – a compact,<br />

historical city dominated by its university.<br />

This is where Celsius was born, worked<br />

for most of life, and died from tuberculosis<br />

aged just 42. He was the third generation<br />

of scientists to hold the professorship<br />

of astronomy at Uppsala University,<br />

but his academic success was far from<br />

guaranteed. His family lost their home and<br />

most of their possessions when the city<br />

was engulfed in flames in 1702, although<br />

crucially the precious books belonging<br />

to Celsius’ grandfather were saved. They<br />

became the foundation for his later<br />

education.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

The young Celsius was a precocious talent.<br />

During my research, I saw his geometry<br />

exercise book from when he was 16. The<br />

pages are covered in exquisite, curling text<br />

and pin-sharp, quill pen diagrams. At 21, he<br />

began taking daily measurements of sun,<br />

rainfall and wind. This started the Uppsala<br />

Weather Series, which has continued<br />

uninterrupted ever since. Three centuries<br />

later, it’s one of the world’s longest data<br />

sequences, and arguably the origin of<br />

climate science.<br />

A page from the 16-year-old Celsius’ geometry exercise<br />

book, Carolina Rediviva Library, Uppsala.<br />

Photo: Ian Hembrow<br />

A royal breakthrough<br />

Academics today will empathise with the struggles of Celsius’ early career. Paid, permanent<br />

positions were hard to come by, and even when he was appointed professor in 1730,<br />

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1732 when he departed for a scientific tour of Europe. His mission was to visit the great<br />

astronomical observatories of Germany, Italy, France and Britain, and then return with the<br />

knowhow to create something similar in Uppsala.<br />

In Rome, Celsius met Pope Clement, and in London he worked at Greenwich Royal<br />

Observatory with Sir Edmond Halley. But it was at l’Académie des Sciences in Paris that he<br />

made his most important connections. The charismatic young Swede caught the attention<br />

of King Louis XV. The king had just commissioned an expedition to the Arctic to help settle<br />

one of the key scientific debates of the age – the exact shape of the Earth. The idea was to<br />

compare measurements taken in the far north with those from another expedition, which<br />

had already set off for equatorial South America.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

An undertaking like this needed highly skilled and physically courageous scientists, and<br />

Celsius was exactly the right person, in the right place at the right time. In 1737, he<br />

returned to Sweden having proved that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but slightly<br />

flattened at its poles. This had profound implications for calendars, navigation, trade and<br />

empires, and thanks to the gift of a lifetime pension from a grateful Louis XV, it secured his<br />

reputation and future.<br />

Celsius here and now<br />

Celsius’ most famous invention – his one-hundred-point ‘centi-grade’ temperature scale –<br />

came almost at the end of his life. And he did not live to see it become the internationally<br />

recognised standard unit we use today. It is also a curious fact that his original version was<br />

inverted – with zero degrees as boiling and 100 as freezing. Exactly who decided to turn it<br />

the other way up, or why, is much disputed.<br />

What we can see and know for sure, though, is that Celsius and what he represents are<br />

with us here and now. The name and legacy of this modest and mild-mannered young<br />

Swede resonate around the place where we live and learn.<br />

Ian Hembrow’s biography CELSIUS – A Life And Death By Degrees is due for publication by<br />

The History Press in autumn 2024.<br />

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The Jungle Book illustrated<br />

If you go into the Library from the Marble Hall, you will see a series of framed lithographic<br />

prints hanging on the wall to your left. They have been there on long-term loan from the<br />

family of Ben Simpson (MCR 1987–), a loan recently extended by agreement with his<br />

daughter Helen.<br />

Ben writes:<br />

‘Throughout my childhood, it had been my pleasure and privilege to listen to stories taken<br />

from Kipling’s Jungle Book; at an early age I was introduced to the dramatic illustrations<br />

of those stories, created by the Detmold Brothers, twins who exhibited at the Royal<br />

Academy at the age of 13. Their talents, and Kipling’s stories, were chosen by my mother,<br />

who purchased a portfolio containing the prints in the late 1940s, to soften the harshness<br />

of other tales of India, told to me as an infant, by an Anglo-Indian child-minder. I hope that<br />

my family copies of the Detmold Brothers’ Jungle Book lithographs may be displayed in the<br />

<strong>College</strong> Library for a considerable time to come.’<br />

And here is a summary of the entry in the Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, based<br />

on a translation by Professor Benito Müller (SF):<br />

Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold were English graphic artists, twins,<br />

born on 21 November 1883. Because of their father’s illness, they grew up in the care<br />

of their uncle, Dr E B Shuldham, who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese<br />

woodblock prints of plants and animals. This encouraged the twins to begin drawing<br />

animals and plants at a very early age, and resulted in their debut at the age of 13 at the<br />

Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, with nature studies in the<br />

Japanese style. Subsequently they learned the techniques of etching and printing in colour<br />

from copper plates.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

In 1898 they published their first sequence of colour etchings of animals and flowering<br />

plants in the Japanese style. These were much admired and quickly went out of print.<br />

They achieved real success in 1900 in a special exhibition at the gallery of the Fine Art<br />

Society in London. In later works the influence of Albrecht Dürer becomes apparent. The<br />

watercolour illustrations for Kipling’s Jungle Book were published in 1903 by Macmillan as<br />

coloured lithographs, making the twins ‘notoriously popular’. These illustrations, despite a<br />

certain colourfulness and fantasy in inventing tropical jungle scenery, still possess an intrinsic<br />

charm and display the masterly craft and high technical standard of their previous work.<br />

Maurice Detmold, probably the more gifted of the two, killed himself in 1908 at the age<br />

of 25 by inhaling chloroform. Edward Detmold went on illustrating books, notably Aesop’s<br />

Fables, and Maeterlinck’s Hours of Gladness and the Life of the Bee. He worked on animal<br />

compositions and nature impressions, but almost exclusively in coloured lithography. In<br />

retirement his eyesight began to fail, and he suffered from severe depression, finally shooting<br />

himself in 1957.<br />

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The Bunker<br />

by Nicholas Márquez-Grant (MCR) and Liz Baird (Archivist)<br />

In ‘Remembering where the bomber crashed’, the <strong>Record</strong> for 2014 (pp. 36–42) described<br />

the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the crash of a World War II bomber on the<br />

site of the Auditorium. Building and maintenance work nearby in <strong>2022</strong> has now uncovered<br />

another reminder of the War, an underground air-raid shelter or bunker in the garden of<br />

14 Chadlington Road. Overall it measures 8.50 by 5.50 m, with its concrete asphalt-coated<br />

roof projecting 0.50 m above the ground.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Photo: Nicholas Márquez-Grant<br />

The entrance is to the right, by a flight of<br />

concrete steps; in the walls on either side<br />

can still be seen the plank-marks left by the<br />

timber framing into which the concrete was<br />

poured.<br />

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These steps lead to a small lobby with<br />

store-room and toilet, and then to the<br />

main room with an exit-shaft at the far end.<br />

Overall, this bunker (to dignify it by the<br />

term) resembles the design of an air-raid<br />

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which has suggested that it was built in the very late ’30s, when the threat – and fear – of<br />

war with Hitler’s Germany was much increased. But the sophisticated internal fittings<br />

suggest it was not just a shelter. Its main, concrete-built room not only had a wooden floor,<br />

it was neatly panelled in wood, with shelves and built-in desks. It even had electrical lighting.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Old Wolves visit the bunker / Photo: Nicholas Márquez-Grant<br />

Like the pottery found on a Roman site, there is even a hint in the archaeology of the<br />

bunker as to how it might have been used – a wooden crate stamped with ‘J B Kind.<br />

Boxmaker. Burton-on-Trent’, a company which during the War made boxes for ammunition<br />

and other military material. It is tempting to see the bunker, not as an elaborate shelter<br />

for the two elderly ladies who then lived at 14 Chadlington Road, but as a well-protected<br />

underground office for some branch of military intelligence.<br />

The jury is still out on this, but meanwhile LiDAR laser scanning has been done, and the<br />

<strong>College</strong> maintenance staff has secured the site, removing a small quantity of asbestos and<br />

making it weather-proof. Perhaps it will now acquire a new, peacetime role; not to the<br />

extent of becoming a tourist attraction like Bletchley Park, but as a safe store, maybe for<br />

wine or some of the <strong>College</strong> archives.<br />

Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (GS 1999–2006) is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology at<br />

Cranfield University, where he is working with Maria Cunningham, also of the University, to<br />

publish a full account of the bunker.<br />

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Christmas Cards for Prisoners<br />

by Helen Kosc (GS)<br />

‘The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of criminals is one of the most<br />

unfailing tests of civilization of any country’ (Winston Churchill, as Home Secretary in 1910)<br />

In July 20<strong>23</strong> there were more than 80,000 inmates in UK prisons and more than 11<br />

million persons with a criminal record. Crime rates in England and Wales continue to<br />

drop, according to the Office for National Statistics (<strong>2022</strong>), but according to the Ministry<br />

of Justice (2021), the prison population has risen by 74% in the last thirty years and is<br />

projected to reach 97,500 by July 2025.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

In working for a DPhil in Sociology, I have investigated the resettlement journeys of 150<br />

prison-leavers over 18 months, a long-term ethnographic study in collaboration with the<br />

Ministry of Justice and the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. My research<br />

has made me a firm advocate of prison reform, to make it an environment that prepares<br />

inmates for their eventual resettlement into the community. In more than seven years of<br />

volunteer experience of Canadian and British prisons, I have seen the impact that human<br />

kindness can have in an isolated, lonely space like prison. For prisoners to know that<br />

someone cares and is willing to volunteer their time goes a long way to help them realize<br />

their own worth as members of the community and, even more importantly, to enhance<br />

their potential for a successful reintegration.<br />

This prompted me to organize an event<br />

in which members of the University could<br />

volunteer a bit of their time to show<br />

kindness to those in prison. For prisoners,<br />

as for many of us, Christmas can be an<br />

especially difficult and lonely time of the<br />

year. What better way, then, of showing<br />

someone in prison that someone is still<br />

thinking about them, than by sending a<br />

Christmas card from the University of<br />

Oxford; by showing that they have not been<br />

forgotten by the world’s brightest minds<br />

and researchers?<br />

On Wednesday 7 December <strong>2022</strong>, I<br />

organized an event for Oxford students<br />

from different colleges and disciplines to<br />

come together to create Christmas cards<br />

for the inmates of H M Prison at Bullingdon.<br />

My own research and volunteering had<br />

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given me contacts there, and I gained permission from the Governor. This event was the<br />

first of its kind at Oxford and took place in Wolfson, where it was supported by the Social<br />

and Cultural Committee. It was a great success, with staff and students making more than<br />

three hundred Christmas cards sure to put smiles on the faces of those in need. Many of<br />

those who came expressed their joy in being able to give time to a charitable activity and to<br />

get together for a good cause.<br />

Photo: Helen Kosc<br />

These cards were distributed to Bullingdon<br />

inmates next week, and I learned of their<br />

heart-warming reception by prison staff as<br />

well as by the recipients themselves. I cannot<br />

overstate the impact of receiving a thoughtful<br />

Christmas card on a day when you feel<br />

most alone. I hope this event will become<br />

a tradition at Wolfson as it becomes ever<br />

more urgent to support those in custody, a<br />

tradition that I hope will extend in future to women prisoners as well as men.<br />

This heart-warming event left everyone feeling grateful; those who gave and those who<br />

received, they both felt the spirit of Christmas. Thank you, everyone who volunteered your<br />

time, and the <strong>College</strong> for making it possible. The message of the cards is simple: everyone<br />

can use a bit of kindness.<br />

The Marsh Project<br />

by Alison McDonald (MCR), Timothy King (MCR) and Konradin Eigler (GS)<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Storing and sequestering carbon while increasing biodiversity – this is the aim of the Marsh<br />

Project which has been jointly run by the Green Team and Members of Common Room<br />

since May <strong>2022</strong>. The Marsh is an area of about 3,140 m2 of grassland owned by Wolfson<br />

<strong>College</strong> and located between the river Cherwell, the harbour and the barbecue area. Over<br />

the past few years, the area has not been managed. Before this year, it was last cut in 2015,<br />

which is why it has recently been covered by tall, rank vegetation.<br />

We worked on the hypothesis that the Marsh area – just like North and South Mead<br />

which are also owned by Wolfson – could historically have been MG4 grassland. This was<br />

confirmed by analysis of the soil which revealed low phosphate levels. The combination of<br />

regular flooding and management to maximise productivity (hay-cut in Summer, aftermath<br />

grazing by young cattle or sheep until the end of October) makes MG4 floodplain meadows<br />

into a habitat for rare specialist species. Many of these sites have disappeared since the<br />

nineteenth century because of enhanced drainage, ploughing, fertilisation and the reduction<br />

in hay-cutting. It is estimated that only 1,500 ha of intact MG4 land remain in Britain, but<br />

there are now several schemes to regenerate them, particularly along the Thames and<br />

Cherwell in Oxford.<br />

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Photo: George Mather<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

We estimate tentatively from our analysis of the soil that the carbon stored in the Marsh<br />

amounts to about 58 tonnes. Reintroducing traditional management will help to prevent<br />

this carbon from being released into the atmosphere and encourage a considerable<br />

increase in species richness. Since the <strong>College</strong> has already committed considerable funds<br />

to implement an annual hay cut from this July onwards, we are all the more enthusiastic<br />

to continue our work over the next year. This includes the transfer of hay with ripe seeds<br />

from South Mead which will be strewn over the Marsh to reintroduce MG 4 species.<br />

The Green Team will monitor the progress of the project and announce volunteering<br />

opportunities so that the entire community can help restore this rare piece of land.<br />

Sources and Further Reading<br />

R.G. Jefferson and C.E. Pinches, ‘The Conservation of Flood-plain Meadows in Great Britain.<br />

An overview’, Fritillary. The Journal of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire and<br />

the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust 5 (2011), 11–24.<br />

A. McDonald, A History and Ecology of North and South Meads (Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, Oxford<br />

2009).<br />

K. Reiss, Towards Creating a Model County for Ecosystem Restoration. Examining the Carbon<br />

Storage Potential of Floodplains in Oxfordshire (MSc thesis, Department of Geography and the<br />

Environment, University of Oxford 2021).<br />

E. Rothero, S. Lake and D. Gowing (eds.), Floodplain Meadows – Beauty and Utility. A<br />

Technical Handbook (Milton Keynes 2016).<br />

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The Legal Fight for Clean Rivers<br />

by Carolyn Roberts (MCR 2009–)<br />

Looking out from Wolfson Harbour on a sunny day, watching the punts go by in leisurely,<br />

disorderly fashion and the dragonflies dipping over the surface of the Cherwell, you<br />

would be forgiven for assuming that the <strong>College</strong> has preserved its natural surroundings in<br />

pristine condition. But in <strong>2022</strong> alone, 25 sewage discharges were recorded just 25 miles<br />

upstream at Banbury Sewage Treatment Works – and this is to speak only of those that<br />

Thames Water has disclosed to the public. As a water and environment consultant with a<br />

deep passion for rivers, I have been investigating and researching the condition of Britain’s<br />

watercourses for years. As has been widely reported, our rivers are in a deplorable state,<br />

both ecologically and chemically. And I am now at the forefront of a class-action lawsuit<br />

against six of the UK’s largest water companies, aimed at seeking justice for their customers<br />

and redress for alleged environmental damage.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Photo: John Cairns<br />

Water is life. Rivers are the basis of many ecosystems and underpin biodiversity; they are<br />

of fundamental environmental importance. But to my mind, rivers are also part of our<br />

natural heritage. They belong – or they should belong – to everybody. In my view, they<br />

are part of something that we should all be able to enjoy in common ownership. As a<br />

child, I lived on the edge of a city and I played in rivers without any serious consequences,<br />

swinging out across the water on ropes, without caring whether I put my head below the<br />

water. Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine people allowing their children to do that, and this<br />

sad change is the result of a disregard for our shared environment by key actors including,<br />

allegedly, the UK’s largest water companies.<br />

The problem is not a new one, and progress has been made since the days when<br />

Britain was known as the ‘Dirty Man of Europe’. In the 1960s, our water was in a much<br />

worse condition owing largely to industrial pollution from factories and mines, which<br />

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was subsequently regulated by European legislation. As a result, pollution in UK rivers<br />

today stems primarily from two other sources: sewage discharges and agricultural runoff,<br />

including fertilizers and chemical effluent from farms. The privatisation of the water<br />

companies in the late 1980s was expected to generate investment to address these issues,<br />

but this was limited, and progress stalled after about five years. Forty years on, with a<br />

growing population and increased water usage in households, we are generating more<br />

sewage than ever before and attempting to handle the problem with twentieth-century<br />

infrastructure. Meanwhile, climate change has begun to generate drought events that are<br />

exacerbated by persistent, unaddressed leakage in our supply networks, whereas extreme<br />

rainstorms are severely stressing our sewerage system.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Against this backdrop, activists and academics including myself have begun to fight for<br />

change. The recent national conversation over water quality was kick-started in Oxfordshire<br />

by Professor Peter Hammond and WaSP (Windrush against Sewage Pollution) when they<br />

monitored the deterioration of the River Windrush, which winds its way past Burford<br />

and Witney before joining the Thames above Oxford. Their dedicated work attracted<br />

media attention and, before long, legal firms interested in pursuing a test case. This is<br />

approximately where I come in: I was approached by Leigh Day and Matrix Chambers<br />

to act as the Class Representative in a legal action against six of the largest English water<br />

and sewerage companies, who are accused of polluting our rivers by allowing untreated<br />

sewage to spill into them. I will allege that bill-paying households have been (and continue<br />

to be) overcharged for sewerage services as a result of these companies misleading<br />

their regulators, OFWAT and the Environment Agency, about the number of pollution<br />

incidents since 2015 involving the discharge or spill of raw sewage into the environment at<br />

wastewater works.<br />

I have long advocated better protections for our rivers, but when I first became involved in<br />

this legal case, I naïvely assumed that it would link river pollution with the perpetrators of<br />

the pollution, on the grounds of environmental harm. But the difficulty of proving harm to<br />

the environment means that the case will proceed instead within the frame of competition<br />

law, since the privatised water companies are effectively monopolies: customers cannot<br />

choose their supplier. Sewage spills are most likely to occur after heavy rainfall, but<br />

preliminary analysis suggests that there is widespread contamination even in dry conditions,<br />

that some of the monitoring equipment is not functioning as intended, and consequently<br />

many spills are not being reported. Our case alleges that the named water companies have<br />

misled the regulators and failed their domestic customers; and if we succeed, money will be<br />

refunded to those customers.<br />

The water companies still talk about the need for customers to trust them, but this trust<br />

has to be earned. In recent years, people in the UK have increasingly begun to understand<br />

our natural environment as common property and a shared heritage: this is partly thanks<br />

to Sir David Attenborough and other environmentalists, but also due to our spending<br />

more time in nature, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. We have seen increased<br />

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concern about air quality in our cities and water quality of our rivers and coast. The water<br />

companies have, I believe, underestimated the strength of public feeling, the desire to<br />

protect what should rightly be common property, and indeed the contempt the public<br />

feels towards those who infringe upon and injure that common property. I have been<br />

delighted by the universal support I have received from family and friends who know of my<br />

involvement in the case. But my long-term wish is, quite simply, that children should be able<br />

to paddle in streams without their parents having to think too much about whether it is<br />

safe to do so. I would like our rivers to be sparkling and full of life, for all to enjoy.<br />

Carolyn Roberts is a water and environment consultant, the first Frank Jackson Professor<br />

of the Environment at Gresham <strong>College</strong>, London (2014–18) and former Director of the<br />

Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network at Oxford, who will represent<br />

the interests of the customers of these water companies. She is passionate about rivers,<br />

and determined that our children’s heritage should be better protected. The case is<br />

supported by legal teams at London-based solicitors Leigh Day and counsel at Matrix<br />

Chambers, with data analytics services from AlixPartners. Funding is being provided by<br />

Bench Walk. Professor Peter Hammond, mathematician and AI researcher, is providing<br />

specialist advice.<br />

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS<br />

Photo: George Mather<br />

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