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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD

2012

Contents

page

President and Fellows 5

College Officers and Membership 16

Editor’s Note 18

The President’s Letter 19

Obituaries 26

Alumni Relations and Development

2011–12 38

List of Donors 41

Gifts to the Library 46

Scholarships, Travel Awards,

and Prizes 2011-12 48

The new Academic Wing and

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium 50

Degrees and Diplomas 52

Elections and Admissions 65

Fellows 65

Visiting Scholars 66

Graduate Students 67

Elected members of the

Governing Body 73

Clubs and Societies 74

AMREF Group 74

Arts Society 76

BarCo 81

Basketball 82

Boat Club 82

Cricket 86

Croquet 88

Entz 88

Environment 89

Family Society 89

Football Club 91

Women’s Football 91

Knitting Society 92

Life-Stories Society 93

Meditation 94

Middle Eastern Dance 95

Music Society 96

‘Olympics’ Summer Event 98

Punt Club 99

Romulus 100

Rugby 100

Wine Society 101

Winter Ball 2011 102

Wolfson/Darwin Day 2012 103

Wolfson Reading Group 104

Yoga 105

Life-Stories Event

by Andrew Cutts 106

The President’s Seminars

by Jarad Zimbler 107

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

by Simon Cooke 109

Childhood under the eye of the

Secret Police

by Carmen Bugan 113

DNA USA: a genetic portrait of

America

by Bryan Sykes 122

The early history of the Boat Club

by Mark Pottle 130

Remembering where the bomber

crashed

by Ann Symonds 136

The Record 138

Births 138

Marriages 138

Golden Wedding 139

Deaths 139

Professional News 139

Books published by

Wolfsonians 142

Wolfson College

at 1 October 2012

President

Lee, Hermione, CBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL

Governing Body Fellows

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA

Cambridge, PhD London) Professorial

Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of

Computing

Austyn, Jonathan Mark, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Surgery: Transplantation Immunology,

Professor of Immunobiology

Aveyard, Paul N (BSc, MB, BS

London, MPH, PhD Birmingham)

Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader

in the Department of Primary Care

Health Sciences, Professor of Behavioural

Medicine

Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest,

PhD Santineketan) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Hindi

Banks, Marcus John, MA (BA, PhD

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Professor

of Visual Anthropology

Barrett, Jonathan, BA (MA, PhD

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Computer Science

Benson, James William, MA (BA

Macalester College, MA Minnesota,

PhD Stanford) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Sanskrit

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA

Rhodes University, South Africa)

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World

Literatures in English

Brown, Harvey Robert, MA (BSc

Canterbury, New Zealand, PhD

London) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics,

Professor of Philosophy of Physics;

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer

Chappell, Michael A., MEng, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Engineering Science

Charters, Erica Michiko, MA, DPhil

(BA Carleton, MA Toronto) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in the History

of Medicine

Cluver, Lucie, DPhil (MA Cambridge)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Evidence-based Social Intervention

Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free

University of Brussels) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Quantum

Computer Science; Professor of Quantum

Foundations, Logics and Structures

Conner, William James, MA (BA

Grinnell) Ordinary Fellow; Development

Director

Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn,

MA, DPhil Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Russian; Secretary to the

Governing Body

Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS

Copenhagen, PhD California) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Assyriology

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA,

DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George

Washington, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Russian and

East European Political Economy, Reader

in Command and Transition Economics

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA,

PhD Reading) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in European

International Politics, Professor of

European International Politics

De Haas, Hein (MA Amsterdam)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Migration Studies

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DeLaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD

Adelaide) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo,

MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Classical Philology

Dercon, Stefan, MA, MPhil, DPhil

(BPhil Leuven) Professorial Fellow,

Professor of Development Economics

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA

Vienna, Dr des Basel) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Non-Russian

Slavonic Languages

Galligan, Denis James, MA, BCL,

(LLB Queensland), DCL, AcSS

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio-

Legal Studies

Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and

Family Psychology, Reader in Child and

Family Psychology

Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc

Torino, PhD Lausanne) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Materials

Modelling

Goodman, Martin David, MA, DPhil,

FBA Professorial Fellow, Professor of

Jewish Studies; Vicegerent

Harrison, Paul Jeffrey, MA, BM,

BCh, MRCPsych, DM Ordinary Fellow,

Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, Honorary

Consultant Psychiatrist, Professor of

Psychiatry

Howgego, Christopher John, MA,

DPhil Ordinary Fellow, Keeper of the

Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek

and Roman Numismatics

Humphreys, Glyn, MA (BSc, PhD

Bristol) Professorial Fellow, Watts

Professor of Psychology

Isaacson, Daniel Rufus, MA, DPhil

(AB Harvard) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in the Philosophy of

Mathematics

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward Lawson,

(MA Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow;

Bursar

Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Islamic

Archaeology, Professor of the Art and

Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean

Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Computation

Lange, Bettina, MA (BA, PhD

Warwick) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Law and Regulation

Lewis, James Bryant, MA (BA

University of the South, MA, PhD

Hawaii) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Korean Studies

McCartney, Matthew Howard, MPhil

(BA Cambridge, PhD SOAS) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Political

Economy and Human Development of

India

McKenna, William Gillies, MA

(BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert

Einstein) Professorial Fellow, Professor of

Radiation Biology

Neil, Hugh Andrew Wade, MA

(MA Cambridge, MB BS, DSc

London), FFPHM, FRCP, RD Senior

Research Fellow, Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology, Honorary Consultant

Physician; Senior Tutor/Tutor for

Admissions; Wine Steward

Pila, Jonathan, MA (BSc Melbourne,

PhD Stanford) Professorial Fellow,

Reader in Mathematical Logic

Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Classical Philology and Linguistics

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas Pepys, MA,

DPhil Senior Research Fellow, Pro-Vice

Chancellor for Development and External

Affairs

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA

Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard) Ordinary

Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics

Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil

(BA Mount Holyoke College, MA

Cambridge) Senior Research Fellow,

Ancient History and Archaeology; Fellow

for Library and Archives

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA, PhD

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Biogeochemistry; Professor of

Biogeochemistry

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD,

Münster, Habilitation Munich)

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Schulting, Rick J, MA (BA, MA

Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE,

Queen’s Belfast) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Scientific and

Prehistoric Archaeology

Sheldon, Ben C, MA (BA Cambridge,

PhD Sheffield) Professorial Fellow, Luc

Hoffman Professor in Field Ornithology

Stallworthy, Jon Howie, BLitt, MA,

FBA, FRSL Extraordinary Fellow,

English Literature

Stewart, Peter Charles N. (MA,

MPhil, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary

Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical

Art and Archaeology

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Sud, Nikita, MPhil, DPhil (BA

Delhi, MA Mumbai) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Development

Studies

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc

Liverpool, PhD Bristol) Senior Research

Fellow, Professor of Human Genetics;

Dean of Degrees

Taylor, David Guy Kenneth, MA,

DPhil Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac

Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD

Imperial) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Theoretical Quantum Optics

Ventresca, Marc J, MA (AM, PhD

Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Strategy

Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance,

MA (BA, PhD London), FSA Ordinary

Fellow, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean

Museum

Watson, Oliver (BA Durham, PhD

London) Professorial Fellow, I M Pei

Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

Wells, Andrew James (MA, PhD

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University

Lecturer in Physical Climate Change

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep (BArch

MArch Istanbul Technical University,

PhD Harvard) Ordinary Fellow,

University Lecturer in Islamic Art and

Architecture

Honorary Fellows

Berlin, Lady (Aline)

Bradshaw, William Peter, the Rt Hon

Lord Bradshaw (MA Reading), FCIT

Brock, Michael George, CBE, MA,

DLitt, FRHistS, FRSL

Burgen, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent),

(MB, MD London, MA Cambridge),

FRCP, FRS

Caro, Sir Anthony, OM, CBE

Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA,

MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London,

Hon MD, Edinburgh, Prague, Hon

DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath, Hon

FRCPA, FRS, Hon FRSE, FMedSci

Goff, Robert Lionel Archibald, the Rt

Hon Lord Goff, DL, FBA

Goodenough, Frederick Roger, MA

(MA Cambridge)

Hamilton, Andrew David, MA (BSc

Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD

Cambridge), FRS

Khalili, Nasser David (BA Queens, New

York; PhD SOAS, London)

Mack Smith, Denis, CBE, MA (MA

Cambridge) FBA, FRSL

Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD

Edinburgh)

Rezek, Francisco, DipL (LLB, DES

Minai Gerais, PhD Paris)

Screech, Michael Andrew, MA, DLitt

(DLit London, DLitt Birmingham)

FBA, FRSL

Smith, Sir David, MA, DPhil, FRS,

FRSE

Sorabji, Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil,

FBA

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne

Wood, Sir Martin, OBE, MA (BA

Cambridge, BSc London), FRS

Emeritus Fellows

Abraham, Douglas Bruce, MA, DSc

(BA, PhD Cambridge)

Allen, Nicholas Justin, BSc, BLitt, BM

BCh, Dip SocAnthrop, MA, DPhil

Anderson, David Lessells Thomson,

MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St

Andrews)

Ashton, John Francis, MA, DLitt (STL

Lyons, LSS Rome)

Booker, Graham Roger, MA, DPhil

(BSc London, PhD Cambridge)

Briggs, George Andrew Davidson, MA

(PhD Cambridge)

Brock, Sebastian Paul, MA, DPhil,

(MA Cambridge, Hon DLitt

Birmingham), FBA

Bryant, Peter Elwood, MA (MA

Cambridge, PhD London) FRS

Buck, Brian, MA, DPhil

Bulmer, Michael George, MA, DPhil,

DSc, FRS

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB BCh

Birmingham), FRCP, FRCP (Edin)

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil

Cranstoun, George Kennedy Lyon, MA

(BSc, PhD Glasgow), FRSC

Dudbridge, Glen, MA (MA, PhD

Cambridge), FBA

Francis, Martin James Ogilvie, MA,

DPhil

Garton, Geoffrey, MA, DPhil

Gombrich, Richard Francis, MA, DPhil

(AM Harvard)

Gordon, Alan Fleetwood, CBE, MA,

FCMI

Hall, Roger Lawrence, MA (BSc, PhD

Nottingham)

Harriss-White, Barbara, MA

(DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East

Anglia)

Hoare, Sir Charles Antony Richard,

MA, DFBCS, FRS

Jones, George Arnold, MA, DPhil

(MA, PhD Cambridge)

Kennedy, William James, MA, DSc

(BSc, PhD London)

Kurtz, Donna Carol, MA, DPhil (BA

Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA

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Langslow, David Richard, MA, DPhil

McDiarmid, Colin John Hunter, MA,

MSc, DPhil (BSc Edinburgh)

Mann, Joel Ivor, CNZM, DM (MBChB,

PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP,

FRSNZ

Meisami, Julie Scott, MA (MA, PhD

California at Berkeley)

Metcalf, David Michael, MA, DPhil,

DLitt, FSA

Mulvey, John Hugh, MA (BSc, PhD

Bristol)

Penney, John Howard Wright, MA,

DPhil (MA Pennsylvania)

Perrins, Christopher Miles, MA, DPhil

(BSc London) FRS, LVO

Ramble, Charles Albert Edward, MA,

DPhil (BA Durham)

Robey, David John Brett, MA

Robinson, Chase Frederick, MA (BA

Brown, PhD Harvard)

Sanderson, Alexis Godfrey James

Slater, MA

Shepstone, Basil John, BM, BCh, MA,

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

MSc, DSc Free State; MD Cape Town),

DMRD (RCP and S), FInstP, FRCR

Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil

(MA, PhD Cambridge)

Tomlin, Roger Simon Ouin, MA,

DPhil, FSA

Vermes, Geza, MA, DLitt (DTheol,

LicHist and Philol Or Louvain), FBA

Walton, Christopher Henry, MA (MA

Cambridge)

Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc

London, PhD Durham)

Wilkie, Alex James, MA (MSc, PhD

London), FRS

Wyatt, Derek Gerald, MA, DPhil

Supernumerary Fellows

Altman, Douglas Graham (BSc Bath,

CStat Royal Statistical Society, DSc

London)

Casadei, Barbara, MA, DPhil, (MRCP,

FRCP London)

Coleman, John Steven, MA (BA, DPhil

York)

Crabbe, Michael James Cardwell,

FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD

Manchester), FRSA, FRSC, CChem,

CBiol, FIBiol, FLS

De Roure, David (PhD Southampton)

Flohr, Miko (MA PhD Radboud)

Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale, MA,

BPhil, DPhil

Kaski, Kimmo Kauko Kullervo, DPhil

(MSc Helsinki)

Kay, Philip Bruce, MA, MPhil, DPhil

Key, Timothy James Alexander, DPhil

(BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London)

Konoplev, Ivan Vasilyevich (BSc, MSc

Nizhny Novgorod State, MPhil, PhD

Strathclyde)

Macdonald, Michael Christopher

Archibald, MA

Maltby, Colin Charles, MA

Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH

Zurich)

Nuttall, Patricia Anne, OBE, MA (BSc

Bristol, PhD Reading)

Pottle, Mark Christopher, DPhil (BA

Sheffield)

Quinn, Catherine Ward, EMBA (BA

Birmingham, MA Ohio State)

Sawyer, Walter, MA

Seryi, Andrei (PhD Institute of

Nuclear Physics)

Seymour, Leonard William (BSc

Manchester, PhD Keele)

Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth, MA,

DPhil

Watson, Max, MA Cambridge

Willett, Keith Malcolm, MA (MB BS

London), FRCS

Wood, Adrian John Bickersteth (BA,

PhD Cambridge)

Wood, John V (BMet, DMet Sheffield,

PhD Cambridge)

Research Fellows

Alarcon Henriquez, Alejandra (BA

Institut Libre Marie Haps, MA Libre

de Bruxelles)

Andersson, Daniel Christopher, BA

(MA, PhD Warburgh Institute)

Arancibia, Carolina (BSc North

London, MSc Royal Postgraduate

College, PhD Imperial)

Bano, Masooda, DPhil (BA Kinnaird,

MPhil Cambridge, MBA Quaid-i-

Azam)

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, MA, MPhil,

DPhil

Benjamin, Simon Charles (BA, DPhil)

Berczi, Gergely, (MSc Eötvös Lorand,

PhD Budapest)

Boyes, Mark Edward (BA, MPsych,

PhD Western Australia)

Brightman, Marc Andrew, MSc (BA

Dublin, MPhil, PhD Cambridge)

Broome Saunders, Clare (BA, PhD

Durham, MA Lancashire)

Chen, Yi Samuel, DPhil (BA Hillside,

AM Harvard, MDiv Reformed

Theological Seminary, ThM

Westminster Theological Seminary)

Clarke, Nicola, MPhil, DPhil (MA St

Andrews)

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Colomo, Daniela, DPhil (Laurea Dipl

Pisa)

Datta, Animesh (BTech Indian

Institute of Technology Kaupur, PhD

New Mexico)

Demetriou, Nicoletta (BA Aristotle

Univ of Thessaloniki, PhD SOAS, MA

UEA)

De Vos, Ilse Ann Bea (MA Ghent, PhD

Catholic University of Leuven)

Doering, Andreas (DPhil Johann

Wolfgang Goethe)

Dries, Manuel (BA, MPhil Exeter, PhD

Cambridge)

Dushek, Omer (BSc Western Australia,

PhD British Columbia)

Forejt, Vojtech (PhD Masaryk)

Fujii, Takashi (MA Kyoto, PhD

Heidelberg)

Fujimoto, Kentaro (BA, MSc Tokyo,

MA Stanford)

Gagliardone, Iginio (MA Bologna,

PhD LSE)

Gray, Rebecca R. (BA Millersville, MA,

PhD Florida)

Griffiths, Edmund Patrick, BA, MSt

Gromelski, Tomasz Witold, DPhil

(MA Warsaw)

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, MSc (Maîtrise

Sorbonne, PhD Cambridge)

Hadjiyiannis, Christos (BA

Nottingham, MPhil Cambridge, PhD

Edinburgh)

Hartfield, Elizabeth Margaret (BSc

Cardiff, PhD Bristol)

Haslam, Michael Alan (BA, PhD

Queensland)

Heaney, Libby (MSc Imperial, PhD

Leeds)

Hesselberg, Thomas (MSc Aarhus,

PhD Bath)

Huebener, Hannes (MSc Hamburg,

PhD École Polytechnic)

Kar, Aditi (MA Delhi, PhD Ohio State)

Kazachkov, Ilya (PhD McGill)

Khrapichev, Alexandr Alexandrovich

(BSc, MSc St Petersburg, PhD

Wellington)

Kong, Anthony Hee (MB, BS, MSc

London, PhD, UCL)

Konstantinovsky, Julia, DPhil (Lic St

Serge, MA Cambridge, Adv Language

Dipl London)

Kubal, Agnieszka Maria, DPhil (MA

Exeter, MA Jagiellonian)

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA

Louisville)

Lee, Renee Bee Yong, DPhil (BSc

Malaysia)

Leicht, Elizabeth A. (BS Xavier, MS,

PhD Michigan)

Leigh, Graham Emil (MMath, PhD

Leeds)

Lonergan, Gayle Maria, MSc, DPhil

(BA Cambridge, BA London)

McBarnet, Doreen Jean, MA (MA,

PhD Glasgow), CBE

Makovicky, Nicolette Milota (BA

Copenhagen, PhD London)

Marchal, Cynthie (MA de Mons)

Maroney, Owen Jack Ernest (BA

Cambridge, MSc, PhD London

Mavridou, Despoina, DPhil (MChem

Athens)

Milne, Kirsty Mairi, BA, DPhil (MA

London)

Mitri, Sara (BSc American University

Cairo, MSc Edinburgh, PhD École

Polytechnic)

Munt, Thomas, MPhil, DPhil (BA

Cambridge)

Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil

(MA East Anglia)

Outes Leon, Ingo, MSc, DPhil (MSc

Regensburg)

Panovic, Ivan, DPhil (BA Belgrade,

MA American University Cairo)

Papadogiannakis, Yannis, MA (BA

Thessaloniki, PhD Princeton)

Parau, Cristina Elena (BSc Sibiu

Romania, MSc Brun, PhD London)

Parker Jones, Õiwi, MPhil (BA

Colorado)

Petersen, Jesse Carl (BSc Western

Australia, PhD Simon Fraser)

Pierce, Lillian Beatrix, MScRes (BA,

MA, PhD Princeton)

Raz, Avi, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv)

Recker, Mario, DPhil (MSc UCL)

Robinson, Paul John Robert, DPhil

(BSc London)

Roe, Glenn (BA Wabash, MA Ohio,

PhD Chicago)

Roy, Shovonlal, DPhil (BSc, MSc, PhD

Jadavpur)

Ryder, Judith, BA, MA, DPhil

Sabiron, Céline (MA, PhD Sorbonne)

Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh (MSc Tehran,

PhD Quebec)

Schure, Klara (BMus Hogenschool

van de Kunsten Utrecht, MSc, PhD

Utrecht)

Schwarz, Andrew Douglas, DPhil

(MChem Newcastle)

Shakya, Mallika (BA Padma Kanya,

MPhil Glasgow, PhD LSE)

Sharma, Serena (BA British Columbia,

MSc, PhD London)

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Stansfeld, Philip James (BSc

Edinburgh, PhD Leicester)

Still, Clarinda (MA Edinburgh, MRes

London, PhD LSE)

Sullivan, Kate Helen (BA York, MA

Heidelberg, PhD ANU)

Swancutt, Katherine Anne (BA Utah,

PhD Cambraidge)

van der Blom, Henriette, MSt, DPhil

(BA Copenhagen)

Vicary, Jamie Oliver (MA Cambridge,

PhD Imperial)

Vinko, Sam Masa, DPhil (BA, MA

Rome)

Wardhaugh, Benjamin Sutherland,

DPhil (BA Cambridge, MMus GSMD)

Weisheimer, Antje (Diplom Humboldt,

PhD Potsdam)

Wrightson, Ruth Clare, DPhil (BA

Cambridge, MSc London)

Yakubovich, Ilya (MA Berkeley, PhD

Chicago)

Yeates, Stephen James, DPhil (BA, MA

Sheffield)

Zhang, Lei (BSc Peking) PhD

California Institute of Technology)

Zimbler, Jarad Jon, BA (MPhil

Cambridge, CPE City University)

Socio-Legal Research

Fellows

Kurkchiyan, Marina (MSc Yerevan,

PhD Vilnius)

Stremlau, Nicole (BA Wesleyan, MA,

PhD London)

Stipendiary Junior

Research Fellows

Grey, Daniel John Ross (BA, PhD

Roehampton, MA York)

Lenaghan, Julia (BA Princeton, MA,

PhD NYU)

Creative Arts Fellow

Duggan, John, BA

College Officers

President Professor H Lee

Vicegerent Professor M Goodman

Bursar Mr T E L Jarron

Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Professor H A W Neil

Fellow for Library and Archives Dr E E Rice

Deans of Degrees Professor B C Sykes/Dr J B Lewis/

Dr R S O Tomlin/Professor C Redfield

Secretary to the Governing Body Dr J A E Curtis

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer Professor Harvey Brown

College Membership

Governing Body Fellows 60

Honorary Fellows 18

Emeritus Fellows 44

Supernumerary Fellows 25

Research Fellows 85

Socio-Legal Research Fellows 2

Junior Research Fellows (Stipendiary) 2

Visiting Fellows 1

Graduate Students 570

Members of Common Room 692

Abbreviations

EF Emeritus Fellow

GBF Governing Body Fellow

GS Graduate Student

HF Honorary Fellow

HMCR Honorary Member of Common Room

JRF Junior Research Fellow

MCR Member of Common Room

RF Research Fellow

SF Supernumerary Fellow

STMCR Short-term Member of Common Room (category now obsolete)

TMCR Temporary Member of Common Room (category now obsolete)

VF Visiting Fellow

VS Visiting Scholar

Editor’s Note

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

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

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

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

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

College Secretary by 1 June for publication that year.

This Record covers the academic year 2011 to 2012. Please let the College Secretary

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

touch with former colleagues. You can contact the College:

e-mail: college.sec@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

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

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

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

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Fireworks Night

The President’s Letter

The Presidency of the College in the 2011–12 academic year was shared between

Professor Hermione Lee and Professor Christina Redfield, who was Acting

President for six months, from March to September 2012. This Letter, therefore,

has been jointly authored.

2011–12 has been a year of exciting activity and initiatives at Wolfson College.

The construction of the Leonard Wolfson Lecture Theatre, made possible in part

by a generous grant of £1.6 million from the Wolfson Foundation, is underway.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on November the Fifth, 2011, and was

followed by the spectacular annual fireworks display. Work on this building will

be completed by the end of Hilary term 2013. Other major projects underway

this summer include refurbishment of B block to include ensuite accommodation,

a facelift for the Bar, and renovation of the main kitchen. In early June the kitchen

was shut and all catering functions were moved to the portacabins located

between the Hall and the south car park. It is a credit to Tony Baughan, the Chef,

to Karl Davies, the Steward, and to all the catering staff that they have been able

to continue to provide such excellent meals using the temporary kitchen.

The College’s academic life continues to thrive. In the past year appointments

have been made to University Lectureships in subjects as diverse as Classical

Philology (Dr Wolfgang de Melo), Computer Science (Dr Jonathan Barrett),

Migration Studies (Dr Hein de Haas), Physical Climate Science (Dr Andrew

Wells), Biomedical Engineering (Dr Michael Chappell) and Primary Care Health

Services (Professor Paul Aveyard). These new Fellows will join the College in

the autumn. In the next few months appointments will be made to further posts

associated with Wolfson including the Blavatnik Professorship of Global Health

and Public Policy and a University Lectureship in Soft Functional Nanomaterials.

In October 2011 we welcomed over 200 new graduate students, and more

than twenty new Research Fellows have joined the College in the past year.

The importance of Research Fellows at Wolfson has been recognized by the

appointment of Professor Harvey Brown as Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer

to encourage the academic development of Research Fellows and help them to

integrate into the academic life of the College.

Wolfson’s named lectures continue to thrive. This year’s Syme Lecturer was

Professor Denis Feeney, the Giger Professor of Latin and Classics at Princeton

University, who gave a lecture entitled ‘The contact zone: the creation of a

Roman literature’. The Haldane Lecture in Hilary Term was given by Sir Iain

Chalmers, coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, on the topic ‘Trying to do

more good than harm in health care’. The Berlin Lecture was given in Trinity

term by Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC and Principal of Mansfield College, on

the theme of ‘Law and globalization – Powerful or powerless?’ This year’s series

of Wolfson Lectures was organized by Professor Ros Rickaby on the topic of

‘Climate Connections’, which explored themes including the public and private

ethics of climate change, and how to make the best use of scientific information

relating to climate change. The President’s seminars, which include short talks

from a Graduate Student, a Research Fellow and a Governing Body Fellow, have

included topics such as Migration and Diasporas, Images and Imaging, Networks

and Networking, and Numbers (see below, p. 107). Three recently-appointed

Fellows have introduced their research interests to the College community in

the termly Governing Body Lecture: Professor Oliver Watson (Professor of

Islamic Art and Architecture) on ‘A curator’s way to Wolfson’; Dr Nikita Sud

(UL in Development Studies) on ‘God, Gold, Government: Economic liberalism

meets political illiberalism in western India’; and Vlatko Vedral (Professor of

Theoretical Quantum Optics) on ‘Living in a quantum world’.

The research clusters within the College continue to flourish. The Oxford Centre

for Life-Writing was launched in November 2011 (see below, p. 109) with an

inaugural lecture by Professor Michael Wood. The annual Life-Stories event and

international buffet, held in May, is where College members share stories that

represent, or relate to, aspects of their lives. A new research cluster in Law, Justice

and Society, was launched in mid-April with a panel discussion entitled ‘Europe

on the Brink? Economic, Political and Constitutional Issues’. Wolfson has a longstanding

link with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Foundation for

Law, Justice and Society. Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, is a

Fellow of Wolfson and currently Vicegerent. This new cluster will promote an

understanding of the role of law in society. The Ancient World research cluster

has continued to be very active under the direction of Dr Jacob Dahl. Events

during Trinity term included workshops on Late Elamite, and on the history of

Armenian.

Professor Redfield works within the Department of Biochemistry. During her

six-month stint as Acting President, she has concentrated on the profile of

science within the College and on fostering collaboration between scientists. The

sciences are already represented in some of the academic clusters. We have a

long-standing strength in the area of quantum computing, and this has been

formalized in the Quantum Foundations cluster which includes scientists from

the fields of computing, materials and physics, as well as philosophers of science.

The Digital Research cluster also brings together researchers from disciplines

including anthropology, archaeology, and bioinformatics; these are all areas in

which the Web is an important platform. This year’s Wolfson Lecture series on

‘Climate Connections’ may serve as a catalyst to spark the formation of a research

cluster in Climate. An informal meeting was held in early June to highlight some

of the work done by Wolfson students, Fellows and Common Room members, in

the broad area of Climate, spanning science, social science and the humanities. It

is hoped that this will be the first of many interesting meetings. The Mind, Brain

and Behaviour research cluster was established in July; this will bring together

Wolfsonians from the Departments of Experimental Psychology, Psychiatry,

and Social Policy and Intervention, with an interest in the interaction between

the mind and brain and the implications of this for behaviour change. A minisymposium

on Magnetic Resonance, held on 4 July, highlighted the work done by

current members of Wolfson in various aspects of EPR (electron paramagnetic

resonance), NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) and MRI (magnetic resonance

imaging). In Trinity Term, following the example of the Ancient World cluster,

there was a science table at lunchtime in the Hall. This attracted over thirty

people working in various departments, and some interdisciplinary links have

already been established. In late July, Professor Gillies McKenna hosted a lunch

for Wolfson Medical Scientists at the Old Road Campus in Headington. The

science lunches will continue to be a feature of College life. In Week 8 of Trinity

term, Professor Bryan Sykes presented a public lecture (see below, p. 122) to

coincide with the US publication of his most recent book, DNA USA – A Genetic

Portrait of America, which will be published in the UK this autumn.

Many of our Fellows have received major grants and awards this year. Professor

Glyn Humphries received the 2012 Cognitive Psychology Prize from the British

Psychological Society, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar award from the

University of Hong Kong. Dr Erica Charters has been awarded a Leverhulme

Research Fellowship for her work on Medicine and the French Imperial State

in the Seven Years War. Dr Daniel Grey, a Junior Research Fellow, has received

a grant from the British Academy to support his research on Gender, Religion

and Homicide in British India. Professor Ros Rickaby has been awarded the

Gast Lectureship for her outstanding contributions to Geochemistry. Professor

Stefan Dercon has been appointed as the Chief Economist at the Department

for International Development for three years. On 23 January 2012 the College

hosted an event to mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of the publication by Penguin

Books of Emeritus Fellow Professor Geza Vermes’ book The Dead Sea Scrolls in

English.

Bob Coecke, Christina Redfield and Ros Rickaby, were awarded titles in the

University’s Recognition of Distinction Exercise; they were made Professor

of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures, Professor of Molecular

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Martin Goodman with Geza Vermes (centre) and Margaret Vermes

Biophysics and Professor of Geochemistry, respectively. Professor Nick Rawlins,

a Senior Research Fellow and currently Pro-Vice Chancellor for Development

and External Affairs, has received a Major Educator Award to recognize his

outstanding contribution to postgraduate education in Oxford over many years.

Dr Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a Research Fellow, has been awarded an EPSRC

Career Acceleration Fellowship for her work in ‘Foundational Structure for

Compositional Meaning’. Finally, Dr Michael Haslam has received a five-year

European Research Council grant for his work on Primate Archaeology.

It has been a busy year for the Music and Arts Societies. The Fournier Trio held an

introductory concert in October to celebrate their newly-established association

with Wolfson which will involve several performances over the next two years.

In Hilary Term, the Fournier Trio’s violinist Sulki Yu gave a solo concert in

College. The Trinity Term concert by the Trio included works by Fauré and

Brahms. Mark Rowan Hull, the Creative Arts Fellow, has held several events

showcasing the links between the visual arts and music. We have recently elected

a new Creative Arts Fellow, John Duggan, a composer and singer, who will take

up this post in October. In November 2011, we were privileged to welcome back

our esteemed Honorary Fellow Sir Anthony Caro, ‘in conversation’ with Tim

Marlow (see below, p. 80). The Arts Society has hosted numerous exhibitions

of paintings and photographs in the Private Dining Rooms. The Arts Society

‘Build-a-Brain’ workshop in May provided an exciting opportunity to combine

science and art under the guidance of Dr Lizzie Burns, a biochemist turned artist.

Once again this year Wolfsonians have excelled in the sporting arena. The

Wolfson / St Cross Football team won MCR Cuppers for the third year in a row.

Our Basketball team reached the quarter finals in a recent competition. Our Boat

Club has had another successful year. Many dedicated and hardworking novices

have contributed to the success of all our racing crews. In Torpids the Women’s

First VIII earned blades by bumping up one place each day. In Summer Eights

their success continued, and they have now moved up to the head of Division II.

The Men’s First VIII continues to be a force to contend with, and is currently

fourth in Division I in Summer Eights. There have also been a number of notable

individual sporting achievements. Chris Jones, Monica Armengol, Isaac Black,

Justin McNamara, Aurelie Cuenod and Damien Farine achieved Blues in fencing,

volleyball, frisbee, ice hockey, rowing and yachting respectively. In addition

Chris Jones, Jill Betts, Prashanthini Shanthakumar, Justin McNamara, Kirsten

Norrie, Aurelie Cuenod and Josh Curk received high-profile awards for fencing,

rowing, South Indian classical dance, ice hockey, music, rowing and ice hockey

respectively. Wolfson also beat Darwin College Cambridge in the annual multievent

sports competition (see p. 103).

The job of President and Acting President is supported by a loyal and dedicated

team at Wolfson. They would particularly like to thank Sue Hales, Jan Scriven

and Tracy Fuzzard, the Senior Tutor, Andrew Neil, and all the staff in the

Academic Office, the Bursar, Ed Jarron, and his team, the Development Director,

Bill Conner, the Secretary to the Governing Body, Julie Curtis, the Chef, Tony

Baughan, the College Steward, Karl Davies, and all the catering team. Thanks

also to Andy Cutts and Mark Sarazin, the Chairs of the General Meeting and the

Social and Cultural Committee respectively. A resounding thanks also goes to the

Vicegerent, Denis Galligan, for his dedication to the post for the past two years.

Hermione Lee with Lord Rothschild at Spencer House, March 2012

Christina Redfield, Acting President, Trinity Term

Obituaries

Simon Everard Digby

(1932–2010)

The death of Simon Digby (RF 1969–76, GBF 1976–77, SF 1977–2000, MCR

2000–02) was noted in the Record. Bruce Wannell (Oriel 1970–75), traveller

and linguist, has written a personal memoir from which this tribute is taken.

When I first met Simon in the 1970s, he lived in a house in Kilburn, where he

rented out the lower floors to Rastafarians and lived in a flat at the top, perched like

a Buddha, or rather a Silenus, among treasures of Indian art and piled-up books, in

an aura of squalor and magnificence. I remember his booming voice, which could

be heard in those sudden moments of hushed silence that affect auctions in the

grander sales rooms – usually the booming voice was in full flow of some scandalous

anecdote: Simon loved gossip. But he was obviously highly respected, regardless of

his unkempt appearance – latterly a wispy beard, sandals, loose Indian shirt with

the dye run, knitted sweater and knitted bonnet with holes, and invariably a cloth

bag over one shoulder and a large Burmese pigeon’s blood ruby mounted in gold

on his finger. His avid collecting of Indian metalwork and Islamic manuscripts, his

vast knowledge of textual sources in several languages, his wide-ranging travels,

and his inherited sympathy for the Sub-Continent, made him a scholar of unusual

calibre.

Some years working in Peshawar with refugees from Afghanistan led to my being

repatriated for medical treatment to London, with a long convalescence that

allowed me to meet Simon frequently. He gave me off-prints of his scholarly articles

and books, dealing primarily with India after the Muslim conquests of the twelfth

century and before the Mughal conquests of the sixteenth century. The rediscovery

of Sultanate art and literature, especially the collections of saints’ lives and their

edifying talks, provided him with a rich seam to mine for the social and economic

history of the Indian middle ages.

Early in the new millennium, I started collaborating with Willie Dalrymple in

translating Persian materials for his books, and returned to India. This led to some

happy chance meetings with Simon in Delhi, which he had known when it was still

a green and calm city over half a century previously. He was a keen decipherer of

difficult inscriptions and manuscripts, and would treat any problem case I brought to

him as others might a game of sudoku or a crossword puzzle. In 2004 he invited me

to help him with an early sixteenth-century Persian text, the Jawahir-nama, treating

of precious stones and rare substances, their origin, trade routes, prices, qualities,

tests for recognizing fakes, magical and medicinal properties. The invitation came

rather suddenly, as he was due to leave imminently for Ladakh and had a spare

air-ticket from London to Delhi. Of course I accepted. On the drive up to Ladakh,

Simon was much preoccupied with death and made me promise to scatter his ashes

in the river should his heart not survive the great heights of the Tang-lang-la Pass

– some 18,000 feet. He repeated his admiration for his friend Penelope Chetwode

and the loyalty of Bruce Chatwin, who scattered her ashes in Kulu according to her

wishes. In the end it was Salman Haidar, former foreign minister of India, who had

the honour of scattering Simon’s ashes. Once established in Leh, Simon reverted,

in spite of doctors’ warnings, to regular and heavy consumption of the local rum: I

kept him company for one glass in the evening, then left. But when I looked in the

next morning, the empty bottles were piling up.

Work nevertheless proceeded during daylight hours, regularly but slowly, and I

enjoyed our sessions: Simon’s great historical erudition illuminated the text, but

he worked by accretion, and liked to add discursive footnotes to his long articles,

reworking them with more and more parallels and explanatory passages in related

literature. Inevitably we did not finish the project then, nor on my subsequent

visits, in 2005 and 2007, to his house at Rozell in Jersey. This was an early

nineteenth-century farmhouse with a large stone cider-press on the lawn, which he

had inherited from an aunt as an escape from the low-life and poverty of Kilburn.

Here neighbours would invite him for lunch or dinner or swimming, and Simon’s

London friends would receive ’phone calls beginning with his characteristic wail of

irritation and anguish, as when his passport was lost just before he was due to leave

for a conference on medieval Kashmir: as soon as he had acquired a new passport,

the old one was found under a heap of correspondence on the hall table.

The habit of accumulating – papers, books, projects each in a series of cardboard

boxes climbing the stairs, encumbering the dining table and invading the guest

bedrooms – had lasted from Kilburn days. The guest bathroom was overflowing

with medieval Indian bronze pots, jugs, spouted ewers. One of his great treasures

was in the cabinet in the drawing room, a sixteenth-century Gujerat inlaid motherof-pearl

pen-box, which had belonged to a previous Dalai Lama and had been

smuggled out of Tibet. Alas, Simon’s failure to maintain the property led, just after

his death, to the collapse of that entire side of the house, and the reduction of the

porcelain collection to fragments and dust.

Everywhere hung his mother’s watercolours – she had taken him, after his father’s

death, on a painting trip to Pachmarhi and Kashmir in the early 1950s; later she

committed suicide, leaving him a note telling him not to take it personally, she

had just had enough. The more recent suicide of his colleague and friend, Aditya

Behl, left Simon saddened and, after a few whiskys, lachrymose. He brightened up

when telling of his father, the judge in Jabalpur, and his overnight train journeys

in France before the Second World War, where he would emerge at destination,

dishevelled and wearing the ticket-collector’s trousers.

Simon told me that he intended to leave his collection, or at least the entire,

coherent ensemble of early Indian metal work, to some institute of higher learning,

as a study collection for students to handle. One of his recurring criticisms of

contemporary orientalist academe was that the study of texts is divorced from the

study of material culture. But he was visited by art dealers, personable, charming,

rapacious, keen to make offers on items of the collection, and his executors decided

to disperse it piecemeal in a series of sales, in order to raise money for bursaries

for younger students. Will another Simon be found to build up, over years, with

painstaking and detailed love of objects and their literary and social background,

another such collection?

Barry Long

(1945-2012)

Barry Long with his wife, Hazel

Barry joined the staff of Wolfson in December 1993 as a Lodge Receptionist, after

taking early retirement from Barclays Bank. He became the Lodge Supervisor in

2000, a post he held for ten years. The College soon found that he was an extremely

efficient organiser, who cared equally for the staff and students who worked under

him and the ‘customers’ he served so well. College Officers came to value his advice

in difficult situations, and respected his good judgement. He thoroughly enjoyed

meeting new people, especially new graduates from abroad, and felt that part of his

job was to help them settle into College life. He was always approachable, and if

there were questions he could not answer, he would make it his job to find out. It

was a great sadness to him that ill health forced him to retire at the age of 65, but

he continued to take an active interest in all that went on at Wolfson. Many people

kept in touch by email, and it gave him great pleasure to know that they were still

thinking of him. He was very appreciative of the many gifts given to him over the

years by people leaving the College, and also by those who were returning from

holiday. These gifts have been kept by his family and will be much treasured. His

wife Hazel and his children, Richard and Tracy, have been comforted by the many

tributes they have received since from people far and wide.

Barry’s humour and the contribution he made to College life were expressed in the

article he wrote for Romulus in 1997, entitled ‘View from the Lodge’. We recall his

memory by quoting from it:

When I decided to leave the bank, I wanted a job where, as one of those old

golfers once said, I could stop along the way to smell the roses. So I jumped at

the chance when Janet Walker, who was then College Secretary, offered me a job

in the Lodge – I think perhaps jumped a little too hard – Janet thought I was

about to take her hand off.

Having only worked at the College for three years, I cannot say that I have

seen many changes, but of course the membership of the College is continuously

changing. Some of the ‘old’ characters that I have become used to, and whose

company I have enjoyed, disappear to all corners of the globe, and they are

invariably replaced by new characters who bring with them a fresh outlook and

experience upon which to draw. It is this meeting of varied and in the main

interesting people that I most enjoy about the job. Having spent thirty years

dealing with the public, quite literally from dustmen to dukes, I still enjoy meeting

and talking to people, and trying to gain something for myself selfishly from

others’ experience. I don’t know how many countries are currently represented

at Wolfson, but I cannot think of many areas of the world from which there is no

representative (although I have not to my knowledge yet met an Eskimo).

There have of course been high spots and low spots during my comparatively

short time at Wolfson, and the high spots tend to be moments of comedy, not

to say farce. My first ‘lockout’ is an example. I was about to lock up and leave

at 11:00 one night when the ’phone rang. I debated with myself for a second or

two whether to answer it, decided I had better, and was greeted by a male voice

asking if I could go to one of the rooms in the Robin Gandy Building, to let in

this chap’s neighbour who was locked out. I duly toddled down there with the

master key, to find a tall and attractive young lady outside her door trying to

cover her modesty with a small hand towel, having been into the shower and

left her bath towel and door key in her room, the door of which she had closed

behind her, whilst the two male tenants of that group of rooms were sitting at

the table playing cards. The Age of Chivalry seems to have passed, or perhaps

they did not have dressing gowns, or shirts, that they could have lent her for five

minutes.

Such diversions are not commonplace, but we do have all sorts of odd requests.

I have always worked on the basis that if you do not know something relating

to your job, you should at least know where to look it up. So, although I am not

an Oxford native (I originate from Birmingham), I can find out pretty quickly

where most places are in Oxford and the surrounding area; but I could have

been stumped one day when a visiting scholar from the Antipodes came into

the Lodge and announced that he was just leaving to drive to York to attend a

conference, but had to drop his wife off in Lichfield on the way, so could I please

tell him which roads to take, and be quick about it, as he had to be in York by

3 pm, and this was 10 am. Lichfield was no problem (it being only a few miles

from Birmingham), and by chance I had been to York myself, for the one and

only time, the week before. He left after only one minute, found his way without

problem or delay, and to this day probably thinks that his was a perfectly normal

request.

Whilst the Lodge can be quiet at times, it can also be very hectic, but I like to

think that my previous career helps me deal with the hectic times. I certainly

find the University – and I may upset people by saying this – a far less stressful

environment than banking. Stress to me was having an appointment with

a corporate customer who had spent weeks putting together a business plan

and a case for a very large borrowing, which he was presenting to me without

warning, and on which he wanted – nay, demanded – a considered and argued

response within the hour, whilst at the same time dealing with a ’flu outbreak

amongst the staff, a cash dispenser which had given up the ghost, a faceless

gnome from Head Office on the ’phone demanding to know how many tea bags

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my branch had consumed in the last quarter, and all on the same day I realized

it was my wife’s birthday and I had not bought so much as a card. All I ask of

those who come to us at the Lodge is that they treat us how they would like to

be treated themselves, and that they remember that we have our problems too.

Barry Long, View from the Lodge (1997)

Francis Marriott

(1926–2012)

Francis Henry Charles Marriott, who died on 15 May 2012 at his home in

Woodstock, was a significant figure in Oxford statistics for over 50 years. His

mathematical expertise was accompanied by a keen involvement with applications in

biology and medicine, and an ability to communicate his enthusiasm to generations

of graduate students.

Marriott was born in Norwich on 31 March 1926 and educated at Charterhouse,

entering Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1944. Here he took the Mathematical

Tripos, followed in 1948 by the Diploma in Agricultural Science, an interesting

indication of his future commitment to this area of research. He was appointed as

an assistant lecturer, later lecturer, at Aberdeen University, and obtained a PhD

there in 1951. His thesis topic, and his early publications on canonical analysis and

serial correlation, reveal what was to be a lasting interest in multivariate analysis.

In 1955, he moved to Oxford University, initially to a research post in the

Department of Physiology, where for 14 years he pursued research on statistical

aspects of ophthalmology. There followed some 18 papers on vision research, both

jointly and singly. The latter included a solo article on ‘colour vision’ in an edited

book, a testimony to his expertise in the area.

In 1969 he moved to a lectureship in the Department of Biomathematics under

Professor M.S. Bartlett, which was associated with a Fellowship at Wolfson College.

He immediately forged links with colleagues in the Departments of Agriculture,

Forestry and Psychology, where his ability to combine statistical expertise with

biological understanding was appreciated. He wrote well-regarded books on Basic

Mathematics for the Biological Sciences (Pergamon, 1970) and The Interpretation of

Multiple Observations (Academic Press, 1974), the latter being a particularly useful

‘easy’ guide through the complexities of multivariate analysis. For several years he

was a consultant on statistical terms for the second edition (1989) of the Oxford

English Dictionary, and he was the Editor of the fifth edition of the Dictionary

of Statistical Terms (Longman, 1990) for the International Statistical Institute, of

which he had earlier been elected to Membership. His published papers reveal his

continued interest in multivariate analysis, and a new interest in various aspects of

spatial analysis.

In the Department of Biomathematics, Marriott shared the teaching for the MSc in

Applied Statistics, and regularly had one or two research students. Several students

came from overseas, with a noteworthy concentration in Mexico, where he built

up an enviable reputation. He retired formally in 1993, but continued to assist

students and scientific colleagues for many years afterwards. His wider connections

in Oxford included a report for the North Commission of Enquiry started by the

University in 1994, analyzing results of a survey of staff and students.

Marriott was an extremely conscientious and reliable colleague, whose advice was

widely valued. He was self-effacing, almost to the point of shyness, but was prepared

to argue strongly on matters of principle. He had a waspish sense of humour, and

he once explained his move to Oxford rather than Cambridge as ‘missionary work’.

He was a keen chess and bridge player, the latter with his wife, Catherine (née

Broadfoot), whom he married in 1946 and who predeceased him in 1990. They had

no children, but they developed strong bonds with many of their students and were

hospitable to friends and colleagues alike on a scale that became legendary.

Physically, he kept very fit and for much of his life he took an early morning swim

in the University Parks. His enthusiasms included claret and sports cars, the latter

put to good use in frequent holidays with Catherine in the Pyrenees. He continued

to do part-time consulting work well into his eighties, until illness obliged him to

give up. He will be much missed by colleagues and former students alike.

Peter Armitage and John F. Bithell

(with acknowledgement to the Royal Statistical Society)

Jon Stallworthy, who represented Wolfson at the funeral of Dr Marriott in

Woodstock church on 31 May 2012, gave thanks for the life, work and service

of a valued friend and generous benefactor of the College.

I came to know Francis when I was Acting President of the College in 2007,

but I cannot pretend that I knew him well. As I suspect some of his Woodstock

neighbours could confirm, it was easier to like him than to know him. English

country gentlemen of his time tend to be modest – even over-modest, as Francis

was – and shy of speaking of themselves.

I could tell you little more than that he was a courteous, gentle, and self-deprecating

lunchtime companion (with a nice twinkle in his eye, and a claret-coloured jacket

that I much envied), were it not for the record of an interview with a partner in his

father’s firm that a friend and neighbour, Mrs Cook, kindly shared with the College.

From this I learn that Francis was born in Norwich, where his father was a partner

in Foster, Calvert and Marriott, a firm of country solicitors. From Town Close

School in Norwich, he went on to Charterhouse – of which the only memory he

chose to record was of the journey there and back:

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I went on my own [he said] by train to Liverpool Street Station where I was

always met by my father’s former batman, Mr Mason. He drove me in his taxi

across London to Waterloo Station, where I caught another train to Guildford

and Charterhouse. When I arrived back at Waterloo on my way home to

Norwich, Mr Mason was always waiting for me.

After they had left the Army, my father had lent Mr Mason the money for his

purchase of the taxi. My father often said that Mr Mason was the only person

he had ever lent money who paid the instalments on his loan always exactly on

time.

I can hear him saying that, characteristically remembering not the barbarities of

public school but the decency and stability of home.

From Charterhouse, Francis followed in his father’s footsteps to Emmanuel College,

Cambridge, and went from there to Aberdeen University where he joined a team

headed by Dr Maurice Pirenne, investigating optics and light. Early in the 1950s,

Pirenne moved to Oxford, and Francis came with him. Here, in 1955, as a Lecturer

in the University Department of Statistics, he met his first computer, He played it

at chess and won the first game but, as he tired, the machine got stronger. What

fascinated him as a statistician was that even this early computer was ‘thinking’

three or four chess moves ahead.

Francis became a Fellow of Wolfson in 1970 and retired in 1993. I first met him

as an Emeritus Fellow – at lunch – 15 years later. He was then over 80, frail, but

thinking and speaking with slow precision. I came away from that and subsequent

meetings with the impression of an intensely private man, whose life had been

enriched by great affection: for his late wife, for his teaching, for Woodstock, and for

Wolfson. We in his College are grateful for his generous friendship, and we honour

his memory.

The Bursar, Edward Jarron, writes:

Dr Marriott added a most generous legacy to his lifetime benefactions to the

College. He had previously gifted investment properties in Leamington Spa and

Suffolk together with cash holdings, which enabled us to build Q Block. He wished

to remain anonymous throughout his life, but asked that following his death the

building should be named after his late wife Catherine. A naming ceremony will

therefore be held on Tuesday 13 November 2012.

Alumni Relations and Development 2011–12

A message from Bill Conner, the Development Director

This past year has been one of change and challenges for the Development Office.

The College sponsored two splendid London events. The first, on 25 October, was

a lecture at Lincoln’s Inn by the President, entitled ‘“From Memory”: Isaiah Berlin,

Literary Encounters and Life Stories’. She spoke to a packed audience, mostly of

alumni, and during the reception which followed it was obvious that our London

alumni appreciated this approach, the first for quite some time. The second event,

on 15 March, was a Celebration of the College at Spencer House, hosted by Lord

Rothschild. He began the evening by commenting on his friendship with Isaiah

Berlin and Isaac Wolfson, and presentations followed by College members on their

research and their own thoughts of life at Wolfson. The programme ended with

a short piano recital by Imogen Cooper. Once again we had a full house, and a

wonderful reception where alumni, friends and donors, mingled and reminisced.

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The President opens the Celebration of Wolfson College at Spencer House

We hope to expand our presence outside Oxford in the next few years, and will

be planning trips and events where we have alumni in India, East Asia and the

USA. We also plan to continue regular appearances in London. As we approach

the Fiftieth Anniversary in 2016, we want to reconnect with as many alumni as

possible.

We started the year by adding Katie Watson to our team. She looks after the data,

gift-recording procedures, events, and has played a major role in making the office

run more smoothly and efficiently. At the end of 2011 Alex Talbot left us for the

Prince’s Trust, and by Easter we had replaced him with our new Development

Officer, Anna Johnson, who with Katie makes up our expanded team. Anna looks

after the annual giving programme, legacies, and our ever-expanding scholarship

fundraising initiatives. Anna and Katie continue to be central to transforming the

working of the Alumni Relations and Development Office.

The other big change has been to integrate the College’s old alumni database with

the University’s Development and Alumni Relationship System (DARS). Since I

joined the College in 2008 we have invested heavily in upgrading our data, and

many hundreds of alumni have responded by providing updated contact details

and their latest career information. The transition to DARS was a long and hard

process, but it has already transformed our ability to communicate with everyone

and to track the growing number of activities we are organizing, not to mention

the growing financial support we receive from alumni and friends.

The Wolfson Strategy Group, chaired by Philip Kay, and vice-chaired by Gerry

Grimstone, continues to provide a valuable forum in which the College can discuss

how to forward its academic agenda, and to find the resources to make this agenda

possible as well as to meet other College needs. It consists of alumni and friends,

and meets twice yearly. Its first meeting this year, in September, focused on the

Ancient World Cluster and support for post-docs in College. The second, during

the Acting Presidency of Professor Christina Redfield, focused on science in

College, and how to support science outside the labs and in combination with other

subjects in College.

Fundraising has concentrated on support for students and interdisciplinary activity

through the growing number of Clusters, with the Senior Tutor proving adept at

using the growing pot of money from alumni-giving to leverage funds from other

University and public sources so as to create ever more transformative funding

packages for students coming here. Our goal is fifty such funding packages in time

for our Fiftieth Anniversary, and it seems to be achievable: we have reached about

half-way, after tripling the number of significant scholarships in the past four years.

The minimum for a ‘meaningful’ funding package is £6,000, which can usually be

used to leverage another £15,000 or so from other sources. The College also now

has a number of fully funded scholarships, and is beginning to think about how to

endow major scholarships.

As the Bursar reports (p. 49), work on the new Academic Wing began in November

2011. Phase 2 is scheduled to start in November 2014, if the last £2.3 million can

be found: we are still looking for funding. We continue to find sponsors for the

new chairs in Hall. In Trinity Term, the Social and Cultural Committee voted a

matching fund of £25,000 against a similar amount still to be raised for a new

concert piano for the new lecture theatre.

The financial turmoil in the Eurozone, a double-dip recession in the UK and

continued economic weakness worldwide, has made fundraising as challenging as

ever, but has also heightened the need for more student support. The College is

thriving nonetheless, and its students are grateful to our donors and friends for

promoting their advanced studies. A huge ‘thank you’ to all of you for making

Wolfson the wonderful and supportive place it is.

Strategy Group Members

Mr John Adams

Lord Moser

Dr Thomas Black

Mr George Nianias

Lord Gowrie

Professor Patricia Nuttall

Mr Gerald Grimstone

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Mr Thomas Sharpe

Mr Peter Halban

Baron Thyssen-

Bornemisza

Lady Hoffenberg

Dr Kenneth Tregidgo

Dr Philip Kay

Mrs Patricia Williams

Mr Sam Laidlaw

Sir Martin Wood

Ms Rosemary Leith

Dr Allen Zimbler

Mr Mark Merrony

List of donors 2011–12

The Romulus Society

Principal Gifts (£500,000+pa)

The Wolfson Foundation

Patron (£10,000+pa)

Dorset Foundation

Joseph Rosen Foundation

Dr Simon Harrison

Mr William Kelly

Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza

Sponsor (£5,000+pa)

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Sir Tony Hoare

Member (£1,000+pa)

Anonymous (1)

Dorothy Holmes Charitable Trust

Sir Ross Cranston

Mr Thomas Sharpe

Mr Graeme Skene

Professor Sir Richard Trainor

Professor Luisa Morgado

The President’s Club

(£500+pa)

Professor Derek Boyd

Dr Timothy Clayden

Dr Volker Heenes

Professor Richard Keshen

Kirker Holidays

Dr Roland Littlewood

Professor Luisa Morgado

Dr Benito Mueller

Mrs Judith Peters

Dr Andrew Prentice

Professor Christina Redfield

Dr Alison Salvesen

Sir David Smith

Mrs Lindsay Stead

Professor Heinrich Taegtmeyer

Ms Lynn Villency Cohen

Dr Anthony Wickett

Dr Anthony Wierzbicki

Supporters of the College

(£100+pa)

Anonymous (4)

Dr Clifford Ando

Professor Jonathan Arch

Dr Phillippa Archer

Dr John Arden

Professor Marcus Banks

Professor Aldos Barefoot

Revd Dr William Beaver

Lady Berlin

Dr Thomas Black

Dr David Bounds

Lord Bradshaw

Professor David Brandon

Mr Kieran Broadbent

Professor Harvey Brown

Professor Jerome Bruner

Lady Caldwell

Dr Douglas Capp

Dr Peter Carr

Dr Leila Cheikh Ismail

Dr Vinod Chopra

Mr Howard Clarke

Dr Julian Cockbain

Professor Linda Colley

Mr William Conner

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Dr Reuben Conrad

Dr Andrew Crane

Dr Tiago Cunha

Dr Roberto Delicata

Professor Kennerly Digges

Dr Charles Ehrlich

Mr Thomas Filbin

Mr Matthew Frohn

Dr Deborah Gera

Brigadier Alan Gordon

Dr Michael Gover

Dr Petri Hakkarainen

Mr Peter Halban

Mr Charles Hamfeldt

Mr Iain Handley-Schlachler

Professor Barbara Harriss-White

Revd Dr Anthony Harvey

Dr Paul Henry

Dr Peter Herissone-Kelly

Dr Raymond Higgins

Mrs Louise Hillman

Dr David Holloway

Mr Iain Houston

Ms Cherril Howard

Professor Masa Ikegami

Professor Katsuji Ishikawa

Dr Ann Jefferson

Dr Carolyn Kagan

Dr Philip Kay

Professor John Koumoulides

Dr John Koval

Dr Helen Lambert

Ms Patricia Langton

Professor Helen Lawton Smith

Dr Robin Leake

Professor John Lee

Professor Chi-kin Lee

Professor Hermione Lee

Dr Ira Lieberman

Mr Nick Lord

Mr Hiroshi Maeno

Mr Alan Mapstone

Dr Beatrice Martin-Rozumilowicz

Professor Jody Maxmin

Miss Susan May

Dr Thomas McLean

Dr Gregor McLean

Dr Daniel Mercola

Dr Robert Milne

Mr Adam Paster

Professor Geoffrey Pasvol

Dr Karl Paus

Dr John Pinot de Moira

Mr Raymond Pow

Dr Rasiah Ratnalingam

Professor Pere Ripolles

Professor David Roulston

Ms Enid Rubenstein

Professor Keith Rutter

Mr Malcolm Savage

Ms Michelle Schoch

Dr Lawrence Shaffer

Dr Sunay Shah

Mr Nigel Simpson

Ms Krista Slade

Dr Charles Smith

Professor Richard Sorabji

Dr Timothy Sparkes

Dr Alan Spivey

Mrs Gillian Stansfield

Professor Lloyd Strickland

Mr Charles Swallow

Professor Aslak Syse

Mrs Elizabeth Tee

Professor Swee Lay Thein

Dr Ithamar Theodor

Dr Noreen Thomas

Revd Dr Mark Thompson

Dr Edward Thorogood

Mr Peter Toye

Dr Elmar Traebert

Mr Christopher Walton

Dr Adam Wyatt

Friends of the College

Anonymous (8)

Dr Peter Arkwright

Dr Anat Barnea

Mr Stephen Barry

Dr John Bidwell

Ms Lucy Blaxland

Dr Steven Bosworth

Dr Judith Bradley

Dr Michael Brock

Dr Andrew Busby

Dr Richard Butterwick

Mr Carl Calvert

Dr Sally Carr

Miss Emma Cohen

Ms Aurélie Cuénod

Dr John Dale

Mr Quirijn den Rooijen

Miss Françoise Deniaud

Mrs Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo

Mr Vaughan Dutton

Mr John Edgley

Mr Thomas Figueira

Dr Teresa Fitzherbert

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Dr Andrew Glanfield

Dr Larry Grisham

Dr Beatrice Groves

Professor Paul Harrison

Professor James Henle

Mr Timothy Hill

Dr Susan Iles

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig

Dr Lisa Jeffrey

Professor Jeremy Johns

Dr Barry Johnston

Mr Elliot Kendall

Mr James Kister

Ms Joan Kisylia

Dr Martin Klein

Professor David Langslow

Dr Andrzej Link-Lenczowski

Dr Jeffrey Lucas

Professor Nancy Macky

Ms Audrey Maxwell

Dr James Morrissey

Dr Philip Mountford

Dr Michael Munday

Professor Toni Naco del Hoyo

Professor Andrew Neil

Mr Simon Palferman

Professor Edgar Palmer

Mrs Julie Pettitt

Dr Francesco Pezzo

Ms Belinda Platt

Professor Anthony Podlecki

Dr Timothy Powell

Dr David Ratner

Professor Peter Rhodes

Dr Angela Risch

Dr Marlene Rosenberg

Dr Susanna Sarti

Dr Klara Schure

Professor Stewart Schwab

Dr John Sellars

Dr Roy Simpson

Dr St John Simpson

Mr Graham Stevens

Dr Timothy Stockdale

Professor Ian Storey

Professor Reinhard Stupperich

Dr Tai-Ping Sun

Mr Robert Tanner

Dr Simon Towers

Dr Michael Tully

Dr William Wagner

Mr Peter Wilson

Mr Jonathan Woolf

Mr Mackenzie Zalin

Gifts to the Library 2011-12

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

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

written or to which they have contributed. The Library welcomes gifts of books

from all its members, past and present, which enhance its academic collections and

add to the pleasure of its readers. Thank you.

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian)

* Professor Jon Austyn

* Professor Marcus Banks

* Reverend Doctor William Beaver

* Dr Timothy Beech

* Professor Elleke Boehmer

* Professor Edwin K. Broadhead

* Trevor Bryce

* Professor Roger L. Burritt

* Dr Antonio Buti

Mr Belema Cancarz

Sir Iain Chalmers

* Bob Chilcot

* John Comino-James

Miriam Driessen

Professor Clive Foss

* Professor Jonardon Ganeri

* Ms Eurydice Georgantelis

* Professor Richard Gombrich

Dr Anapama Hazarike

Professor Harouko Inoue

* Professor Clifford Jones

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Professor Richard Keshen

* Dr Angela Leonard

Ms Hermdat Lerman

Dr James Lewis

* Mr Richard Maitland Bradfield

* Dr Kate McLoughlin

* Dr Noraini Mohd Tamin

* Serena Moore

Patsy Moustache

* Margaret Nyarango

* David Olsen

* Dr Wojciech Piotrowicz

* Professor M.B. Pranger

David Pritzker

* Dr Philomen Probert

* Dr Andres Reyes

Philip Roberts

* Professor David Robey

* Dr Ulrike Roesler

* Professor Keiko Sakurai

Reverend Professor Michael Screech

* Professor Richard Sorabji

* Professor Jon Stallworthy

* Professor John Sutton

* Professor William Varner

* Dr Meinholf Vielberg

* Dr David Wasserstein

Dr Merryn Williams

* Dr David T. Wright

* Professor A. Colin Wright

* Stephanie Yorke

Scholarships, Travel Awards, and Prizes 2011-12

Norman Hargreaves Maudsley Scholarship in Latin American and Spanish Studies:

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Sarah Puello Alfonso

Thames and Hudson Scholarship:

Gabriela Sotomayor

Jeremy Black Scholarship in Sumerian and Akkadian:

Laura Wisnom

Lorne Thyssen Scholarship:

Helen Ackers

Mougins Museum Ashmolean Scholarship:

Nicholas West

Isaiah Berlin/Classics Department Scholarship:

John Hanson

Alessandro Vatri

Felix Meister

Isaiah Berlin ESRC Anthropology Scholarship:

Elo Luik

Isaiah Berlin/Clarendon Scholarships:

Humanities

Edward Butcher

Felipe Correa

Bonnie Lander

Ekaterina Kozlova

Social Sciences

Steven McCarty-Snead

Megan Robb

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

Andrew Di Battista

Guy Newton/Clarendon Scholarship:

Medical Sciences and Chemistry

Karina McHardy

Laura Pollum

Tianshu Feng

Life-Writing Cluster Scholarship:

Lucinda Fenny

The Black Family Scholarship (with Materials Department):

Andrew London

The Wolfson Marshall Scholarship:

Anna Feuer

The Wolfson Socio-Legal Centre Scholarship:

Heather McRobie

Grimstone Foundation Travel Awards for research in India and China:

Muhammad Ali Jan

Megan Robb

Miriam Driessen

The Roger and Fay Booker Travel Award:

Philip Dolan

Tim and Kathy Clayden Prize for Ancient Near Eastern Studies:

Nicholas Reid

Other Benefactions to Support Research

The George Peters Bursary

Nargis Artyushevskaya

The Jacob Ghazarian Fund in association with the Oriental Institute:

(awaiting announcement)

The new Academic Wing and Leonard

Wolfson Auditorium

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by the Bursar, Edward Jarron

Architecturally at Wolfson ‘it is all a matter of resourceful, relaxed composition’,

as Pevsner says, and in this spirit we are embarking on a new Academic Wing

which will harmonize sensitively with our fine twentieth-century buildings, but

also embody our vision of academic life in the twenty-first century. There will

be a lecture hall, seminar rooms, academic offices, an extension to the library,

exhibition and café space, all with the aim of enhancing our academic facilities and,

by adding a more spacious lodge, of providing a new and impressive entrance. It

will be built to the highest quality and insulation standards, taking environmental

considerations carefully into account, and will run north from the north-west

corner of the present main building, curving gently to the east to echo the curve

which Isaiah Berlin introduced as the hallmark of the original design.

The reception, café space and art-exhibition area will be incorporated into the

ground floor. At the far north end will be an attractive new auditorium for

155 people, equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual facilities, for lectures,

conferences, musical and theatrical performances. The existing cobbled courtyard

at the entrance will be landscaped to create a calm, enclosed, welcoming area,

linked to the residential buildings to the north (the Robin Gandy Building, and M

and Q blocks) by an attractive pergola-shaded route.

The Wing will be built in two phases. Work on Phase 1, comprising the

auditorium, reception area, three seminar rooms, four offices and a new road layout,

started in November 2011 and will be completed by Easter 2013. Work on Phase 2,

comprising a further twelve offices, library extension, cafeteria, new lodge and final

landscaping, will begin in October 2014, with a view to completion by the end of

2015. The whole project will therefore be in place by the beginning of our Fiftieth

Anniversary year, 2016.

We are very grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for its generous support for the

building of the auditorium, which will be named the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

in memory of the late Lord Wolfson.

January 2012

August 2012

Degrees and Diplomas

Akbar, Shaharzad (GS 2009–11) MPhil Development Studies

Akerman, Ildem (GS 2002–07) DPhil Biochemistry,

‘Maintenance of Genome Integrity during

synthesis phase of the cell cycle’

Al-Ibadi, Muhsen (GS 2009–11) DPhil Inorganic

Chemistry, ‘Quantum chemical studies of

organometallic reaction mechanisms’

Alayed, Yasir (GS 2010–11) MSc Radiation Biology

Albanyan, Abdulmajeed (GS 2005–09) DPhil Clinical Medicine,

‘Application of novel assays to the study of

the platelet storage lesion’

Ali, Waqar (GS 2006–07) MSc Computer Science

Allen, Keith (GS 2003–11) DPhil Oriental Studies,

‘Being known according to Abhinavagupta’

Allen, William (GS 2009–11) MPhil Development Studies

Bacile, Rosa (GS 2004–10) DPhil Oriental Studies,

‘The “Dynastic Mausolea” of the Norman

period in the South of Italy, c. 1069-1189:

a study on the form and meaning of burial

monuments in the Middle Ages’

Badrinarayanan, Anjana (GS 2007–08) MSc Biology (Integrative

Bio-Science)

Bagnulo, Vince (GS 2007–09) BPhil Philosophy

Bahnsen, Cenia Beline (GS 2010–11) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Berg, Ryan (GS 2010–11) MSc Global Governance and

Diplomacy

Bettridge, Caroline (GS 2007–10) DPhil Anthropology,

‘Reconstructing Australopithecine

Socioecology: Strategic modelling based on

modern primates’

Binti Sharer, Zalilah (GS 2007–11) DPhil Materials,

‘Investigation of protective mechanisms

of organic coatings by thermal and

electrochemical techniques’

Blazekovic, Marko (GS 2006–11) DPhil Management Studies,

‘Making partnership work: cross-sector

alliances between businesses and NGOs at

the bottom of the pyramid’

Bora, Fozia (GS 1998–10) DPhil Oriental Studies,

‘Mamluk representations of late Fatimid

Egypt: the survival of Fatimid-era

historiography in Ibn al-Furat’s T’rikh alduwal

wa’l-muluk (history of dynasty and

kings)’

Bristow, Greg (GS 2007–11) DPhil Psychiatry,

‘Investigations of the potential

schizophrenia susceptibility gene kinase

interacting with stathmin (KIS)’

Burkitt, Charles (GS 2009–10) MSc Biomedical Engineering

Buzzard, Brendan (GS 2010–11) MSc Biodiversity,

Conservation and Management

Byrne, Shaun (GS 2002–08) DPhil Medical Oncology, ‘An

investigation into the processing of ionising

radiation induced clustered DNA damage

sites using mammalian cell extracts’

Carlsen Haeggrot, Marcus (GS 2010–11) MSc Political Theory

Research

Cheung, Ho-Loon Alan (GS 2010–11) MSc Mathematical and

Computational Finance

Church, Christopher (GS 2006–10) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Mouse

models for the functional analysis of the fat

mass and obesity associated gene FTO’

Conliffe, Alexandra (GS 2004–05) MSc Environmental Change

and Management

Coomber, Neil (GS 2007–11) DPhil Archaeology, ‘The

performative construction of identity in the

Shang and Zhou Dynasties’

Cornell, Hannah (GS 2006–11) DPhil Orthopaedic Surgery,

‘Factors contributing to Chondroplasia in

Degenerate Rotator Cuff Disease’

Crisp, Edmund (GS 2007–11) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy

and Genetics, ‘Heart function in mouse

models of muscular dystrophy’

Demircioglu, Fevzi (GS 2010–11) MSc Radiation Biology

Di, Ying (GS 2010–12) MSc Clinical Pharmacology

Douglas, Nicolas (GS 2006–12) DPhil Public Health,

‘“Banged up, bandaged up”: A qualitative

study of non-suicidal self-injury amongst

young women in prison’

Dubbin, Gregory (GS 2009–10) MSc Computer Science

Eccles, Laura (GS 2006–10) DPhil Medical Oncology,

‘The repair and mutability of clustered DNA

damage’

Emmott, Emily (GS 2009–10) MSc Cognitive and

Evolutionary Anthropology

Espinosa, Octavio (GS 2006–11) DPhil Biochemistry,

‘Characterization of a mouse genephenotype

network’

Faily, Shamal (GS 2008–11) DPhil Computer Science, ‘A

framework for usable and secure system

design’

Farmer, Harry (GS 2008–09) MSc Psychological Research

Florentin, Daniel (GS 2010–11) MSc Water Science, Policy

and Management

Foteinou, Georgia-Varvara (GS 2009–11) MPhil Politics: European

Politics and Society

Furber, Robert (GS 2009–11) MSc Mathematics and

Foundations of Computer Science

Fynn, Sanjay Chopel (GS 2008–10) MPhil Tibetan and

Himalayan Studies,

Gannon, Conor (GS 2009–10) MSc Comparative Social

Policy

Gelain, Slair (GS 2010–11) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Girardin, Cecile (GS 2006–11) DPhil Geography and the

Environment, ‘Ecosystem carbon dynamics

from Andes to Amazon’

Goldberg, Maya (GS 2009–11) MPhil Eastern Christian

Studies

Greenfield, Elyashiv (GS 2007–11) DPhil Politics, ‘Authority,

states and persons: in the search for optimal

reconciliation’

Guo, Qi (GS 2006–10) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Improving the discovery of molecular

imaging probes through biomathematical

modelling’

Gupta, Radhika (GS 2007–11) DPhil Social and Cultural

Anthropology, ‘Piety, politics and patriotism

in Kargil, India’

Haeri Mazanderani, Fadhila (GS 2007–11) DPhil Information,

Communication and the Social Sciences,

‘Information as care: reconnecting internet

use, HIV and health’

Hall, James (GS 2005–10) DPhil Educational Studies,

‘The contribution of early education to

vulnerable and resilient developmental

pathways’

Hamilton, Suzanne (GS 2008–11) DPhil Physical and

Theoretical Chemistry, ‘Spectroscopy and

dynamics of metal clusters’

Hanna, Ziyad (GS 2005–12) DPhil Computer Science,

‘A symbolic execution framework for

algorithm level modelling and verification of

computer microarchitecture’

Harding, John (GS 2009–10) MSc Modern Chinese Studies

Helmers, Christian (GS 2006–11) DPhil Economics, ‘Spillovers,

innovation and firm performance’

Helmers, Christian (GS 2005–06) MSc Economics for

Development

Houston, David (GS 2008–09) MSc Material Anthropology

and Museum Ethnography

Iwakoshi, Satomi (GS 2006–07) MSc Environmental Change

and Management

Jaimes Fajardo, Carlos Javier (GS 2009–10) MBA

James, Ali (GS 2004–06) MSc Science and Medicine of

Athletic Performance

Javed, Muhammad Mohsin (GS 2010–11) MSc Mathematical Modelling

and Scientific Computing

Joffe, Daniela (GS 2010–11) MSt English (1900–present)

Johal, Sundeep (GS 2010–11) MSc Contemporary India

Jun, Tea-Sung (GS 2006–10) DPhil Engineering

Science, ‘Development of the Eigenstrain

Reconstruction Method for the

interpretation of diffraction stress

measurements in engineering components’

Juster, Scott (GS 2010–11) MSt US History

Kapitaikin, Lev (GS 2001–11), DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘The

twelfth-century paintings of the ceilings of

the Cappella Palatina, Palermo’

Karagiannis, Konstantinos (GS 2009–10) MSc Mathematical and

Computational Finance

Karumazondo, Washington (GS 2002–12) DPhil Educational Studies,

‘A case study of the experiences of newly

qualified teachers during their first year of

teaching in secondary schools in Zimbabwe’

Kauffmann, Thomas (GS 2004–11) DPhil Social and Cultural

Anthropology, ‘Put your compassion into

action. The political and religious agendas

of the central Tibetan administration in a

world of transnational organisations’

Khuzayim, Nadia (GS 2004–11) DPhil Zoology, ‘Mimicry of

structural colour in lepidoptera’

Knerr, Wendy (GS 2009–10) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Koo, Chul-Hoi (GS 2001–10) DPhil Sociology,

‘Reinforcement of income inequality in later

life’

Kubal, Agnieszka (GS 2007–10) DPhil Socio-Legal Studies,

‘Socio-legal integration of Polish post-04

EU enlargement migrants in the United

Kingdom’

Lachman, Jamie (GS 2010–11) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Larson, Rhett (GS 2010–11) MSc Water Science, Policy

and Management

Lee, Chang Hun (GS 2006–12) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Investigation of the bend transition in Pi-

Cell devices’

Lee, Kuen-Chan (GS 2006–10) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry,

‘New strategies for non-covalent chemical

functionalization and dispersion of singlewall

carbon nanotubes’

Lee, Poong-In (GS 2001–11) DPhil Theology, ‘Redeeming

Sacrifice? Reading Hebrews with Rene

Girard’

Lehtinen, Jenni (GS 2006–11) DPhil Medieval and Modern

Languages, ‘Narrative structure and

allegories of the Venezuelan nation in three

novels by Romulo Gallegos’

Li, Brenda (GS 2006–08) MPhil Tibetan and

Himalayan Studies

Li, Brenda (GS 2008–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘A

critical study of the life of the 13th-century

Tibetan monk U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal

based on his biographies’

Li, Zhaohui (GS 2003–08) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Monitoring biological functions of cultured

tissues using microdialysis’

Mariankowska, Magdalena (GS 2009–11) MPhil Russian and East

European Studies

Martin, Ian (GS 2006–12) DPhil Particle Physics, ‘Short

pulse X-Ray generation in synchrotron

radiation sources’

Matsoukas, Theofanis (GS 2004–10) DPhil Mathematics,

‘Hypersymplectic Quotients’

Matthews, Tyler (GS 2010–11) MSc African Studies

Matyas, David (GS 2009–11) MPhil Development Studies

Merle, Christian (GS 2010–12) MSc Musculoskeletal

Sciences

Mihelj Plesnicar, Mojca (GS 2009–10) MSc Criminology and

Criminal Justice

Min, Tae (GS 2004–06) MSt Korean Studies

Mohamed Saleh, Rozieyati (GS 2006–12) DPhil Clinical Laboratory

Sciences, ‘The study of the antibody

response to malaria parasites and its

application to detect infected UK donors’

Mohd Azzam, Mohd Ghows (GS 2009–12) DPhil Physiology, ‘Anatomy

and Genetics, MIcroRNA Biogenesis and

Cytoophidia in Drosophila melanogaster’

Moon, David (GS 2009–11) MPhil Archaeology

Morofke, Darren (GS 2006–10) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Method for evaluation and detection of

colorectal cancer through dynamic contrast

enhanced MRI’

Muralidhar, Vinayak (GS 2010–11) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Namiluko, Cornelius (GS 2007–08) MSc Computer Science

Nethercott, Andrew (GS 2006–08) MPhil Russian and East

European Studies

Ng, Stanley (GS 2005–10) DPhil Clinical Medicine,

‘Biochemical and structural characterisation

of histone demethylation by the JMJD2

family of 2-oxoglutarate dependent

oxygenases’

Nieves Rodriguez, Christine (GS 2010–11) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention,

Nyarango, Margaret (GS 2010–11) MSc African Studies

Okell, Thomas (GS 2007–11) DPhil Clinical Neurology,

‘Assessment of collateral blood flow in the

brain using magnetic resonance imaging’

Ottway, Charlotte (GS 2005–10) DPhil Biochemistry,

‘Characterisation of NESPAS, a non-coding

imprinted RNA’

Paiement, Phillip (GS 2010–12) MSt Legal Research

Palma, Isabel (GS 2010–11) MSc Sociology

Paolucci, Marta (GS 2004–11) DPhil Clinical Medicine,

‘A detailed study on microarrays for the

development of a cystic fibrosis mutation

detection platform with diagnostic

application’

Patrick, Thomas (GS 2003–09) DPhil Archaeology, ‘Jars of

clay: The use of Protocorinthian pottery in

Corinthian and Syracusan society’

Pearce, Callum (GS 2009–10) MSc Social Anthropology

Penot, Matthieu (GS 2007–09) MPhil Economics

Peters, Jennifer (GS 2007–11) DPhil Radiobiology,

‘Identification and characterisation of

homologous recombination genes in

schizosaccharomyces pombe’

Piccinini, Jessica (GS 2006–12) DPhil Ancient History,

‘The customers of the Oracle of Dodona

through the analysis of the literary and

archaeological evidence up to mid-4th

century BC’

Piliavsky, Anastasia, (GS 2005–11) DPhil Social and Cultural

Anthropology, ‘Theft, Patronage and

Society in Western India’

Piper, Alana (GS 2008–12) DPhil History, ‘The evolution

of a conception of citizenly duty towards

military service 1854-1914: a study of

London Press Discourse’

Pounder, Nicola (GS 2002–09) DPhil Particle Physics,

‘Measurement of the Bso Lifetime in Bso -

K+K- Decays’

Power, Timothy (GS 2005–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘The

Arabians of Pre-Islamic Egypt’

Qayum, Naseer (GS 2006–11) DPhil Radiobiology,

‘Modulation of the tumour

microenvironment by signalling inhibition

as a strategy to improve cytotoxic therapy’

Qian, Mengjia (GS 2010–11) MSc Education (Higher

Education)

Quinby, Georgina (GS 2009–10) MSt Bible Interpretation

(Oriental Studies)

Ramachander, Sangamitra (GS 2006–11) DPhil Development Studies,

‘Private sector efforts in service delivery to

low-income households: lessons from the

telecom and finance sectors in Asia’

Ramasamy, Adaikalavan (GS 2005–10) DPhil Statistics, ‘Increasing

statistical power and generalizing in

genomics microarray research’

Ribary, Marton (GS 2009–11) MPhil Judaism and

Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World

Roberts, Jennifer (GS 2010–11) MSc Biodiversity,

Conservation and Management

Rogers, Justine (GS 2004–11) DPhil Law, ‘Pupillage: the

making of the barristers’ profession’

Ross, Alan (GS 2006–11) DPhil Classical Languages

and Literature, ‘Inter quos ego quoque

eram: authorship and participation in

Ammianus Marcellinus’

Rubenstein, Enid (GS 2004–10) MLitt Oriental Studies

Rugens, Aleksandrs (GS 2010–11) MSc Cognitive and

Evolutionary Anthropology

Ruitinga, Siebren R-J (GS 2008–10) MPhil Development Studies

Sakurai, Anna (GS 2010–11) MSc Comparative Social

Policy

Salah, Eidarus (GS 2008–11) MSc by Research Clinical

Medicine

Sampson, Oliver (GS 2006–11) DPhil Radiobiology, ‘The

role of AKT in tumour cell survival post

irradiation’

Sancak, Merve (GS 2010–11) MSc Comparative Social

Policy

Sciberras, James (GS 2009–10) MSc Biology (Integrative

Bio-Science)

Shah, Ashish (GS 2009–11) MPhil Development Studies

Sharma, Vanshika (GS 2010–11) MSc Pharmacology

Spingou, Foteini (GS 2008–10) MPhil Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies

Stevens, Jonathan (GS 2007–11) DPhil Physiology, ‘Anatomy

and Genetics, A novel role or Atmin as a

transcription factor controlling ciliogenesis’

Stevens, Rachael (GS 2007–11) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Red

Tara: lineages of literature and practice’

Stillwell, Elizabeth (GS 2009–10) MSc Comparative Social

Policy

Suematsu, Kazuhito (GS 2010–11) MBA

Sun, Dapeng (GS 2010–11) MSc Financial Economics

Sykes, Rachel (GS 2009–10) MSt English and American

Studies

Szymanski, Francois-Daniel (GS 2005–11) DPhil Physiology, ‘Functional

Laminar Architecture of the rat Primary

Auditory Cortex’

Tomlinson, Mark (GS 2006–10) DPhil Theology, ‘The

influence of Pagan sacrificial thought on

Christian Martyr-Soteriology AD 100–400’

Torres Mendoza, Daniela (GS 2010–11) MSc Environmental Change

and Management

Tromans, Christopher (GS 2002–07) DPhil Engineering Science,

‘Measuring breast density from X-Ray

mammograms’

Villers, Katharine (GS 2010–11) MSc Contemporary India

Waller, Rebecca (GS 2009–10) MSc Evidence Based Social

Intervention

Wang, Anli (GS 2006–11) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy

and Genetics, ‘Functional significance

of human sensory ERPs: Insights from

modulation by preceding events’

Wasylkow, Aleksandra (GS 2009–11) MPhil Russian and East

European Studies

Webb, Alastair (GS 2009–11) MSc by Research Clinical

Neurology

Wheeler, Duncan (GS 2005–10) DPhil Medieval and Modern

Languages, ‘The performance and reception

of Golden Age drama in modern-day Spain:

The comedia on the page, stage and screen

(1939–09)’

Williams, Miranda (GS 2008–10) MPhil Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies

Wilson, Harriet (GS 2010–11) MSc Biodiversity,

Conservation and Management

Winchester, Laura (GS 2006–11) DPhil Clinical Medicine,

‘Identification of candidate disease genes

in common and rare disorders using copy

number variant detection from single

nucleotide polymorphism arrays’

Wisnom, Laura (GS 2009–11) MPhil Cuneiform Studies

Wong, Peter (GS 2005–11) DPhil Computer Science,

‘Formalizations and applications of business

process modelling notation’

Woods, Evan (GS 2010–11) MSt Film Aesthetics

Xu, Yan (GS 2007–11) DPhil Materials, ‘Failure

of pigmented and non-pigmented paint

coatings on steel’

Yaqub, Mohammad (GS 2008–11) DPhil Orthopaedic Surgery,

‘Automatic measurements of femoral

characteristics using 3D ultrasound images

in utero’

Yates, Laura (GS 2007–11) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘The

role of the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in

Branching Morphogenesis’

Yu, Sojin (GS 2008–09) MSc Sociology

Zechner, Kerstin (GS 2006–12) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘3’

end processing and RNA polymerase II

transcription termination in protein coding

genes in the nematode C elegans’

Zinzani, Filippo (GS 2010–11), MSc Mathematical and

Computational Finance

Zweiban, Ruben (GS 2010–11) MSc African Studies

Elections and Admissions 2011–12

Emeritus Fellows

Penney, John Howard Wright, MA,

DPhil (MA Pennsylvania)

Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc

London, PhD Durham)

Governing Body Fellows

Aveyard, Paul N (BSc, MB, BS London,

MPH, PhD Birmingham)

Barrett, Jonathan, BA (MA, PhD

Cambridge)

Chappell, Michael A., MEng, DPhil

De Haas, Hein (MA Amsterdam)

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo,

MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS)

Wells, Andrew James (MA, PhD

Cambridge)

Supernumerary Fellows

Casadei, Barbara, MA, DPhil, (MRCP,

FRCP London)

De Roure, David (PhD Southampton)

Key, Timothy James Alexander, DPhil

(BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London)

Konoplev, Ivan Vasilyevich (BSc, MSc

Nizhny Novgorod State, MPhil, PhD)

Research Fellows

Arancibia, Carolina (BSc North

London, MSc Royal Postgraduate

College, PhD Imperial)

Demetriou, Nicoletta (BA Aristotle

Univ of Thessaloniki, PhD SOAS, MA

UEA)

England, Duncan Gordon, DPhil (MSc

Durham)

Gagliardone, Iginio (MA Bologna,

PhD LSE)

Gray, Rebecca R. (BA Millersville, MA,

PhD Florida)

Hadjiyiannis, Christos (BA

Nottingham, MPhil Cambridge, PhD

Edinburgh)

Hartfield, Elizabeth Margaret (BSc

Cardiff, PhD Bristol)

Kar, Aditi (MA Delhi, PhD Ohio State)

Kazachkov, Ilya (PhD McGill)

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA

Louisville)

Outes Leon, Ingo, MSc, DPhil (MSc

Regensburg)

Panovic, Ivan, DPhil (BA Belgrade,

MA American University Cairo)

Roy, Shovonlal, DPhil (BSc, MSc, PhD

Jadavpur)

Sabiron, Céline (MA, PhD Sorbonne)

St Clair, James Jack Harry (BSc

Edinburgh, PhD Bath)

Vicary, Jamie Oliver (MA Cambridge,

PhD Imperial)

Vinko, Sam Masa, DPhil (BA, MA

Rome)

Wardhaugh, Benjamin Sutherland,

DPhil (BA Cambridge, MMus GSMD)

Weisheimer, Antje (Diplom Humboldt,

PhD Potsdam)

Visiting Scholars

(in residence during the academic year

2011–12)

Adam, Martin (MA University of

Waterloo, PhD McGill)

Bainbridge, Simon

Bhalorta, Sonia, MPhil, DPhil (BSc

Delhi)

Brown, Richard (BSc Victoria, MA,

PhD Dalhousie)

Cohen-Hanegbi, Na’ama (MA, PhD

Hebrew University Jerusalem)

Costa, Shelley (BA Kingston, MA

Princeton, PhD Cornell)

Dahlsten, Oscar (MSc, PhD Imperial)

Falk, Daniel K (BA Providence,

Otterburne, MA Regent,Vancouver,

PhD Cambridge)

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Fernandez de Larrinoa, Kepa (MA, W.

Ontario, Licenc., PhD University Pais

Vasco)

Garcia Garcia, Luisa (Licenc., Seville,

PhD Cologne)

Hay, Daisy (BA, PhD Cambridge, MA

York)

Houssos, Nikos (BSc, PhD Athens, MSc

Surrey)

Hozaki, Norio (BA Kanazawa, MA,

PhD Ohio State)

Jaubert, Ludovic (PhD École Normal

Superieure, Lyon)

Karlsson, Sjogren (BA, PhD Umea)

Kovanen, Lauri (MSc, Helsinki

University of Technology)

Landgren, Per L. (BA, PhD

Gothenburg)

Matsuzono, Shin (MA Waseda, PhD

Leeds)

Meadows, Andrew, MA, DPhil (MA

Michigan)

Metcalfe, Alex James, BA (BA, PhD

Leeds)

Mirkos, Alkis (LLB, LLM UCL, MSc

LSE)

Moroo, Akiko (AB Chiba, MA Tokyo)

Ohira, Akira (MA Waseda)

Robledo, Maria del Mar (BSc Alcala

de Henares, MSc, PhD Universidad

Complutense de Madrid)

Thickness, Philip (BA Lancaster, MA

Kings)

Williamson, Mark (BSc Southampton,

MSc ICL, PhD Leeds)

Graduate Students

Ackers, Helen (Archaeology)

Adamson, Christopher James (Classical

Archaeology)

Afrough, Sara (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

Afroz, Ilma (Contemporary India)

Airey, Martin (Earth Sciences)

Akyuz, Alp Eren (Economics)

Alexander, Ashwin (Business

Administration)

Allen, Katherine (History)

Aloumpi, Myrto (Classical Languages

and Literature)

Alter, Maximilian (Magister Juris)

Anderson, Robert, (Musicology)

Artyushevskaya, Nargis (Water

Science, Policy and Management)

Aspinall, Lois (Politics)

Bagheri, Hani (Clinical Embryology)

Bakkeng Bergan, Marte (Sociology)

Balestreri, Cecilia (Earth Sciences)

Barkalina, Natalia (Clinical

Embryology)

Battis, Matthias (History)

Bedia, Nayan (Oriental Studies)

Benzie, Kevin (Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies)

Bester, Dirk (Statistics)

Bhattacharjee, Shaumick (Clinical

Medicine)

Blickhan, Samantha (Musicology)

Borner, Thomas (Psychology)

Brener, Jacqueline (Paediatrics)

Brocato, Helen (African Studies)

Burger, Lena Fatou Anne (Surgical

Sciences)

Carlsen Haeggrot, Marcus (Politics)

Chaudhary, Kshitij (Economics for

Development)

Che Lah, Nurul Akmal Binti (Inorganic

Chemistry)

Cheng, Yu Ching Ronald (Business

Administration)

Chessum, Lauren (Biochemistry)

Clark, Margaret (Greek and/or Latin

Languages and Literature)

Cloete, Ingrid (Law)

Crook, Stephen (Biodiversity,

Conservation and Management)

Daine, Kate (Evidence Based Social

Intervention)

Daly, Lewis (Anthropology)

de Berrié, Isabel (Musicology)

Dean, Benjamin (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

den Rooijen, Quirijn (Social Science of

the Internet)

Devereux, Francesca (African Studies)

Djabali, Feyrouz (Comparative Social

Policy)

Donnelly-Symes, Ben (Classical

Archaeology)

Duca, Valentina (Eastern Christian

Studies)

Dugnoille, Julien (Anthropology)

Egan, Grace ( English)

Erturan, Gurhan (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

Fanous, Rafik (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

Feick, Greer (Development Studies)

Fejes, Nadina (Evidence Based Social

Intervention)

Fenny, Lucinda (History)

Feuer, Anna (Global and Imperial

History)

Fong, Brendan (Mathematics and

Foundations of Computer Science)

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Forrest, Peter (Philosophy)

Frank, Mirjam (Music: Performance)

Friedman, David (Theology)

Friedman, Melissa (Sociology)

Fukofuka, Elsie (Diplomatic Studies)

Ganguly, Shakya (Computer Science)

Garcia Alzamora, Meritxell

(Endovascular Neurosurgery)

Gatt, Leah (African Studies)

George, Jithin (Clinical Neurosciences)

Ghoshal, Siddartha (Computer Science)

Ghoz, Ali (Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Goodwin, Zoe (Plant Sciences)

Groveman, Tamar (Modern Japanese

Studies)

Gu, Siming (Evidence Based Social

Intervention)

Guo, Sina (Modern Chinese Studies)

Halavach, Dzmitry (Russian and East

European Studies)

Hanson, Nicholas (Classical Languages

and Literature)

Hargreaves, Alice (Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies)

Hashmi, Tahir (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

He, Kuang (Materials)

Hoyos Boyd, Carlos (Magister Juris)

Huang, Yuanzun (Magister Juris)

Hubber, Lucy (Global Health Science)

Huempfer, Sebastian (Economic and

Social History)

Huschke, Julia (Women’s Studies)

Huskens, Nicky (Integrated

Immunology)

Ip, Vicky (Modern Chinese Studies)

Jan, Muhammad Ali (International

Development)

Jassal, Nirvikar (Contemporary India)

Javad, Abdulrehman (Applied

Statistics)

Javed, Muhammad Mohsin (Numerical

Analysis)

Jayaram, Pradipti (Contemporary

India)

Jing, Jing (Social Science of the

Internet)

Johansson, Leanne (Anthropology)

Jovanovic, Marija (Law)

Kartsaklis, Dimitrios (Computer

Science)

Ke, Shi (Computer Science)

Konno, Tadashi (Business

Administration)

Kopuri, Anil (Paediatrics)

Krass, Charlotte (Politics)

Kwack, Min Soo (Egyptology)

Lachman, Jamie (Evidence Based Social

Intervention)

Layton-Wood, Joshua (Philosophy)

Leach, Oliver (Clinical Neurosciences)

Lee, Joongoo (Chemical Biology)

Lee, Keunpyo (Computer Science)

Lee Jr, Patrick (Medical Anthropology)

Lenzin, Nathan (Economic and Social

History)

Lersten, Augustus Emanuel Nils

(Islamic Art and Archaeology)

Leskovec, Darja (Information,

Communication and the Social

Sciences)

Liu, Bonan (Inorganic Chemistry)

Liu, Yifan (Organic Chemistry)

London, Andrew (Materials)

Long, Emma (Classical Archaeology)

Love-Bhabuta, Alpha (Criminology and

Criminal Justice)

Lyka, Erasmia (Biomedical

Engineering)

Ma, Yuge (Geography and the

Environment)

Maciejuk, Anna-Maria (Radiation

Biology)

Madhusudanan, Manoj Krishnan

(Business Administration)

Mahendra, Edo (International

Development)

Mairat, Jerome (Archaeology)

Makelberge, Julie (Computer Science)

Maksoudova, Kouysinoy (Evidence

Based Social Intervention)

Marrazza, Martha (Refugee and Forced

Migration Studies)

Marsden, Daniel (Computer Science)

Maruyama, Yoshihiro (Computer

Science)

McCoy III, Roy (Islamic Studies and

History)

McNamara, Justin (Russian and East

European Studies)

McRobie, Heather (Socio-Legal

Studies)

Meister, Felix (Classical Languages

and Literature)

Menzel, Torsten (Comparative Social

Policy)

Meredith, Dora (Sociology)

Meyer, Robin (General Linguistics and

Comparative Philology)

Mikhalyaeva, Altana (Law and

Finance)

Milner, Daniel (Latin American

Studies)

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Milward, David (Computer Science)

Minall, Leanne (Chemical Biology)

Modak, Arghya (Organic Chemistry)

Mohamed Rehan, Balqis Binti

(Geography and the Environment)

Moise, Ionut (Theology)

Montecinos, Yacqueline (Geography

and the Environment)

Moore, Susan (Cognitive and

Evolutionary Anthropology)

Mordasini, Pasquale (Endovascular

Neurosurgery)

Moustache, Patsy (Diplomatic Studies)

Narayanaswamy, Ganesh (Computer

Science)

Nawaz, Sara (Development Studies)

Nguyen, Michael (Computer Science)

Niedner, Benjamin (Theoretical

Physics)

Nikolaeva, Daria (Biomedical Sciences)

Norman, Amy (Classical Indian

Religion)

O’Herlihy, Ciara (Civil Law)

Paiva, Vezua (Diplomatic Studies)

Panda, Ahona (English)

Parish, Roisin (Economics for

Development)

Pasha, Samir (Contemporary India)

Pasquali, Giovanni (Global Governance

and Diplomacy)

Pfister, Tomas (Engineering Science)

Pinxten, Jan-Karel (Law and Finance)

Price, Maryanna (General Linguistics

and Comparative Philology)

Pritzker, David (Oriental Studies)

Przybylski, Trajan (Economics for

Development)

Quartermain, Thomas (Korean Studies)

Ramsay, Lee (Celtic Studies)

Randall, Natasha (Modern Languages)

Raney, Abigail (Film Aesthetics)

Ratner, Jacqueline (Earth Sciences)

Reibestein, Michael (Modern Chinese

Studies)

Reilly, Adam (Civil Law)

Ren, Ran (Mathematical and

Computational Finance)

Renzeng, Cuomu (Oriental Studies)

Reynolds, Natasha (Archaeology)

Roberts, Rosalind (Physiology,

Anatomy and Genetics)

Rogala, Kacper (Systems Biology)

Rojas Corral, Hugo (Sociology)

Rooke, Kelly (Musculoskeletal

Sciences)

Roy, Ameeta (Public Health)

Rybanska, Veronika (Anthropology)

Samara, Sawsan (Social Anthropology)

Samsudin, Mohd (Biochemistry)

Sandesjo, Kristina (Refugee and Forced

Migration Studies)

Sands, Kalika (English)

Sarazin, Marc (Sociology)

Saxena, Abhinav (Business

Administration)

Schor, Ruth (Medieval and Modern

Languages)

Searight, Hugh (Comparative Social

Policy)

Sehnalova, Anna (Tibetan and

Himalayan Studies)

Sekiya, Haruka (Financial Economics)

Shah, Aakash (Comparative Social

Policy)

Shah, Ashish (International

Development)

Shah, Jaideep (Classical Indian

Religion)

Sharma, Neil (Contemporary India)

Shaw, Lynsey (History)

Sibeko, Sengeziwe (Clinical Medicine)

Sidahmed, Asil (Development Studies)

Simpson, James (International

Development)

Sinclair, David (Astrophysics)

Sorgiovanni, Benjamin (Philosophy)

Souter, James (International

Development)

Spencer, Tyler (Public Health)

Stepanyan, Arevik (Magister Juris)

Stracy, Mathew (Life Sciences Interface

DTC)

Stroux, Lisa (Healthcare Innovation

DTC)

Su, Yanyun (Refugee and Forced

Migration Studies)

Sumping, Helen (Greek and/or Latin

Languages and Literature)

Tan, Zhiming Darren (Theoretical

Physics)

Taylor-Gatigno, Natasha (Modern

Chinese Studies)

Tearney, Thomas (Yiddish Studies)

Tesfay, Nardos (Educational Research

Methodology)

Thomas, Huw (Politics)

Thurston, Caroline (Archaeology)

Tignol, Eve (Oriental Studies)

Vaikath, Maria (Comparative Social

Policy)

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van de Ven, Gido (Neuroscience)

Verhoog, Stefan (Systems Approaches

Bio-Medical Science IDC)

Walker, Laura (Islamic Art and

Archaeology)

Wallooppillai, Gajan (Contemporary

India)

Walon, Sophie (Film Aesthetics)

Wang, Chang (Mathematics)

West, Nicholas (Archaeology)

Whittaker, Catherine (Cognitive and

Evolutionary Anthropology)

Wilkins, Sam (African Studies)

Williams, Ciara (Evidence Based Social

Intervention)

Williams, Joseph (Anthropology)

Wisnom, Laura (Oriental Studies)

Wohrer, Cyril (Theology)

Yazdi, Haleh (Psychology)

Yeh, Shaoyang (Engineering Science)

Yokoi, Kazuko (Theology)

Zhang, Boshu (Engineering Science)

Ziaja, Sonya (Water Science, Policy and

Management)

Elected members of the Governing Body

Michaelmas Term 2011 and Hilary Term 2012

Andersson, Daniel, BA (MA, PhD the Warburg Institute) [RF 2010–]

Kubal, Agnieszka, DPhil (MA Exeter, MSc Jagiellonian) [GS 2007–10, RF 2010–]

Bhattacharya, Kanishka, MSc (BSc Pune) [GS2008–]

Price, David William, MPhil (PhD Lampter) [GS 2005–]

Roots, Sam, MEng [GS 2010–11]

Turner, Isaac Henry Cameron (BSc Manchester) [GS 2009–]

Trinity Term 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chairs of the General Meeting

Michaelmas Term 2011 and Hilary Term 2012

Turner, Isaac Henry Cameron

Trinity Term 2012

Cutts, Andrew Paul

Clubs and Societies

AMREF Group

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

charity for many years, and the AMREF Group has been successful thanks to the

support and tireless efforts of its many volunteers and the College community,

particularly Jan Scriven (College Secretary), Tracy Fuzzard (Common Room

Secretary), Christopher Lethbridge (for liaising with AMREF’s London office and

his advice on the various projects), Mark Pottle (for chairing the Group’s meetings)

and our General Meeting representatives.

Fund-raising for AMREF continues to play a central role in College life. We kickstarted

the academic year with the Household Goods sale (providing essential items

as well as introducing AMREF to the new intake) and the Second-hand Bike sale

(thanks to Daniel Corbett and volunteers of the bike workshop). This was followed

by the spectacular fireworks display in November which resulted in a collection of

£450. The Sunday Coffee Shop remains a regular fixture, and thanks to the efforts

of our dedicated volunteers it has raised the hefty sum of £962.50. The academic

year was rounded off by the Summer Event, with AMREF volunteers providing

homemade cakes, savoury snacks and dishing out ice cream. Another innovative

idea to raise awareness and funds was initiated this year by Flavio Cordeiro: a ‘coinfor-a

quote’ box in the Lodge.

AMREF is intimately linked with the College music scene. The talented Jamie

McLaren Lachman single-handedly organized and performed in a fantastic Pete

Seeger Tribute Concert. We also thank Ruth Bush and Erica Charters from the

Music Society for organizing the Christmas and Spring Concerts that showcased

the immense talents of the College community. There were other successful

concerts in aid of AMREF, including ‘Shakuhachi: The Landscapes of Harmony’

with original compositions performed by Adrian Lam and Yosuke Irie, and a piano

recital by Sarkis Zakarian.

The money raised from all these activities, as well as the annual College battels

appeal, has been channelled into various projects. £2,500 will fund the 2012

Wolfson-AMREF Bursary which offers much-needed financial assistance to

students attending health care and medical training courses at AMREF’s Nairobi

headquarters. We recently received an excellent report about the recipient of the

2011 Bursary, Nyokabi Angela Gethaiga. She was awarded distinction for her

Diploma in Community Health, and won a prize as the top student of the class – a

wonderful reward for her, and for all of us.

Nyokabi Angela Gethaiga receives her trophy from the Minister for Cooperative Development, Joseph Nyaga

Exceptional fund-raising activities in College this year meant we were also able to

contribute to two worthy projects. £3,000 was directed to ‘Clinical Outreach for

Fistula Repair in Kenya and Uganda’, which aims to enhance the skills of indigenous

health workers in preventing and repairing fistula, a devastating condition that

affects women and girls in rural African communities. £1,500 was directed to

strengthening community structures in Katine district, Uganda, so as to enable

voluntary Village Health Teams to become financially sustainable, and to support

them in their work of improving the health of their communities.

Renée Lee

Arts Society

The highlight of this year’s arts activities in College was undoubtedly the welcome

visit of Sir Anthony Caro (HF), who ‘in conversation’ with the art historian Tim

Marlow, director of the White Cube Gallery, recounted his 50-year career as one

of the key figures in contemporary sculpture. This memorable event drew a large

audience from the College and beyond, and further established our reputation for

fostering cultural and artistic excellence in Oxford. It is reviewed below by Sonia

Boue, a member of the Committee.

This year as always, the Society hosted a succession of exhibitions showcasing

the work of highly talented artists, four of which, quite coincidentally, were of

photographs. The first was A Room with a View by Marta Bou Fernandez, beautifully

evocative images in which her use of shadow and reflection was particularly striking.

Then Subtle Imprints by Abhinav Saxena (GS) featured highly colourful images

from around the world, whereas John Comino-Jones in Fortunate Steps focused on a

single district in Havana that he has visited and photographed over a long period.

His subtle black and white photographs, taken off the tourist track, gave a very

personal insight into the lives of the people who live there. Sisi Burn also focused

on a single subject – musicians – whose many moods she captured both in the full

flood of performance and also, engagingly, relaxing off-stage. This exhibition was

one of several to be reviewed in the Oxford Times.

Between earth and leaf also focused on a single subject – the tree – and was also

reviewed in the Oxford Times. Caroline Meynell looked at different aspects of

the life of the tree and its place in the landscape, with her exhibition echoing the

view through the windows. Neil Drury’s paintings, prints and drawings, were

executed with characteristic brio, both in scale and use of colour, and were subtly

complemented by Richard Fox’s sinuous sculptures.

A bold use of colour also figured large in the other three exhibitions. The late

Annie Newnham’s paintings in oil and gouache, many featuring pub and café

interiors, skilfully evoked the slightly louche and bored world of Sickert and his

contemporaries. A dramatic use of colour was also characteristic of Alison Berrett,

whose paintings, drawings and collages, are bold, bright and immediately engaging,

as are the paintings of Peter Graham R.O.I. The Sunday Times has described them

as ‘a brilliant visual tonic’, and his exhibition A Glasgow Painter’s Journey provided

a vivid finale to the year’s programme.

Mark Rowan-Hull, in his final year as Creative Arts Fellow, organized a number

of talks and a workshop. Visiting speakers included dancer and choreographer

Siobhan Davies, art critic and broadcaster Richard Cork, digital archivist Cindy

Keefer, artist Haroon Mirza, and Michael Stanley, Director of Modern Art Oxford.

Collision, a cross-disciplinary work that examines the intersection of research in

music and contemporary art, was also shown, followed by a conversation between

composer Michael Berkeley and visual artist Kevin Laycock, whose collaborative

work it was. The series ended with a screening of film excerpts of Mark’s recent

Performance Painting at the South Bank, with a discussion between him, Roger

Redgate and Emmanuel Spinelli, on how their different disciplines have come

together.

The Build-a-Brain workshop, combining science and art, was given by science-based

artist Dr Lizzie Burns, who guided participants through the parts of the brain and

Carolina Arancibia with her daughters Claudia and Daniela at the Build-a-Brain workshop

helped them build up a sculpture which they could take away with them. Organized

by Peter Bell and Kat Witt, it was a sell-out with about 45 people attending. It

was a precursor to the individual exhibitions and joint-seminar forthcoming from

Lizzie Burns and Katalin Hausel in Michaelmas Term. Life Drawing classes have

also continued, with Alison Berrett taking over from Miranda Cresswell as tutor.

The display cases have given a number of artists the opportunity, literally, to

showcase their work. Although two of them work in glass, their approach and

technique are in stark contrast: Gina Cowen relies on natural processes to make

the weathered ‘sea’ glass that is the raw material for her jewellery, but stained-glass

artist Vital Peeters etches, sandblasts, paints and fuses the glass that is used in his

work. These displays were followed by a selection of ceramics by various potters,

organized by the Oxford Ceramics Gallery.

The loan scheme has continued to thrive, with the Committee setting out its stall

early in the academic year, and the College has benefited from a number of gifts

made through the Society. At the close of their exhibitions, Marta Bou Fernandez

gave one of her photographs, and Caroline Meynell and Richard Newnham made

donations. John Comino-Jones presented a copy of his book of photographs of

Havana to the College Library. Pamela, Lady De Ville, presented a copy of her

book on sculpture. These welcome accessions have been joined by a portrait by

Tom Fairfax of Jon Stallworthy, in recognition of his having twice been Acting

President. Showing him in characteristic pose at the foot of the Rainbow Bridge,

it has been hung in the corridor outside the Lower Common Room. Keen-eyed

Wolfsonians might also notice that Transformed Triangle, a three-dimensional

realization by Roger Cheney of the Penrose triangle or tribar, described by Penrose

himself as ‘impossibility in its purest form’, has been reinstated in the Gandy Quad.

After conservation and the design of new supports, it is now displayed for the first

time at the height originally specified by the sculptor.

These new additions to the College’s collection will soon be better known. Wolfson,

represented by Mark Norman and Jan Scriven, has joined the newly formed ‘Art

in Colleges’ Group which meets regularly in colleges to view and discuss their

collections. The College, along with others in Oxford, is also working with the

Public Catalogue Foundation. Their remit is to catalogue and photograph the

nation’s entire collection of paintings in oil or acrylic, and to make it accessible

through the ‘Your Paintings’ website. This is a formidable task, but one that is now

well advanced.

Finally, a brief mention for those who make the work of the Arts Society so successful

and the Chairman’s task so easy – the Committee. Members all contribute in their

own way but, as ever, particular thanks are due to the Secretary, Jan Scriven,

whose enthusiasm is undimmed and whose counsel is so valued, and to the College

President for her unfailing interest and support. Thanks also are due to members

who left during the year but whose contributions, some over many years, will be

missed: Ronnie Sonneborn, Martin Francis, Simon Cooke and Kate McLoughlin.

Mark Norman

Jon Stallworthy, his portrait, and artist Tom Fairfax

Sir Anthony Caro and Tim Marlow in conversation at

Wolfson, 2 November 2011

Sir Anthony Caro added a sly slug of whisky from his hip flask to the water drunk

by himself and his friend, the art critic and broadcaster Tim Marlow, in their

memorable conversation last night in the Hall. It was a consummate icebreaker.

They are good friends, and Tim told me later that this is their ritual when they

meet. It set the tone for an intimate and easy rhythm of question and response.

The concentration in the room was palpable, but often broken by laughter as Sir

Anthony charmed us all with his gentle wit and graceful humility. The extraordinary

warmth of this great man was as tangible as his steel sculptural works. At one point

he spoke of his ambition to make sculptures that are ‘real’, not representations. You

got the sense that he is just like that too, a real person without pretension or ego

despite his towering achievement.

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Sir Anthony Caro with Tim Marlow (right) and Mark Rowan Hull

His interest in the creative process shone through his remarks about never looking

back over old work and his love of collaging in steel. He always welcomes a dialogue

with other artists and observers as part of the creative process: that’s where the fun

is, he said. Another highlight was his description of trying to work with paint and

hating that he was unable to ‘cut and paste’ as he could with steel. He just did not

get on with colour.

Tim Marlow led us with enormous charm through Sir Anthony’s tutelage under

Henry Moore, his time in America, and his nurturing of a generation of artists

including Gilbert and George. It was a joy to hear about Barry Flanagan’s response

to Sir Anthony’s suggestion that he make a sculpture which said ‘Bang’. Barry

simply threw a lump of clay at the wall.

Art educators should heed Sir Anthony’s view that City Sculpture should be taught

as a separate discipline, since the complexities of scale and location impose an

almost architectural sensibility. The new young London sculptors excite him. He

is working on a city sculpture that, if realised, could be three blocks long but needs

a million pounds to get off the ground. Imagine the spirit of this wonderful man

rendered in steel over three blocks in Park Avenue! I wanted to launch a campaign

for the funding right now.

Sonia Boue

BarCo

This year has seen big changes to the Cellar Bar, with even more to come over the

summer. It has hosted many successful events, including the infamous communist

bop, an open mic night, and various weddings, conference guests and formal halls.

Next academic year looks bright, with a full refurbishment of the Bar being

undertaken to make it still more welcoming to all College members. The silver

ceiling and mirrored walls are going (the artwork by Jon Roberts is staying), and

October will bring a breath of fresh air to the décor. The Games Room is being

spruced up with new lighting, flooring, and goodbye to the stage, to provide a multipurpose

area for many of the sports clubs. The sound system is being improved, and

equipment behind the counter upgraded, to keep the Bar in great shape for future

College members.

Lea Carrott and D.W. Bester have replaced Andrew Bowsher and Sander Land as

BarCo Chair and Rota Manager. They thank the current members of BarCo, who

work hard to ensure that no drinker need be alone in this college: Johan Paulsson,

Alistair Johnson, Laurie Nevay, Josh Anderson, Shane Mansfield, Rue Sao Barbosa,

Isaac Turner, Matthew McCartney (Senior Member).

Lea Carrott

Basketball

After recruiting some great new players, we returned to the College League this

year resplendent in new jerseys. We won all our matches in Michaelmas term, and

came first in our division. We were promoted to the top division in Hilary, and came

second out of sixteen teams.

In Trinity we reached the quarter finals of Cuppers by defeating Univ, Magdalen

and Jesus, only to encounter our old foes, the defending champions, St Catz. This

was our toughest game: their average height was about 1.9 m, and they included

three Blues; in the end we lost by 10 points. But most of our players will still be here

next year, and after body-training over the summer, we will return as a stronger,

faster team. The hoop has been replaced on the outdoor court, and we shall be

practising hard.

Jun Jiang, Captain

Boat Club

After the successful 2010–11 season, hopes were high in the summer regattas

which followed. Wolfson crews rowed well in Oriel Regatta, and enjoyed a great

day out. The women sent an eight to Henley Women’s Regatta, where they raced in

the qualification round against 21 other academic crews. Sadly they failed to qualify

for the main event by only one second, but they rowed the fastest non-qualifying

time. Next week the men entered a four in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at

Henley Royal Regatta, but again just missed qualifying, completing the course

with the fourth best non-qualifying time. Other outstanding summer events were

Oxford City Royal Regatta, where the women’s and men’s eights both won their

competitions, and Cambridge Autumn Regatta, where the women’s four and eight

were both victorious.

In Michaelmas term the Club was joined by many freshers, and embarked upon a

tough training regime with an eye to Torpids and Summer Eights. Despite past

disappointments, we entered the novice regattas with a confidence which proved

to be justified. In Nephthys Regatta the women overcame all competition, and

for Christ Church Regatta we entered the record number of three women’s and

three men’s crews, most of which won their first and second races and reached the

penultimate day. Hard training then continued until Christmas.

A short break was followed by the first of three training camps, with six outings

and 80 km of steady-state rowing at Wallingford over two days. The next six weeks

of training were interrupted by a cold spell, not that we objected to temperatures

as low as minus ten, but because the ice on the river would have damaged our boats.

After finishing among the leaders in the Isis Winter League, we entered six boats

in Torpids. The men’s and women’s third boats rowed well, but sadly just failed

to qualify. In the next four days, the other crews made 14 bumps. M2 narrowly

missed blades, but bumped four times and moved up into division 4. W2 bumped

twice, got bumped once, and moved up one place in women’s division 4. M1 was at

least the second fastest boat on the river, and bumped three times. On the fourth

day they were just held by Balliol, but they finished fifth on the river, Wolfson’s

highest position ever. W1 covered themselves with glory by bumping every day

and winning blades.

During the Easter break, M1 rowed on the Tideway in the Head of the River,

competing with more than four hundred other crews in one of the world’s largest

regattas. The M1 eight was then divided into fours for Oxford City bumps, and

they both bumped up several places. M1’s second training camp followed, and was

organised by Peter Haining, three times world champion in the lightweight single

sculls, their new assistant coach. The lovely village of Earith near Cambridge gave

them 60 km of uninterrupted water – and a single pub. Despite five days of sleeping

in tents, and living off porridge and pasta, they rowed about 200 km.

The main training weekend was at Henley as usual, but this year the weather was

against us: much of it was cancelled because of rain, high winds and dangerous

waves. The Oxford floods then closed the Isis for two weeks, but we compensated

with frequent erg sessions. At the weekends W1 and M1 were able to train on

Dorney Lake, regatta course for the London Olympics.

The weather relented just in time for Summer Eights, in which we entered seven

boats, three of which were required first to qualify: M4 failed to do so, but M3 and

W3 made their way onward. M3 bumped twice, rowed over twice, and finished

third in division 6. W3 twice held off very strong crews, but unfortunately slipped

two places. An exceptionally strong M2 bumped easily on the first three days, but

on the fourth they were so much faster than the boat ahead that the inevitably

violent bump was adjudged to be dangerous: a penalty was imposed, and M2 were

denied blades. W2 were unluckily bumped on the first day, but took their revenge

next day, and then rowed over; on Saturday their race was klaxoned. The klaxon

also ended W1’s first race just before they bumped Keble, previously their victims

in Torpids. On the second day they bumped up to first place in division 2, and on

Friday and Saturday they were chasing Keble once more, but just failed to catch

them. M1 started at fourth position in division 1 behind Christ Church, Pembroke

and Oriel, who sported several Blues. Wolfson rowed quite as fast, and came closer

to Christ Church each time, but never quite caught them.

Several rowers trained with the University in September 2011, in the hope of rowing

in one of the 2012 Boat Races. Three of them were accepted, and trained more than

ten times a week for six months: Jill Betts (stroke) and Aurelie Cuenod (bow) rowed

in the women’s lightweight boat which beat Cambridge; Tyler Spencer stroked the

lightweight men’s blue boat which lost to a very strong Cambridge crew by less

than a length.

There have been exciting developments in the fleet. In January we bought a new

men’s first eight, a Hudson, which will enable us to compete at the highest level

of Oxford rowing. After ten years we sold Crossfire, our second men’s eight, and

they now use Tara, previously the first eight. We also sold Bernard Henry, our old

women’s four, and replaced it with a new bow loader from Stämpfli which has been

named after Hermione Lee, who generously supported its purchase. Bernard Henry

W1 and M1 celebrate the last day of Summer Eights 2012

will soon be back, however, since with the help of our alumni committee we are

raising the funds for Wolfson’s first single which will bear his name.

This year’s successes are due to the unobtrusive hard work of the committee, and

my thanks go also to the College and to St Cross for their financial support and

administrative assistance. Christina Redfield, our Senior Member, and Hermione

Lee, Bill Connor, Tracy Fuzzard, Ed Jarron and Jan Scriven have been invaluable

allies. Last but not least, my thanks go to all members of the Club for their

enthusiasm and dedication. It has been a pleasure to be one of their number, and to

be confident that the ‘Wolfpack’ will be hunting successfully in the years to come.

Michael Lutteropp, President

Cricket

The combined Wolfson/St Cross team has enjoyed itself this year, with lots of new

faces, renewed enthusiasm, passion and commitment at all levels showing itself in

intensive net practice every Sunday afternoon at the nearby Dragon School. Shakya

Deb Ganguly (Wolfson) has taken over as captain from Manav Bhushan (St Cross),

and Lorenzo Santorelli (St Cross) continues as team manager. Lorenzo and Manav

have designed our brilliant new jerseys.

Despite a record number of cancellations due to rain, there have been some

fine matches, the highest score being by Baber Akbar (St Cross), who made 64

against Merton and Mansfield on their own ground. As well as keeping wicket,

he has been our key opener, ably supported by Shovon Roy, Muhammad Javed and

Muzzammil Hussain. Best bowler was David Lloyd (St Cross), who took 3 wickets

for 14 runs in 4 overs against Keble MCR, but wickets also fell to Muhammad Javed

and Muhammad Khan (both Wolfson) in every single match they played in, with

important contributions being made by Shaumick Bhattacharjee, Nathan Kenny

and Manav.

The match against Keble MCR was memorable. After being postponed because of

rain, it was held on the Keble ground in Summertown where the pitch was very

slow and turning well, but with some awkward bounces as the dew evaporated. We

lost the toss and were put in first. We started badly, losing our first wicket in the

third over for 10. The outfield was so slow that it was difficult to make runs, and the

highest score was only 14 by Ashish Jaiswal, in our total of 88 in 20 overs. Worse

still, we were playing without our only wicket keeper, and one of our players had

to leave early. So Daniel Shi Ke (Wolfson) substituted for him, despite never having

played in a match before, and the captain doubled as wicket keeper. Our only hope

was to keep their scoring-rate down, but in fact, thanks to superb catches, incredible

fielding and star performances from our bowlers, we restricted them to 64 and got

them all out in 18 overs. This victory did wonders for morale.

We are now planning an annual tournament between Wolfson/St Cross and two

other graduate colleges, which we hope will become a tradition.

Shakya Deb Ganguly

Croquet

Wolfson fielded three teams in Cuppers, the world’s most deadly croquet

competition. They all performed strongly in the first round, but sadly did not

repeat this triumph in the second. All three warrior clans were massacred, but

congratulations are due to them for keeping our flag flying.

Wolfson 1 – Chris Trisos (captain), Belinda Platt, Uli Weber and Laurie Nevay

Wolfson 2 – John McManigle (captain), Phill Brown, Neil Sharma and Daniel

Milner

Wolfson 3 – Jackie Ratner (captain), Greer Feick, Margaret Clark and Marc Sarazin

Lea Carrott, Captain

Entz

This year Entz provided an assortment of fun internal events, as well as external

trips. Starting with a welcome BBQ, pub quiz and Uniform bop in Wolfson Week,

we then had a Hallowe’en Party, a dessert party, a Sci-Fi bop, and even endured

a colourful onslaught in the form of paintballs. Hilary Term saw us hosting a

successful international food night, a ‘Wolfson’s Got Talent’ variety show, another

dessert party and three bops, themed ‘80s’, ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and ‘Monochrome’.

After the paintball revelry, we sent a dedicated team to investigate a less-painful

method of shooting people, in the form of outdoor laser quest. In Trinity Term

we hosted a Wine and Cheese evening, a Champagne and Strawberries reception

in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and three bops, themed ‘Pirates vs.

Ninjas’, ‘Communist’ and ‘Greek’. The Communist Bop was held on the Saturday

of Summer Eights, and the turn-out was as big as last year’s. We also had a trip to

see Out of the Blue perform at Oxford’s New Theatre. All in all, a wonderful year

of fun events in College.

Ben Mullaney

Environment

‘I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s; she’s never going to let

us relax.’ (Richard Feynman)

This year Wolfson is building and refurbishing, and is more resolved than ever

to reduce its carbon footprint. Recycling has been improved by accepting used

clothing for donation and batteries for recycling in the lodge, which may seem

to be only modest improvements, but they help keep the environment free from

unnecessary waste and toxic substances. The recycling bins outside the kitchen

have been correctly labelled at last.

Wolfson has taken the lead in comparing its energy use and carbon footprint with

those of other colleges. The Environment Rep has been working with the Home

Bursar, Barry Coote, to make this information accessible to members of the College.

Wolfson is also working with other colleges to source food for their dining halls

from ethically and environmentally responsible places. Data is being collected

across Oxford, and results and recommendations are expected by Trinity 2013.

Our success during the past year has been due to many members of the Wolfson

community, but in particular to Nargis Artyushevskaya, Stephen Crook, James

Souter, Dina Fejes, Isaac Turner and Catherine Whittaker. We are also grateful to

Barry Coote and the Bursar, Ed Jarron, for their hard work and guidance.

‘The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those

atoms are put together.’ (Carl Sagan)

Sonya Ziaja and Zoë Goodwin

Family Society

The Family Society organized many big events this academic year. We had trick-ortreating

around Wolfson at Hallowe’en, followed by a party in the Haldane Room;

it was decked out with ghosts and goblins, and the children danced the night away

with a disco.

Our Christmas party had a visit from Father Christmas, who showered the children

with gifts. They all wore Santa hats, and a professional photographer attended to

take family photos as a keepsake.

Other events included our annual Valentine’s Ball in the Hall and Haldane Room,

which more than 100 people enjoyed. The children were delighted by a large

bouncy castle in the Hall, a large chocolate fountain, a disco with DJ, a soft play

area for the little ones, tattoos and face painting. We also had pizza and plenty of

drinks for kids and parents. One little girl said: ‘I love Wolfson’s parties; I never

want to move back home!’

The Society also hosted many get-togethers in the play area and barbecue. Parents

gathered several times a month for coffee mornings to talk about life at Wolfson and

around Oxford. Numerous families have stated that they made the right decision in

deciding on Wolfson, in part because of the strong family community.

Sarah McCarty-Snead

Football Club

It was another successful season for the combined Wolfson/St Cross team, which

won all but one League game and retained the Cuppers trophy for the third season

in succession. The number of players grew throughout the year, with all enjoying

the excellent training facilities which are now available on Wolfson’s sports field.

The Club thanks Tracy Fuzzard for her continued support and assistance, and the

many friends in College who offered support and encouragement. The very large

attendance of Wolfsonians at the Cuppers final was a particular highlight, as they

roared the team on to victory.

Matthew Forde, Captain

Women’s Football

The Foxes, the combined St Antony’s/Wolfson/St Cross/Nuffield team, enjoyed a

stellar season. After winning the second league last year, we were promoted to the

top division. This year we fought for first place, and by only conceding one match

to Mansfield, finished second. In Cuppers we reached the semi-finals, before losing

to St Catherine’s. Despite retaining only a trio of last year’s players, we rebuilt the

team virtually from scratch, and created a cohesive squad full of energy and the

will to win. Socials were also organized, including a wine and cheese night at the

captains’ flat and two crew-dates with our partner men’s teams. We also competed

in a charity five-a-side tournament with St Antony’s men, and finished first. Next

year’s captains will be two of our best returning players, and we look forward to

even more success than in 2011–12.

Emily Braid

Knitting Society

The Society was active for its second year, and attracted a number of new members,

both beginners and advanced. Meetings were busiest during Michaelmas Term,

motivated by the cold weather and the approaching festive season. A few sessions

were devoted to the making of small decorative items which were sold during the

Music Society concert in Hilary, proceeds going to AMREF.

Camille Geisz

Life-Stories Society

The former Life-Writing Society has changed its name so as to include different

types of story-telling: many of our members write diaries, autobiographies and

poetry, but we also have songwriters and visual artists in our group.

We meet every week during term time and we play with our memories, with the

dual purpose of composing personal narratives and discussing the emotional and

intellectual implications of telling a life-story. In order to do so, we use different

games and exercises as intermediary between the present and the past.

Sarah Leyla Puello, Dr Kepa Fernandez de Larrinoa, Stuti Mehta

Most of our meetings during the first two terms were aimed at exploring how

the senses prompt our personal reminiscences, and how they help us to connect

with other people’s memories. The colours of distant places, the voices of forgotten

friends, the smells of long-lost objects: our deepest and most ancient memories are

linked to the senses, so that a life-story can arise from small details that we barely

remember. From our experiments with the senses, we felt the need to test more

abstract levels of narration, so we explored the use of metaphors as a means of

passing the limits of memory, and of taking surprising trips through our past and

present experiences.

We held our first workshop in February, on ‘Life-Writing and the Body’. We

spent an afternoon learning how our body promotes the relational dimension of

life-writing, from the movements of our hands writing, to the sound of our voices

reading stories. We also treated the body as a map which is marked by our lives, and

can be read and interpreted.

By the end of the year, we had become aware of various aspects of life-stories, and

were able to create new topics and practices of narration. Using a board game, we

traced a pattern of themes, from the easiest, most comfortable memories, to more

intimate and abstract topics.

The Society is a growing group of enthusiasts who meet together to deepen the

acts of remembering, telling a story and writing a personal account, and sees them

as multiform processes composed of emotions, sensations and thoughts.

Francesca Ghillani

Meditation

The Society continues to meet weekly for members to learn and practise techniques

of meditation. This year we focused primarily on techniques for reducing stress,

improving concentration, and increasing awareness of thoughts, feelings and

sensations, in a non-judgemental manner. Each meeting began with members

discussing questions and issues that had arisen since the last session, and continued

with a guided meditation. In the course of the academic year, Jamie McLaren

Lachman passed on responsibility for the Society to Ciara Williams, who looks

forward to continuing to act as coordinator next year.

Ciara Williams

Middle Eastern Dance

The Society enjoyed wonderful lessons every Tuesday from the fabulous Turkish

and Arabic dancer Caitlyn Shwartz. These regular meetings provided a sanctuary

of escape from the stressful life of a graduate student, and beautiful friendships

arose as a result. Katherine Allen, Gabriela Gadelha, and Penny Feng performed a

drum solo routine at the Oxford Middle Eastern Dance Society (OMEDS) Spring

Hafla, together with the OMEDS improver class and teacher Caitlyn. Katherine

and Penny joined the newly formed OMEDS dance troupe to polish their skills, and

have decided that Middle Eastern dance is their favourite hobby, something worth

performing in Oxford as often as possible. The troupe gave its debut performance

at this year’s Wolfson Summer Event.

Penny Feng

Joanna McGouran, Penny Feng and Katherine Allen

Music Society

This year brought Wolfson another brilliant musical miscellany.

In Michaelmas term we welcomed the Fournier Piano Trio for the third time,

following their recent success at the Trondheim International Chamber Music

Competition and concerts at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall in London.

These young professional musicians gave us another wonderful recital, and we look

forward to hearing them again next year.

Members of College have continued to share their music-making in termly concerts

organized by the Music Society. The winter Music Night brought the Wolfson

community in from the cold to listen to seasonal songs from around the world, as

well as music for the piano and the revived Wolfson String Quartet playing Brahms

and Schubert. The Choir has thrived under its new conductor, Isabel Stoppani de

Berrié, and performed French and traditional English carols, in which they were

joined by the audience. We also heard the inimitable musical partnership of Marc

Sarazin and Tom Tearney for the first time.

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The Fournier Trio Concert, October 2011

For the spring concert, new musicians emerged with the Wolfson daffodils. We

welcomed the beautiful voices of Mirjam Frank and Catherine Whittaker, and

profited by the occasion to test the Society’s new sound equipment, which includes

a mixer, guitar and bass amps, and new microphones suited to all musical genres.

Exciting plans are under way to raise funds for a new grand piano in the forthcoming

Leonard Wolfson Lecture Theatre, which promises to be a very special venue for

the College’s musical life.

The summer concert was staged outdoors in the Harbour Quad, and brought the

year to a rousing finish with a fantastic afternoon of dance and musical entertainment

that more than compensated for the grey skies overhead. The programme included

Wolfson twists on Woodie Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles; music from

Ireland, France and Eastern Europe; and Middle Eastern dance that kept spirits

high through a rainy patch. The audience enjoyed a free barbecue while Dark Side

of the Room, an up-and-coming local band, played their own material and some

Pink Floyd numbers. Last but not least, we were treated to ‘some hellish winter

darkness’ in the Bar by Professor Bob (GBF), alias Black Tish II. A splendid time

was guaranteed to all.

Other recitals this year include Jamie Lachman’s tribute to Pete Seeger, a piano

recital by Sarkis Zakarian, a performance by music students, and a memorable

concert of shakuhachi, the traditional Japanese flute, organised by Hiroe Kaji.

Ruth Bush

‘Olympics’ Summer Event

This year’s Summer Event was held on Saturday 23 June in the Harbour Quad.

Appropriately themed as the first ‘Wolfson Olympics’, it provided a whole range of

sporting events for children and adults alike. There was a bouncy castle, a gladiator

arena, and a variety of family favourites thanks to the the Garden Games fatherand-son

duo, including ‘Aunt Sally’, ‘Frog and Hare Racing’ and ‘Beat the Bell’. The

Music Society put some of Wolfson’s finest musicians in the spotlight, the Middle

Eastern Dance Society performed a series of enchanting dances, and the Family

Society entertained the children with flower-pot painting and cupcake decorating.

The Boat Club hosted their annual Pimm’s stall and Barco provided other

beverages, with AMREF volunteers selling sweet and savoury delights in support

of the College charity. Luckily the weather held off, just about, and a good time was

had by all. Thanks to those who provided refreshments and entertainment, and

especially to the Wolfson catering staff for the delicious barbecue!

Katie Watson

Punt Club

2012 proved to be a relatively action-packed year by the insouciant standards of

the punting world. After their annual winter repairs, the punts were launched

slightly earlier than usual in late March, to take advantage of the unseasonably

warm weather. Unfortunately the British climate repaid this good fortune with

the wettest April on record, which resulted in the harbour being flooded when the

Cherwell burst its banks. By early May, with rainfall unremitting and water levels

continuing to rise, a number of punts had to be rescued from the harbour to keep

them from becoming Wolfson’s first fleet of submarines. Our thanks to all who

rescued them that day, and especially to the Steward, Karl Davies, for his skilled

handling of a kayak.

This flooding marked the end of the river for Punt No. 6 which, after more than

twenty years in the service of the College, has graced the moorings of the Vicky

Arms for the last time. It will now be retired from use, but a brand-new successor

will be launched in time for next season.

Chris Malone, Admiral of the Punts

Karl Davies rescues a punt

Romulus

This year’s Romulus is a great read. Its theme – ‘Trauma, Challenge, Resolution’

– attracted an array of submissions on topics which included childhood illness,

academic self-scrutiny, recession un-employability, and life under communism. The

contributors look forward to a wine party to celebrate its publication.

Stephanie Yorke, Editor

Rugby

Oxford Graduate Barbarians was founded five years ago by members of Wolfson

and Linacre to give graduates a chance of playing rugby and having fun, and it

now includes many from St Cross as well as strays from other colleges. Some of

us have played as undergraduates, others not since school, and a handful never

before. Losing heavily to Corpus Christi/Somerville was a bad start, but it gave us

a sense of identity, and we emerged from the game as a team. Numbers increased

at training sessions, and Nathan Kenny brought in volunteers from St Cross and

Zoology. Our next game was against Teddy Hall Seconds, and we were ready for

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attle: we beat them, and gained a bonus point for scoring more than four tries.

Our next opponents were Hertford, and at first we held our own, despite starting

with only 12 men. When reinforcements arrived in the second half, we drew ahead

by two points with only two minutes to go; but we were defending our base line,

and they dived over it to score the winning try. This narrow defeat left our heads

unbowed.

The last game of round 1 was against Wadham, in second place while we were

fourth: we were one point ahead of Hertford, and one point behind Teddy Hall

Seconds, making second place possible, if only we beat Wadham with a bonus point!

Anti-climax followed, when Wadham forfeited the match because of lack of players.

This gained us promotion for the first time in our history, and we entered round 2

in division 4, our heads held high.

Sadly the second term ended in relegation to division 5 again, thanks to illnesses,

injury and the frozen ground. But next year we will fight our way back to division 4.

Mike Dodd, President, Oxford Graduate Barbarians

Wine Society

Society events continued to be very popular, with a strong demand for all our

tastings. The first was in Michaelmas term, a mix of French and Italian wines

matched to various interesting cheeses. In Hilary, we squeezed into the Private

Dining Room for a cosy tasting of delicious high-end wines from the Wolfson

Cellar led by our very own Will Stockland. In Trinity, we went for a more valueorientated

(but still fairly delicious) tasting, again led by Will. We will finish the

year with an out-of-college event in July at the Summertown Wine Café.

Jared O’Connell now steps down with heavy heart to finish his DPhil thesis. Helen

Ackers and Sebastian Huempfer (both DPhil students at Wolfson) will replace him,

and will no doubt continue the Society’s fine work and bring some fresh ideas to

the table.

Jared O’Connell

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Winter Ball 2011

Oxford’s first-ever ‘gangland’ party was held on 3 December, with gangsters

and molls from Wolfson and beyond enjoying ‘bootleg’ liquor from the Duke of

Cambridge, a champagne reception in the Upper Common Room, and a three-course

dinner of smoked salmon salad, cannon of roast venison with root vegetables, and

lemon posset. The 477 tickets sold out weeks in advance, prompting Hermione

Lee and others to comment that this had been the most successful Winter Ball in

College history.

Wolfson made a perfect location for a 1920s-inspired ‘speakeasy’, thanks to its art

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deco-inspired architecture and furnishings, and its secluded corners in which our

guests were delighted to discover pop-up icy vodka luges, cocktail bars and coffee

lounges. They were entertained through the night with an interactive assassins

game, a casino, lessons in the charleston and other dances popular in the 1920s, a

silent disco and a hog roast.

Feedback was altogether positive, and many visitors promised to return in

December 2012. On behalf of the committee I thank everyone who attended and

made the Ball such an occasion.

Katrina Witt

Wolfson/Darwin Day 2011

This year’s exchange day with our sister college took place in Oxford, with fifty

keen participants arriving from Cambridge early on Saturday morning. They were

welcomed in Hall with breakfast including croissants and refreshments. Activities

began with rowing and football, both of which were won by Wolfson, followed

by games in the afternoon which included squash, croquet, basketball and board

Tug-of-war, Wolfson sportsfield

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games. The day finished with all participants assembled on the Sports Field for

team sports such as tug-of-war, and an obstacle race. Further interaction took place

during a wine-tasting in the Private Dining Room, before enjoying a buffet dinner

in Hall. This was followed by speeches celebrating the winner of the day’s events,

the host college Wolfson.

This year’s Wolfson/Darwin Day was extremely well attended. Our visitors said it

was well worth travelling from Cambridge to meet us once again, in a tradition that

we all hope will continue indefinitely.

Matteo Gianella-Borradori, Chairman, Sports Sub-committee

Wolfson Reading Group

The Wolfson Reading Group was established by William Fiennes when he was

Creative Arts Fellow in 2005, and has continued to meet regularly ever since.

When Will left Oxford, Carmen Bugan, also Creative Arts Fellow, led the group.

When she left in 2009, our meetings continued without any obvious ‘leader’. At the

end of each meeting we reach an agreement on what to discuss at the next meeting,

and roughly when to hold it. We tend to meet about five times a year.

Out of a fairly extensive mail list, a group of up to about a dozen people meets

informally over a glass of wine to discuss books ranging from classics, such as works

by Edith Wharton and Anthony Trollope, to contemporary fiction by authors such

as Siri Hustvedt, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, as well as books in translation, and

books from other cultures including Nobel Prize-winners (José Saramago, Mario

Vargas Llosa, Halldor Laxness, and Naguib Mahfouz). In 2010 we enjoyed The

Music Room by William Fiennes, and we look forward to reading Carmen Bugan’s

recently published memoir Burying the Typewriter in the near future.

New members are always welcome. Some members come quite regularly, others

do not. Most of us can bring to bear no special training or expertise in literary

criticism.

Nick Allen and Jan Scriven

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Yoga

Our yoga teacher, Luisa Rennie, left Oxford in December for the lovely shores of

Brighton. She is doing well there, although she misses her students at Wolfson, she

says. We wish her all the very best.

My name is Beatrice Barbareschi and I am the new yoga teacher. Classes have

continued twice a week, and students have adapted to the change of teachers, many

of them attending classes on a weekly basis. The new classes have a strong focus on

mindfulness and precision, so as to improve concentration and overall awareness.

Wolfson yoga practitioners have said that they are learning a lot, feeling energized

and centred, as well as becoming more aware of their breath and their body.

Because of last year’s success, we offered a second ‘Yoga for stress-free exams’

workshop, which taught students techniques to ease their breath and minds during

periods of heightened stress. It was a pleasure to unwind together in the Buttery,

noticing the profound difference a longer exhalation can make to our nervous

system and our general wellbeing. Yogis and yoginis in attendance have said they

felt calm and centred on leaving the workshop: I look forward to next year’s!

Beatrice Barbareschi

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Life-Stories Event

The third annual Life-Stories Event was held in the Haldane Room on 21 May

2012, organized by Nisha Manocha, Francesca Ghillani, Chris Malone, Grace Egan

and Andy Cutts, in collaboration with Julie Curtis, Secretary to the Governing

Body, and the President, Hermione Lee.

An 80-strong audience was treated to a variety of contributions by fifteen

Wolfsonians — students, Fellows, and alumni — which ranged from a video of

gap-year adventures to avant-garde music, with some guitar, biography and

poetry thrown in for good measure. Speakers used their four-minute contributions

to reveal aspects of their lives and to show hidden passions or talents. The final

contribution was a painting created during the course of the event that reflected on

earlier presentations.

After this humorous, emotional and thought-provoking set of life-stories, the

audience and participants moved into Hall for an international buffet dinner. This

provided an opportunity to view the display curated by the Arts Society, and also

an occasion to discuss informally the many compelling contributions with old and

new friends across the Oxford community.

Andrew Cutts

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Simon Cooke and Santhy Balachandran at the Life-Stories Event

The President’s Seminars

This year’s themes have been as varied as in past years, and once again we have been

privileged to welcome excellent speakers from faculties and departments across

the University. The seminars have achieved their principal aim, which is to bring

together members of College at every career stage in order to share the experiences

and challenges of different research environments. Participants understood the

richness of the work being undertaken, whether by those beginning their graduate

studies or those looking back over careers of several decades.

Dr David Shotton charted his progress from a graduate student in Cambridge

working with analogue images to his most recent involvement in the emerging

field of image bioinformatics. Professor Robin Cohen likewise considered the

shifting paradigms that have affected his own field, Diaspora Studies, whilst Dr

Susan Walker spoke of her continuing fascination with Roman glass, and Dr Peter

Stewart introduced us to his current preoccupation, the Wilton House sculpture

collection. In Trinity Term we were grateful to hear Professor David De Roure

speaking of the interaction of social objects and social machines in the constitution

of the Web, and Dr Jonathan Pila offering a mathematician’s perspective on shapes

and languages.

Our less senior participants provided us with equally compelling glimpses of their

current research. We welcomed the return of alumnus David Matyas, who joined

Dr Agnieszka Kubal in speaking of migrant and diasporic communities, and we

were surprised at the histories that Dr Marek Jankowiak and Jerome Mairat were

able to recover from numismatic analysis. Helen Ackers also turned to antiquities,

deducing shifts in conceptions of femininity from changes in the portraiture

of Roman women, while Natasha Reynolds spoke of the difficulties of using

archaeological materials to explore the European Ice Age. All our speakers were

impressively confident, in particular the graduate students Sneha Krishnan and

Kapil Tuladhar, and they often found humour and wonder in the unlikeliest places:

for example in the experiments with MRI described by Dr Alexandr Khrapichev,

the communist census-taking in Eastern Europe described by Dr Gayle Lonergan,

the behaviour of Dr Sara Mitri’s robots and microbes, and the soul spiders observed

by Dr Katherine Swancutt in south-west China.

We thank Professor Christina Redfield for chairing the Trinity Term seminar

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during the President’s research leave, and Louise Gordon, Jan Scriven and Karl

Davies for their support, which ensures the smooth running of the seminars and

the enjoyable dinners afterwards. In welcoming Dr Daniel Grey to the organizing

group we sadly bid farewell to Dr Simon Cooke, who has been a paragon of good

humour, enthusiasm and reliability.

Jarad Zimbler

Speakers and Sessions

Michaelmas Term

‘Diasporas: Past and Present’

Professor Robin Cohen (MCR); Dr Agnieszka Kubal (RF); David Matyas (GS)

‘Evolution’

Dr Peter Stewart (GBF); Dr Sara Mitri (RF); Kapil Tuladhar (GS)

Hilary Term

‘Images and Imaging’

Dr David Shotton (EF); Dr Alexandr Khrapichev (RF); Helen Ackers (GS)

‘Objects of Value’

Dr Susan Walker (GBF); Dr Katherine Swancutt (RF); Natasha Reynolds (GS)

Trinity Term

‘Networks and Networking’

Professor David De Roure (SF); Dr Marek Jankowiak (RF); Sneha Krishnan (GS)

‘Numbers’

Dr Jonathan Pila (GBF); Dr Gayle Lonergan (RF); Jerome Mairat (GS)

Organizers: Dr Simon Cooke, Dr Daniel Grey, Dr Nicolette Makovicky, Dr Jarad

Zimbler

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

The Centre (OCLW) was founded at Wolfson in the academic year 2011–12, with

generous funding from the Dorset Foundation. Its purpose is to hold and host

conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops, on interdisciplinary aspects of

life-writing, and to encourage those who write biography and memoir, and who

undertake research on life-narratives. It is directed by the College President, the

biographer Professor Hermione Lee, co-directed by the post-colonial scholar

Professor Elleke Boehmer, and administered by the literary historian Dr Rachel

Hewitt. The advisory committee includes other Wolfsonians who work in the field,

including Professor Jon Stallworthy and Dr Julie Curtis, making Wolfson a natural

home for life-writing. Its first year has been a tremendous success, with a packed

schedule of events ranging from public lectures by eminent authors and academics

to private exhibition tours.

The Centre was officially launched with an inaugural lecture by Professor Michael

Wood (Princeton). In a humorous, subtle and searching talk, ‘All About my Mother:

Reading Proust’s Letters’, Professor Wood made the case for reading letters with

the same literary critical attention as customarily reserved for fiction. Michaelmas

Novelist Alan Hollinghurst in conversation with Hermione Lee

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Term also inaugurated what has proved to be a popular termly staple: the Life-

Writing Lunches. Dr Rachel Hewitt, OCLW’s Weinrebe Research Fellow, kicked

off the series with a talk about her research for her acclaimed book, Map of a Nation:

A Biography of the Ordnance Survey. The series continued in Hilary Term with Dr

Olivia Smith (St John’s, Oxford), who gave a talk on John Locke, while Dr Nicoletta

Demetriou (St Antony’s, Oxford) rounded off the year with a discussion of her work

on Lawrence Durrell’s time in Cyprus. One of the highlights of the year has been

the first series of Weinrebe Lectures, an OCLW fixture each Hilary Term. A packed

Hall witnessed a starry cast of contemporary authors and biographers giving

generous and eloquent insights into the theme of ‘Fiction and Auto/Biography’, with

lectures by the celebrated writers Michèle Roberts, Candia McWilliam and Hisham

Matar. The Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst was in conversation

with Hermione Lee, and the series ended with a panel discussion between Daisy

Hay (Young Romantics) and Pete Newbon (Children of the Romantics), chaired by

Rachel Hewitt, on the practice of group biography.

The panel discussion format was adopted, too, for Trinity Term’s three-part series

on ‘Life-Writing and New Media’, at which leading academics in the field discussed

the impact of social networks, email correspondence, and digital archives on the

study and practice of life-writing in the twenty-first century. A host of other events

took place in Trinity Term, ranging from an exclusive after-hours tour of ‘The

English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland’ at the Ashmolean Museum, to the

book-launch for Carmen Bugan’s widely praised new memoir, Burying the Typewriter.

The second annual Life-Stories Event, organized by members of the home-grown

Life-Stories Society, was a great success, and the Centre has already begun to host

conferences brought in by fellow-institutions, including ‘Life-Writing in Europe:

Private Lives, Public Spheres and Biographical Interpretations’, organized by the

European Network on the Theory and Practice of Biography.

The year ahead promises an equally exciting prospect, including a conference

on Tibetan Life-Writing (September 2012) and the Weinrebe Lectures on Life-

Writing and Portraiture (Hilary Term 2013). There will be guest lectures in

Michaelmas Term 2012 by Susie Harries on her life of Pevsner (25 October), and

by Adam Phillips on writing Freud’s ‘impossible life’ (21 November). Work is under

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way towards OCLW’s inaugural conference in September 2013, on The Lives of

Objects. Information on all of this, as well as podcasts of many of the talks, can be

accessed on the OCLW website (www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/life-writing).

Simon Cooke

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Childhood under the eye of the Secret

Police

by Carmen Bugan (Creative Arts Fellow, 2005-09,

MCR 2009-)

Two contrasting chapters from Burying the

Typewriter, her acclaimed memoir of growing up in

Ceausescu’s Romania as the daughter of a dissident,

with an Afterword.

The Black Sea

It is the June of my seventh birthday and school is finished for the summer. Mum

and dad are going to make up for all the weekend discipline and boredom by taking

us on a long holiday to the Black Sea – in only a few weeks! I don’t remember

the other times because my sister and I were too small, but this time we are very

excited. We each have brand-new blue beach towels, toys, bathing costumes.

The night before we leave we hardly sleep and when we get to the car it’s still

very dark outside. Bunica (that’s how we say grandmother) asks me to bring her

seashells. Then she whispers to me:

‘Tell me if the sea is really black. Will you remember this?’

I remember.

At Mamaia the sand is crackly and golden. The waves are so big they go up to dad’s

chest. As far as you can see it’s blue: the sky, the sea, the horizon, waves chasing

each other in the sand. The sea is never-ending, ever-changing hues between blue

and green, all except the foamy white crests of the waves. Dad takes us to see the

sunrise on the beach: the sun comes out of the water an incandescent ball. He chases

us and mum in the salty, chilly breeze, close to the noisy waves on the tide-wet sand.

We buy lots of toy-tools to make sand castles, eat fresh peaches every day after

lunch. There are boats and safari-like settings in the parks with lions and elephants

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and we find the seven dwarfs too, all made of plastic. My sister and I wear sailor

outfits and blue-tinted sunglasses. We pose with all the creatures and climb into

all the boats that go nowhere. But the true source of fun is dad. He takes us up on

his shoulders and throws us into the sea, making mum scream with worry. He has

strong shoulders and arms. We climb on his back asking him to swim with us far

out. Mum is best at jumping waves: we hold hands while we wait for the wave to lift

us and jump on it at the last minute so that for a few seconds our bodies crest with

it towards the shore. The sea shows us starfish, and fish which mum and dad hunt

with forks in the rock crevices. The tides come all the way to the restaurant terrace

making the chairs dance. Our favourite resort is called Vraja Mării, which means

‘The Spell of the Sea’. There is music everywhere. My sister and I are in the happiest

dream. In the evenings, when mum cooks at the small gas stove on the beach, Polish

and East German tourists sell black-market clothes, tents, and sleeping bags from

the back of their cars. We make friends with them in sign language mostly and we

buy stuff from them. Mum checks her weight on all the scales, complaining that she

is getting fatter, but honestly I think she is beautiful in her red bathing costume.

One day we take a small white sailing boat to Ovid’s Island, in the middle of a lake

on the other side of the sea. Dad and mum tell us about the poet’s exile from Rome

and how in the end he made friends with the fishermen, so he wasn’t that sad in his

exile after all. My imagination rushes with the idea that someone had to be away

from his homeland for ever. I cannot see how it would be possible for me to stay

alive without bunicu, bunica, Steluţa the horse and all the rooms in their house with

their maze of doors. The story reminds me of the cuckoo bird from Lugoj who left

his village and spent all his life singing about it from all the roofs of the world. The

boat swishes over water. The water is shimmering bluish milk: ‘pearly’, my mother

says. I am rapt from the stillness of the lake, the sunset, the wind in the sail. I feel

as if I am going far away in a world suspended between the heavens and the earth.

On the island we drink lemonade with straws and eat polenta with roast chicken,

not nearly as good as bunica’s, something I temember to tell her as soon as we’re

back home. And I bring her a plastic bag crammed with shells, which she smells and

arranges in a dish with the sand I give her:

‘The sea is blue blue blue, bunica, only the name is “black”’.

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My parents’ divorce

Mariana, who is a nurse, spends her time when she is at home smoking cigarettes

and reading. All over the house and on top of opened books you can see small

porcelain cups of Turkish coffee caked with coffee grounds and sugar. Clean and

dirty shirts, trousers, winter coats are mixed on the floors and in corners. Inside

her huge oak cupboards, in place of clothes, there are books in disorderly, tall piles.

When I go over she sits around talking to mum, and I walk into the cupboards

looking for books. I am fourteen and still reading voraciously: Balzac, Flaubert,

Zola, Maupassant, Dostoyevsky, Sadoveanu, Eminescu, Tolstoy. I ask Mariana for

romantic stories and she gives me romantic novels. When I feel like reading science

fiction, she gives me science fiction. I want travel novels – ‘novels to take me far

from here’ – and she says, ‘Rouen, Paris, the Himalayas, where do you want to go?’

And she covers me in books. No one cares if Nana or Anna Karenina might be a

bit too intense for my age, Mariana’s cupboard library and lending policy embody

democracy. I love the books that come in many volumes and zoom in and stop

time in one room, on one face, on one event, because the pleasure lasts longer.

When the electricity is left on by the government I read straight through the night

while Cătălin sleeps nestled in the crook of my arm and mum makes sweaters at

her knitting machine, drinking instant Ness coffee foamed with a bit of water and

coarse sugar first and then diluted with hot water. The Securitate man changes

his tapes around the garage, mum goes to her weekly interrogations in Tecuci, the

policemen make their rounds at the house to see if we are contacted by American

spies, and when I stop doing housework, I read.

I am head in the cupboard feet outside and I half-listen, absent-mindedly, to Mariana

and mum. Mum cries softly:

‘Mariana, I was told to divorce Nelu. Carmen was rejected by the entrance

examiners at secondary school, they are sending Loredana back from school, and

they told me that Cătălin will not be allowed to begin nursery school unless I

divorce Nelu publicly, to show that I do not agree with his politics.’

… I come out of the cupboard and sit on the floor next to Mariana and mum.

‘Divorce’ is such a strange word. It’s like saying someone abused you, cheated on

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you. It just doesn’t happen around here, even if your husband beats you every day

and sleeps with other women.

‘But if you divorce, can we see dad?’ I ask, since we haven’t seen him for ages now

and we really don’t know if he is still alive.

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*

It’s autumn and the grapes in our vine tunnel hang heavy with red-black juice. I

spend some afternoons playing my guitar on the porch and the neighbours clap

from their yards. In happier times we would think about helping bunicu make his

wine. In happier times dad would say, ‘Better go to the mountains for a weekend

before it gets cold.’ I miss my father. Uncle Dan is an artisan, so he placed a photo

of dad in a wooden frame decorated with etchings of vine leaves and grapes. Dad

wears a white shirt unbuttoned at the neck. He must be in his early forties, truly

handsome. This is my favourite picture of all we have. His face looks young, he still

has most of his hair, he smiles gently (which is uncharacteristic of him) and he seems

truly relaxed (which is also almost impossible for him). I feel time passing painfully

without our getting to know each other: father, daughter, family. Somewhere in the

Aiud prison his chains must be dragging with their awful iron sound on concrete

and he doesn’t know how I love him.

… I take the photo from the hallway wall to the grape trellis and I sit on concrete

writing in quatrains. Mum finds me when she comes from work. I read the poem to

her and Loredana, who says, ‘He is so alive here, it’s like having him in front of me.’

Mum cries and cries.

Loredana doesn’t cry, but her face speaks of pain, pain she keeps to herself until

moments like this.

… ‘There is a date for divorce,’ mum says, ‘in a couple of weeks’.

*

At the Aiud prison the guard opens the small square window in the wall of my

father’s cell.

‘Bugan, to the interrogation room.’

Dad is given a glass of buttermilk and is told that mum has filed for divorce.

‘We want you to write down the reason for which you think your wife wants to

divorce you. Clearly she must be tired of being alone. See, even she abandons you.’

The guard leaves him alone in the room. Dad hasn’t seen buttermilk in at least two

years so he assumes the milk is poisoned. He pours the contents of the glass, little

by little, into the mouth of the small fireplace while the guard is away. There is

nothing he can think of and he writes:

‘My wife and I always were committed to each other and I find no reason why she

herself will want to divorce me. Ion Bugan.’

The guard returns to the room. On the table he places three red apples and informs

dad that mum sent them to him. Dad reads the symbolism: he has three children

so mum must be telling him that now he is losing his children. It is true she always

fought with him about his manifestos, about the risks he was putting our family

under, about his selfishness to think that it’s all right to sacrifice his family for

a pointless political ideal. He remembers the fights, the sleepless nights at the

typewriter, her hatred at leaving the children, his heart pounding when the police

came time and again to check the typewriter. He almost believes that perhaps she

sent the apples and he drags the chains around his ankles back to the cell carrying

them in his hands. He places the apples on the bed and doesn’t eat them.

*

It’s seven in the morning sometime in November 1985. … When we arrive at the

courthouse there are people strewn about the yard waiting for the windowless

prison van to arrive. No one knows how the news got around, but the whole town

and the whole village know my father will be here this morning, and when the van

slows down at the courthouse gates, people begin changing, ‘Bugan, Bugan, Bugan,

Bugan.’ Dad is brought out tied to another man by his handcuffs. His uniform is

striped, grey, he has a cap on his head and he blinks in the light.

‘Tăticu, tăticu,’ I say with Loredana, calling for him.

He sees us and all of us freeze for the second before he is pushed inside, bare feet

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in brown shoes, with heavy chains around his ankles. He disappears inside with

my breath. For the next while we wait. And then there is one finger, one finger

through the grates of the top-floor window, and people start chanting again, louder,

encouraged by seeing him: ‘Bugan, Bugan, Bugan.’

… Loredana, Cătălin, and I are not allowed to go inside the courtroom but a

nice woman leaves the door slightly cracked – just a centimetre – so we can get a

glimpse of dad. I only see his feet in the brown shoes and I can hear the small sound

of chains on the floor as he shuffles his feet. Everyone else is inside. It’s cold and the

steam from our breaths rises to the ceiling and goes through the crack in the door.

At the end of the divorce I hear dad stand to ask the judge if he may see his children

please. We freeze in the opened door until mum says, ‘Carmen, wouldn’t you like to

go to dad to say hello?’

I rush to his arms and bury my head in his chest. Time halts and freezes. My

homesickness for him becomes so profound that I cling to him as if I am another

arm. I can’t make space for Loredana and Cătălin, who also stick to dad like orange

skins before you peel them from the fruit. I want to cover dad up, to make him

invisible, and take him home, oh good God, take my daddy home. The judge weeps

and leaves the room. It takes two policemen to un-stick my sister, my brother,

and me from my dad’s body, limb by limb, cheek by tear-soaked cheek, finger by

clutched finger. By the time mum and my grandparents go, I am already numb with

pain and new longing for dad’s arms. Then it’s all only very cold air in the street.

I see no one, I hear nothing, I walk along and I walk along and I keep on walking.

I don’t know how I arrive home and where everyone is, but when I come to the

grape tunnel they are there saying they don’t remember how they arrived home

either. … Mum begins cleaning the kitchen windows. She hands me newspapers.

‘You can clean this porch window.’

I breathe on the window. I write on my breath: ‘dad’. I breathe again on the window

and I write the first line about the divorce, which was an oath of love.

Mum sees me: ‘Here’s a pencil and paper.’

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I write the poem and one by one we read it: not aloud. The first and last stanzas

read like this:

Daddy, where are you,

My tears flow and flow,

Father, why did you leave us

Inside thunderstorms?

Now kiss us, father,

Bless us with kisses

For we don’t know when

We’ll come out of this mud.

The following week we find out we can go back to school, this time officially

fatherless.

(By kind permission of the publisher, Pan Macmillan, London.)

Afterword (July 2012)

Burying the Typewriter had a very long gestation – almost all of the twenty years of

exile as immigrants from Romania to the United States, when we told people the

story of how we ended up on the shores of Lake Michigan: my poetry collection,

Crossing the Carpathians, is part of this gestation process. But two wonderful things

happened in my life after receiving my doctorate from Balliol: I was awarded the

Creative Arts Fellowship at Wolfson, and in the same year I was married, soon to

become pregnant with my first child. Writing the book began with thinking about

how I might explain to my son-to-be that he would be born in a beautiful place,

on the shores of the Cherwell, so far from the shores of the Danube, and how he

would probably never really get to know the Danube – the thick, muddy, passionate

river that stirred my imagination as a child, with the great ships unloading their

bellyfuls of iron in the port of Galati. The writing-process itself was emotional, not

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only because nostalgia for a lost magical childhood hit me hard, but because the

traumatic memories of the last few years in Romania returned with a vengeance as

I sat down to type. The mist over the harbour in the early mornings, the seemingly

continous, comforting, sound of rain, the occasional bursts of sun and warmth over

the flowers in the College gardens, the smiling faces of people filled with curiosity

about the world and how it works, the song of students as it burst out of punts on

summer days – all of this provided the right emotional and intellectual environment.

My husband and I initially lived in the flats overlooking the harbour, but as my

pregnancy advanced we moved to the family ‘courtyards’ filled with the aromas of

various world cuisines and the laughter of children playing. In both flats I wrote at

the dining-room table which doubled as my office desk during the day and turned

into a table for chess and dinner in the evenings, when my husband would come

home from the Rutherford Laboratory to hear what I had written and to tell me

about his search for the Higgs Boson (which his experiments discovered after I

published my book!). I think the most important part of living in Wolfson was the

entire commitment to art that I saw in the College, by which I mean that work of

the imagination was given its right and proper place. Until I came to Oxford, I took

writing to be something secondary to research and teaching, and it was not until

I was awarded my Creative Arts Fellowship at Wolfson that I realised that I could

devote myself to an activity so remote from the usual efforts and anxieties over a

career. I do not think I could have written the book anywhere else: it was the right

time and the right place. At the same time as I wrote this memoir, I wrote a book

of poems: some memories came as poems, and some as prose. The experience of

writing was intense and complete. I think very few people in this world are as lucky

as I was, to be given a Fellowship consisting of two or three years of ‘time to write’.

There were long lunches with Jan Scriven, Jon Stallworthy, Julie Curtis, the bookreading

group with William Fiennes; later, literary lunches with Hermione Lee and

Elleke Boehmer, the lecture series on poets as translators, and the teaching. And

then there was my own time, unspoiled by any worries; my own time to reflect, time

to recall. I now look back on the Fellowship with gratitude: at last I could tell the

improbable story of how my family and I traversed the murky territories between

despair and hope.

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Carmen signs copies at Wolfson, June 2012

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DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America

Bryan Sykes (GBF) spoke in June 2012 about his

new book, and why he chose to write it rather than a

conventional article for a scientific journal.

Just over ten years ago I wrote a book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, about my work on

DNA in the context of human evolution and, to my surprise, it became a bestseller.

Two years later I wrote another book, Adam’s Curse, and that too was successful.

I had a respectable number of regular journal publications, but to my mind these

two books were my major intellectual contribution. So I was surprised to be told

that, despite having sold several hundred thousand copies between them, they did

not count towards the Research Assessment Exercise. I was left in no doubt that I

should concentrate in future on writing grant requests and journal papers rather

than any more books, as the following email exchange with a senior figure in the

Faculty, after my hesitation to comply at once, demonstrates:

Hi Bryan,

I would like to have a chat with you about early retirement. Please make an

appointment with my secretary.

I remember hovering for a long time over the ‘SEND’ button before I dispatched

my reply:

Dear John [not his real name],

I would have thought you were a little young to be thinking about retirement,

but by all means do let’s have a chat about it.

This is my recollection; I have the originals somewhere. You can see that I

disregarded this piece of advice and DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America is

my fourth book in ten years. ‘You’re churning them out’, was the gentle chiding I

received from a Fellow in the humanities, no doubt accustomed to a less frenetic

timetable.

There are distinct differences between writing a book and a journal paper, but in

my view it is no less valuable or intellectually challenging. There are many things

you can do in a book that you cannot in a regular paper, and vice versa. For one

thing, writing a book around a piece of research allows far wider coverage of the

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subject. In fact any book on popular science (as opposed to unpopular?) demands

dilution of hard fact by soft narrative. In DNA USA, the diluent is the description of

my journey around America collecting DNA samples, and the people I encountered

on the way. In fact this proved to be the most enjoyable part to write, and probably

to read as well.

As a geneticist, what appealed to me about America was that it has seen the

convergence of people from three different continents: Native Americans many

thousands of years ago, joined in the last five hundred years by large numbers of

arrivals from Africa and Europe. When a new genetic test appeared on the scene

that was able to identify the continental origin of any segment of DNA within

an individual, the means of unravelling the consequence of this convergence, the

famous ‘melting pot’, was at hand.

The new technique of ‘chromosome painting’ relies on comparing the results from

a million genetic markers evenly spread throughout the human genome with three

reference populations from Nigeria, East Asia (China and Japan) and Western

Europe, with ninety individuals in each. Not only are the results extremely detailed,

they are also easy on the eye, allowing a person’s genetic origin(s) to be taken in at

a single glance. This is illustrated by Figure 1, which is the chromosome portrait

of Mark Thompson, an African American political activist and radio show host

whom I got to know well, both inside and out as it were. From the kaleidoscope

of green (African), orange (Native American) and blue (European) segments in his

22 chromosomes, it is immediately obvious that he has ancestors from all three

continents contributing to his genome. Despite his evidently mixed ancestry, Mark

has no doubt about his identity as an African American – indeed he declared on

the radio that ‘I am an African’, reminiscent of Oprah Winfrey’s much publicized

statement, ‘I am a Zulu’, soon after she took a DNA test. Which of course she is

not. She is a TV host, businesswoman and philanthropist. But that both Mark and

Oprah used the phrase ‘I am’, not ‘Some of my ancestors were’, is an interesting

commentary on the essential nature of DNA.

African Americans were one of three groups of people that I wanted to include in

my research, the others being New Englanders descended from very early settlers

(that is before 1650) and Native Americans from Wyoming and Arizona. It was not

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(Above) Mark Thompson and Bryan in the

Sirius FM Studio, New York.

(Below) Fig. 1: Chromosome portrait of Mark

Thompson showing the continental origin

(Green: African, Orange: Native American,

Blue: European) of DNA segments from his

22 autosomes.

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just the DNA results that I was interested in, but also the attitudes of these very

different groups to genetic testing, especially since it became widely available to the

general public over the last decade. African Americans have embraced genetics as

a way of reinforcing their links to Africa, and many have used the results to travel

to an ancestral African homeland identified, with varying degrees of accuracy, by

means of a DNA test. But very few of those I tested were interested in following

up their European ancestors in the same way. In fact it came as quite a shock to

many African Americans that they had any European ancestry at all. They all do;

and sometimes an African American who is in no doubt about their own ethnic

identity, will have a greater component of DNA from Europe than from Africa.

This is particularly evident in results from analysis of the Y-chromosome which

passes from father to son. This shows that a third of male African Americans

carry a European Y-chromosome, at once revealing that female ancestors had been

impregnated by a white man, an unsavoury thought for many.

The qualified enthusiasm for genetics among African Americans is midway between

the response from the other two groups I researched for DNA USA. Leaving the

Europeans till last, the view about DNA testing held by Native Americans is

entirely negative, and understandably so. When genetics was first used by European

American scientists to explore population origins in the early 1990s, there was a

natural focus on Native Americans where a debate had been raging for years about

where they had come from and how long ago. Native Americans suffer from serious

diseases caused in large measure by the adaptations of their ancestors to the harsh

conditions. Their efficient metabolism helped ancestors with the ‘right’ DNA to

survive through periods of drought and near starvation which killed off those who

had inherited less hardy genes. But what was ‘right’ for those tough times and

meagre diets are ‘wrong’ for today’s high-fat, high-sugar, low-exercise lifestyle.

Consequently their levels of diabetes, heart disease and hypertension, are among

the highest in the world. Well-intentioned researchers working with Indian tribes

collected blood samples to try to identify the genes responsible. When their tests

had been run, the spare blood was stored. Years later when colleagues began to look

into the genetic ancestry of Native Americans, they often sidestepped the time and

expense of recruiting new volunteers and used these stored samples instead. The

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trouble was, they did not have consent.

I do not think this was a malicious oversight, merely negligence in that, being

European Americans, the scientists thought nothing of using DNA to explore

ancestry. As one of the first scientists to publish DNA results from Native

Americans, using samples collected for other reasons, said later: ‘The way people

operated at the time, it didn’t cross anyone’s mind – we didn’t mean to be evil,

and we are more careful now.’ Now that one tribe, the Havasupai from the Grand

Canyon, has won substantial damages from the University of Arizona, it is no

longer a question of being more careful. You just do not test Native Americans.

It was not only the lack of consent, it was the conclusions themselves that added

to the furore. Unsurprisingly the DNA results pointed to an Asian, often Siberian,

origin for most Native Americans, backing up earlier conclusions based on bloodgroup

and anatomical similarities. The trouble was that this is not what Native

Americans believe about their origins. Their widespread and deeply held belief is

that they and their ancestors have always lived where they live now. They did not

come from anywhere. You can imagine the reaction of Native Americans to having

their spiritual beliefs completely undermined by the results of genetic analyses

undertaken without their knowledge or consent. The consequence is that many

tribes have banned all genetic research on their reservations. Encouragingly, a few

Native American scientists are now trying to overcome this deep resistance so that

genuinely useful genetic research can be done to understand and eventually combat

their genetic legacy of serious disease. It will be a very slow process, I think.

The rejection by Native Americans of using DNA as a way of exploring ancestry is

in complete contrast to European Americans, who have embraced the new genetics

with gusto. Their application has been largely confined to genealogy, and Americans

are very serious indeed about genealogy and do it very professionally and very well.

Having stumbled across the connection between surnames and Y-chromosomes a

decade or more ago, I have enjoyed seeing how a technique born in an academic

laboratory has been taken up and pushed forward by the genealogy community. I

was given a very warm welcome in New England, where I was principally interested

to see if I could detect Native American DNA in the descendants of early settlers.

To judge from experience in other parts of the world which have seen the large-

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scale immigration of Europeans, genetic mixing soon follows.

And yet, in New England, I found almost none. I can only conclude that any

children of sexual encounters between early New Englanders and the indigenous

Fig. 2: Mark Thompson’s chromosome portrait overlain with the location of 140 important genes from eleven body systems

Indians would have been excluded from the European settlements and raised by

the Indians. The exception was a senior genealogist who knew he had a Mohawk

ancestor twelve generations back. When I tested his DNA I found a speck of Native

American DNA in his otherwise completely European genome, which for a number

of reasons I think was genuinely Mohawk in origin.

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This small segment of Mohawk DNA was at the end of chromosome 9, and it serves

as a good introduction to another element of the chromosome painting technique.

Because the precise location of all genes is known, thanks to the Human Genome

Project, it was a simple matter for me to find out what this piece of Mohawk DNA

was doing. Among a lot of rather boring genes at the end of chromosome 9 lies

the gene controlling the ABO blood group system. So our senior genealogist owes

his blood group in part to the DNA he has inherited from his Mohawk ancestor.

In part, because we each have two copies of each chromosome inherited, one from

each parent. His other ABO gene is European. Which brings up another interesting

point. All the genes along this segment, including the ABO blood group, are firing

on DNA from two different ancestries – and they have to get along.

On that note, back to the most colourful of the chromosome portraits, that of the

African American radio host Mark Thompson. In Figure 2, I have overlain the

location of 140 important genes responsible for eleven body systems on Mark’s

chromosome portrait. From that overlay you can see that many of Mark’s most

important genes do not have an African ancestry. Some are Native American in

origin, while others are European. For example, the far left end of chromosome 11

is European on both copies. This is the location of two very important genes, insulin

and the blood protein beta-globin. Mutations in beta-globin cause the serious blood

disorder, sickle-cell anaemia, which is endemic in Africa (it helps carriers avoid

malaria) but not in Europe. Being African American, Mark would need to take

care he was not a carrier when contemplating a family. But, since both copies of

the end of chromosome 11 are from European ancestors, he cannot be a carrier.

This exposes the fallacy of the crude division into ethnic groups, especially African

Americans, for medical purposes, where, for example, there is a difference in the

recommended doses of certain drugs depending on ethnicity.

When I had my own chromosomes painted I found out that the end of my

chromosome 11 is half African and half European in origin. I knew from earlier

research that plenty of white British people have some African DNA, maybe handed

down from the Roman occupation when many auxiliary soldiers and slaves came

from Africa. That I have some African DNA comes as no great surprise, but the

location of the segment is significant. Unlike Mark, who could not possibly be a

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carrier for sickle cell anaemia, I could be, thanks to my African DNA. Had I married

an African, or an African American, there would have been a chance that both of us

would be sickle-cell anaemia carriers at risk of having a seriously ill baby. But, my

being to all outward appearances archetypically white and British, we would not

even have thought of it.

Finally, a little further along my chromosome 11 and still within my half-African

segment, lie my two insulin genes. Insulin is made in the pancreas, and since one

of my insulin genes is African in origin, I consider myself to have, metaphorically

at least, to have a black pancreas. I used this mercilessly to ingratiate myself with

the brothers and was even able to joke with Mark, live on air in New York, that my

pancreas was blacker than his.

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The early history of the Boat Club

by Mark Pottle (GS 1984-88, MCR 1989-92, RF 1992-

99, MCR 1999-2011, SF 2011-), speaking at this year’s

Iffley Dinner.

Who would have guessed that Wolfson put crews on the water many years before

they had a college building to their name? Or that the men’s first bump in Summer

Eights was on a women’s boat?

Events moved rapidly once Isaiah Berlin became the first President in July 1966,

and it is remarkable how quickly the human fabric of the College was stitched

together. This was in marked contrast to the joining of bricks with mortar: by

the time its buildings were ready to be occupied, in November 1974, Wolfson

was already an established presence on the river, and the speed with which this

happened was no accident.

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An early Wolfson crew carries in the College’s first boat Aline, named in honour of Lady Berlin.

The first graduate students arrived in October 1968, and a crew was recruited from

them to contest Eights the following May. It is unlikely that many, if indeed any,

had rowed before, and their first competitive outing was probably the first day of

that year’s racing, Wednesday 28 May 1969. According to The Times, the Wolfson

men were caught by the medics of Osler II, but next day they covered themselves

in glory by securing the first bump in the College’s history. One would like to be

able to record that they had toppled one of the Titans of the Isis – New College, or

Christ Church, or even (dare one wish it?) Oriel – but no, they rather ungallantly

sent down the women of St Hilda’s, who were in the process of plunging from

twelfth in Division VIII to sixth in Division IX. But what, one may ask, was a

women’s crew doing there at all?

Wolfson was of course founded at a time of great social change: one only has to

look at its architecture, its composition, its ethos, to realize that. We were in the

vanguard of progress at Oxford, and embraced the principle of equality between

the sexes from the outset; we were ‘co-ed’ in an era when all the undergraduate

colleges were single-sex. Just five of them admitted women, too few to create a

competitive division for bumps racing, but the women rowers must have tired

of watching their brothers have all the fun, and in May 1969 they petitioned the

University Boat Club to allow individual women’s crews to compete in Eights:

to its credit OUBC acceded to this request, in defiance of the Amateur Rowing

Association, which forbade such competition between the sexes. Thus it was that

St Hilda’s took its place on the bung line on 29 May 1969, just a length and a half

ahead of Wolfson, like a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter.

St Hilda’s may have enjoyed poor fortune that summer, but the tide was moving

strongly in favour of women at Oxford: in 1974 five colleges – Brasenose, Hertford,

Jesus, St Catherine’s, and Wadham – went mixed, and within twenty years all but

one had dismantled the sex bar; the sole exception, ironically, was St Hilda’s, which

finally admitted men in 2008. With the increase in the number of women’s colleges

in the mid-1970s, a separate women’s division in Summer Eights at last became

feasible, and in 1976 ten colleges came together to make this happen: the five abovenamed,

and four of the five women’s colleges – Somerville, St Hugh’s, St Hilda’s

and LMH. And the tenth college? Wolfson, of course. We thus have the distinction

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of being among the founder members of women’s bumps racing at Oxford. Our

crew started proudly in fourth place on the first day of Summer Eights that year,

26 May 1976: four days later, having rowed over ahead of St Catherine’s each day,

it was still in fourth place.

By today’s standards, rowing in the early 1970s was rudimentary. For the first

few years of Wolfson rowing there was no crew kit. The lycra one-piece had not

been invented, and photographs from the period show Wolfson crews boating in

plain white T-shirts, with an impressive variety of shorts, no two pairs alike. So

much has changed since then: boats once made of wood are now made of superlight,

super-strong kevlar. Wooden oars have given way to carbon fibre, and the

elegantly shaped Macon to the angular and aggressively-named Cleaver. The shape

of rowers has changed too. They are fitter and stronger, their athleticism honed on

that engine of torture, the Ergometer. Technically they are also superior: with the

growth of Health and Safety awareness in the 1990s, coaching became more closely

regulated by the University, and ultimately professionalized. And with payment

has come expectation: coaches are contracted to deliver speed, so outings, training

schedules, race strategies and even diets, are more carefully planned than before.

Wolfson rowing has benefited greatly from these changes, as well as from the

fortuitous accession of many committed and enthusiastic individuals – and one

must note here that a significant proportion of them have, over the years, come

from St Cross. Both colleges were born of the same reforming impulse in the 1960s,

and while each has always valued its independence, as all colleges must, the watery

union between them illustrates the benefits of collegiate cooperation. So strong is

the bond among the rowers that no one thinks in terms of two Colleges, only of

one Boat Club.

This Club has gone from strength to strength. In Torpids 2012 we ranked as the

third most successful college overall, and in Summer Eights our men held their

place at fourth on the river – a truly remarkable achievement, and the culmination

of many years of hard work. The women meanwhile moved to the headship of

Division II. Paralleling this success is the increasing number of Wolfsonians who

have claimed seats in the men’s and women’s heavyweight and lightweight Varsity

crews. Equally as important as the club’s élite performance is the sheer number

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of participants. Since 1976 we have fielded on average five eights every summer

(in 2012 it was six), and when one includes the coaches this means that at least 50

people are directly involved in every Eights. If one adds to this all of the friends,

family, Fellows, students and staff, who come down to the river to watch, and the

alumni too, the number increases exponentially. College rowing is a great spectator

sport, and those who line the bank during bumps races play a vital part.

Wolfson is a young college, but already there is a sense of history in the making,

and of contact across the generations. In all academic institutions there must be

a danger of regarding rowing, and other leisure activities, whether competitive

or recreational, as extraneous to what that institution is about. Crudely put,

non-academic activities compete against, and conflict with, the serious business

of pursuing research and getting a degree. But in an increasingly pressurized

age, college governing bodies have a greater responsibility than ever to defend

recreational time and space, and to provide the means necessary for a wide range

of extramural activities. They are, after all, vital to a healthy balance between work

and life – and that is the key to a genuine college experience, as well as to a fulfilled

life.

Isaiah Berlin, Michael Brock and the pioneering band of Fellows who created

Wolfson in the mid-1960s, understood this well, but for them the Boat Club had an

additional purpose. It provided a means by which to announce Wolfson’s presence

on the University stage. Rowing is one of the oldest and most prestigious sports

pursued at Oxford, and the Isis is where the colleges collectively come to play. The

bumps races in Hilary and Trinity terms are unlike anything else in the University

calendar, uniting the sexes, the past and the present, junior members and senior,

graduate colleges and undergraduate, professionals and amateurs, quick and slow,

in four days of joyous competition. The sight of Wolfson crews competing against

the older colleges in the early 1970s put us on the same level as them. Regardless

of whether we bumped up or went down, we had arrived!

It is difficult to appreciate now the challenge that was involved in creating this new

college, and the fledgling Wolfsonians must have felt a degree of apprehension

in those early days, particularly when they had no college proper to call home.

A tremendous camaraderie existed among the pioneers who made the best of

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makeshift accommodation along the Banbury Road, but these Fellows were, by

definition, those who had not gained fellowships at the older colleges, and were

therefore not entitled to recline in the grandeur of a Senior Common Room. There

was, in short, a struggle for acceptance, both at an individual and an institutional

level. Bill Beaver, who rowed for Men’s 1 in 1973, recalls that many of the Fellows

Summer Eights 1973: Sir Isaiah Berlin, with Michael and Eleanor Brock, in front of the old OUBC boathouse. They are looking upstream

for the approach of the Wolfson crew; the shot was probably taken on the last day of racing that year, Saturday 2 June.

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‘represented non-traditional, unfashionable subjects, such as geography and

forestry, and were very keen to make up for the years of exclusion by enjoying

collegiate life to the full. Yet they still felt excluded. Of course all this was hardly

spoken about, but it was very real, and it was an issue which bothered the graduate

students as well, all of us who had heard too often the old joke “Oh, so you are from

the Secretarial College on the Banbury Road ...”.’

During Summer Eights in 1973 Bill and a few enterprising friends set up a bar on

the upper floor of the beautiful old OUBC boathouse. Bill was effectively the social

secretary – his proper title being the Honorary Bargee – and he arranged for the loan

of white waiters’ jackets from the College kitchen, and oversaw the manhandling of

barrels of beer up a narrow staircase leading to a large room overlooking the river.

The effort proved worthwhile, and the bar was a resounding success: ‘It quickly

became the place to be. I remember one normally taciturn Wolfson don absolutely

beaming, flushed with the realization that at long last he was part, really and

completely a part, of the University for which he had worked his whole life’. The

voluntary effort and enterprise of the Honorary Bargee and his friends captures

the ethos of Wolfson in those early days, when having fun was an integral part of

meeting the enormous challenges at hand. That same happy outlook offers a partial

explanation of the allure of rowing for so many Wolfsonians, and it also helps to

explain why the Boat Club has been central to College life since the very beginning.

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Remembering where the bomber crashed

by Ann Spokes Symonds (St Anne’s 1944, author of

seven books on Oxford local history).

Wolfson is built on the site of ‘Cherwell’, the home of Professor J.S. Haldane and

his wife Kathleen. In 1941 during the War, on Sunday 4 May, the house they built

was lucky to escape serious damage when a British plane crashed in its grounds,

killing the three airmen on board and one woman on the ground. This plane was

an Armstrong Whitworth bomber, usually known as the Whitley from where it

was built, near Coventry, and its distinctive silhouette was due to the nose pointing

downwards as it flew ‘with its tail up between its ears’, in the words of Air Marshal

‘Bomber’ Harris. This particular plane came from an operational training unit

based at Abingdon, and was practising take-offs and landings. Its crew had been

told not to fly over Oxford, but they may have suffered engine trouble: it was seen

to come down in flames. At first it headed for the Dragon School field, but there

were children playing there, and according to a member of the Observer Corps, it

altered course for the grounds of ‘Cherwell’ instead.

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Whitley bomber

The entrance to ‘Cherwell’ was at the end of Linton Road, and just to the left was

a farm cottage in which Joseph Hitchcock lived with his wife Frances and their son

Kenneth. Mr Hitchcock looked after the livestock in Mrs Haldane’s small farm,

which consisted of three Jersey cows kept for milk and rabbits in rows of double

hutches kept for meat. Mrs Hitchcock was serving tea to the family just before 4 pm

when the bomber crashed outside their cottage, setting it on fire. Nearby 31 Linton

Road was also badly damaged, but there were no casualties here. Mrs Hitchcock

(aged 62) was less fortunate, and died of her injuries in the Radcliffe Infirmary; her

husband and son both suffered burns, but they were soon discharged.

The crew of the bomber was the pilot, Pilot Officer Charles Nairn Small 63445

RAF, aged 23; the observer, Pilot Officer William Alexander Munro Halley 63440

RAF, aged 19; and the wireless operator / air gunner, John Alfred Mocham 995980

RAFVR, aged 20.

The crash was reported by the Oxford Times on 9 May 1941, and almost fifty

years later, on 22 September 1989, it published an article by Desmond Kay (GBF

1967–88, SF 1988–89, EF 1989–2002) which retold the tragedy and suggested that

‘some organization might see fit to arrange for a memorial to be erected.’ When

two airmen of the Royal Flying Corps crashed near the toll bridge in Wolvercote

on 10 September 1912, 2,226 people, many of them local residents living on low

incomes, contributed to the fine memorial plaque on the bridge. To commemorate

the 1941 crash in North Oxford, there is no ‘organization’ better qualified than

Wolfson itself, the college which is now building its Lecture Theatre almost on the

very site.

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The Record

Personal News

Births

Hewitt To Rachel (RF 2011‒) and Pete Newbon, a daughter,

Molly Rose, on 2 May 2012.

Ismail To Khadija and Raveem (GS 2004‒05) a son, Solomon,

on 29 March 2012.

Javed To Sarah Salim and Mohsin (GS 2010‒) a daughter,

Amal, on 19 April 2011.

Marsh To Helen (née Ambrose) (GS 1999‒2003) and Paul (GS

1998‒2002) a son, Alexander George, on 30 July 2012,

brother to Jonathan Lambert, born 13 May 2010.

Schuricht To Constanza and Dirk (JRF 2007‒08) a daughter, Ida

Helene, on 20 April 2012, a sister for Paul and Emil.

Zhu To Yi (2009‒11) and Björn Wachter (MCR 2011‒) a

daughter, Angelina Sandra Sarah Sophie Sanissima, on

15 June 2012.

Marriages

De Vos Ilse (RF 2011‒) to Jan Keymeulen on 1 May 2012.

Dodd Michael Samuel (GS 2008‒) to Kimberley Rebecca

Bryon on 2 June 2012.

London Andrew James (GS 2011‒) to Hannah Catherine Ruth on

1 September 2012.

McKeating Paul Dominic (GS 2000‒04) to Emma Finlay on 23 July

2011.

Piper Alana (GS 2007‒12) to R-J Ruitinga (GS 2008‒11) on 1

April 2012 in Sydney, Australia.

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Golden Wedding

Blackman David (MCR 2005‒) and Anne on 28 July 2012.

Deaths

Callaghan Sir Paul (GS 1970‒73, JRF 1973‒74) on 24 March 2012.

Evans Sir Richard (GBF 1988‒95, EF 1995‒2012) on 24

August 2012.

Langslow Anne Karin Maria (née Woermer) (GS 1987‒99) on 13

August 2012.

Leboe Phoebe Starfield (VF 1989‒90) on 16 June 2012.

Lindsay John F. (VS 1995, MCR 1996‒2008) on 20 June 2008.

Long Barry (Staff MCR 1993‒2010, MCR 2010‒12) on 13

March 2012.

Marriott Francis Henry Charles (GBF 1970‒93, EF 1993‒2012)

on 15 May 2012.

Sorensen Ib Holm (GS 1979‒82, GBF 1982‒89) on 17 January

2012.

Professional News

Bacsich, Paul (JRF 1970‒72) Appointed Visiting Fellow, University of

Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2012.

Bagshaw, Clive Richard (JRF 1977‒79) Appointed Honorary Visiting Researcher

at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Buchanan, John (RF 1968‒70) Knighted in the New Year’s Honours List

2012 for services to industry.

Carstensen, Vivi (GS 1991‒94) Appointed Uddannelseschef (Head of

Education) at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium, Denmark.

Chopra, Vinod (JRF 1971‒73) Coordinator and Technical Adviser,

Goodwill Cryogenics, India.

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Charters, Erica (GBF 2009‒) Awarded a one-year Leverhulme

Research Fellowship to work on her project ‘Military

enlightenment: medicine and the French Imperial State

in the Seven Years War (1756‒63)’.

Crabbe, James (MCR 1977‒79, JRF 1979‒82, RF 1982‒87, GBF

1987‒88, SF 1988‒) Appointed a Senior Fellow of the

Higher Education Academy.

Dercon, Stefan (GBF 2004‒) Appointed Chief Economist at the

Department for International Development for three

years from January 2012.

Gibbons, Christopher (GS 1971‒77) Received a silver clinical excellence

award in 2009. Will receive a Lifetime Achievement

Award from the Vascular Society of Great Britain and

Ireland in November 2012. Now retired.

Grey, Daniel (JRF 2010‒) Awarded a British Academy grant to

conduct research for his forthcoming book Codes of

conduct: gender, religion and homicide in British India

1793‒1914.

Haslam, Michael (RF 2010‒) Awarded a five-year European Research

Council grant to continue his work on primate

archaeology.

Humphreys, Glyn (GBF 2011‒) Awarded the British Psychological

Society Cognitive Psychology Prize 2012. Awarded

a Distinguished Visiting Scholar award from the

University of Hong Kong over the next three years.

Lehnus, Luigi (VS 1995, MCR 2005‒) Won the Accademia Nazionale

dei Lincei Antonio Feltrinelli National Prize for

Philology and Linguistics in 2010. Awarded the

Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica Gold Medal in

2011.

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Li, Brenda (GS 2006‒11) Working as a freelance translator

specialising in Chinese art and culture and teaching

an elementary Tibetan language course in the School

of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Chinese

University of Hong Kong.

Mora, Francisco (GS 1975‒77, MCR 2009‒) Appointed Helen C Levitt

Visiting Professor at the Carver College of Medicine,

University of Iowa, 2011‒12.

Newsholme, Philip (GS 1983‒87) Appointed Professor and Head of School,

at Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth,

Western Australia, from September 2011.

Potter, Barry V L (GS 1977‒80, JRF 1980‒81) Won the category

‘Investigator of the Year 2012’ at the European Life

Sciences Awards in Hamburg, for his work at the

interfaces of chemistry with biology and medicine.

Rawlins, J Nick P (GBF 2008‒) Received a major educator award for his

outstanding contribution to postgraduate education in

Oxford.

Rickaby, Ros (GBF 2009‒) Awarded the Gast lectureship for her

outstanding contributions to geochemistry jointly by

the European Association of Geochemistry and the

Geochemical Society.

Roulston, David (VF 1988‒89, VS 1990, 1993‒94, MCR 1997‒) Awarded

an Honorary DEng by the University of Waterloo,

Ontario.

Ryder, Judith (RF 2007‒) Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical

Society.

Sanderson, David (RF 2010‒12) Appointed lecturer in the Department of

Psychology, Durham University from September 2012.

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Sison, Ignacio (GS 1989‒90) Chief Financial Officer at Del Monte

Pacific, which received a 2012 Singapore Corporate

Award.

Tuladhar, Kapil (GS 2008‒) Won first prize in the Oxford University

Medical Sciences Division poster competition.

Vermes, Geza (GBF 1965‒91, EF 1991‒) Celebrated the golden jubilee

of his book, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, in January

2012.

Wood, Jess (GS 1978‒81) Received an MBE in the 2012 New Year’s

Honours List for her work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and

trans young people.

Books published by Wolfsonians

Akasoy, Anna (RF 2008‒11) Die erste Philosophie. Herder, 2011.

Banks, Marcus (RF 1988‒95, GBF 1995‒) (ed. with J Ruby) Made to

be seen: perspectives on the history of visual anthropology.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2011.

Beaver, William (GS 1971‒76, JRF 1977‒80, MCR 2011‒) Under every

leaf: how Britain played the greater game from Afghanistan

to Africa. Biteback Publishing, London, 2012.

Brissenden, Alan (TMCR 1983‒84, VF 1987‒88, VS 1992) (with K

Glennon) Australia dances: creating Australian dance

1945‒1965. Wakefield Press, 2010.

Bronchud, Miguel H (GS 1980‒83) In search of a missing god. Hamilton House,

2011.

Bryce, Trevor (TMCR 1975, 1979, 1983, VF 1988-89, VS 1995, MCR

2002‒) (with G Beckman & E Cline) The Ahhiyawa texts.

Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2011. The world of

the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms. OUP, 2012.

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Bugan, Carmen (VF 2005‒09, MCR 2009‒) Burying the typewriter:

childhood under the eye of the secret police. Picador, 2012.

Seamus Heaney and East European poetry in translation.

Poetics of exile. Legenda, Oxford, 2012.

Byckling, Liisa (VS 2008‒10, MCR 2010‒12) Staging the empire. A

history of the Russian theatre in Helsinki, 1868‒1918. SKD,

Helsinki, 2009.

Carneiro, Ilona (GS 1993‒97) (with N Howard) Introduction to

Epidemiology. 2nd edition. Open University Press, 2011.

Curtis, Julie (GBF 1991‒) (ed. with M. Iu. Liubimova) Evgenii

Zamiatin, My. Tekst i materialy k tvorcheskoi istorii romana.

Mir, St Petersburg, 2011. (First scholarly edition of

Zamiatin’s 1920 novel We.)

Fernández de Larrinoa, Kepa

(VS 2011‒12) (ed. J Henry& L Fitznor) ‘Social

Anthropology, nativeness and Basque studies’ in

Anthropologists, indigenous scholars and the research

endeavour. Routledge, 2012.

Hewitt, Phil (GS 1987‒91) Keep On Running. Summersdale, 2012.

Lackie, John (SF 1991‒2000) A dictionary of biomedicine. OUP, 2010.

Landrus, Matthew (GS 1999‒2006, MCR 2006‒) Le armi e le machine da

guerra: il de re militari di Leonardo. De Agostini, Milan,

2010. Leonardo da Vinci’s giant crossbow. Springer,

Heidelberg, 2010.

Lanzagorta, Marco (GS 1993‒96) Quantum computer science. Morgan

& Claypool, 2009. Introduction to reconfigurable

supercomputing. Morgan & Claypool, 2010. Quantum

radar. Morgan & Claypool, 2011. Night of the living dead:

studies in the horror film. Centipede Press, 2011.

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Lehnus, Luigi (VS 1995, MCR 2005‒) (ed. with B Acosta-Hughes & S

Stephens) Brill’s companion to Callimachus. Brill, Leiden-

Boston, 2011.

Lerman, Hemdat (GS 1998‒2005, MCR 2005‒) (with J Roessler & N

Eilan) Perception, causation & objectivity. OUP, 2011.

McLoughlin, Kate (VS 2009, MCR 2010‒) Authoring war: the literary

representation of war from the Iliad to Iraq. CUP, 2011.

Plums. Flipped Eye Publishing, London, 2011.

Mitchell, Alexandre (GS 1999‒2002, MCR 2002‒08) Greek vase painting and

the origins of visual humour. CUP, Cambridge/NY 2012.

The 13th Tablet. Haus Publishing, London/NY 2012.

Moore, Serena (Staff MCR 1998‒2010, MCR 2010‒) ‘Conveyed to the

world in the best chosen language’: Jane Austen and the art of

writing. The Jane Austen Society, Report for 2010.

Piper, Jacqueline (GS 1976‒77, MCR 1977‒) (with E B Wilson) Spatial

planning and climate change. Routledge, 2010.

Podossinov, Alexandr (MCR 1993) Roman geographical sources: Pomponius Mela

and Plinius the Elder. Texts, translations, commentary.

Moskva, 2011. Statius. Achilleis. Latin text and Russian

translation. Moskva, 2011.

Raz, Avi (RF 2007–) The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and

the Palestinians in the aftermath of the June 1967 War. Yale

University Press, 2012.

Riddell, Richard (GS 1985‒96) ‘Temple Beauties’: The Entrance-Portico

in the Architecture of Great Britain 1630‒1850. Oxbow

Books, Oxford, 2011.

Sprod, Tim (GS 1993‒94) Discussions in science: promoting conceptual

understanding in the middle school years. Australian Council

for Educational Research, 2011.

Stallworthy, Jon (GBF 1986‒) (ed. with J E Potter (GS 1993‒99, MCR

1999‒)) Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfrid Owen:

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three poets of the First World War. Penguin, 2011.

Sullivan, Gerard (GS 1979‒80) The making of a one-handed economist.

Wordpress, 2011.

White, Stephen (GS 1980‒87) Understanding Russian politics. CUP, 2011.

Yang, Andrew N D (GS 1981‒85) (ed. with P C Saunders, M Swaine & C

Yang) The Chinese Navy: expanding capabilities, evolving

roles. National Defense University Press for the Center

for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Institute for

National Strategic Affairs, Washington, DC, 2011.

Wolfson staff raised £1,600 for Marie Curie Cancer Care in the National Swimathon in April 2012.

Swimmers (left to right): Katie Watson, Anna Zubek, Anja Jeczalik, Jan Scriven, Rose Truby

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Errata p.35 Francis Marriott (1926-2012)

Please note that Francis Marriott and Catherine Broadfoot were married in 1966, not in 1946 as

printed. Catherine died in 2000.

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