2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

64 COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2012
involves the interaction of cognition and emotion, with a focus on the influence of
embodied factors on judgment and decision processes. Recent topics have included the
effect of emotion on morality, and the role of physical ability on perceptual judgments.
Findlay Stark read Law at the University of Aberdeen,
graduating in 2007. He becomes the first Yates Glazebrook
Fellow (see page 87). Findlay researched his PhD at the
University of Edinburgh and in 2011 took up a teaching post
in the Faculty of Law with a special interest in criminal law
and procedure. He is particularly interested in the law’s
approach to finding fault elements (mens rea), and criminal
appeals. He is engaged to Fiona Wilson who is researching
for a PhD at Girton College. They are due to be married in
April 2013 in Jesus College Chapel.
Rebecca Reich is a University Lecturer in Russian Literature
and Culture in the Department of Slavonic Studies in the
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. She received her
B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. from Harvard and is currently
writing a book about the political subtexts of psychiatric and
literary conceptions of insanity during the late Soviet period.
She is particularly interested in how literary writers who
explored the theme of insanity responded to the state’s use
of compulsory psychiatric hospitalization as a means of
political repression. Dr Reich’s wider interests include
twentieth-century Russian literature, music and culture;
intellectual history and cultural studies; the history of
science and medicine; and the history of print culture and law. Beyond her academic
pursuits, she enjoys playing the cello, taking photogaphs, walking, running and
gardening.
Christopher Pratt is elected to a fellowship. He read English
at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge (1961), and was
recruited in 1965, as Assistant Company Secretary at William
Sindall plc, the local building and property company. He
stayed until 1989, having become Company Secretary in 1970
and a Director in 1972, by which time the firm had grown
from a Cambridge only base to have subsidiaries in London,
Norwich, Portsmouth, Oxford and Banbury. Specialities
were hospital and college/university buildings. Christopher
by then had a wide portfolio, including property investment
and development, housebuilding, marketing, HR and (vital
in such a Company) dispute resolution, along with
management of the pension fund and its investment portfolio. Thereafter, Christopher
joined the Board of Freeman Group plc, as Chairman of its construction subsidiaries,