College Record 2015

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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2015 

WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2015

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Tulips in the Wolfson Colours (the Darwin hybrid ‘Olympic Flame’) growing in the 

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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 

2015

Contents 

page 

President and Fellows 5 

College Officers and Membership 17 

Editor’s Note 19 

The President’s Letter 20 

Obituaries 27 

In Praise of Trees 39 

Alumni Relations and 

Development 2014–15 43 

List of Donors 45 

Gifts to the Library 52 

Scholarships, Travel Awards, and 

Prizes 2014–15 53 

Degrees and Diplomas 55 

Elections and Admissions 70 

Fellows 69 

Visiting Scholars 71 

Graduate Students 72 

Elected members of the 

Governing Body 79 

Clubs and Societies 80 

AMREF Group 80 

Arts Society 80 

BarCo 85 

Boat Club 86 

Cricket 88 

Croquet 88 

Darwin Day 2015 89 

Entz 89 

Family Society 91 

Football 92 

Old Wolves Lunch 92 

Pilates 93 

Punt 93 

Reading Group 95 

Romulus 95 

Squash 95 

Summer Event 96 

Winter Ball 97 

Research Clusters 99 

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 105 

The President’s Seminars 106 

The Creation of the Wolfson 

College Garden Landscape 

by Jacqueline Piper 107 

The Bishop’s House and its history 

by Liz Baird 115 

The Splendour of Dunhuang 

Buddhist Art 

by Jacob Ghazarian 118 

William Godwin and the Quest for a 

Just World 

by Pamela Clemit 121 

The Record 124 

Deaths 124 

Professional News 124 

Books published by 

Wolfsonians 128

Wolfson College 

at 1 October 2015 

President 

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

Governing Body Fellows 

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA 

Cambridge, PhD London) Professorial 

Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of 

Computing 

Austyn, Jonathan Mark, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in 

Surgery: Transplantation Immunology, 

Professor of Immunobiology 

Aveyard, Paul N, (BSc, MB, BS 

London, MPH, PhD Birmingham) 

Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader 

in the Department of Primary Care 

Health Sciences, Professor of Behavioural 

Medicine 

Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest, 

PhD Santineketan) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Hindi 

Banks, Marcus John, MA (BA, PhD 

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Professor 

of Visual Anthropology; Vicegerent 

Barrett, Jonathan, BA (MA, PhD 

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Computer Science 

Benson, James William, MA (BA 

Macalester College, MA Minnesota, 

PhD Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in Sanskrit 

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Rhodes University, South Africa) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World 

Literatures in English 

Brown, Harvey Robert, MA (BSc 

Canterbury, New Zealand, PhD 

London) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics, 

Professor of the Philosophy of Physics 

Cannon, Catríona, MPhil (BA Dublin, 

MA UCL, MCLIP) Ordinary Fellow, 

Deputy to Bodley's Librarian 

Chappell, Michael A., MEng, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of 

Engineering Science 

Charters, Erica Michiko, MA, DPhil 

(BA Carleton, MA Toronto) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in the History 

of Medicine 

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Cluver, Lucie, DPhil (MA Cambridge) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of 

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 

Costa, Matthew, (MB BChir PhD East 

Ang, MA Camb) Professorial Fellow 

Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn, MA, 

DPhil Ordinary Fellow, Professor of 

Russian Literature 

Czaika, Mathias, (MA Konstanz, PhD 

Freiburg) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Migration and Development 

Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS 

Copenhagen, PhD California) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Assyriology 

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo, 

MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Classical 

Philology 

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, 

PhD Reading) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in European 

International Politics, Professor of 

European International Politics; Research 

Fellows’ Liaison Officer 

DeLaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD 

Adelaide) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Roman Archaeology 

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA 

Vienna, Dr Phil Basel) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of 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, 

Professor of Materials Modelling 

Goodman, Martin David, MA, DPhil, 

DLitt, FBA Professorial Fellow, Professor 

of Jewish Studies 

Hamnett, Gillian, (BA Newcastle) 

MSt Ordinary Fellow; Senior Tutor 

Harrison, Paul Jeffrey, MA, BM, 

BCh, MRCPsych, DM Ordinary Fellow, 

Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, Honorary 

Consultant Psychiatrist, Professor of 

Psychiatry 

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Howgego, Christopher John, MA, 

DPhil 

Professorial Fellow, Keeper of the 

Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek 

and Roman Numismatics 

Humphreys, Glyn, MA (BSc, PhD 

Bristol) Professorial Fellow, Watts 

Professor of Psychology 

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward Lawson 

(MA Cambridge) Extraordinary Fellow; 

Bursar (retires end MT 2015) 

Jarvis, R Paul, (BSc Durham, PhD 

Norwich) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor in 

Cell Biology 

Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer 

in Islamic Archaeology, Professor of 

the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic 

Mediterranean 

Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil 


Computation 

Lange, Bettina MA (BA, PhD 

Warwick) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Law and Regulation; 

Secretary to the Governing Body 

Lewis, James Bryant, MA (BA 

University of the South, MA, PhD 

Hawaii) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Korean Studies 

McCartney, Matthew Howard, MPhil 

(BA Cambridge, PhD SOAS) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Political 

Economy and Human development of 

India 

McKenna, William Gillies, MA 

(BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert 

Einstein) Professorial Fellow, Professor of 

Radiation Biology 

Morin, Richard Antony, (BA 

Lincs and Humbs, MA KCL, MBA 

Northampton) Ordinary Fellow; Bursar- 

Elect (HT 2016) 

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, (Diplom 

Munich, MA PhD Princeton) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Geophysics 

Pila, Jonathan MA (BSc Melbourne, 

PhD Stanford) Professorial Fellow, 

Reader in Mathematical Logic 

Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil 


Classical Philology and Linguistics 

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas Pepys, MA, 

DPhil Senior Research Fellow, Pro-Vice 

Chancellor for Development and External 

Affairs 

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA 

Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard) Ordinary 

Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, 

Acting President MT 2015 

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Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil 

(BA Mount Holyoke College, MA 

Cambridge) Senior Research Fellow, 

Ancient History and Archaeology; Fellow 

Librarian and Archivist 

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA, PhD 

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Biogeochemistry, Professor of 

Biogeochemistry 

Riede, Moritz, (MSc Camb, 

PhD Konstanz) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Soft Functional 

Nanotechnology 

Roberts, Paul Christopher, MA (BA 

Camb, MPhil Sheffield) Professorial 

Fellow 

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD, 

Münster, Habilitation Munich) 


Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 

Schulting, Rick J, MA (BA, MA 

Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE, 

Queen’s Belfast) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Scientific and 

Prehistoric Archaeology 

Stewart, Peter Charles N, (MA, 

MPhil, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Classical Art 

and Archaeology 

Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Delhi, MA Mumbai) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Development Studies 

Taylor, David Guy Kenneth, MA, 

DPhil Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of 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, Associate 

Professor of Strategy 

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, Associate 

Professor of Physical Climate Science 

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep, (BArch 

MArch Istanbul Technical University, 

PhD Harvard) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Islamic Art and 

Architecture 

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Honorary Fellows 

Adams, John W, (BA Rutgers, JD Seton 

Hall, LLM New York) 

Bradshaw, William Peter, the Rt Hon 

Lord Bradshaw, (MA Reading), FCIT 

Burgen, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent), 

(MB, MD London, MA Cambridge), 

FRCP, FRS 

Chan, Gerlad Lokchung, (BS MS 

California, SM SCD Harvard) 

Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA, 

MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London, 

Hon MD, Edinburgh, Prague, Hon 

DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath, Hon 

FRCPA, FRS, Hon FRSE, FMedSci 

Goff, Robert Lionel Archibald, the Rt 

Hon Lord Goff, DL, FBA 

Goodenough, Frederick Roger, MA 

(MA Cambridge) 

Hamilton, Andrew David, MA (BSc 

Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD 

Cambridge), FRS 

Hardy, Henry, Robert, Dugdale, BPhil, 

MA, DPhil 

Khalili, Nasser David, (BA Queens, 

New York; PhD SOAS, London) 

Levett, Christian Clive, (BTECH New 

College, Durham) 

Macdonald, Michael Christopher 

Archibald, MA 

Mack Smith, Denis, CBE, MA (MA 

Cambridge) FBA, FRSL 

Mance, Jonathan, the Rt Hon Lord 

Mance, MA 

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, Sir 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) 

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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, DPhil 

Bulmer, Michael George, MA, DPhil, 

DSc, FRS 

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB 

BCh Birmingham), FRCP, FRCP 

(Edinburgh) 

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil 

Cranstoun, George Kennedy Lyon, MA 

(BSc, PhD Glasgow), FRSC 

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, 

DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George 

Washington, PhD Camb) 

Dercon, Stefan, BPhil, DPhil (BA 

Leuven) 

Dudbridge, Glen, MA (MA, PhD 

Cambridge), FBA 

Francis, Martin James Ogilvie, MA, 

DPhil 

Garton, Geoffrey, MA, DPhil 

Gombrich, Richard Francis, MA, DPhil 

(AM Harvard) 

Gordon, Alan Fleetwood, CBE, MA, 

FCMI 

Hall, Roger Lawrence, MA (BSc, PhD 

Nottingham) 

Harriss-White, Barbara, MA 

(DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East 

Anglia) 

Hoare, Sir Charles Antony Richard, 

MA, DFBCS, FRS 

Isaacson, Daniel Rufus, (AB Harvard) 

MA, DPhil; Visiting Scholars’ Liaison 

Officer 

Jones, George Arnold, MA, DPhil 

(MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Kennedy, William James, MA, DSc 

(BSc, PhD London) 

Kurtz, Donna Carol, MA, DPhil (BA 

Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA 

Langslow, David Richard, MA, DPhil 

McDiarmid, Colin John Hunter, MA, 

MSc, DPhil (BSc Edinburgh) 

Mann, Joel Ivor, CNZM, DM (MBChB, 

PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP, 

FRSNZ 

Meisami, Julie Scott, MA (MA, PhD 

California at Berkeley) 

Metcalf, David Michael, MA, DPhil, 

DLitt, FSA 

Mulvey, John Hugh, MA (BSc, PhD 

Bristol) 

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Neil, (Hugh) Andrew Wade, (MB BS 

DSc Lond, MA Camb,) MA, FFPHM, 

FRCP, RD 

Penney, John Howard Wright, MA, 

DPhil (MA Pennsylvania) 

Perrins, Christopher Miles, MA, DPhil 

(BSc London) FRS, LVO 

Ramble, Charles Albert Edward, MA, 

DPhil (BA Durham) 

Robey, David John Brett, MA 

Robinson, Chase Frederick, MA (BA 

Brown, PhD Harvard) 

Sanderson, Alexis Godfrey James 

Slater, MA 

Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil 

(MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc 

Liverpool, PhD Bristol); Dean of 

Degrees 

Tomlin, Roger Simon Ouin, MA, 

DPhil, FSA 

Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance, 

MA (BA, PhD London), FSA 

Walton, Christopher Henry, MA (MA 

Cambridge), MBE 

Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc 

London, PhD Durham) 

Wilkie, Alex James, MA (MSc, PhD 

London), FRS 

Wyatt, Derek Gerald, MA, DPhil 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Altman, Douglas Graham, (BSc Bath, 

CStat Royal Statistical Society, DSc 

London) 

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Casadei, Barbara, MA, DPhil (MD 

Pavia, MRCP, FRCP London) 

Coleman, John Steven, MA (BA, DPhil 

York) 

Collins, Paul Thomas, (MA, PhD UCL) 

Crabbe, Michael James Cardwell, 

FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD, DSc 

Manchester), FRSA, FRSC, CChem, 

CBiol, FIBiol, FLS 

De Roure, David, (PhD Southampton) 

Ehlers, Anke, (Hab. Marburg) MA 

(PhD Tubingen) 

Hodges, Christopher, MA (PhD King’s) 

Kaski, Kimmo Kauko Kullervo, DPhil 

(MSc Helsinki) 

Kay, Philip Bruce, MA, MPhil, DPhil, 

FSA 

Key, Timothy James Alexander, DPhil 

(BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London) 

Konoplev, Ivan Vasilyevich, (BSc, MSc 

Nizhny Novgorod State, MPhil, PhD 

Strathclyde) 

Maltby, Colin Charles, MA 

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Merrony, Mark Woodridge, (BA Wales 

St David’s) MPhil, MSt, DPhil 

Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH 

Zurich) 

Nuttall, Patricia Anne, OBE, MA (BSc 

Bristol, PhD Reading) 

Pottle, Mark Christopher, MA, DPhil 

(BA Sheffield) 

Quinn, Catherine Ward, EMBA (BA 

Birmingham, MA Ohio State) 

Sawyer, Walter, MA 

Seryi, Andrei, (PhD Institute of 

Nuclear Physics) 

Seymour, Leonard William, (BSc 

Manchester, PhD Keele) 

Sheldon, Benjamin Conrad, MA (MA 

Cambridge, PhD Sheffield) 

Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth, MA, 

DPhil 

Willett, Keith Malcolm, MA (MB BS 

London), FRCS 

Zeitlyn, David, (MSc London) MA, 

DPhil (PhD Cambridge) 

Research Fellows 

Andersson, Daniel Christopher, BA 

(MA, PhD Warburgh Institute) 

Arancibia, Carolina, (BSc North 

London, MSc Royal Postgraduate 

College, PhD Imperial) 

Benjamin, Simon Charles, BA, DPhil 

Bentley, Lisa Patrick, (BA Barnard, 

PhD Texas Technical) 

Bhaskaran, Harish, (BE Pune, MS, 

PhD Maryland) 

Cantley, James, (BSc Soton, MSc Imp, 

PhD UCL) 

Chen, Yi Samuel, (AM Harvard) DPhil 

Creutzfeldt, Naomi, (BA, MA, 

Southern Queensland, PhD Göttingen) 

Dahlsten, Oscar, (MSc, PhD Imperial) 

Datta, Animesh, (BTech Indian 

Institute of Technology Kaupur, PhD 

New Mexico) 

Davison, Lucy Jane, (MA, VetMB 

Cambridge, PhD London) 

Demetriou, Nicoletta, (BA Aristotle 

Univ of Thessaloniki, PhD SOAS, MA 

UEA) 

Devolder, Katrien, (DEA Bruxelles, 

MA, PhD Ghent) 

Dushek, Omer (BSc Western Australia, 

PhD British Columbia) 

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Gagliardone, Iginio, (MA Bologna, 

PhD LSE) 

Gehmlich, Katja, (PhD, Dipl Potsdam) 

Gromelski, Tomasz Witold, DPhil 

(MA Warsaw) 

Hadjiyiannis, Christos, (BA 

Nottingham, MPhil Cambridge, PhD 

Edinburgh) 

Haslam, Michael Alan, (BA, PhD 

Queensland) 

Hesselberg, Thomas, (MSc Aarhus, 

PhD Bath) 

Jankowiak, Marek, (MA Warsaw, PhD 

Paris) 

Kennedy, Kate (BA, PhD Cambridge, 

MA KCL, Dip RC Mus): Weinrebe 

Fellow in Life Writing 

Kubal, Agnieszka Maria, DPhil (MA 

Exeter, MA Jagiellonian) 

Landrus, Matthew, DPhil (MA 

Louisville) 

Lee, Renee Bee Yong, DPhil (BSc 

Malaysia) 

Leeson, Paul, (BSc St Andrews, MB, 

BChir, PhD Cambridge) FRCP 

McBarnet, Doreen Jean, MA (MA, 

PhD Glasgow), CBE 

Maroney, Owen Jack Ernest, (BA 

Cambridge, MSc, PhD London 

Mavridou, Despoina, DPhil (MChem 

Athens) 

Morero, Elise Hugette, (BA Amiens, 

MA PhD Paris) 

Outes Leon, Ingo, MSc, DPhil (MSc 

Regensburg) 

Parau, Cristina Elena, (BSc Sibiu 

Romania, MSc Brun, PhD London) 

Pattenden, Miles Alexander Frederick, 

DPhil (BA Camb, MA Toronto) 

Parker Jones, Oiwi, MPhil (BA 

Colorado) 

Pyrah, Robert Mark, MA, MSt, DPhil 

Querishi, Kaveri, BA, (MSc, PhD 

London) 

Ray, Nicholas Martin, (BSc, MPhil 

Bradford, PhD Leics) 

Robinson, Paul John Robert, DPhil 

(BSc London) 

Sabiron, Céline, (MA, PhD Sorbonne) 

Slade, Eleanor Margaret, DPhil, (BSc 

Leeds, MSc Aberdeen) 

Smith, Olivia Freundlich, (BA, UEA, 

MA, PhD London) 

Stansfeld, Philip James, (BSc 

Edinburgh, PhD Leicester) 

Still, Clarinda Lucy Marion, (MA Edin, 

MREs UCL, PhD LSE) 

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Sullivan, Kate Helen, (BA York, MA 

Heidelberg, PhD ANU) 

Toth, Ida, DPhil (BA, MPhil Belgrade) 

Vicary, Jamie Oliver, (MA Cambridge, 

PhD Imperial) 

Vignal, Leila, (Diplom Fontenay St 

Claud, MA, PhD Avignon) 

Walton, Philippa Jane, PGDip (MA 

Camb, PhD UCL) 

Weisheimer, Antje, (Diplom Humboldt, 

PhD Potsdam) 

Socio-Legal Research 

Fellows 

Kurkchiyan, Marina, (MSc Yerevan, 

PhD Vilnius) 

Stremlau, Nicole, (BA Wesleyan, MA, 

PhD London) 

Stipendiary Junior 


Biggs, Alison, (BA SOAS, MPhil, PhD 

Cambridge) 

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

Metcalf, Christopher, MPhil, DPhil 

(MA Edinburgh) 

Tolstoy, Anastasia, BA, MSt, DPhil 

Junior Research Fellows 

Allan, Charlotte, (BA MBChB Leeds, 

MRCPsych) 

Alonso, David, (MSc, PhD Madrid) 

Al-Rashid, Moudhy, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Columbia) 

Bowes, Lucy Nicola, BA, MSc, (PhD 

King’s) 

Broggi, Joshua, (MA Wheaton, PhD 

Edin) 

Calabrese, Katherine, BA MSt, (PhD 

UCL) 

Cartlidge, Benjamin John BA (MA, 

Cologne) 

Caruso, Fabio, (MSc Milan, PhD Freie) 

Chaudhary, Ali Razzak, (MA 

Humboldt, MA, PhD California Davis) 

Chisari, Elisa (Licenc. Buenos Aires, 

MA, PhD Princeton) 

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Clark, Michael Ben, (MSc Otago, PhD 

Queensland) 

Cook, Christina Lillian, (BSc, PhD 

British Columbia, LLB Victoria) 

Cornut, Damien, (BSc, MA Claude 

Bernard Lyon, PhD Bruxelle) 

Cross, Katherine, BA, MSt (PhD UCL) 

Evans, Rhiannon Mari, (BSc, PhD 

Wales) 

Gillebert, Celine, (MSc, PhD Leuven) 

Girolami, Davide, (MSc Torino, PhD 

Notts) 

Grimes, David Robert, (BSc, PhD 

Dublin) 

Guerrero Omar, (BA, ITESM, MSc 

Essex, PhD George Mason) 

Gurung, Florence Elizabeth, DPhil 

(BA Manchester, MA SOAS) 

Hedesan, Delia Georgiana, (BA 

Nevada, MSc Leeds, MA, PhD Exeter) 

Hirschhorn, Sara Yael, (Ba Yale, MA, 

PhD Chicago) 

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

Essex), 

Infantino, Federica (MA Naples, PhD 

Inst des Études Pols de Paris, PhD 

Brussels) 

Jin, Xianmin, (PhD Sci and Tech Univ 

China) 

Kannan, Pavitra, (BA Grinnell, PhD 

Karolinska Inst) 

Klein-Flugge, Miriam, MSc (BSc 

Osnabruch & McGill, PhD UCL) 

Kunnath, George, (BA Ranchi, MA 

Poona, MPhil Mumbai, PhD SOAS) 

Leijten, Patty, Henrica, Odilia (BA, 

MPhil Radboud, PhD Utrecht) 

Levy, Matthew Chase, (BS UCLA, MS, 

PhD Rice) 

Li, Xiannan, (BMaths Waterloo, PhD 

Stanford) 

Lidova, Maria, (MA, PhD Moscow 

State) 

Loopstra, Rachel, (BSc Guelph, MSc, 

PhD Toronto) 

Mansfield, Shane Joseph, DPhil (BSc, 

MSc Cork, Cert Camb) 

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc 

Torrino) 

Meinck, Franziska, MSc, DPhil (BA 

Free Univ Bolzano) 

Nimura, Courtney Reiko, (BA Santa 

Cruz, MFA Tufts, MA UCL, PhD 

Reading) 

Nurse, Jason Ricardo Corey, (BA 

West Indies, MA Hull, PhD Warwick) 

Owald, David, (BSc Heidelberg, PhD 

Göttingen) 

Re, Emanuele, (BA, MA, PhD Milano) 

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Ringel, Zohar, (BSC Hebrew Univ 

Jerusalem, MSc, PhD Weizmann Inst) 

Rosenfeld, Martin, (MA, PhD 

Bruxelles, PhD Hautes Études) 

Roy, Indrajit, DPhil (BA Delhi) 

San Martin Arbide, Lola (MA, PhD 

Salamanca) 

Schaller, Nathalie, (BSc, MSc, PhD 

ETH Zurich) 

Slade, Eleanor, Margaret, DPhil, (BSC 


Swanson, Alexandra, (BA Virginia, 

PhD Minnesota) 

Vatri, Alessandro, Laurea Specialistica 

La Sapienza, DPhil 

Viltanioti, Eirini Foteini (BA Athens, 

MA, PhD Brussels) 

Viney, Tim James, (MBiol Bath, PhD 

Basel) 

Wood, Rachel Katherine Lloyd, BA, 

MSt, DPhil 

Yamaura, Chigusa, (BA Komazawa, 

MA Chicago, PhD Rutgers) 

Yu, Ying, (BA Chongqing, LLM 

Dalian, PhD Wuhan) 

Creative Arts Fellow 

Pierpan, Nicholas Cole, MPhil, DPhil 

(BA Bowdoin) 

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College Officers 

President Professor Dame Hermione Lee (on research leave MT 2015) 

Acting President Professor Christina Redfield (MT 2015) 

Vicegerent 

Professor Marcus Banks 

Bursar Mr Edward Jarron (retires end of MT 2015) 

Bursar-Elect Mr Richard Morin (as of HT 2016) 

Senior Tutor 

Development Director 

Fellow for Library and Archives 

Deans of Degrees 

Secretary to the Governing Body 

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer 

Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer 

Ms Gillian Hamnett 

Mr William Conner 

Dr Ellen Rice 

Professor B C Sykes/Dr J B Lewis/ 

Dr R S O Tomlin/Professor C Redfield 

Professor Bettina Lange 

Professor Anne Deighton 

Dr Dan Isaacson 

College Membership 

Governing Body Fellows 59 

Honorary Fellows 21 

Emeritus Fellows 48 

Supernumerary Fellows 26 

Research Fellows 49 

Socio-Legal Research Fellows 2 

Junior Research Fellows (Stipendiary) 4 

Junior Research Fellows (Non-Stipendiary) 55 

Visiting Fellows 1 

Graduate Students 628 

Members of Common Room 807 

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Abbreviations 

EF 

EXF 

GBF 

GS 

HF 

HMCR 

IF 

JRF 

MCR 

RMCR 

RF 

SJRF 

SF 

SLAS 

VF 

VS 

Emeritus Fellow 

Extraordinary Fellow 

Governing Body Fellow 

Graduate Student 

Honorary Fellow 

Honorary Member of Common Room 

Industrial Fellow 

Junior Research Fellow 

Member of Common Room 

Research Member of Common Room 

Research Fellow 

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow 

Supernumerary Fellow 

Socio-Legal Academic Staff 

Visiting Fellow 

Visiting Scholar 

Landscape of crocuses in sunlight 

Photographer: Nicolas Richards 

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Editor’s Note 

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world. This Record covers the academic year 2014–15, and the Degrees and Diplomas 

listed are those which were conferred during that year. 

Please send, by e-mail if possible, any changes of address, personal and professional 

news including books (but not articles) published to college.secretary@wolfson. 

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permission be sought to publish. 

We gratefully acknowledge photographs in this year’s Record by Phil G Brown, 

John Cairns, Anne Coventry, Robert Eyles, Tracy Fuzzard, Jacob Ghazarian, 

B J Harris, Hannah Jongsma, Jim Kennedy, Emma McIntosh, Bernadette Meade, 

Chris Nixon, Nicholas Richards, Walter Sawyer, Derek Sobon, Greg Smolonski, 

Roger Tomlin, and of Brian Aldiss (photographer unknown). Drawing by David 

Gentleman, watercolour by Erin Cutts. 

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The President’s Letter 

Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the College, a momentous landmark in 

our history. But in the lead-up to that important year, I am glad to report that there 

is a great deal of activity meanwhile, many successes and distinctions to record, and 

many changes and developments to mark. 

I start, though, as I must, with our sorrows. 

The academic year 2014–15 has been shadowed by the death of our dear friend and 

colleague, devoted Wolfsonian and notable English poet, editor and biographer, 

Jon Stallworthy. 2014, the year of the commemoration of the outbreak of the Great 

War, should have been a year of great acclaim and public activity for him. Instead, 

in the summer his illness took rapid hold of him and he died at his home, on 19 

November 2014. Those of us who knew him well and depended on his good counsel, 

his unfailing warmth, humour and charm, and his astonishing energies, miss him 

dreadfully. But everyone in the College feels the loss of one of our most dedicated 

and distinguished Fellows. It was some consolation to us all to be able to celebrate 

his life and work in front of a large gathering of friends and family and colleagues 

from far and wide, in Hall on 16 January 2015, two days before what would have 

been his eightieth birthday. We are hoping to found a Jon Stallworthy poetry prize 

for graduate students, to be run by Wolfson and the English Faculty, and to be 

based at Wolfson. 

We mourn also the death of Isaiah Berlin’s widow and the College’s Honorary 

Fellow, patron and friend, Aline, Lady Berlin, on 25 August 2014, just short of 

her hundredth birthday. We were deeply sorry to hear of the death from an illness 

bravely borne of our student Raja Oueis, who began his DPhil in Engineering here 

in MT 2013, suspended his course in HT 2014 and returned home to Lebanon for 

treatment, and died on 10 February 2015. We mark the passing of the Buddhist 

scholar Lance Cousins, who was Supernumerary Fellow and then a Member of 

Common Room. The whole College deeply misses Bernie’s husband Chris Meade, 

who worked with Karl Davies’s team for many years, and was much loved for his 

care of others, his dedication to his work and the sweetness of his nature. Chris died 

on 19 October 2014. 

We were deeply sorry to hear of the death on 3 February 2015, after a long illness, 

of our distinguished colleague and Emeritus Fellow, Professor Basil Shepstone, 

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Professor of Radiology. By way of advice to newcomers to Oxford, Basil used to 

quote the words of Sir Kenneth Wheare, one-time Rector of Exeter: ‘It’s no good 

pretending to be clever at Oxford – everyone here’s clever – but if you’re nice, you’ll 

go far.’ Basil was clever, and nice. 

We have to say some farewells. Two of our distinguished Fellows have been lured 

elsewhere: Professor Hein de Haas to a prestigious Chair in Sociology, in particular 

the study of Migration and Social Cohesion, at the University of Amsterdam; and 

Professor Stefan Dercon, who is returning to Oxford after his secondment to the 

Department for International Development as Chief Economist, to take up a Chair 

in Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School with a Fellowship at Jesus College. We 

congratulate them both and will miss them both. Our recent and future Governing 

Body retirees are Susan Walker, Bryan Sykes and Chris Davis, and they will be or 

have been duly and deservedly celebrated at a Retirement Dinner. 

We have new arrivals and achievements to celebrate too. Our new Governing Body 

Fellows are Professor Paul Roberts, replacing Susan Walker as the Sackler Keeper 

of Antiquities at the Ashmolean, and Professor Matthew Costa, Professor of 

Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. Christopher Hodges, Professor of Justice Systems, 

becomes a new Supernumerary Fellow, and we welcome as new Honorary Fellows 

John Adams, lawyer, investment manager, Adjunct Professor in Political Science at 

Rutgers, benefactor to the College and Chairman and Founder of the Foundation 

for Law, Justice and Society; Henry Hardy, eminent editor of Isaiah Berlin, and 

long-term member of Wolfson; and Michael MacDonald, Fellow of the Khalili 

Research Centre in Oriental Studies and expert on the languages, pre-history and 

rock-art of Syria, Jordan and Arabia. 

As always, we celebrate our distinguished academic connections, and we also 

celebrate the daily work done by all our members. The College functions as well as it 

does because of the team of dedicated, hard-working and professionally committed 

people who work here in every department. In that context I want to pay especial 

thanks to Sue Hales, Juliet Montgomery, Therese Herbert, Barry Coote, Louise 

Gordon, Rose Truby, Mike Pearson, and Angela Jones. We welcome as new arrivals 

Kate Gear, as our new Academic Registrar, Jane Kerry to the Lodge, Elliot Falvert- 

Martin to the Development Office, and Emma McIntosh to the Communications 

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team. The running of the College depends to a huge extent on a great range of 

talents, and in charge of most of them is our magnificent Bursar, Ed Jarron. It seems 

improbable and profoundly unwelcome that we are going to be saying goodbye to 

Ed at the end of this calendar year, but it is so. There will be more, much more, to 

say about this later in the year, and this time next year. For the moment, Ed receives 

our profound thanks. 

The Academic Wing, Phase II of our new building, which Ed Jarron and Barry 

Coote have been masterfully overseeing, promises to be completed, splendidly, on 

time and under budget. Completion is due in December, and the grand opening will 

be on 10 March 2016. 

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Photographer: Emma McIntosh

On 8 June 2015, I hosted a large-scale event for the Wolfson Foundation’s sixtieth 

Anniversary: the Foundation is ten years older than we are, and our histories 

are closely entwined. About 150 people from the academic and the arts world – 

museums, galleries, theatres, concert halls – came to hear Neil MacGregor talk 

about the arts in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium and to enjoy a fine banquet 

in the Hall. Enthusiasm among this discerning group for the Auditorium was 

universal, and admiring eyes were cast up at the burgeoning Academic Wing. 

Buildings are not the whole story of Wolfson College. Wolfsonians win prizes, 

we get awards, we raise funds, and we take honours. The fabulous Jonathan Pila 

was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Hein de Haas was awarded a very large 

grant by the ERC for a 5-year research project on ‘Migration as Development’: all 

the more reason to lament his departure. Paul Aveyard starred in a popular and 

significant BBC Horizon programme on treatments for obesity. Gillies McKenna 

and his team received a major grant of £35,000,000 for the foundation of the 

Precision Cancer Medical Institute. Our Research Fellow Despoina Mavridou 

gained a five year Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council 

for research on antibiotic resistance. Our JRF Jason Nurse, who works on 

identity exposure risks in cyberspace, was recognised as Rising Star by EPSRC. 

Four Wolfsonians, Julie Curtis, Jas Elsner, Feliciano Giustino, and Christopher 

Hodges, gained Professorships in this year’s Recognition of Distinction exercise. 

Our colleagues George Kunnath and Anne Deighton were shortlisted for OUSU 

teaching awards, with Marc Ventresca winning OUSU’s ‘Most Acclaimed Lecturer 

in the Social Sciences.’ 

The Development Office has had an outstanding year, with many events and 

successes, including an unprecedentedly fruitful telethon, an excellent alumni 

weekend in Vienna, a superb London Lecture given by Susan Walker at Lincoln’s 

Inn, large sums raised through crowdfunding for Tibetan and Himalayan studies, 

and several notable new gifts and scholarship funds, including a major pledge for a 

scholarship in Ancient World studies. Our thanks and appreciation to Bill Conner, 

Kathie Mackay and Elliot Falvert-Martin. 

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The Senior Tutor, Gillian Hamnett’s, Academic Office goes from strength to 

strength, and our students, as always, are at the heart of everything we do. We 

currently have 628 students from all over the world, 229 of whom arrived this 

year, and 437 of whom are DPhil students. We have 2 Rhodes scholars and 9 

Wolfson Foundation Humanities scholars. We are doing as much as we can to help 

and support our graduates. The Development and Academic offices’ goal of fifty 

scholarships for the fiftieth anniversary is nearly in sight. We currently award 36 

scholarships (as compared with 28 this time last year), with that number set to rise 

to 46 next year. We gave out 155 travel and conference awards and 28 academic 

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

academic bursaries was just over £309,000. ‘Wolfson Innovate’, or WIN, our social 

entrepreneurship initiative, is thriving under the guiding hand of Pat Nuttall, with 

the promise of more funding and more events to come. 

This year our named lectures have been variously dramatic, entertaining, revealing 

and absorbing, including our first Sarfraz Lecture on Pakistan, the Syme Lecture, 

impeccably done by Christopher Pelling, the Haldane Lecture by Chris Stringer 

– on our close connection to Neanderthal Man – proving highly popular and 

accessible; and a dazzling performance by Henry Hardy for a Berlin Lecture which 

for once was about Berlin, winningly called ‘The Genius and the Pedant’. 

Chris Pelling Henry Hardy Photographer: John Cairns 

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Bryan Sykes gave an amusing and idiosyncratic lecture on the evidence for the Yeti. 

We have had some fascinating art shows – especially one of Japanese Children’s War 

Diaries – for which our thanks go, as always, to Jan Scriven. We have heard some 

superb concerts given by the Fournier Trio, and some exciting music by courtesy 

of John Duggan, whom we shall be sorry to say goodbye to as an exceptionally 

generous, collegial, and enterprising Creative Arts Fellow. The President’s 

Seminars – this year on the topics of Food, Shocks, and The City – are thriving. 

The Academic Clusters have been doing so much that I can only mention a 

few highlights here. They include a vigorous year of events in the South Asia 

Cluster; quantum brainstorming with beer and pizzas at the Quantum Cluster; an 

international workshop on Optimizing Behavioural Interventions for the Mind, 

Brain and Behaviour Cluster; a major re-alignment of the Digital Cluster in 

collaboration with the Oxford e-Research Center; and the highly successful crowdfunding 

campaign and the constructing of an annual Aris Lecture for Tibetan and 

Himalayan studies. The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society held numerous 

activities on its tenth anniversary, including a debate on Scotland’s membership of 

the EU and a keynote lecture by Richard Sorabji on freedom of speech. There were 

many Ancient World lectures and colloquia on topics ranging from Etruscan Art 

and Sacred Landscapes, to Roman construction and Biographies of Buildings. At the 

Life-Writing Centre, we had the annual Weinrebe Lectures, this year on ‘Political 

history and life-writing’, with Peter Hennessey, Margaret Macmillan, Roy Foster 

and our own Anne Deighton, an inspiring autobiographical talk by the redoubtable 

Vaira Vike-Friberga, ex-President of Latvia, and an all-day workshop on contested 

versions of family history, at which Jacob Dahl was a notable participant. 

Our charity AMREF, in support of health in Africa, has raised more than £4,000 

this year. Wolfson students have gained High Profile and Blues awards in the arts 

and in sport. We have done well in football and croquet, though Darwin Day, I 

note rapidly in passing, was great fun, but not a triumph. On the river, we were 

superstars. In Torpids we had eight boats racing for the first time, we bumped 

furiously and formidably, and all three of our women’s crews achieved blades, a feat 

never known before in the history of womankind on the River Thames. In Eights 

Week, our men’s and women’s third boats both won blades, and Wolfson finished, 

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as in Torpids, with the highest number of bumps of any college. Congratulations 

to all. 

Back in the quieter world of Wolfson’s landscape, one interesting and pleasant 

event this year was the opening of the gardens of the reclaimed Bishop’s House, 

on 30 April. The Bishop retired last autumn (using a removals firm called Bishops’ 

Move), and our gardeners moved in, with spectacular results. These entrancing 

gardens are now for all Wolfsonians to wander in, and were the scene of a bucolic 

and agreeable summer event on 27 June. The Bishop’s House is rented out for two 

years; after that, we will incorporate it into our College activities. 

I am grateful to the College for allowing me a few months’ of research leave, from 

mid-July to the end of December 2015, in order to work on a book, and to Christina 

Redfield for taking on the job, for the second time, of Acting President. I will be 

back for the start of the Anniversary Year, to which Wolfson College looks forward 

with excitement and confidence. 

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First Lady: Aline Berlin and Wolfson College 

‘a lady of grace and distinction’ (Arnold Goodman) 

In November 1965 the Fellows of Iffley College, one of the new graduate colleges 

recently established by the University to provide a proper collegiate home for 

Oxford academics who until then belonged to no college, and for the increasing 

influx of graduate students (especially in the sciences), decided that they wanted 

Isaiah Berlin to be their first head. At the time Berlin, then a fellow of All Souls 

and the second Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, was in Princeton 

as a visiting professor, but his wife, Aline, was briefly back in Oxford, and the 

decision was communicated to her in person by the historian Cecilia Dick, one of 

the founding Fellows of Iffley and later Domestic Bursar of Wolfson, as Iffley soon 

became. 

Aline (centre) looks on as Isaiah presents Edith Wolfson to the Queen, 

2 May 1968, at the laying of the College’s foundation stone 

Aline reported the invitation to her husband when she rejoined him soon 

afterwards, and encouraged him to respond positively. Her intense involvement and 

strong support were crucial not only to his acceptance of the position, but also to 

his notable success in occupying it for the best part of a decade. After Isaiah was 

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on board (in the teeth of opposition from some of his friends, including Cecilia 

Dick’s former husband), Aline helped to secure the new College’s endowment by 

first broaching the subject with the journalist Joseph Alsop, a close friend of the 

President of the Ford Foundation, McGeorge Bundy. She also spurred Isaiah to 

rise from his sickbed in April 1966 for a meeting of the Wolfson Foundation which 

might well have swung against the scheme if he had not been there in person to 

defend it against the nay-sayers, especially Solly Zuckerman. 

In short, Aline was a full partner from the very outset in Isaiah’s headship of 

the college that took the Wolfson name in 1966 – as indeed she was in all his 

key undertakings. She embraced the College and its egalitarian, pluralist ethos 

wholeheartedly, throwing herself into the role of First Lady to Wolfson’s President 

– the first of five such Ladies thus far. It was a role that was mutually beneficial: 

the College gained from Aline’s enthusiasm, unobtrusive generosity, wide-ranging 

friendships and not unlavish hospitality; and Aline’s modest, somewhat reticent, 

even self-doubting, temperament blossomed visibly in the rays of affection and 

gratitude that the College shone upon her. 

The College’s distinctive style is perhaps not what one would have expected of 

either Aline or Isaiah – Aline coming from the upper echelons of Russian-French 

Jewish society, Isaiah from All Souls – but so it was, and together they helped to 

create a new departure in Oxford’s collegiate structure, one that helped break the 

mould. Wolfson set a new benchmark in provision for graduate students – informal, 

friendly, family-oriented and fun, characteristics all of which Aline helped to foster. 

Aline’s contributions to Wolfson deserve to be better known. They were usually 

not publicly visible: she never wanted to call attention to herself. But now that she 

has been taken from us (she died in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine), the time has 

come to speak of them. 

To start with it should be put on record that Isaiah did not take his salary as 

President, which saved the College a great deal over his nine-year tenure. It is 

unlikely that he would have been able to make this contribution without Aline’s 

moral and financial support. But let us turn to more specific instances of her 

largesse. 

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Art in College 

Aline knew a great deal about art, had a considerable collection of paintings of her 

own, and also knew a number of prominent persons in the art world (her eldest 

son, Michel Strauss, was director of the Impressionist and Modern Art department 

of Sotheby’s). In addition, she had impeccable aesthetic taste (immediately evident 

when standing behind her elegant presence in the lunch queue), and provided Isaiah 

with an invaluable sounding-board when he was travelling in search of an architect. 

Moreover she influenced the decisions made about facing materials for the Linton 

Road buildings, and when she later suggested to one of the architects, Philip Powell, 

when viewing the completed new buildings with him, that the columns were too 

slender, Powell conceded the point. 

In January 1973, when the new buildings were well advanced, an Art subcommittee 

was formed, of which Aline was the guiding member, though she was not formally 

its chair. She was understandably unhappy with the bare walls of the new structure, 

especially in the main public rooms – the two Common Rooms and the Haldane 

Room – which lacked character and warmth. With this deficiency in mind she 

donated some pictures to the College herself, and, not being in a position to provide 

as many pictures as were needed, galvanised the Art sub-committee to confront the 

problem. She discovered from a friend at the Ashmolean Museum that it had an 

extensive basement store of pictures over and above those that could be displayed 

in its galleries at any one time. She arranged for the members of the sub-committee 

to visit this basement, and persuaded the museum to lend the College more or less 

anything the members of the sub-committee liked. There was great excitement 

when they found the four studies by Philip Webb for the stained-glass windows of 

the Signs of the Evangelists in the church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, 

that now perfectly grace the Haldane Room. These studies already boasted their 

current frames (an uncanny match to the panelling of the room), and were gathering 

dust in a bin. Later the sub-committee was also able to borrow a surprising number 

of high-quality small oil paintings (four that are still with us – by Vanessa Bell, 

Duncan Grant, Alfred Munnings and George Tuckwell – and works by Francisco 

Bores, Camille Pissarro and Ethel Sands), which have created a noticeably more 

civilised atmosphere in the Lower Common Room. 

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Isaiah himself was not especially interested in or knowledgeable about art, despite 

serving as a Trustee of the National Gallery for ten years after his retirement 

from Wolfson; so it was very much Aline who was responsible for making the 

new buildings look as good as they did, and for doing so from extremely limited 

resources. Over the course of several years she persuaded the College to contribute 

to a fund for buying further works of art; lent a considerable personal sum to the 

fund (and no doubt contributed to it outright as well); and also continued to donate 

items herself. A version of this fund still exists, and from time to time it enables a 

Wolfsonian to select new works for acquisition by the College, such as the Makonde 

sculpture in the Upper Common Room, chosen by Godfrey Lienhardt, or the David 

Roberts prints of Egypt, chosen by John Penney. When Aline heard of this last 

acquisition, she gave the College some prints of the Holy Land by the same artist 

that she owned, and all the Roberts prints now hang together in the Committee 

Room. It was Aline, too, who stimulated the purchase of the College’s two Piranesi 

prints. Finally, it was she who furnished the three Presidential rooms, to her own 

specification and at her own expense. 

Aline’s work for the Art Committee over the years was publicly acknowledged by 

a unanimous vote of thanks from the committee after her husband’s retirement 

from the Presidency in 1975, and endorsed at a general College meeting. She did 

not attend this meeting, but this was a gesture of recognition from which she drew 

quiet and well-deserved pleasure. 

Children in College 

One of the many ways in which Wolfson is distinctive in Oxford is that it takes 

seriously the fact that many of its members have, or will have while in College, 

young children. Provision for families was built into its design from the start. Aline 

spotted a gap in this provision: there were no integrated child-minding facilities, 

and she felt strongly that, in a modern institution of this kind, there should be. 

She privately funded the construction of a crèche-cum-nursery, asking that her 

support should remain confidential. This was an expensive item, but it has more 

than earned its keep by playing a central role in College life ever since. 

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College rowing 

Aline was also a keen supporter of the College Boat Club, which began life by using 

borrowed or hired boats of poor quality. She contributed some or more probably 

all of the considerable funds needed to purchase a new racing eight, again in secret 

(hence the uncertainty about the financial details). The new boat was named the 

Aline, reflecting both the overall impact she made on the College, and the enormous 

affection in which she was held by the graduate body. 

Aline and Wolfson graduate students (Daniel Weiss second from 

left) at the Isis boathouses, Torpids, March 1972 

These are only highlights of Aline’s multi-faceted input into College life. No doubt 

there are many other stories to be told, and with luck one day some of them will be, 

maybe in these pages. In the meantime: Aline, we salute your memory! 

This tribute is based on records and reminiscences contributed by Liz Baird, Sam Guttenplan, 

Peter Halban, Henry Hardy (who stitched the contributions together), John Penney, Mark 

Pottle and Jan Scriven. 

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Chris Meade 

(1932 - 2014) 

Many members of the College will remember with fondness 

Chris Meade, who passed away peacefully on 19 October 2014, 

aged 81 years. 

Chris started work at Wolfson on 14 October 2003, and for 

more than a decade he and his wife Bernie were regular servers 

at Thursday guest nights and many other events, including the 

new students’ dinners. At times Chris would turn his hand to 

serving at the counter in the kitchen, and could be relied upon to be charming and 

helpful no matter how busy and hectic things were. He particularly made his mark 

in the Upper Common Room, where he served coffee with humour and a cheery 

chat for everyone. He was very much a part of Wolfson’s community, and gave 

and received gentle ribbings with delight. A fond joke was that Karl, the Steward, 

would fire him during most shifts – so much so that if he was not sacked, he would 

point it out with disappointment. Chris took particular pride in helping people with 

a professional yet personal manner, and will be greatly missed. 

As a token of esteem, an inscribed bronze disc bearing his name has been added 

to one of the Hall chairs in his memory. His wife Bernie remains a stalwart of the 

Catering front-of-house team, and continues to serve at guest nights and other 

events. 

Louise Calder 

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Sandra Burman 

(1944–2015) 

Sandra was born in South Africa. After completing her BA at the University of 

Cape Town, she qualified in Law and came to Oxford, where she read PPE at Lady 

Margaret Hall (BA 1968) and wrote a DPhil thesis (1974) entitled ‘Cape policies 

towards African law in Cape tribal territories, 1872-1883’ which focused on the 

change in African customary law and society in late nineteenth-century South 

Africa. 

She joined Wolfson (MCR 1976–2015) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, where 

she pursued her studies in customs and legal issues, subjects she systematically 

developed in South Africa where, at the time of her death, she was Emeritus Professor 

of Socio-Legal Research at the University of Cape Town. In an obituary tribute on 

behalf of the university and Law Faculty, Professor Hugh Corder observed that 

‘Sandra was an extraordinary intellectual pioneer’ in her unflagging efforts for 

enlightenment and justice on socio-legal questions. Her inaugural lecture on 23 

October 1996 was a memorable occasion: ‘Luxury or necessity? Socio-legal studies 

for South Africa.’ 

For more than thirty years, Sandra wrote books and articles and held conferences 

against apartheid, her legal studies giving her an invaluable perspective on the 

issues that would need to be addressed under a new system. Her books reflected 

her lifelong pursuit of justice for all South Africans, ranging from Chiefdom politics 

and alien law: Basutoland under Cape rule 1871–1884 (1981) to what I believe was her 

last book, when she was a contributing editor to The fate of the child: legal decisions 

on children in the new South Africa (2003). 

A feature of Sandra’s character was a strong determination to address problems 

and solve them. To this end, one summer’s evening she taught several of us to punt, 

on the grounds that she was tired of doing all the punting from Wolfson to the 

Victoria Arms. In Wolfson, she was a well-known, enthusiastic, and accomplished 

punter. With flying strawberry-blond hair, she presented an elegant, slight figure 

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with punt pole in hand; her skill best described as a triumph of technique over 

stature. 

It should not be forgotten that Sandra and those who shared her convictions 

lived in a sinister atmosphere during the apartheid years. As is well known, the 

Hoffenbergs were obliged to leave South Africa during this time. There was at 

least one South African agent in Oxford who took a particularly close interest in 

Sandra’s comings and goings between Oxford and Cape Town. The continued 

interest of the apartheid government in her activities did not surprise me, nor the 

fact that she was undeterred by inquiries, for after I had known her some years, 

I discovered by chance that she was deeply involved in promoting scholarships 

for South African students to study in England. It was typical of Sandra that this 

was a chance discovery. From then on it was clear to me that she was one of those 

individuals who ‘do good by stealth’. 

Some years ago, I asked Sandra why she had chosen to focus her research in South 

Africa on the funding and support of education, on medical treatment, and on 

social support and housing under the apartheid laws. Her reply was, ‘When the 

government changes’ – not, be it noted, if the government changes – ‘we must 

be ready with the facts and figures.’ And she was ready: she was often quoted in 

debates in the South African Parliament, and she contributed to the drafting of the 

new South African Constitution and to related laws. 

On 15 February 2015 at Wolfson, a memorial meeting was held to celebrate the life 

of Sandra Burman. The toast was: ‘To Sandra, and to Life!’ 

Désirée Park (VF 1985–86, MCR) 

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Jon Stallworthy 

(1935–2014) 

Jon Howie Stallworthy, FBA, FRSL, poet, biographer and literary scholar, 

died on 19 November 2014 

Jon Stallworthy’s recitation of his poem ‘This Morning’, which he recorded for 

the inauguration of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium in June 2013, would have 

poignant significance eighteen months later. On 16 January 2015, two days before 

what would have been his eightieth birthday, it allowed his ghostly presence to open 

a Celebration of his life and work. Colleagues, fellow poets and former students, 

all of whom were privileged to be counted also amongst his friends, read – to a 

packed Hall – from poems, letters and memoirs by, among others, Wilfred Owen, 

John Keats, Louis MacNeice, Alexander Blok, as well as Stallworthy himself. Ivor 

Gurney’s ‘Requiem’ was set to music by John Duggan and sung by his company 

of singers. It was the College’s tribute to a man who had served it for nearly 

thirty years as a Fellow, Vicegerent and (twice) as Acting President. Throughout 

he guided both Wolfson and his legion of students with characteristic energy, 

generosity, good humour and gravitas. 

Jon Howie Stallworthy was born in London on 18 January 1935 to New Zealand 

parents, John (later Sir John) Stallworthy, a renowned surgeon and professor of 

obstetrics and gynaecology, and Margaret (Peggy), née Howie, who is credited 

with giving her son his ‘first taste of poetry’ with the nursery rhymes she sang 

to him as a small child. Educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Rugby, 

Stallworthy served as Second Lieutenant in the Nigerian Regiment of the West 

African Frontier Force in the mid-1950s. Having completed his National Service, 

he took up his place at Oxford to study English literature at Magdalen, where in 

1958 he won the Newdigate Prize for his poem ‘The Earthly Paradise’. He fondly 

and amusingly recalled his ‘Monday afternoons in Wadham’ with his tutor Maurice 

Bowra, though Stallworthy’s energetic athletic endeavours as a Rugby Blue seemed 

his main preoccupation: ‘The hours I spent in the library, under the glazed gaze 

of Addison, Dryden, and Waller, were fewer than those spent at the Iffley Road 

rugger ground.’ While he gave up playing in his final year as a student, his love of 

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the game – and his allegiance to the All Blacks – never left him. Bowra nevertheless 

fired Stallworthy’s enthusiasm to study W B Yeats. The fruits of this research were 

subsequently published as Between the Lines: W.B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making (1963), 

which won the M L Rosenthal Award, and Vision and Revision in Yeats’s Last Poems 

(1969). 

Stallworthy’s devotion to another poet sealed his scholarly reputation. When he 

delivered the British Academy’s Chatterton Lecture in 1970, taking as his subject 

Wilfred Owen, in the audience that night was Harold Owen. So impressed with the 

lecture was Owen that he asked Stallworthy to write his elder brother’s biography. 

Thus in 1971 Stallworthy was commissioned jointly by Oxford University 

Press and Chatto and Windus to write first, the biography, and second, to edit a 

comprehensive edition of Owen’s poems and fragments. Wilfred Owen (1974) was 

called ‘one of the finest biographies of our time’ by Graham Greene, and went on 

to win the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1974), the W H Smith Literary Award 

(1975), and the E M Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 

(1976). The two-volume Complete Poems and Fragments (1983) was followed by 

subsequent editions of the Selected Poems. From then on, ‘Stallworthy’ and ‘Owen’ 

were names that were almost inextricably linked. 

This ‘soldier-poet’ was not the only beneficiary of Stallworthy’s biographical and 

editorial skills. Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok, Henry Reed and the lesserknown 

Geoffrey Dearmer, all came under his expert eye, while his biography of 

Louis MacNeice (1998), which won the Southern Arts Literary Prize, did much to 

reinvigorate interest in MacNeice’s poetry. He was also a champion of the oftenneglected 

poets of the Second World War, especially Keith Douglas. Stallworthy 

embarked on what became The Penguin Book of Love Poetry (1973) ‘to sweeten’, he 

wrote, ‘an imagination otherwise occupied by the war poems of Wilfred Owen’, 

though he returned to the subject of war with The Oxford Book of War Poetry (1984) 

and continued to define war literature studies thereafter. His critical essays, which 

reflected the historical sweep of his interest in the poetry of warfare, were collected 

in Survivors’ Songs: from Maldon to the Somme in 2008. 

As a contributing editor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The 

Norton Anthology of Poetry, Stallworthy helped to shape the literary knowledge 

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of countless college and university students. Indeed his reputation as a scholar is 

equally matched by his legacy as a teacher and mentor to students far and wide, 

many of whom have followed in his footsteps as academics. 

Yet the biographer, literary critic, editor and teacher, was, above all, a poet. The 

boy who, as he recalled in Singing School: the Making of a Poet (1998), realised that 

‘what I most wanted in the world to do was to write poems’, matured into the man 

that published his first volume, The Astronomy of Love, in 1961. This was followed 

over the course of his lifetime by eleven other volumes including Root and Branch 

(1969), Hand in Hand (1974), A Familiar Tree (1978), The Anzac Sonata (1986), The 

Guest from the Future (1995), Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems (1998), and Body 

Language (2004). All are permeated by Stallworthy’s themes of love (sensual, lost, 

and deferred), family, lineage and history, and are characterized both by technical 

skill, the measured lines and rhythms of intentionally controlled verse, and by the 

simplicity and directness of their message. 

As poetry editor at Oxford University Press alongside John Bell, Stallworthy was 

instrumental in ushering into publication the work of other poets of the 1960s and 

early 1970s. Thus it was no surprise that when in 1998, OUP decided to close down 

its poetry list, Stallworthy was one of its most vocal opponents. He played a major 

role in securing the titles for the Carcanet Press, where his own poems continue to 

be published. 

Jon Stallworthy moved from the world of publishing to the world of academe when 

he took up the post of John Wendell Anderson Professor of English Literature 

at Cornell University in 1977. After nearly ten years of teaching in America, he 

returned to Oxford, becoming, in 1986, Reader and Professor of English Literature 

and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College. 

In retirement as Professor Emeritus and the senior Trustee of the Wilfred Owen 

Literary Estate, Stallworthy could be usually be found working in his rooms at 

Wolfson, in a modern penthouse eyrie that overlooked the College harbour and 

the River Cherwell. He was in frequent demand as a speaker at literary events 

and conferences, and was a favourite tutor on the Oxford University Continuing 

Education Department’s Creative Writing Summer School. A Fellow of the British 

Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry 

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Award in 2010 in recognition of the sustained body of his work. 

For over forty years, he was married to Gillian (Jill) Waldock, who died, aged 74, 

on 19 March 2013. Together they had three children, Jonathan, Pippa, Nicholas 

who, along with three grandchildren, MacNair, Constance, and Nell, survive them. 

In what was to be the last year of his life, Stallworthy’s published output was great, 

with revised and updated editions of his biography of Owen, of the Complete Poems 

and Fragments, and the New Oxford Book of War Poetry. In each he reflected on the 

changes in the reputation of Owen and of war poetry in the years since his texts 

were first published. His final volume of poems is appropriately titled War Poet 

(2014). 

Although he was too ill to attend the First World War centenary conferences at 

Oxford and the British Academy in the autumn of 2014, his spirit was palpably 

present, invoked as he was often by those for whom his work has been so central 

and his knowledge and guidance so generously, warmly given. 

When a recording of Jon reading ‘A poem is’ concluded Wolfson’s Celebration 

in January, not even the happy strains of Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from ‘Eugene 

Onegin’ that followed could assuage the sadness of his passing. 

Recordings of Jon Stallworthy reading his poems for the Poetry Archive can be 

found at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/jon-stallworthy and videos of him 

discussing his New Oxford Book of War Poetry can be viewed at: https://www. 

youtube.com/watch?v=aDIuZdcCGw8 

Jane Potter 

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Jon Stallworthy, Acting President in 2008 

Photographer: Roger Tomlin 

In the Record for 2005–06, Jon Stallworthy reflected on the practice 

of commemoration by planting a tree. 

In Praise of Trees 

For as long as I can remember, I’ve looked at trees with a deeper admiration and 

affection than I’ve been able to offer flowers. I climbed them endlessly as a boy 

and grew to love their stubborn rootedness, their changing colours, their powers 

of renewal. Recognizing this, my father bought and had me plant half a dozen 

chestnut saplings on the morning of day I left home for boarding school. ‘When 

you’re a man, they’ll be much taller than you’, he said. 

Now, looking back at my awakening to the pleasures of ‘making, judging and 

knowing’ poems, I see that many of my favourites were focussed on trees: Housman’s 

‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry’; Yeats’s ‘chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer’; 

Frost’s ‘Birches’; MacNeice’s ‘Tree party’, with its final toast: 

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Your health, Master Yew. My bones are few 

And I fully admit my rent is due, 

But do not be vexed, I will postdate a cheque for you. 

When my own early poems began to find a voice (distinct from that of Dylan 

Thomas, a potent influence), they often spoke of trees which, though silent, had a 

symbolic role in the action. Out of Bounds, my second book, began in a landscape 

‘dizzy with orchards’ and ended in a wintry churchyard at the brink of a grave, 

and the grave suddenly 

healed with fine snow, and every tree 

in sight bowing a moonlit head. 

The unspecified orchards, woods, and trees of those early poems soon gave way to 

particular trees: ‘A Barbican Ash’, ‘Elm End’, and ‘The Almond Tree’ that would 

eventually be incorporated into A Familiar Tree. This book-length poem starts from 

– and returns to – an English oak, pausing on its journey in the shade of a giant 

New Zealand kauri. 

‘What is a Kauri?’ I can hear you say. 

A thousand years ago it was a seed 

That sprung a root the land took to its heart, 

Raised to a sapling slender as a reed. 

Before the land existed on a chart, 

Its dark veins fed the dark veins of the tree 

And swelled the lengthening grain, the branching crown 

That lifted century by century, 

As ferns and tree-ferns rose and rotted down. 

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Kauri trees: drawn by David Gentleman to illustrate Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree 

(Oxford University Press, 1978). 

Aware of my arboreal interests (and also, no doubt, that ‘my rent is due’), the 

Recording Angel, editor of our College Record – has asked me whether there was 

a tree by which I would wish to be commemorated. I think the answer has to be a 

scion of the great walnut in my garden. If this grew – as I would hope – to the size 

of its parent, it would offer an afterlife I imagined in a poem called ‘Resurrection’: 

At midday the tree 

in the garden throws 

a net over me. 

Restrained by shadows 

as if, while I lay 

at its foot, roots rose 

and closed over me, 

I can feel only 

the pulse of the tree. 

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It draws up, steady 

as mercury 

from my dark body, 

columns of clear 

sap. Distilled to this, 

I could lie here 

forever, putting 

my heart into 

building and rigging 

a beech trunk to climb 

every year at this 

leafmaking time. 

And every year 

under me singing, 

swinging, I should hear 

children whose fathers 

call to them nightly 

moving among the stars. 

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Alumni Relations and Development 2014–15 

A message from Bill Connor, the Development Director 

As we come closer to the College’s fiftieth anniversary in 2016, we have focused 

on completing the Academic Wing and achieving our ambition of fifty fully funded 

scholarships. At the end of July 2015, we have 48 DPhil scholarships fully funded, 

with many of them, but not all, being endowed. That leaves us with two more to 

find before the end of 2015. Over forty have already been awarded, and most of the 

recipients are now enrolled. At a time of enormous need for student support, the 

Wolfson community has come through with this outstanding result. Thanks to 

everyone who helped to make it happen. 

View from existing entrance 

Earlier gifts for the Academic Wing have been increased by a generous gift in 

memory of Jon Stallworthy, and smaller items such as trees and stone benches. In 

Michaelmas term 2015, a final campaign will be launched to get everyone involved 

as we approach the day in mid-December when we expect to receive the keys 

from the builders. The new wing will add 400 square metres to the Library, and 

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more social space, offices and meeting rooms. It will transform the entrance to the 

College. 

We have had an exciting year with alumni events. We began by hosting a special 

University reunion focused on social enterprise followed by a Wolfson gaudy. At 

Christmas the President hosted a reception in London at the Athenaeum. In April 

Dr Susan Walker gave this year’s London Lecture, ‘Mirror Image: What happened 

to Celtic art in Roman Britain?’ The College’s extensive programme of lectures, 

concerts and other special events, continues to attract large audiences. The splendid 

new Auditorium is being well used and has proven an asset to the College. 

We have also broken new ground with crowdfunding. Wolfson launched the first 

crowdfunded campaign for an academic subject at Oxford, to extend a Research 

Fellowship in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, which raised over £50,000. The 

annual telephone campaign in which we reconnect with alumni all over the world 

achieved twice last year’s total and broke new records. 

Many members of the Wolfson community have contributed to plans for the fiftieth 

anniversary, for which a full schedule will be available toward the end of 2015. 

Many exciting lectures and events have been arranged, but the most important will 

be the weekend of celebrations during 8–10 July. Mark your diaries: we hope to see 

you in Oxford. 

Many thanks to everyone for your interest in the College and support for our many 

initiatives. 

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Strategy Group Members 

Mr John Adams 

Mr Mueen Afzal 

Dr Thomas Black 

Dr Gerald Chan 

Lord Gowrie 

Mr Peter Halban 

Lady Hoffenberg 

Dr Philip Kay 

Mr Sam Laidlaw 

Ms Rosemary Leith 

Dr Mark Merrony 

Mr George Nianias 

Professor Pat Nuttall 

Ms Catherine Quinn 

Dr Christopher Rose 

Mr Thomas Sharpe, QC 

Dr Kenneth Tregidgo 

Baron Lorne Thyssen- 

Bornemisza 

Lady Patricia Williams 

Dr Allen Zimbler 

List of donors 

2014‒15 

The Romulus Society 

Principal Gifts (£50,000+) 

Anonymous 

Mr John Adams 

Mr Christian Levett 

Estate of Dr Francis Marriot 

Morningside Foundation 

Miss Carol O’Brien 

Oxford Graduate Match Funding 

Scheme 

Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza 

Mrs Dina Ullendorff 

Wolfson Foundation 

President’s Fund (£20,000) 

Anonymous 

Berlin Charitable Trust 

Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 

Estate of Professor Anna Morpurgo 

Davies 

Dr Simon Harrison 

Professor Sir Charles Hoare 

International Communication 

Foundation 

(YBM Si-sa Corporation) 

TISE Foundation 

Estate of Mr MaxWatson 

Patron (£10,000+) 

John Howell and Co Ltd 

2nd J A Littman Foundation 

Live to Love UK 

Mr Max Watson 

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Sponsor (£5,000+) 

Mr Kim Aris 

Derek Hill Foundation 

Mr Oliver Hoare 

Investec Bank Plc 

Dr Christopher Rose and 

Dr Camille Stoll-Davey 

Mr Aamer Sarfraz 

Estate of Jon Stallworthy 

Member (£1,000+) 

Anonymous 

Mrs Marie-Laure Aris 

Dr Stephen Donaldson 

Mr John Eskenazi 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Dr Joshua Ginsberg 

Professor Jan Gralla 

Dorothy Holmes Charitable Trust 

Dr Peter Iredale and Mrs Judith Iredale 

Dr Ira Lieberman 

Nicholas John Trust 

Dr Andrew Prentice 

Dennis Sciama Memorial Fund 

Mr Thomas Sharpe 

Mr Graeme Skene 

Mrs Juliet Sohns 

Mrs Anne Tardy 

Dr Kenneth Tregidgo 

Dr Jean de Vries 

Dr Anthony Wierzbicki 

The President’s Club 

(£500+) 

Professor Douglas Abraham 

Professor Martin Arkowitz 

Mr Girindre Beeharry 

Professor Derek Boyd 

Dr Raymond Chen 

Mr William Conner 

Mr Karl Davies 

Professor Clifford Jones 

Kailash – Tibet Charitable Trust 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

Dr Roland Littlewood 

Mrs Suzanne Marett-Crosby 

Professor Kevan Martin 

Dr Darren Morofke 

Dr Benito Müller 

Mr Adam Munthe 

Mr Lewis Owens 

Mrs Judith Peters 

Dr Ulrike Roesler 

Dr Alison Salvesen 

Sir David Smith 

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji 

Dr Christopher Staker 

Mrs Lindsay Stead 

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Dr Leslie Tupchong 

Dr Anthony Wickett 

Supporters of the College 

(£100+) 

Dr Kristian Andenaes 

Dr Geoffrey Anstis 

Professor Jonathan Arch 

Mr Anthony Aris 

Mr Birker Bahnsen 

Professor Sir John Ball 

Dr Simon Barker 

Mr Stephen Barry 

Dr Annabel Beacham 

The Revd Dr William Beaver 

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Pawlikowski 

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Dr Simon Dowell 

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Professor Thomas Figueira 

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Professor Peter Flewitt 

Mr David Freestone 

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Dr Matthew Frohn 

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Mr Slair Gelain 

Professor Deborah Gera 

Brigadier Alan Gordon 

Dr Michael Gover 

Ms Elizabeth Guckenheimer 

Professor Barbara Harriss-White 

Dr Sabina Heinz 

Dr Stephen Hemingway 

Dr Paul Henry 

Ms Patricia Herbert 

Dr Peter Herissone Kelly 

Dr Raymond Higgins 

Mrs Louise Hillman 

Dr David Holloway 

Dr Susan Hookham 

Professor Jonathan Hyde 

Professor Tal Ilan 

Dr Susan Iles 

Mr Lama Jabb 

Mrs Linda Johnson 

Dr Carolyn Kagan 

Dr Lorcan Kennan 

Ms Joan Kisylia 

Professor John Koumoulides 

Dr Helen Lambert 

Ms Patricia Langton 

Dr Margaret Laskey 

Dr Robin Leake 

Professor Joseph Little 

Professor Marc Mangel 

Dr Ian Martin 

Dr Robert Mason 

Dr Jody Maxmin 

Miss Susan May 

Dr Gregor McLean 

Dr Tom Mclean 

Dr Graham McVey 

Professor Daniel Mercola 

Mr Stewart Morgan 

Dr James Morrissey 

Mrs Lesley Murray 

Dr Mary New 

Mr Andrew Ockwell 

Dr John Pinot de Moira 

Dr Jacqueline Piper 

Mr Raymond Pow 

Professor Christina Redfield 

Mrs Susan Reid 

Dr Ruediger Reinecke 

Dr Julie Richardson 

Dr Donald Ringe 

Dr Andrew Roach 

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Professor David Roulston 

Miss Regina Saga 

Dr Ruben Santamaria 

Professor Iwan Saunders 

Mrs Michelle Schoch 

Professor Ora Schwarzwald 

Mr Philip Seeley 

Professor Joanna Shapland 

Dr Sunay Shah 

Professor Alan Spivey 

Mrs Gillian Stansfield 

Dr William Steele 

Dr Lloyd Strickland 

Professor Heinrich Taegtmeyer 

Dr Swee Thein 

Dr Noreen Thomas 

Dr Robert Thomas 

Professor Charles Thompson 

Dr Edward Thorogood 

Professor Sir Richard Trainor 

Dr John Troyer 

Dr Peter Turner 

Dr Kevin Varvell 

Mr Nouri Verghese 

Ms Lynn Villency Cohen 

Dr John Wells 

Dr Pippa Whitehouse 

Mr Peter Wilson 

Dr Nancy Winter 

Dr Tim Wolfenden 

Dr Katherine Young 

Friends of the College 

Miss Ariana Adjani 

Mrs Sarah Anderson 

Professor Ted Anderson 

Dr Wenjia Bai 

Professor Marcus Banks 

Professor Anat Barnea 

Professor Robert Baron 

Mr Christian Bell 

Mr Peter Berkowitz 

Dr Michael Bevir 

Dr Roma Bhattacharjea 

Dr Edwin Bone 

Dr Steven Bosworth 

Mr Simon Braune 

Ms Alexandra Bridges 

Mrs Eleanor Brock 

Dr Andrew Busby 

Dr Robin Buxton 

Mr Carl Calvert 

Miss Elizabeth Chatterjee 

Professor Catherine Ciepiela 

Miss Emma Cohen 

Dr Peter Coles 

Mr Douglas Colkin 

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Miss Victoria Condie 

Dr Linda Cooper 

Dr Rui Ponte Costa 

Dr Diana Crane 

Miss Isabelle Crossley 

Dr Anoushka Dave 

Lieutenant Colonel John Dean 

Dr Michael Dodd 

Mr Anthony Drayton 

Mr John Edgley 

Mr Dmitry Ermakov 

Ms Georgina Ferry 

Dr Seymour Feshbach 

Dr Clare Fewtrell 

Mr Thomas Filbin 

Dr Geoffrey Garton 

Dr Alun German 

Professor Giovanni Gorini 

Ms Susan Graham 

Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani 

Dr Richard Handel 

Professor Paul Harrison 

Mr Nicholas Hartley 

Dr David Haydock 

Dr Volker Heenes 

Miss Susan Henderson 

Professor James Henle 

Professor Michael Hitchman 

Ms Solja Höft 

Dr Paul Hunneyball 

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig 

Dr Emma Jaikaran 

Professor Ann Jefferson 

Dr Jeremy Johns 

Dr Barry Johnston 

Mr Tom Kelly 

Professor James Kister 

Dr Jonathan Lanman 

Professor Rosemary Lawton Smith 

Mrs Anna Le Moine-Gray 

Professor Eleanor Leach 

Mrs Tsung-yin Lewis 

Dr Brian Lloyd 

Mr John Long III 

Mr Stephen Ludlow 

Dr Claire Lyons 

Dr Nancy Macky 

Ms Rachel Macniven 

Mr Christopher Malone 

Mr Philip Mann 

Dr Vincent Mantle 

Mr Alan Mapstone 

Dr Diana Martin 

Dr Giovanni Mastrangelo 

Ms Marina Matteoni 

Dr Ruth McAdam 

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Ms Susan McMullin 

Miss Mira Mehta 

Dr Hugh Miller 

Miss Shriya Misra 

Mrs Elizabeth Mort 

Professor Philip Mountford 

Professor Andrew Neil 

Dr Jonathan Noble 

Miss Emmi Okada 

Professor William Paden 

Professor Edgar Palmer 

Dr Henry Parkinson 

Mr Adam Paster 

Mr Adam Pearcey 

Mr Damien Pearse 

Dr Joanna Perkins 

Mr Michael Peterer 

Professor Hermann Rauh 

Dr Bharti Reddy 

Mr Andrew Roberts 

Professor Peter Rhodes 

Professor Peter Rossington 

Dr Mary Rossiter 

Ms Enid Rubenstein 

Miss Mor Rubenstein 

Mr Malcolm Savage 

Mr Marc Sarazin 

Dr Max Schaefer 

Miss Jocelyn Spector 

Dr Meris Steele 

Ms Stephanie Steele 

Mr Peter Stewart 

Dr Fahmida Suleman 

Dr Steven Swain 

Dr Robert Tanner 

Dr David Taylor 

Professor Michael Tolley 

Mr Jean-Francois Trempe 

Dr Margaret Tucker 

Dr Michael Tully 

Mr Luis Valenzuela Rivera 

Mr Christopher Walton 

Mr Yu Wang 

Mrs Heather Waring 

Ms Julia Wheare 

Mr Oliver Whiteman 

Mr Geoffrey Willis 

Mrs Suzanne Wilson 

Mr Jonathan Woolf 

Dr Adam Wyatt 

Mr Chenglin Yang 

Mr Mackenzie Zalin 

Mr Oleksii Zerkalov 

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Gifts to the Library 2014–15 

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. Books have 

also been generously donated by those whose names follow, authors or contributors 

being identified by an asterisk. Thank you all. 

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian) 

Mrs Elizabeth Baird 

*Mrs Feroza Baldick (in memory of Dr 

Julian Baldick) 

*Dr Clare Broome Saunders 

Professor Christophe Bultmann 

*Professor Dame Averil Cameron 

*Professor Pamela Clemit 

Ms Miriam Driessen 

*Dr Jacob Ghazarian 

*Professor Barbara Harriss-White 

*Dr Martin Henig 

*Dr Michael Hilton 

*Henry Hardy and the Isaiah Berlin 

Literary Trust 

*Dr Raul Lafuente Sanchez 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

*Dr James Lewis 

Miss Camila Mella 

Mrs Serena Moore 

Ms Lucia Nixon 

*Katarine Norbury 

Dr Michael Phillips 

*Dr Philomen Probert 

*Charles Ramble and Ulrike Roesler 

Professor David Robey 

Professor Prabal Sen 


*Professor Jon Stallworthy 

*Mark Thompson 

*Dr William Twining 

*Dr Meinolf Vielberg 

Dr Susan Walker and Professor 

John Wilkes 

Ms Kim Wilkinson 

Dr Merryn Williams 

Professor David Zeitlyn 

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Scholarships, Travel Awards 

and Prizes 2014–15 

Fay and Roger Booker Material Sciences Travel Award 

Robert Abernethy 

The Godfrey Lienhardt Travel Grant 

Stephanie Postar (St Antony’s) 

Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship 

Biological, chemical or medical research 

Thomas Coxon 

Claudia Vadeboncoeur 

Isaiah Berlin / Clarendon Scholarships 

Humanities 

Georgiy Grebnyev 

Barak Blum 

Social Sciences 

Aran Davis 

Isaiah Berlin UKRC Scholarships 

Kathryn Olivarius 

Amar Hadzihasanovic 

Elo Luik 

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Physics Scholarships 

Benjamin Yadin 

James Sadler 

Jeremy Black Clarendon Scholarship 

Eva Miller 

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Scholarships 

Nanette O’Brien 

Alexis Brown 

with AHRC 

Oli Hazzard 

Lyndsey Jenkins 

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Lorne Thyssen Scholarship 

Maciej Wencel 

Oxford Wolfson Louis Littman Geza Vermes Graduate Scholarship 

Jon Davies 

Oxford Wolfson Marriot Graduate Scholarships 

Russell Henshaw 

Charlotte Diffey 

John Prince 

Xin Wei 

Mitko Sabev 

Fuchsia Hart 

Josie Kaye 

Ivan Cano Gomez 

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley Scholarship 

Joanna Morris 

Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Archaeology Department Scholarship 

Martin Gallagher 

The Wolfson Marshall Scholarship 

Jacob Nebel 

Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities 

Daniel Hitchens 

Laurence Mann 

James Norrie 

Sarah Hook 

Benjamin Savill 

Gemma Tidman 

Madeleine Ward 

Thomas Cuthbertson 

Beau Woodbury 

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Degrees and Diplomas conferred during 

the academic year 2014-15 

Abdi, Miski 

Abler, Daniel Jakob Silvester 

Abraham, Margaret Helen 

Adriaenssens, Elias 

Alamoudi, Aliaa Amr 

Alexander, Leila Tamara 

Ali, Muntazir 

Almeida Oleas, Natalia Carolina 

Alva Chiola, Maria Liliana 

Amit, Ben Hayman 

Asamaphan, Patawee 

Assael, Ioannis-Alexandros 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil International Relations 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Particle Physics, ‘Software 

Architecture for Capturing Clinical Information 

in Hadron therapy and the Design 

of an Ion Beam for Radiobiology’ 

(GS 1997–14) DPhil Materials, ‘Incorporation 

of Laser Ablation Into a PIXE System 

in Order to Study Metallurgy and Corrosion 

on Archaeological Objects’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Pharmacology 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Clinical Pharmacology, 

‘Regulated antagonism of immune suppressive 

molecules in tumours’ 

(GS 2009–14) Systems Approaches to Biomed 

Sc (EPSRC and MRC CDT), ‘Mutational 

analysis of isoform selectivity and 

conformational equilibria in protein kinase 

inhibition’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Modern South Asian 

Studies 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Law and Finance 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Public Health, ‘The impact 

of type 2 diabetes-related complications 

on utility and healthcare costs, and self-reported 

health related quality of life as a predictor 

of mortality in diabetes.’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Pharmacology 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Integrated Immunology 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Computer Science 

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Atzemoglou, George Philip 

Bangpan, Mukdarut 

Barrow, Eugenie Catherine 

Barth, Jasper Tilman Lennart 

Bhattacharya, Kanishka 

Bhatty, Devkaran Singh 

Bowsher, Andrew John 

Brandeberry, Elizabeth Katherine 

Bridges, Alexandra Elizabeth 

Brook, John Hugo 

Cadena Perdomo, Luisa Fernanda 

Chan, Kathryn 

(GS 2007–13) DPhil Computer Science, 

‘Higher-order semantics for quantum programming 

languages with classical control’ 

(GS 2007–14) DPhil Social Intervention, 

‘Roles of the Family in HIV Prevention: Systematic 

reviews and qualitative investigation 

of young Thai women in Bangkok’ 

(GS 2006–12) DPhil Earth Sciences, ‘Systematics 

and Functional Morphology of Fossil 

and Extant Hyracoidea’ 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Development Studies 

(GS 2008–14) DPhil Clinical Medicine, 

‘Gene x Gene Interactions in Genome Wide 

Association Studies’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Contemporary India 

(GS 2007–14) DPhil Social and Cultural Anthropology, 

‘Authenticity and the Commodity: 

Physical Music Media and the Independent 

Music Marketplace’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Evidence-Based Social 

Intervention 


(GS 2013–14) MSc Economic and Social 

History 

(GS 2013–14) Master of Public Policy 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Law, ‘The Public-Private 

Nature of Charity Law in England and 

Canada’ 

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Chang, Chao-Hui 

Chang, Matthew-Louis Chen Wen 

Che, Ka Hing 

Chen, Qi 

Chikhladze, Tatia 

Chino, Takeshi 

Chitnis, Danial 

Ciricosta, Orlando 

Cloete, Ingrid Susan 

Contractor, Lalit Hemant 

Cuturic, Danijel 

Dastageer, Muska 

Dessent-Jackson, Louee 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Clinical Laboratory 

Sciences, ‘Haematopoietic Stem/Progenitor 

Cell Interactions with the Bone Marrow 

Vascular Niche’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Financial Economics 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Orthopaedic Surgery, 

‘Development of Biochemical Tools to Characterise 

Human H3K27 Histone Demethylase 

JmjD3’ 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Materials, ‘Collagen- 

Based Scaffolds for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Russian and East European 

Studies 

(GS 2013–14) Master of Business Administration 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Engineering Science, 

‘Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Optical 

Communications’ 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics, 

‘Plasma Evolution and Continuum Lowering 

in Hot Dense Matter generated by X- 

ray Free Electron Lasers’ 

(GS 2012–13) MPhil Law 

(GS 2010–12) MPhil Economics 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Education (Comparative 

and International Education) 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Refugee and Forced Migration 

Studies 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Greek and/or Roman 

History 

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Di Nunzio, Marco 

Doel, Thomas Macarthur Winter 

Dorbez, Claudia 

Drozdzik, Arthur Christopher 

Dunkelbarger, Janet Sonia 

Eldridge, Aaron Frederick 

Ewert, Christopher James 

Eziza, Eziza Olokun 

Farine, Damien Roger 

Fayard, Delphine 

Feuer, Anna Stagg 

Fleming, Kara Kathleen 

Frickle, Amanda Joy 

Fu, Ka Yun 

Fuller, Thomas 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Social and Cultural 

Anthropology, “The Arada have been eaten’. 

Living through marginality in Addis Ababa’s 

inner city’ 

(GS 2007–13) Life Sciences Interface (EP- 

SRC CDT), ‘Developing Clinical Measures of 

Lung Function in COPD Patients using Medical 

Imaging and Computational Modelling’ 


Studies 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Migration Studies 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Classical Archaeology 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Social Anthropology 


(GS 2013–14) MSc Comparative Social Policy 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Zoology, ‘Emergent social 

structure and collective behaviour from 

individual decision-making in wild birds’ 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil in Modern Languages 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Global and Imperial History 

(GS 2010–11) MSt General Linguistics and 

Comparative Philology 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Women’s Studies 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Ophthalmology, ‘Functional 

characterisation of the teleost multiple 

tissue (TMT) opsin family and their role in 

light detection’ 

(GS 2008-2009) MSc Comparative Social 

Policy 

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Fye, Haddy 

Ganguly, Shakya Deb 

Gardiner, Sara Heather 

Garratt, Luke David 

Geisz, Camille Helene 

Germuska, Michael 

Gianella-Borradori, Matteo 

Glushko, Anastasia 

Goddu, Anna 

Goering, Nelson Joshua 

Goi, Leonardo 

Gopalakrishnan, Shreeppriya 

Grawenda, Anna Maria 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Protein 

profiling for Hepatocellular Carcinoma 

biomarker discovery in West African subjects’ 


(GS 2010–14) DPhil Physical and Theoretical 

Chemistry, ‘Photofragment Velocity-Map 

Imaging of Organic Molecules’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Mathematics and Foundations 

of Comp Sci 

(GS 2010–13) DPhil Classical Languages 

and Literature 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Clinical Neurology, 

‘Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Imaging of 

Cerebral Mesostructure’ 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Organic Chemistry, 

‘The Identification and Optimisation of Endogenous 

Signalling Pathway Modulators’ 


Studies 

(GS 2009–10) MSc Medical Anthropology 

(GS 2012–) MPhil General Linguistics and 

Comparative Philology 



(GS 2009–14) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘The 

Identification and Analysis of Molecular Biomarkers 

in the p53 Tumour Supressor Pathway 

that Affect Cancer Progression in Humans’ 

59

60 

Grimaldi, Ilaria Maria 

Groselj, Blaz 

Groveman, Tamar Wilkins 

Guo, Yanping 

Hapairai, Limb Kemp Mataute 

Haugstad, Bjorn 

Hedegaard, Anne 

Hodgson, Max 

Holmes, Wayne 

Huang, Shanshan 

Huang, Xin 

Huo, Jiandong 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Archaeological Science, 

‘Food for Thought: Genetic, Historical and 

Ethnobotanical Studies of Taro (Colocasia 

Esculenta (L.) Schott) in Africa’ 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Radiobiology 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Modern Japanese 

Studies 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 

‘The mechanism of nov (CCN3) function 

in haematopoiesis’ 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Zoology, ‘Studies on 

Aedes Polynesisensis Introgression and 

Ecology to Facilitate Lymphatic Filariasis 

Control’ 

(GS 2000–12) DPhil Management Studies, 

‘Strategy as the Intentional Structuration of 

Practice: The Translation of Formal Strategies 

into Strategies-in-Practice’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Neuroscience 


Studies 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Education, ‘Level Up! 

A design-based investigation of a prototype 

digital game for children who are low-attaining 

in mathematics’ 



‘Multi-Channel Security Protocols in Personal 

Networks’ 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘System-Level 

Analysis of Early Signalling in T 

Cells’

Hussain-Syed, Muzammil 

Imam, Manizah 

Jabb, Lama 

Jain, Nina 

Jakanani, George Chanetsa 

Japaridze, Liana 

Jiang, Jun 

Johansen, Ida, Malte 

Kallstrom, Jan Eddy Adolf 

Kang, Sungwoo 

Karydis, Ioannis 


‘Multi-Hop Localization in Cluttered Environments’ 

(GS 2006–08) MSc Evidence-based Social 

Intervention 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Modern 

Tibetan Literature and the Inescapable 

Nation’ 


Intervention 

(GS 2001–02) MSc Diagnostic Imaging 

(GS 2013–14) Magister Juris 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Materials, ‘A High 

Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction 

Study of Heterogeneous Deformation in 

Polycrystal Copper’ 

(GS 1990–95) DPhil Ancient History 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Organic Chemistry, ‘Synthesis 

Studies Towards Daphlongeranine B’ 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Colonizing 

the Port City Pusan in Korea: A study 

of the process of Japanese domination in the 

urban space of Pusan during the open-port 

period (1876-1910)’ 


role of Tryptophan and the mTOR pathway 

in T cell fate determination’ 

61

Kaufman, Lauren Alexandra 

Keren, Zhu 

Khunte, Rucha 

Kim, Yeji Viviana 

Knezevic Harris, Kristina 

Koh, Si Jie Daveen 

Kroese, Maurits Benjamin 

Krylova, Olga Alexandrovna 

Kularatnam, Kaushalya 

Kwack, Min Soo 

Lakhani, Vishakha Jay 

Lamallari, Besfort 

Lecznar, Matthew Justin 

Li, Zijun 

Lienen, Eva christina 

Liu, Nan 

Livieratos, Achilleas 

Luik, Elo 

Lyka, Erasmia 

(GS 2013–14) MSt History of Art and Visual 

Culture 


(GS 2013–14) MSc Clinical Embryology 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Korean Studies 

(GS 2010–13) DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences, 

‘An Investigation of the Extended Utility 

of the Oxford Knee Score in Research and 

Clinical Practice’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Visual, Material and Museum 

Anthropology 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Applied Statistics 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Environmental Change 

and Management 


(GS 2011–13) MPhil Egyptology 


(GS 2012–13) MSc Criminology and Criminal 

Justice 

(GS 2013–14) MSt World Literatures in 

English 

(GS 2012–14) MSc Sociology 

(GS 2013–14) Magister Juris 


(GS 2010–14) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy 

and Genetics, ‘Investigating circadian disruption 

in mouse models of neurological and 

metabolic disorders.’ 

(GS 2012-) MPhil Social Anthropology 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Biomedical Engineering 

62

Mahmod, Masliza 

Mairat, Jerome 

Malone, Christopher David 

Mansfield, Shane Joseph 

Mastrangelo, Giovanni 

McCosker, Catherine Mary 

McMurray, Fiona 

Meister, Samuel 

Mercer, Leo Edgar 

Mhaske, Ketki 

Millington, Michael 

Milner, Daniel Dalton 

Minhas, Ahsan Raza 

Misra, Shriya 

Mohd Nafi, Siti Norasikin 

Mummadi, Aparnareddy 

(GS 2010–13) DPhil Cardiovascular Medicine, 

‘Multiparametric Cardiovascular Magnetic 

Resonance for the Assessment of Cardiac 

Function and Metabolism in Hypertrophy 

and Heart Failure’ 

(GS 2011–14) DPhil Archaeology, ‘The 

Coinage of the Gallic Empire’ 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Philosophy, ‘The Foundations 

of International Political Virtue’ 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Computer Science, ‘The 

Mathematical Structure of Non-locality and 

Contextuality’ 



Intervention 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Investigating 

the Role of the Fat Mass and Obesity 

Associated Gene (Fto) in Obesity’ 

(GS 2012–14) BPhil Philosopy 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Philosophical Theology 


(GS 2013–14) MSt Ancient Philosophy 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Latin American Studies 



(GS 2010–14) DPhil Medical Oncology, ‘The 

Role of HER4 in Relation to Trastuzumab 

Resistance and Prognosis in HER2 Positive 

Breast Cancer’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Global Health Science 

63

Naiman, Matthew Geoffrey 

Najafzada, Masma 

Nguyen, Yen-Xuan Thi 

Nikolyan, Levon Vazgen 

Nordlander, Sofia Elisabeth 

Norrie, Kirsten Margaret 

O’Boyle, Lauren Darcy 

O’Connell, Jared 

Ollikainen, Jussi Aleksi 

O’Neill, Laura Danielle 

Out-Wong, Pandita 

Overton, Charlotte Eileen 

Paine, Peter Lawrence 

(GS 2012-) MPhil in Classical Archaeology 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Islamic Studies and 

History 

(GS 2007-2008) MSc Global Health Science 


Studies 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Pathology, ‘Innate sensing 

of bacterial flagellin in acute and chronic 

intestinal inflammation’ 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Fine Art, ‘Cloth, Cull 

and Cocktail; Anatomizing the Performer 

Body of ‘Alba” 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Archaeological Science 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Genomic Medicine and 

Statistics, ‘Statistical Methods for Genotype 

Microarray Data on Large Cohorts of Individuals’ 

(GS 2013-15) MPhil Law 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Materials, ‘Nanostructured 

Thin Film Pseudocapacitive Electrodes 

for Enhanced Electrochemical Energy Storage’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSt Modern South Asian 

Studies 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Water Science, Policy 



Studies 

64

Parton, Daniel Lawrence 

Peng, Yanchun 

Petrova, Marina 

Podolski, Michal Marek 

Psorakis, Ioannis 

Purchase, Jessica Annabel 

Rasheed, Tabassum 

Rashid, Rayhan Bin 

Rauschenberger, Armin 

Rosenfeld, Marissa 

Rossetto, Bruno 

Rubinstein, Mor 

(GS 2007–12) DPhil Biochemistry, ‘Pushing 

the Boundaries: Molecular Dynamics Simulations 

of Complex Biological Membranes’ 

(GS 2010–13) DPhil Clinical Medicine, 

‘HLA-B51 associated HIV-1 virus control’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Global Governance and 

Diplomacy 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Migration Studies 


‘Probabilistic inference in ecological networks; 

graph discovery, community detection 

and modelling dynamic sociality’ 


(GS 2012–14) MPhil Modern Middle Eastern 

Studies 

(GS 2002–13) DPhil Socio-Legal Studies, 

‘Transparency in the Petroleum Sector: Provisions, 

Perceptions and Practices’ 


(GS 2013–14) MSt Modern Jewish Studies 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Mathematical and Computational 

Finance 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Social Science of the Internet 

Salinas, Rodrigo Alejandro 

Schaufele, Nicolas Simon 

Searight, Hugh Ralph Rodney 

Sikic, Ema 

(GS 2001-2003) MSc in Evidence-based 

Health Care 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Financial Economics 


(GS 2012–14) MPhil Classical Archaeology 

65

Sin, Yung Wa 

Siriviriyakul, Prach 

Siu, Martin Man Kit 

Smith, William 

Sohns, Juliet Susan Babson 

Somaiah, Navita 

St John, Sarah Elizabeth 

Stacey, Laura Maya Kothari 

Staddon, Rebecca 

Steingrimsen, Katrine Overland 

Steinweg, Kate Elise 

Sweida-Metwally, Samir 

Tan, Si Ying 

Tan, Zhiming Darren 

Tarbush, Bassel 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Zoology, ‘The Major 

Histocompatibility Complex, Mate Choice 

and Pathogen Resistance in the European 

Badger Meles Meles’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Mathematical and Computational 

Finance 


(GS 2013–14) MSt English 


Studies 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Radiobiology, ‘Investigating 

the role of DNA double strand break 

repair in determining sensitivity to radiotherapy 

fraction size’ 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Geography and the Environment 




Studies 

(GS 2010–11) MSt English 



Intervention 

(GS 2011–14) DPhil Theoretical Physics, 

‘Frustrated magnetism in the extended kagome 

lattice’ 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Economics, ‘Essays on 

information and networks’ 

66

Taylor-Gatigno, Natasha Rachelle Annie (GS 2011–12) MSc Modern Chinese 

Studies 

Tee, Yee Kai (GS 2008-2009) Healthcare Innovation 

(RCUK CDT), ‘Quantitative Measurement 

of pH in Stroke Using Chemical Exchange 

Saturation Transfer Magnetic Resonance 

Imaging’ 

Thomas, Jewel Kathleen 

(GS 2005-2006) MSc Sociology 

Thomas, Joaquin Teruji 

(GS 2012–14) Bachelor of Philosopy 

Tumian, Afidalina 

(GS 2006–13) Life Sciences Interface (EP- 

SRC CDT), ‘The Evolution of Recombination 

Hotspots and of their Relationship with 

DNA Sequences’ 

Tziortzi, Andri 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Clinical Neurology, 

‘Quantitative Dopamine Imaging in Humans 

using Magnetic Resonance and Positron 

Emission Tomography’ 

Usher, Natalie Dorothea 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Education (Research Design 

and Methodology) 

Vafeiadou, Evgenia Xenia (GS 2013–14) MSc Education 

van Damme, Myron 


‘Modelling embankment breaching due to 

overflow’ 

Vasilyev, Gleb Sergeyevich (GS 2012-14) MPhil Theology 

Verghese, Nouri 


Studies 

Vinya, Royd 

(GS 2006–11) DPhil Geography and the Environment, 

‘Stem hydraulic architecture and 

xylem vulnerability to cavitation in miombo 

woodland canopy tree species’ 

67

Vranaki, Asma Ahmad Issop 

Wachtel, Elizabeth Morgan 

Wang, LiLi 

Wang, Linghang 

Wang, Xuan 

Westwood, Cameron Luke 

Wijeyekoon, Jananath Bhathiya 

Wilkinson, Kim Sula 

Williams, Jake Cosmo Barnes 

Witt, Katrina Gisela 

Wong, Chuen 

Xie, Mengyin 

Xuan, Ye 

(GS 2008–14) DPhil Law, ‘Rethinking Relations 

and Regimes of Power in Online Social 

Networking Sites: Tales of Control, Strife, 

and Negotiations in Facebook and YouTube’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSt in Modern Languages 


role of T cell immunity in natural influenza 

A infection in a UK cohort Flu Watch’ 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Killer 

Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Polymorphism 

in a Chinese HIV-1 Infection Cohort’ 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Economics 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Politics 

(GS 2004–14) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Tissue 

Expression and Functional Insights into 

HIF Prolyl Hydroxylase Domain Enzymes’ 


Studies 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Biodiversity, Conservation 


(GS 2010–14) DPhil Psychiatry, ‘Risk Factors 

for Violence in Psychosis: Meta-Analysis 

and Cox Regression Analyses Investigating 

the Association of Established and Novel 

Risk Factors for Violence’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Sociology 


‘X-ray and neutron diffraction analysis and 

FEM modelling of stress and texture evolution 

in cubic polycrystals’ 


68

Yi, Xiaoou 

Yokoi, Kazuko 

Zerkalov, Oleksii 

Zhang, Huajun 

Zhang, Yining 

Zhou, Xiwen 

Zuendorf, Nina Karolin 

(GS 2009–14) DPhil Materials, ‘Electron 

Microscopy Study of Radiation Damage in 

Tungsten and Alloys’ 

(GS 2012–14) MPhil Classical Indian Religion 

(GS 2013–14) Master of Business Administration 

(GS 2010–14) DPhil Surgery, ‘Functional 

Characterisation of Cardiac Progenitors 

from Patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease.’ 


(GS 2009–13) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, 

‘Study of Shape Effect of Pd Promoted 

Ga2O3 Nanocatalysts for Methanol Synthesis 

and Utilization’ 

(GS 2013–14) MSc Nature, Society and Environmental 

Policy 

69

Elections and 

Admissions 2014–15 

Governing Body Fellows 

Cannon, Catríona, MPhil (BA Dublin, 

MA UCL, MCLIP) 

Costa, Matthew, (MB BChir, PhD East 

Anglia, MA Cambridge) 

Czaika, Mathias, (MA Konstanz, PhD 

Freiburg) 

Morin, Richard Antony, (BA Lincs and 

Humbs, MA KCL, MBA Northampton): 

Bursar-Elect (HT 2016) 

Roberts, Paul Christopher, MA (BA 

Cambridge, MPhil Sheffield) 

Emeritus Fellows 

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, DPhil 

(BA Harvard, MSA George Washington, 

PhD Cambridge) 

Dercon, Stefan, MA, MPhil, DPhil 

(BPhil Leuven) 

Walker, Susan, Elizabeth, Constance, 

MA (BA, PhD London), FSA 

Honorary Fellows 

Adams, John, W, (BA Rutgers, J D Seton 

Hall, LLM New York) 

Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale, BPhil, 

MA, DPhil 

Macdonald, Michael Christopher Archibald, 

MA 

Supernumerary Fellow 

Hodges, Christopher, MA (PhD King’s) 


Bentley, Lisa, (MA Columbia, PhD Texas 

Tech) 

Cantley, James, (BSc Southampton, MSc 

ICL, PhD UCL) 

Kennedy, Kate, (BA, PhD Cambridge, 

MA KCL, Dip RC Mus): Weinrebe Fellow 

in Life-Writing 

Pattenden, Miles Alexander Frederick, 

DPhil (BA Cambridge, MA Toronto) 

Slade, Eleanor Margaret, DPhil (BSc 


Vignal, Leila, (Diplom Fontenay St 

Claud, MA, PhD Avignon) 

Junior Research Fellows 

Alonso, David, (MSc, PhD Madrid) 

Al-Rashid, Moudhy, MPhil, DPhil (BA 

Columbia) 

Broggi, Joshua, (MA Wheaton, PhD 

Edin) 

Caruso, Fabio, (MSc Milan, PhD Freie) 

Chaudhary, Ali Razzak, (MA Humboldt, 

MA, PhD California Davis) 

Chisari, Elisa, (Licenc. Buenos Aires, 

MA, PhD Princeton) 

Cornut, Damien, (BSc, MA Claude Bernard 

Lyon, PhD Bruxelle) 

Girolami, Davide, (MSc Torino, PhD 

Notts) 

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Grimes, David Robert, (BSc, PhD Dublin) 

Gurung, Florence Elizabeth, DPhil (BA 

Manchester, MA SOAS) 

Hirschhorn, Sara Yael, (BA Yale, MA, 

PhD Chicago) 

Infantino, Federica (MA Naples, PhD 

Inst des Études Pols de Paris, PhD 

Brussels) 

Klein-Flugge, Miriam, MSc (BSc Osnabruch 

and McGill, PhD UCL) 

Leijten, Patty Henrica Odilia, (BA, 

MPhil Radboud, PhD Utrecht) 

Levy, Matthew Chase, (BS UCLA, MS, 

PhD Rice) 

Nimura, Courtney Reiko, (BA Santa 

Cruz, MFA Tufts, MA UCL, PhD Reading) 

Roy, Indrajit, DPhil (BA Delhi) 

San Martin Arbide, Lola (MA, PhD 

Salamanca) 

Swanson, Alexandra, (BA Virginia, 

PhD Minnesota) 

Viltanioti, Eirini Foteini (BA Athens, 

MA, PhD Brussels) 

Yamaura, Chigusa, (BA Komazawa, MA 

Chicago, PhD Rutgers) 

Visiting Scholars 

(in residence during the academic year 

2014–15) 

Allena, Miriam, (BL Milan Catholic; 

PhD State Univ, Milan) 

Arambepola, Carukshi, (MSc, MD, 

MBBS Colombo) 

Bak, John, (BA Illinois, MA, PhD Ball 

State) 

Barbosa, Andrea, (BA PUC-Rio, MA 

UFRJ, PhD USP) 

Baumgarten, Jean, (PhD, Habil. Paris 7) 

Berndsen, Julie, (BA Trinity, Dublin; 

PhD Bielefeld) 

Clark, Carol, (BA Rice, Med Houston, 

MA California San Bernardino, PhD 

Texas Christian) 

Cooke, Jennifer, (MA, PhD Sussex) 

Eyraud, Corine, (MSc, MPhil, PhD 

Univ of Provence, Habil. Sorbonne) 

Fazop.Rosario, (MA, PhD Catania) 

Febbrajo, Alberto, (Laurea Univ di Pavia) 

Field, Hannah, DPhil (BA Canterbury 

NZ, MA Auckland) 

Gitler, Haim, (MA Hebrew University) 

Guo, Zhan Feng, (MA, PhD China Agricultural 

Un) 

Halliday, Simon, MA (LLB Edin, PhD 

Strathclyde) 

Hancock, Christopher, MA (BA, PhD 

Durham) 

Hellemans, Babette, (MA, PhD Utrecht; 

PhD EHESS, Paris) 

Ilan, Tal, (MA, PhD Hebrew) 

Kapadia, Karin, MA (MA Madras, 

MLitt Edin, PhD LSE) 

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Kawamura, Yukio, (LLB Keio Univ, 

LLM Miami) 

Kent, Adrian, (MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Kim, Byung Yeon, DPhil (MA Seoul) 

Kini, Manjunatha, (MSc, PhD Mylore, 

India) 

Kristensen, Troels, (MA, PhD Aarhus 

University) 

Lafuente Sanchez, Raul, (MA, PhD Alicante, 

LLM Urije Brussel) 

Moon, Gab Sik, (MA Yonsei, Seoul, 

MA, Hanyang, Seoul) 

Mostwin, Jacek, DPhil (BS Tufts, MD 

Maryland) 

Nehru, Lolita, B.Litt (MA Calcutta, 

PhD Cambridge) 

Olubas, Brigitta, (BA Tasmania, MA 

Sydney, PhD UNSW) 

Paterson, Lorraine, (BA Brigham Young 

Univ, MA Cornell, PhD Yale) 

Phillips, Michael, BPhil, (BA Loyola, 

PhD Exeter) 

Raven, Ellen, (PhD Leiden) 

Saridakis, Emmanuel, (BSc, PhD Imperial, 

MSc LSE London) 

Shahar, Yuval, (MA, PhD Tel Aviv) 

Stern, Tim, (BSc, PhD Victoria Univ of 

Wellington) 

Suga, Fumie, MA (BA Waeda, MA PhD 

Osaka) 

Szendroi, Kriszta, (BA Eotvos Lorand, 

PhD UCL) 

Teodoro De Cunha, Edgar (BA, MA, 

PhD Univ de Sao Paulo) 

Tsongkha, Yongdrol, (MA Qinghai, 

PhD ACTM, Beijing) 

Thomas, Sue, (MA, PhD Queensland) 

Yoon, Jihye, (MA, Hiroshima Univ) 

Graduate Students 

Abbas, Magda (DPhil Healthcare Innovation) 

Abd Razak, Nur Azhani (DPhil Materials) 

Abernethy, Robert (DPhil Science and 

Technology of Fusion Energy (EPSRC 

CDT)) 

Aguilar Villegas, Walter (MSc Evidence-Based 

Soc Int and Pol Eval) 

Ahmad, Magnus (MSc Cognitive Evolutionary 

Anthropology) 

Ajileye, Temitope (MSc Mathematics 

and Foundations of Computer Science) 

Akhtar, Wasim (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Albanese, Matthew (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

Amin, Amin (DPhil Surgical Sciences) 

Andrade de Bem, Rodrigo (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Anza, Fabio (DPhil Atomic and Laser 

Physics) 

Applbaum, Nurit (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

72

Asare, Joevas (MSc Economics for Development) 

Ashby-Lumsden, Alexander (DPhil 

Pharmacology) 

Asker, David (MPhil Politics: European 

Pol and Soc) 

Axon, Louise (DPhil Cyber Security 

(EPSRC CDT)) 

Aziz, Omar (MSc(Res) Psychiatry) 

Bai, Ying (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Bardolia, Meleesha (MSt World Literatures 

in English) 

Barth, Jasper (DPhil International Development) 

Bartlett, Rosanna (MSc Nature, Society 

and Environmental Policy) 

Beguin, Estelle (DPhil Healthcare Innovation 

(RCUK CDT)) 

Belinskiy, Yaroslav (MPhil Traditional 

East Asia) 

Bhattacharya, Gaurav (MSc Radiation 

Biology (Direct Entry)) 

Bongioanni, Alessandro (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology (Direct Entry)) 

Bragg, Caroline (MSc Environmental 

Change and Management) 

Brand, Robert (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences) 

Brown, Kieran (Master of Public Policy) 

Buchert, Lasse (MSc Financial Economics) 

Burgess, Harriet (MSc Criminology 

and Criminal Justice) 

Cano Gomez, Ivan (MSc Evidence- 

Based Soc Int and Pol Eval) 

Caputo, Dimitri (DPhil Synthesis for 

Biology and Medicine (EPSRC CDT)) 

Carels, Cees (DPhil Particle Physics) 

Chavez Cosamalon, Brenda (MSc Evidence-Based 


Chen, Dexiang (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation 

and Management) 

Chen, Lin (DPhil Sociology) 

Chin, Hao (MSc Financial Economics) 

Choroco Loayza, Vidal Eduardo (MSt 

Diplomatic Studies) 

Chugh, Divyanshi (MSc Comparative 

Social Policy) 

Clemens, Joana (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Combs, Joshua (DPhil Earth Sciences 

(Full-time)) 

Connolly, Sarah (DPhil Materials) 

Coventry, Anne (MSt Greek and/or Roman 

History) 

Cunningham, Oscar (DPhil Computer 

Science) 

Cuthbertson, Thomas (DPhil Medieval 

and Modern Languages ) 

Davies, Jonathan (DPhil Ancient History) 

Davies, Michael (DPhil Cyber Security 

(EPSRC CDT)) 

Davis, Arran (DPhil Anthropology) 

Diffey, Charlotte (DPhil Archaeology) 

73

Doesburg, Katharina (MSc Financial 

Economics) 

Dreher, Kara (MSc Education (Child 

Development and Education)) 

Dungate, Timothy (MSt Greek and/or 

Roman History) 

Eelink, Guus (MSt Ancient Philosophy) 

El-Sheikh, Ranya (MSc Clinical Embryology) 

Emanuel, Natalia (MSc Evidence-Based 


Erzin, Andraz (MSc Mathematical and 

Computational Finance) 

Fauzia, Miriam (MSc Integrated Immunology) 

Gallego Larrarte, Barbara (DPhil English) 

Gantogtokh, Orkhon (MSc Education 

(Higher Education)) 

Gao, Anqi (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences) 

Gao, Yuan (DPhil Healthcare Innovation 

(RCUK CDT)) 

Gapp, Bianca (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Gardner, Katie (DPhil Music (Fulltime)) 

Garratt, Luke (DPhil Computer Science) 

Garrec, Kilian (DPhil Synthesis for Biology 

and Medicine (EPSRC CDT)) 

Geddes, Georgina (DPhil Psychiatry) 

Geraldes Ramos Dias, Ruth (DPhil 

Clinical Neurosciences) 

Githu, Ida (MSc Water Science, Policy 

and Management) 

Graham, Olivia (MPhil Politics: European 

Pol and Soc) 

Grimes, Samuel (MPhil Classical Indian 

Religion) 

Hamilton, Freddie (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Hart, Fuchsia (MPhil Islamic Art and 

Archaeology) 

Hayashi, Tohru (MBA) 

Henshaw, Russell (DPhil Anthropology) 

Herskowitz, Daniel (DPhil Theology 

(Full-time)) 

Hoehn, Maximilian (MSt Modern Languages) 

Hopkins, Rachel (DPhil Archaeological 

Science) 

Hristov, Hristo (MSc Cognitive Evolutionary 

Anthropology) 

Huang, Sha (MSc Comparative Social 

Policy) 

Hyde, Stephen (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Jackson, Thomas (MSt Film Aesthetics) 

Jain, Parul (MSc Economics for Development) 

Jarerattanachat, Viwan (DPhil Condensed 

Matter Physics) 

Jenkins, Lyndsey (DPhil History) 

Jia, Fan (MSc Comparative Social Policy) 

Kaye, Josie (DPhil International Relations) 

74

Keck, Katharina (MSc Evidence-Based 


Kelly, Paul (MBA) 

Kitson, Nichola (MSc Economics for 

Development) 

Knight, Clarke (MSc Water Science, 

Policy and Management) 

Krasovitskiy, George (DPhil Comparative 

Philology and General Linguistics) 

Kucuk, Yusuf (MSc African Studies) 

Lansink, Anne (MJur) 

Leata, Cristian (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Legesse, Bethlehem (MSc Comparative 


Leng, Kuangdai (DPhil Earth Sciences) 

Leske, Derek (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Li, Sha (DPhil Materials) 

Li, Zhengxing (DPhil Materials) 

Liew, Tze Yeen (MSc Migration Studies) 

Liu, Xuan (MSc Mathematical and 

Computational Finance) 

Lohrer, Martin (DPhil Medieval and 

Modern Languages (RUS) (Full-time)) 

Long, William (DPhil English) 

Lopez Martinez, David (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Loughridge, Mark (MSt Greek and/or 

Roman History) 

Low, Wee (DPhil Medical Sciences) 

Luik, Elo (DPhil Anthropology) 

Mainarovych, Vitalii (MJur) 

Mammadov, Jahangir (MSc Computer 

Science) 

Martens, Marieke (DPhil Psychiatry) 

Matharu, Gulraj (DPhil Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

McIntosh, Emma (DPhil Geography 

and the Environment) 

Melhuus, Sunniva (MPhil Politics: 

Comparative Government) 

Mella San Martin, Camila (DPhil Social 

Policy) 

Mestel, David (DPhil Computer Science) 

Michelarakis, Nicholas (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Midlen, Rachael (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Mills, Edward (MSt Modern Languages) 

Mohamed, Basheerah (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Mohammad, Mujahid (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Mohd Kassim, Hakimi (DPhil Physiology, 

Anatomy and Genetics) 

Mohd Sadali, Najiah (DPhil Plant Sciences) 

Moller, Anders (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Morris, Joanna (DPhil Medieval and 

Modern Languages) 

Movsisyan, Ani (DPhil Social Intervention) 

75

Mukherjee, Aloke (MSc Sociology) 

Musalkova, Johana (DPhil Anthropology) 

Mustain, Paige (DPhil Information, 

Communication and Social Sciences) 

Musto, Benjamin (DPhil Computer Science) 

Naiman, Matthew (DPhil Classical Archaeology) 

Nasir, Ahmad (MPhil Modern South 

Asian Studies) 

Norris, Rachel (DPhil Genomic Medicine 

and Statistics) 

Nurminen, Minna (MSc Comparative 


O'Brien, Haley (MPhil General Linguistics 

and Comparative Philology) 

Odell, Evan (MSc Comparative Social 

Policy) 

Ogene, Timothy (MSt World Literatures 

in English) 

O'Hanlon, Crea (MPhil Russian and 

East European Studies) 

O'Hara, Joseph (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Olivero, Ottavia (MSt Greek and/or 

Latin Language and Literature) 

Orozco Olvera, Victor (DPhil Social Intervention) 

Owhin, Rachael (MSc Migration Studies) 

Pandey, Ankita (DPhil International 

Development) 

Papadatos, Theodoros (MJur) 

Park, Hong Il (MBA) 

Park, Inhye (DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences) 

Pasquali, Giovanni (DPhil International 

Development) 

Perdomo Medina, Sandra (MSc Comparative 


Perea-Kane, Adam (MPhil Eastern 

Christian Studies) 

Perov, Iurii (MSc(Res) Engineering Science) 

Petralia, Lorenzo (DPhil Physical and 

Theoretical Chemistry) 

Petrou, Lambros (MSc Computer Science) 

Petrov, Mariyan (DPhil Particle Physics) 

Pimentel Salas, Arnold (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Pollack, Rachel (MSc Social Science of 

the Internet) 

Pomeroy, Michael (DPhil Theology 

(Full-time)) 

Prince, John (DPhil Healthcare Innovation 

(RCUK CDT)) 

Purohit, Bhumi (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Puzanova, Olga (DPhil Theology) 

Quinn, Riley (MSc Evidence-Based Soc 

Int and Pol Eval) 

Rainforth, Thomas (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Rasheed, Ayesha (MSc History of Science, 

Medicine and Technology) 

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Rasheed, Sadaf (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Ribeiro Goncalves Antonino, Pedro 

(DPhil Computer Science) 

Rowe, Edward (DPhil Materials) 

Ruiz Guido, Carlos (DPhil Mathematics) 

Sabev, Mitko (DPhil Comparative Philology 

and General Linguistics) 

Sadler, James (DPhil Atomic and Laser 

Physics) 

Sangiorgi, Maria (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Santos, Diogo (MJur) 

Schewel, Kerilyn (DPhil International 

Development) 

Schlegel, Kevin (DPhil Partial Differential 

Equations: Analysis and Applications 

(EPSRC CDT)) 

Schroeter, Niels (DPhil Condensed 

Matter Physics) 

Seidel, Mark (MPhil Traditional East 

Asia) 

Sharma, Ambika (MSc Economics for 

Development) 

Sharma, Niyati (DPhil English) 

Shen, Yiming (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Siakalli, Ioanna (MSc Education (Comparative 

and International Education)) 

Slavkova, Elitsa (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Smale, Daniela (MSc Clinical Embryology) 

Sparkes, Nicole (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Sprot, Harold (MSc(Res) Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Stefanik, Bruno (MSc Law and Finance) 

Stoebesand, Henrice (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Strutt, Anneli (MPhil English Studies 

(Medieval)) 

Sun, Zhe (MPhil Development Studies) 

Sutton, Sam (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Syrova, Kristyna (MSt Celtic Studies) 

Tate, Adam (MSc Nature, Society and 

Environmental Policy) 

Tay, Wei Leong (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Teber, Yeliz (MPhil Islamic Art and Archaeology) 

Termariyabuit, Chayathorn (MPhil 

Economics) 

Tewari, Amitabh (BCL) 

Thompson, Holly (MSt Theology) 

Tilt, Laura (MSc Criminology and 

Criminal Justice) 

Torales Gonzalez, Jaime (PGDip Diplomatic 

Studies) 

Treherne, Peter (MSt Film Aesthetics) 

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Trozze, Arianna (MSc Nature, Society 

and Environmental Policy) 

Trujillo, Holly (MSc Evidence-Based 


Tse, Aileen (MSc Law and Finance) 

Vaas, Christian (DPhil Cyber Security 

(EPSRC CDT)) 

van Praag, Chiara (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Vasilyev, Gleb (DPhil Theology) 

Vedovato, Vincent (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Wagner, Megan (MSt Modern British 

and European History) 

Waller, Sharlayne (MSc(Res) Engineering 

Science) 

Wang, David (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Wang, Jiajia (MSc Mathematical Modelling 

and Scientific Computing) 

Ward, Madeleine (DPhil Theology) 

Wathen, Crista (MSc Archaeological 

Science) 

Weerasekera, Hiruni (MSc Comparative 


Wei, Xin (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Wencel, Maciej (DPhil Archaeology) 

Wenta, Aleksandra (MPhil Tibetan and 

Himalayan Studies) 

Wilcox, Jonathan (MSt World Literatures 

in English) 

Williams, Alice (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Williams, Jonathan (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Williams, Meredydd (DPhil Cyber Security 

(EPSRC CDT)) 

Woodbury, Beau (DPhil History) 

Xie, Weidi (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Xu, Hang (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Xu, Qian (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Yang, Chenglin (MPhil Tibetan and 

Himalayan Studies) 

Yener, Guzin (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Zreik, Thurayya (MSc Medical Anthropology) 

Zucca, Mattia (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

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Elected members of the Governing Body 

Michaelmas Term 2014 and Hilary Term 2015 

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

Coxon, Thomas John, MChem [GS 2013–] 

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

Edwards, John Louis (BA Capetown) [GS 2013–] 

Kahn, Joshua (BS UCLA, MSc Northwestern) [GS 2012–] 

Parrish, Sabine Elizabeth (BA Washington) [GS 2013–] 

Trinity Term 2015 

Coxon, Thomas John, MChem [GS 2013–] 

Klein, Nina, (BA, MSc Cambridge) [GS 2014–] 

Midlen, Rachael, (BA Exeter) [GS 2014–] 

Mohamed, Basheerah, (BA KwaZulu-Natal) [GS 2014 –] 

Naiman, Matthew, MPhil, (BA US Franklin and Marshall) [GS 2012–] 

Zeitlyn, David, MA, DPhil, (MSc London, PhD Cambridge) [SF 2013–] 

Chairs of the General Meeting 

Michaelmas Term 2014 and Hilary Term 2015 

Kahn, Joshua 

Trinity Term 2015 

Naiman, Matthew 

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Clubs and Societies 

AMREF Group 

The College continued to support the African Medical and Research Foundation, 

its main contribution being the Wolfson Bursary which helps students from South- 

Saharan Africa take public health and nursing courses at the AMREF training 

centre in Nairobi. It has been decided to increase the bursary from 2015–16 by 

£500. The College also renewed its commitment to the ‘Stand Up for African 

Mothers’ campaign, which provides midwifery training and transport to alleviate 

high maternal death-rates in rural regions. An additional donation of $4,200 (about 

£2,727) was made to support AMREF’s Refresher Course in Essential Laboratory 

Services. 

These donations were the result of numerous fundraising activities. Once again 

Wolfsonians responded warmly to the annual battels appeal, which raised £3,729. 

There were sales of second-hand goods and bicycles, regular concerts organised 

by the Music Society, a Great Wolfson Bake Off at the Summer Event, and our 

weekly cake and coffee shop. Special thanks go to those who made these events 

possible, and especially to Tracy Fuzzard, Jan Scriven, Juliet Montgomery and 

our shop volunteers. I am very grateful for the support I have received as Student 

Representative, and I am certain Derek Leske will do a brilliant job in this role next 

year. 

Charlotte Bennett 

Arts Society 

This year the Society has hosted a very successful series of exhibitions that have 

featured the work of artists both connected with the College and from farther 

afield. As ever, there has been an eclectic mix ranging from traditional paint media 

to prints, photographs and very imaginative paper sculptures. Interestingly, an 

unplanned theme emerged as the programme unfolded: art that has grown out of 

conflict. 

The first exhibition was ‘Japanese Children’s War Diaries’ in Michaelmas, copies 

of diary entries made by a group of Japanese children between 1944 and 1945 

which poignantly showed not only the effect of the war on their everyday lives but 

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also how, despite this, the life of the school continued as the children learned and 

developed the important skills that would last them for the rest of their lives. This 

very successful show was curated by Anna Fraser, who was interviewed on local 

radio about her research which included meeting four of the original ‘authors’ in 

their village in Japan. 

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This conflict thread continued in Hilary with ‘Landscapes of Exile’, the work of 

Sonia Boue (former GS) and Jonathan Moss which focused on the theme of exile. 

Abstract landscapes by both artists were inspired by the internment camps in 

France in which thousands of refugees were held at the close of the Spanish Civil 

War; they honoured both the memory of victims of Spanish fascism, including Sonia 

Boue’s father, and those whose altruism made such a vital contribution in the face 

of barbarity and oppression, in particular Alex Wainman, a pacifist Quaker from 

Oxfordshire. Another exhibition that also reflected conflict, but in a very different 

form, was ‘Colombian Indigenous Peoples: Wisdom of Nature’ which closed the 

programme in Trinity. This exhibition comprised a series of photographs, taken 

by Claudia Silva Morales, documenting the indigenous people of Colombia as they 

looked for ways of applying the principles of indigenous education in a Western 

setting in order to improve the relationship between the two cultures. It was 

complemented by the showing of a documentary, filmed by the people themselves, 

at the Pitt Rivers Museum. 

Two other exhibitions took place in Michaelmas: ‘Modal Landscape’, a series of 

evocative landscapes by Cairine MacGillivray, examined through a modal palette; 

and an exhibition by local artist Joseph Winkelman of highly accomplished and 

extremely detailed etchings. One of these, ‘London Eye’, was bought for the College 

and now hangs in the Upper Common Room. 

Trinity opened with a fascinating exhibition entitled ‘Elements’ which featured 

works by sculptor Antonia Spowers in two dimensions and in three, with the paper 

sculptures evoking feelings of buried layers in the landscape and the re-cycled 

patterns of energy from the past. This topographical theme was continued with 

‘Diamonds in the Sun’, an exhibition of paintings by Dr Helen Spencer (Exeter 

College) which included works reflecting a sense of place in a highly personal way, 

expressed through her own painting vocabulary. This was followed by ‘Perspectives 

of Wolfson’, the result of a collaboration between the Bury Knowle Art Group 

and members of Wolfson. Jim Robinson of Bury Knowle adds a personal response 

below. 

As well as purchasing works from our exhibitions, the Society was given two pieces 

by the artists. We would like to express our thanks to Jonathan Moss for his large 

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abstract now hanging in the top corridor, along with a loan from Sonia Boue, and 

to Claudia Silva who donated a photograph from her own exhibition. 

In addition to filling the exhibition space throughout the year, the Committee 

arranged a number of craft displays in the cases on the Upper Landing: enamels 

by Barbara Harriss-White (EF) and textiles by Haruko Inoue (GS); and from the 

wider community, work by potters Crabby Taylor, Tam Frishburg and Janet Cross. 

In Michaelmas, an unusual display was mounted by Jeremy McClancy (MCR) of 

fake perfumery sold on stalls in street markets in Spain. 

Apart from exhibitions, the Society organised popular and successful visits to the 

Ai Wei Wei installation at Blenheim, guided by Matthew Landrus, and tours of two 

exhibitions at the Ashmolean: ‘William Blake – apprentice and master’, guided by 

its curator Michael Philips, and ‘Bengal and Modernity’ led by Mallica Kumbera 

Landrus, one of the Ashmolean’s teaching curators. 

Life Drawing continued throughout the year with weekly classes now being taught 

by Kassandra Isaacson and attended by Wolfson members as well as people from 

the local community. In addition, Tara Benjamin-Morgan, our previous tutor, 

returned to give three one-day workshops at the end of each term. 

Mark Norman, Chair 

Jan Scriven, Arts Administrator 

Jim Robinson, Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Bury Knowle Art Group, adds: 

The ‘Perspectives of Wolfson’ exhibition was born out of sketching days during the 

summers of 2013 and 2014 with Oxford Bury Knowle Art Group, the theme being 

Wolfson College, its architecture and surroundings and the life of its members. 

Members of the College were invited to exhibit alongside our own members, 

and the exhibition gradually took shape. Paintings, drawings and collages were 

selected by Jan Scriven and Dorothy Caton and Jim Robinson of Bury Knowle, 

which resulted in more than thirty pieces that filled three rooms overlooking the 

grounds and the river that inspired them. The exhibition was a great success, with 

artwork bought mainly by members of the College. Hung Cheng’s ‘Bridge over 

the Cherwell’ reminded the buyer of his own room looking towards the bridge 

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on a crisp winter’s day with the birds picked out dark against a bleak sky. Others 

bought paintings to remind them of different aspects of the College they had come 

to know so well. Juliet Campbell’s ‘Abandoned Punt’ was chosen by members of 

the Art Committee for the College’s own collection. For many exhibitors like Thea 

Kirby, daughter of Lodge Receptionist John, it was their first exhibition, and she 

was delighted to sell her painting to the College Steward. Several students also 

exhibited, such as Erin Cutts with her whimsical painting of a swan with cygnets, 

and Kassandra Isaacson showed a pen and ink drawing of an art class in the very 

rooms which hosted the exhibition. For many it was a chance to see the College 

through fresh eyes and appreciate its hidden charms. 

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Erin Cutts comments of her watercolour: My friends in College often joked about there being dinosaurs living in the Cherwell, so I thought 

of adding a dinosaur to a family of swan. What I wasn't expecting was the strength of the symbolism: the swan cares for the baby pterodactyl, 

without minding that it is different, just as the College cares for students from distant countries.

BarCo 

It has been a good year for the bar. We continue to have high recruitment for the 

ROTA, and our dedicated ROTA workers organise theme nights, for example this 

year mulled-wine Wednesdays, German beer nights and cocktail nights. 

We work continuously to improve service and appearance, and still deserve the 

reputation of being an inexpensive college bar with an excellent selection of beers, 

the constant rotation of new brands being well received by members and guests. 

ROTA workers are given the opportunity of mixing drinks if they wish and of 

expanding the selection. This year we have introduced cocktails to the set menu, 

and have created a signature cocktail, the tropical ‘Wolfie’. New menus and recipes 

have also been added. 

Student artists have been hired to decorate the games room with two additional 

murals which continue the light-hearted College-inspired theme in the bar. A 

second artist will be hired to paint a big College logo in commemoration of our 

Fiftieth celebration next year. 

The bar gains reputation and income from the many external events, such as the 

Harry Potter ball in December and the Dance Club ball in May, which have allowed 

it to expand the service. There have been many additions, which have enlarged the 

already excellent selection and emphasised the Wolfson identity. 

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Boat Club 

The Club had one of its most successful years of rowing ever. In Michaelmas we 

entered two Men’s boats and one Women’s boat in Christ Church Regatta. Sunny 

skies saw the Women reach the final day and finish third, beaten by a strong Green- 

Templeton crew, but beating Jesus ‘easily’ in the Bronze final. 

The Women celebrate coming third in Christ Church Regatta. Left to right: Coach Sabine Parrish (without coaches Stephanie Solywoda 

and Iana Alexeeva), Mariana Cruz, Prachi Naik, Anna Khanina, Nichola Kitson, Lea Sefer, Anne Coventry, Annie Bochu, Jessica Dunham 

and cox John McManigle 

Photographer: Anne Coventry 

Hilary started with a bang, an unlucky bang, for the Men’s First and Third crews 

collided seriously: two men were bruised and ejected into the river – thankfully 

without serious injury – and two Wolfson boats were in need of major repair. The 

damage was mitigated by the positive response from Wolfson and other collegiate 

rowers. Many people offered immediate help and support, and within six hours 

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Pembroke and University College boat clubs had offered replacement boats for 

our crews to train in. A subcommittee of bright minds was formed to analyse the 

accident, to prevent it from ever happening again. 

Despite this disruption, Wolfson achieved what may have been its finest Torpids 

ever. We entered seven boats for the first time, and all three women’s crews earned 

blades, M3 also earned blades, and M1 fought its way back up to fifth on the river, 

equalling its highest position ever. Wolfson ‘won’ Torpids, with its boats gaining 24 

places in all over the four days – eight more than the second college, Linacre – and 

all boats increasing their position. Such a Women’s result has only been achieved 

once before in all of Oxford’s history. 

W1 after their blades-winning bump on the Saturday of Torpids. Left to right: Anne Coventry (bow), Nichola Kitson, Annie Bochu, Mickaela 

Nixon, Jessica Dunham, Charlotte Diffey, Claudia Vadeboncoeur, Nicky Huskens (stroke) and Sofia Hauck (cox). 

Photographer: Chris Nixon 

Trinity term saw a pack of wolves hungry for more. For the first time ever, we 

entered eight boats in Summer Eights, four Men’s and four Women’s. Competition 

was so fierce for places in the Men’s First that the second boat was deemed ‘M1B’. 

M1 and M1B both bumped twice, and almost twice more. W1 had a tough Eights, 

rowing over each day, but each day inching nearer to the crews ahead. M3 and W3 

both won blades. On the last day of Eights it was revealed to a very surprised and 

touched College Steward that M1 had taken it upon themselves to rename their 

boat ‘Karl Davies’, to thank Karl for all his kindness to the Club over the years. 

Yet again not a single boat went down on the charts, and yet again Wolfson achieved 

the highest number of position increases overall, highest of any college. We won 

Torpids, we won Eights. We have reason to be proud. 

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Cricket 

This was an exciting season for the combined Wolfson / St Cross team, despite the 

rapid turnover typical of graduate colleges, which made us bid farewell to many 

class gentlemen. But we were confident of recruiting new members, first at the 

college Freshers Fair, and then in restricted-rules matches at the tennis courts 

during the winter and early spring. April brought some beautiful weather and the 

start of proper nets training, with our members getting into the groove. 

The season began on 1 May with our first Cuppers match, against the mighty 

Worcester I. It was the first game we had played as a team and inevitably we made 

batting errors, but Joe O’Gorman, our very own Blue, headed a fighting comeback. 

However, we were well beaten by their string of Blues, which only inspired us to do 

better in the League. Here we won all but one match, Worcester once again proving 

to be our nemesis. 

As batsmen, Matthew Kruger and Devendra Meena made a match-winning 

combination, with Meena’s patient approach complementing Kruger’s aggressive 

stroke play. In bowling, our top paceman, Edward Gillin, was firing on all cylinders 

and was well supported by Andy Powell and Mark Loughridge in taking wickets. 

As captain, I take the most pride in our fine fielding, which cramped the opposition 

and forced them to make mistakes. A special mention goes to Pranoy Raul, who 

distinguished himself wherever he was placed, and to Juan Galeazzi Gonzalez, 

despite his being quite new to the game. 

A fantastic season, in fact, which culminated in a League victory. I have thoroughly 

enjoyed leading the team, and I predict its further success, as more and more 

students discover what fun cricket can be. 

Shaumick Bhattacharjee 

Croquet 

We entered an astounding ten teams into Cuppers, each of which competed valiantly 

and with great dignity. Several made it through the first rounds, and we are looking 

forward to an invitational tournament at Wolfson. 

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Darwin Day 

This year we met in sunny Cambridge, a day full of Oxbridge camaraderie, and in 

the end we left happy knowing that we had made friends in ‘the other place’, but 

we also left without the Cup. Our numbers were small, and the competition fierce. 

We renewed our ties with Darwin and strengthened the relationship: members of 

Wolfson will be attending the Darwin Ball, and Darwin will be invited to enter a 

team into the invitational croquet tournament in 9th week. 

Darwin Day: Wolfson wins the Tug of War 

Photographer: Hannah Jongsma 

Entz 

Freshers’ Week was even bigger this year, and Entz helped to organise a range of 

activities including a pub quiz, bar games, a board games night, an MCR crawl, 

karaoke, film nights, an Oxford pub crawl, and a welcome BBQ. The finale was the 

Alphabet Bop, where students dressed up as something that begins with the first 

letter of their name, an excellent opportunity for college members, old and new, to 

get to know one another. 

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Wolfson’s reputation for great Bop nights has blossomed, with themes ranging from 

‘Disney’ to ‘Shades of Wolfson’. This year’s team also delivered the most successful 

90s Bop and Communist Bop to date, raising over £1000 for the charity ‘Action 

on Addiction’ and the Nepal Earthquake Fund. We helped organise a student-run 

Thanksgiving dinner and a Christmas event with carols, pudding and mulled wine. 

We also enjoyed some sober fun with board games and pizza nights and film nights 

throughout the year. Entz and the well-established ‘Chinese Cultural Exchange 

Society’ held a hugely successful Chinese New Year event to welcome in the Year of 

the Goat, to which College members brought Chinese food to share with everyone. 

Entz organised excursions to other colleges for exchanges dinners and MCR bar 

nights, and ventured out of Oxford for the day to Stonehenge, the Isle of Wight 

and Cardiff. We also visited the Blenheim Palace Battle Proms, Henley regatta and 

a rugby match between London Welsh and Gloucester. 

Entz would like to thank everyone who helped organise events; without their help 

the stress-busting fun we offer would not be possible. 

Environment 

Sustainability 

Wolfson has continued its efforts to improve insulation and lighting throughout the 

College, both as part of ongoing renovations and within existing accommodation. 

Phase II of the Academic Wing, due to be completed during the winter of 2015/16, 

promises to be a boon in its environmentally friendly design, which includes 

automatic windows and blinds to regulate the internal environment of the building 

and photovoltaic panels on the roof. There has also been a successful trial of providing 

organic composting facilities for keen resident students. 

Divestment 

Wolfson has followed the University’s lead by stating that its portfolio contains no 

direct investments in companies deriving the majority of their revenue from thermal 

coal and oil sands. It has also announced that socially responsible investment will 

now be considered at all future meetings of the Investment Committee. This is a 

great opportunity for the College to demonstrate its progressive ethos and to join the 

26 JCRs, 15 MCRs and many alumni, who have pledged their support for fossil fuel 

divestment within the University.

Wolfson Wildlife 

During the autumn and winter, eagle-eyed students continued to spot hedgehogs, 

foxes and deer on College property. This spring the grounds have been home to many 

migrants such as black caps, chiff chaffs and garden warblers, as well as to healthy 

populations of garden and woodland species such as green woodpeckers, gold crests 

and long-tailed tits. For several years a family of mute swans has successfully nested 

on the Punt Harbour Island, but this year the four cygnets were apparently taken by 

predators. 

Branded College Bags 

The College continues to sell cotton shopping bags decorated with the College crest 

for £2 from the lodge, with all profits going to AMREF. 

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

community, in particular Josh Kahn, Nina Klein, Christina Cook, Tracy Fuzzard, 

Barry Coote the Home Bursar, Ed Jarron the Bursar and Hermione Lee the President. 

Zoë Goodwin 

Environmental Representative 

Family Society 

Our first event was the Meet and Greet party, to welcome new members of the 

Society. Later in the year we organized the Halloween party, which proved to be 

the most popular of all. Children and adults walked around the College trick-ortreating 

at the houses that kindly offered to give candies to children in costume, 

before they went to the Halloween party in the Buttery with hot food, cold drinks, 

and organized games for the children. 

For those who did not go away for Christmas, we held several rehearsals of 

Christmas carols for the Christmas party at which Father Christmas brought small 

gifts to all children present. There was lovely food and drinks, and the finale was 

carols sung by everyone. In February we celebrated Valentine’s Day, which was 

also a lot of fun, and as usual took part in the Summer Event, with organized facepainting 

and outdoor games. 

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Organizing these events gives students with families a chance to relax and socialize 

with others, and we are sure they were grateful. 

Rosario and Hugo Nava 

Football 

The Wolfson / St Cross club fielded two men’s teams, captained by João Sousa 

Pinto (First XI) and Henry Lambert (Second XI). They played in Divisions 1 and 

3, finishing seventh and fourth respectively. In Cuppers, the First XI lost to Balliol, 

who went on to win the final against Lincoln, whom we had beaten 6–0 earlier in 

the season. Andre Liew was given the player-of-the-year award, and Claudio Llosa 

Isenrich was elected captain for 2015–16. 

João Sousa Pinto 

Old Wolves Lunch 

Our informal Old Wolves group continued to meet meet termly for informal lunches 

and occasional talks. These events are open to all who enjoy sharing memories of 

Wolfson in former days. A table is reserved in Hall. Lunch is on a self-serve, selfpay 

basis (cash or battels card at the till), with liquid refreshments, including a glass 

of wine, laid on. The College Archives team will be there to welcome you back to 

the College, and to eavesdrop on your stories. 

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Photographer: Jim Kennedy

There was a special treat following the May 2015 lunch: Merryn Williams gave a 

beautifully illustrated talk on Effie Gray, the subject of her book A Victorian Scandal: 

the story of Effie Gray (2010). Our Michaelmas lunch is scheduled for 5 November 

2015, to be followed by an illustrated talk by Dr Hubert Zawadzki (GS, JRF, MCR) 

about his mother’s wartime experiences: ‘Invasion, Deportation and Survival: A 

Polish Woman’s Epic Wartime Story 1939-45’. 

2016 dates are 4 February, 5 May and 3 November. All are on Thursdays at 12.30, 

with any accompanying talks at 1.30 p.m. Before making travel plans from outside 

Oxford, please check the date with the College Newssheet. Places are limited, so 

please confirm your intention to attend (archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk). 

We also look forward to seeing many of you at the fiftieth anniversary weekend 

events in July 2016 (schedule to be published on the College website). Please bring 

your photographs or other memorabilia, and reminiscences. 

Ellen Rice (Fellow Archivist) and Liz Baird (Archivist) 

Pilates 

Pop-up-Pilates Oxford is now taking classes at Wolfson, which are proving to be 

very popular as students and staff discover what Pilates is all about. This term 

we have been focusing on postural correction and core strengthening, with the 

aim of relaxing and unwinding body and mind in exercise programmes that build 

strength and flexibility. 

Punt Club 

Wolfson on a summer’s afternoon is best enjoyed in person, but a reasonable 

substitute is to look at the picture of the College in the 1976 Oxford Almanack. 

In soft watercolour, David Gentlemen sketches out the view from the other side of 

the Cherwell. In the background, B and C blocks jut stoutly up against a marine 

blue sky. In the mid-ground, a family of swans slip off the island into the water, 

doubtless to bury their heads in the harbour’s iron-filled silt. And in the foreground 

a punt idles by, piloted by a boater-hatted student who probably ought to have been 

doing something more useful with his time. 

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It is noteworthy that Wolfson’s first appearance in the Almanack revolved around 

a punt. The College’s riverside location is perhaps its most distinctive feature, 

and many people know of Wolfson as (among other things) ‘the college with the 

punt harbour’. Punting is central to College life. While the library, the common 

room, the pitch, the gym – even the hall – attract slightly different clienteles, the 

punts are a peerless unifier. Anyone gazing at the harbour of an afternoon will see 

students, fellows, staff, guests, friends, family, Old Wolves and others taking to the 

water, usually in the same boat. The punts symbolise the spirit of the place: calm, 

irreverent, egalitarian, and well-attuned to the very best traditions of Oxford and 

its university. 

The task of the Punt Club this year has to been to fortify its position in Wolfson life. 

After the inauspicious sinking of Punt 4 last year, a cutting-edge new punt has been 

ordered. After the Boat House threatened to turn into a sty, it is has been cleared up 

and reorganised. A customised map of the Cherwell has been installed, to remove 

any possible excuse of not reaching the Victoria Arms. The punts themselves 

have been given small Wolfson crests so that Wolfson punters need never again 

be confused with the amateurs renting from the Cherwell Boathouse. And after 

numerous reports of sunburnt heads, six straw boater hats have been purchased, 

striped in College colours, which are available to any punter wishing to ply the 

water in style. 

Perhaps the most significant development, though, is the inauguration of Cherwell 

Day on 24 June, a summer celebration by the Punt Club and the Croquet Club 

which will consist of a punt regatta, a croquet tournament and a gowned dinner. 

The aim of the regatta is to find the fastest punters in the College community. 

There is no prize except honour – and, of course, the satisfying knowledge that one 

is supreme at something so pointless. If that isn’t an incentive to enter, we don’t 

know what is. 

See you on the river! 

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Reading Group 

The Group continues to meet every few months to discuss and debate literature 

over a glass (or two) of wine. Books read this year were All Quiet on the Western 

Front by Erich Maria Remarque; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; Adam Bede 

by George Eliot; The Children Act by Ian McEwan; and Mary Barton by Elizabeth 

Gaskell. We will be discussing Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake at our first 

meeting of the year 2015-16. 

We take suggestions and then decide on which books to read as a group, which lets 

us range across time-periods and nationalities. We are keen to try out new authors 

as well as getting around to reading those classics that otherwise never get read. 

The Group is now in its eleventh year, a friendly mixture of Fellows, students and 

anyone interested in books, talking about books, and talking about books while 

drinking wine. 

We are grateful to the Academic Committee for its continued support, which 

enables us to offer refreshments at our meetings. 

Erica Charters 

Romulus 

This year’s theme, ‘Entropy’, was chosen by the editorial board over a round of 

whiskys in the Wolfson bar, and a competition for student essays on the topic drew 

entries from College members in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. 

Lewis Daley won first prize with ‘Unseen Spirits and the Pia’san’s Eye’, which 

drew on his anthropological fieldwork to suggest that in Makushi mythology, 

entropy runs in the reverse to the traditional scientific conception. Second prize 

went to Henry Lambert for his discussion of how the term ‘entropy’ in physics is 

extended as a metaphor to other fields: ‘The Entropy of steam engines, the Entropy 

of computers, and the Entropy of strawberry jam.’ Sophia Malandraki-Miller's 

Entropic interpretation of the Wolfson crest was much admired. 

The board held a wine reception at the end of term for contributors to Romulus. 

This year's board were Nick Hall, Grace Egan, Kate Kelley, Martin Lohrer, Heather 

Munro and Evan Odell. 

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Squash 

This has been a tough season. Key players having left at the end of last year, the team 

had to regroup significantly for the League and Cuppers beginning in Michaelmas 

term. Unfortunately we were not able to hold our place in League Division I, but 

are confident of staying in Division II, even of returning to Division I. We had little 

luck in Cuppers either, not progressing beyond the first round. 

Despite regular sessions, the overall number of players has declined this year. But 

we plan to introduce more events next year, to give players the chance of socializing 

off-court, and thus to strengthen the squash community in the College. 

Summer Event 2015 

The Event was held in the Bishop’s Garden for the first time, fortunately on a 

glorious sunny day which attracted more than two hundred members of the 

College. It began at 3.00 with prosecco and elderflower fizz. 

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There was an AMREF Bake Off with lots of delicious cakes and tea and coffee. The 

cakes were judged by the AMREF Chair, Dr Mark Pottle, and Professor Christina 

Redfield won with an awesome chocolate cake! 

Photographer: Tracy Fuzzard 

We had some garden games, corn hole and horse shoes, and the Family Society 

organised face-painting and watercolour painting for the children. The Boat 

Club sold Pimms and ice cream cornets, which went down well on such a warm 

afternoon. The day ended at 6.00 with a College BBQ. 

Thanks should go to the organiser Matthew Naiman, AMREF, the Boat Club, the 

Family Society, Maintenance, Vincent Martinez, and the catering and kitchen chefs. 

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Winter Ball 2014 

A thrilling ‘Celestial Night’ on 6 December was enjoyed until dawn by more than 

500 guests. It began with dinner in Hall, decorated with giant glowing stars and 

planets, followed by the Upper Common Room with cocktail bar, casino and cigar 

lounge. Dancing began in Hall with jazz and swing by Corner Jam, followed by the 

ceilidh band Mouse and Trousers. 

One of the highlights was our own rock stars, the Howlin’ Wolves, who extended 

their playing time by half an hour – people couldn’t get enough of their energetic 

performance. Downstairs in the bar, the mini golf area also proved popular. By now, 

the guests had burned so many calories that they filled up again with late-night 

food provided by the kitchen staff and the Swiss raclette team. Many thanks to 

Tony and Matteo, and their teams. 

The fulminating finale was the incredibly non-silent disco delivered by DJ Tk Paul. 

That last dance under the stars was so enchanting that the survivors could hardly 

be collected for their photo at 4 a.m. Congratulations to our DJs Enno in the Upper 

Common Room and Nazim in the mini golf bar, and many thanks to Kylash for his 

guitar performance, and to our brave squad of bar workers. 

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Research Clusters 

The Ancient World Research Cluster has been very active this year, with many 

stimulating contributions to its new lecture series from members and distinguished 

guest speakers. Dr Stephanie Dalley outlined her ambitious project to write a new 

history of Babylon. Dr Patricia Lulof (University of Amsterdam) illustrated the 

ways in which computer-game technology can be used to explore the ‘Biographies 

of Buildings’. Professor Jeremy Johns gave us an insight into the creation of the 

painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo. Michael Macdonald revealed 

some of the new finds from his recent expedition to the oasis of Taymā’ in northwest 

Arabia. Professor Jas Elsner explored the architectural nature of the icon and 

the reliquary in early Christian and Byzantine culture. Professor Barbara Borg 

(University of Exeter) showed how an interdisciplinary and contextual approach to 

an archaeological landscape can yield fresh insights as she outlined her new project 

‘Mapping the Social History of Rome’. 

The Cluster continued to host well-attended lunch-table events twice a term and 

a series of lunchtime talks, given this year by Georgi Parpulov, Maria Lidova, 

Katherine Cross (members of the Empires of Faith Project), Dr Martin Henig and 

Dr Ellen Rice. 

In Trinity Term we held an interdisciplinary colloquium ‘Landscapes and Culture’ 

celebrating the breadth of scholarship in the AWRC. Speakers included Dr Alan 

Ross (University College Dublin), Dr Susan Walker, Dr Nicholas Allen, Dr Martin 

Henig, Dr Judith McKenzie, Dr Christopher Metcalf, Julia Nikolaus, Lucia Nixon, 

Dr Nicholas Ray and Professor Barbara Borg (University of Exeter). 

The Lorne Thyssen Research Fund for Ancient World Topics at Wolfson College 

has generously supported the work of many members of the Cluster, facilitating 

fieldwork, laboratory analysis, archival research, the study of manuscripts, conference 

participation and academic exchange. The Fund supported or underwrote a large 

number of conferences and workshops this year, including Sir Richard Sorabji’s 

two-day conference on Indian Philosophy in memory of Professor Bimal Matilal, 

Dr Jacob Dahl’s Workshop on Seals ‘Digitizing in the Round’, Dr Peter Stewart’s 

colloquia ‘Etruscan Art to Roman Art? A Reappraisal’ and ‘Sacred Landscapes in 

Classical Art’, Yegor Grebnev's Early Text Cultures seminars, Dr Janet Delaine’s 

international workshop on the Archaeology of Roman Construction, Dr Marek 

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Jankowiak's conference on Late Antique and Early Islamic Khwarazm, and the 

fourth annual Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology. 

Peter Barber 

The South Asia Research Cluster combines Wolfson’s growing strength in 

south-Asian research with events for people who come from South Asia or who are 

interested in the region. It organises Work in Progress seminars, public lectures 

and round tables on ‘big themes’, and research workshops and conferences. It is 

enormously grateful to the College for the annual grant which is used to seed 

all this activity, but continues to search for outside support with the help of the 

Development Office. 

In Michaelmas 2014, the ‘Big Themes’ series included two lectures and a book 

launch on ‘Muscular Politics in India’ by Prem Shankar Jha (distinguished senior 

journalist and economist) and Prof Avinash Kumar (JNU). To speak on Nepal we 

had Prashant Jha, Associate Editor of the Hindustan Times, to discuss ‘The New 

Delhi Durbar: What it means for Nepal and South Asia’, while Baskar Gautam 

spoke on ‘The Crucible Of Revolution: the Meaning of being a Nepali Maoist’. On 

Sri Lanka, Rohini Mohan read from her book The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the 

Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War. On Pakistan, Dr Gulfaraz (Pakistan’s leading energy 

expert) spoke on ‘Pakistan’s Energy Crisis’. 

In Hilary 2015, Matthew McCartney organised an eminent panel discussion 

‘Deciphering Modi’ on the new government in India, starring Prof Pranab Bardhan 

(UC Berkeley) Michael Walton (World Bank and Harvard), Vijay Joshi (Merton) 

and Indrajit Roy (now JRF at Wolfson). Lawyer Naeem Shakar discussed ‘Pakistan’s 

Blasphemy Law’. Work in Progress seminars, convened by Kate Sullivan, included 

Dr Kasturi Sen (Antwerp and Wolfson) on ‘Health reforms, equity and access to 

health care in selected states of India’. 

In Trinity 2015, SARC supported two International Research Workshops. ‘Rising 

India – Status and Power’, which focused on India as seen by other major countries, 

was organised jointly by Kate Sullivan and colleagues from the S. Rajaratnam School 

of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A 

graduate students’ interdisciplinary research conference on ‘Exploring Gendered

Experiences and Subjectivities in a Globalizing India’ was much to the credit of 

Bhumi Purohit, Divya Rosalyne and Shannon Philip. We also heard the political 

editor of Outlook, Saba Naqvi, speak on ‘Capital Politics’ about the Aam Aadmi 

(Common Man) Party in power in New Delhi; and Ayesha Siddiqua, the renowned 

author of Military Inc on Pakistan’s Military Economy, speak on ‘Radical Politics 

in Punjab and Sindh’. 

Two joint events were held innovatively with the South Asianists at Somerville: 

Dilip Simeon (political commentator and social activist) gave two talks on ‘Political 

Violence’ in Michaelmas 2014, and in Trinity 2015 Lord Karan Bilimoria (chairman 

of Cobra Beer) spoke on ‘UK-India Relations’ in the wake of the General Election. 

Barbara Harriss-White 

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Cluster 

In Trinity Term 2015, Jeff Watt (Curator of Himalayan Art Resources) gave a 

series of eight lectures on Tibetan Art in Oxford collections, the third year that he 

has lectured in Oxford. As in previous years, the lectures were a great success, and 

we hope that he will be able to come again next year. 

In collaboration with the Development Office, we mounted a successful ‘crowdfunding’ 

campaign for the JRF in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, and also raised 

money for a Gyalwang Drukpa Scholarship in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. 

We are establishing an annual Aris Lecture in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, 

and are very pleased that Professor Janet Gyatso (Harvard) has agreed to give the 

inaugural lecture on 22 October 2015. 

Members of the Cluster are organising two international conferences for the 

College anniversary year: ‘The First International Conference on Spiti’ (convened 

by Yannick Laurent), and ‘The Dynamics between the Oral and the Written in 

Tibetan Literature’ (convened by Lama Jabb). 

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The Mind, Brain and Behaviour Cluster organised an international workshop 

on Optimizing Behavioral Interventions by Professor Linda Collins (Penn State 

University). This inter-disciplinary event provided researchers in Experimental 

Psychology, Psychiatry, Education and Social Policy with practical examples and 

hands-on experience in running and analysing effects of interventions in complex 

behavioural studies. 

We have in addition organised a series of ‘across the levels’ talks involving one 

senior member of staff, one Research Fellow and one DPhil student giving short 

presentations on an overlapping topic. We have also managed to secure some 

external funding to support future events. 

Glyn Humphreys 

The Digital Research Cluster held a number of meetings and events during the 

year, but has focused on developing a strategic alignment with Oxford’s e-Research 

Centre, whose Director, Professor David de Roure, is a Supernumerary Fellow. In 

discussion with the President, a Memorandum of Agreement was accepted by the 

College and OeRC’s Executive Committee in June 2015. The Agreement, which 

is available on the web, was formulated by Professor Donna Kurtz and Dr David 

Robey, Emeritus Fellows, with the Senior Tutor, Gillian Hamnett, and OeRC’s 

Lead Administrator, Jackie Carter. Three Associate Directors of OeRC were elected 

to Membership of Common Room in May 2015: Susanna Assunta-Sansone, Andy 

Richards and Wes Armour. Andy and Wes will serve on the Wolfson / OeRC 

Coordinating Group with Donna Kurtz (Director) and David Robey (Events 

Coordinator). 

To launch the collaboration, the Cluster will hold a special event in College in 

Michaelmas Term with presentations by OeRC from each of the University’s four 

academic Divisions. Areas envisaged for future collaboration include research 

projects, research fellowships and college membership, building a critical mass 

of postgraduate students in the College with cross-disciplinary digital interests, 

events and joint fund-raising. The collaboration is a significant opportunity to 

exploit, reinforce and extend cross-disciplinary connections within the College, 

and to add new dimensions to the Centre’s range of activities. There may also be 

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an opportunity to revive the College’s Industrial Fellowship Scheme, since Visiting 

Scholars to OeRC are usually senior people from industry. 

Donna Kurtz 

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Cluster enjoyed another successful 

year, celebrating the tenth anniversary of its inception at Wolfson in 2005. This 

year it hosted a number of high-profile speakers from the worlds of law, academia 

and policymaking, and achieved notable impacts with its publishing and film 

programmes. 

In the months before the Scottish independence referendum, the Foundation 

convened a public debate on Scotland’s membership of the European Union, at 

which the Honorary Director General of the European Commission debated the 

question with constitutional experts. Other prominent speakers have included 

former World Bank Senior Advisor Frank Gardner, who called for a rethink of 

regulation to inform good democratic governance, and Professor Sir Richard 

Sorabji (EF), who delivered a keynote lecture on the balance between freedom of 

speech and religious freedoms in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. 


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The Foundation published a policy brief in January on the legality of drone strikes, 

which was debated by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones chaired by Tom 

Watson MP. The Foundation was invited to Westminster to present the findings 

and implications of the brief, which distilled an eighteen-month investigation by 

the New York Bar Association. 

The Foundation’s termly series of film screenings on themes related to law and 

society has proved particularly popular with members of Wolfson and the wider 

community. Capacity audiences of over one hundred have been regularly attracted 

to free evening screenings of recent releases such as the Oscar-nominated The Act 

of Killing and Leviathan, prefaced by introductory comments from expert speakers 

who included Jennifer Robinson, the prominent human rights and Wikileaks lawyer. 

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 

The Centre has had a busy and exciting academic year. Events have included a 

fascinating talk and book launch by DPhil student Lyndsey Jenkins (Lady Constance 

Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr); stand-alone lectures by prize-winning authors 

such as Lucy Hughes-Hallett, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for her book 

The Pike; and by prominent public figures, such as the former president of Latvia, 

who lectured on her personal view of European defence. In Hilary Term 2015, 

our annual Weinrebe Lecture series was on the theme of ‘political history and lifewriting’ 

and featured Peter Hennessey, Anne Deighton, Margaret MacMillan and 

Roy Foster. We also held full-day practical writing workshops; seminars, including 

some by our Visiting Scholars; lunch-time talks, for example by Frances Larson 

on Henry Wellcome; and a night of performance poetry by Sid Bose. We continue 

to sponsor and co-organise conferences and seminars, such as a successful termly 

seminar on ‘the author in the popular imagination’. We were also delighted to hold 

a reading and seminar around the last known recording of Anne Sexton reading 

her own poetry before her death. 

OCLW continues to attract scholars and practitioners working in diverse aspects 

of life-writing. From June 2014 until March 2015, its Weinrebe Fellow, Dr Rachel 

Hewitt, was on maternity leave, and her administrative work was conducted by 

Dr Christos Hadjiyiannis. OCLW continued to appoint DPhil students to conduct 

their research in formal attachment to OCLW, and we have a successful Visiting 

Scholarship programme whereby two or three Visiting Scholars or Visiting 

Doctoral Students are resident at OCLW in any one term. 

OCLW is excited to be forging new collaborations and initiatives. Jointly with 

the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), it offers a conference 

grant to postgraduates wanting to organise a one-day conference on the subject 

of life-writing in the humanities. This has produced a number of conferences 

on intellectually innovative aspects of life-writing. We are also creating a 

comprehensive podcast archive of all of our past talks, and we maintain a popular 

blog on the subject of life-writing. In the future, these enterprises will be expanded 

and more widely marketed to create a global network of life-writing scholars. 

Closer to home, OCLW has established weekly social evenings for its members and 

affiliated scholars, which has proved a convivial means of establishing a life-writing 

community here in Wolfson. 

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The President’s Seminars 

Speakers and Sessions 2014–15 

Michaelmas Term: ‘Food’ 

Paul Aveyard (GBF): 

Tomasz Gromelski (RF): 

Julien Dugnoille (GS): 

‘Too Much Food’ 

‘Putting food on the table in Tudor England’ 

‘Water off a dog’s back? Reflections on 

Anthropological Ethics and Ethnographic Methods 

in a Korean dog-meat market’ 

Hilary Term: ‘Shocks’ 

Tarje Nissen-Meyer (GBF): ‘Shocks in rocks to sketch the Abyss’ 

Oiwi Parker Jones (RF): ‘A shocking silence: Brain-damage, Aphasia ... and 

Hope’ 

Sabine Parrish (GS): ‘Everyday Espresso and competition Coffee’ 

Trinity Term: ‘The City’ 

Matthew McCartney (GBF): ‘Lahore Mon Amour: What Economists can learn 

from kebabs’ 

Nicholas Ray (RF): ‘Changing pedestrian movement in public buildings 

in Pompeii’ 

Joanna Morris (GS): ‘Surviving the city: Writing female subjectivity in 

three urban novels from 1960s Santiago de Chile’ 

Anastasia Tolstoy, Christine Fouirnaies, Erin Cutts 

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The creation of the Wolfson College garden 

landscape 

By Jacqueline Piper (GS 1976–77, MCR 1977–) 

Introduction 

Come in past the granite and glass wall which fronts Linton Road, into a series of 

spaces that are increasingly green and varied, with diverse trees, glorious beds of 

perennial plants, lawns, paths and falling water. How did all this come into being, 

how was it designed and created – and by whom? 

Wolfson College moved to the newly constructed buildings on Linton Road in 

1974. Over the previous century Oxford had been expanding northwards – Park 

Town was built in the 1860s, then Norham Manor. In the 1890s St John’s College 

began to develop the Bardwell Estate around Linton Road towards Belbroughton 

Road, then houses began to be built along Linton Road. A large undistinguished 

Edwardian house, named Cherwell, was built by George Gardiner, architect, for the 

Scottish physiologist J S Haldane FRS, in 1906; it was located approximately on 

what is now Berlin quad. Haldane and his wife Kathleen ran the 11 acres as a small 

dairy farm with an orchard to the east of the house and a small kitchen garden on 

the western boundary. After Haldane’s death in 1936, his wife retained the land as 

a working farm for a few years more, after which the farm and the house fell into 

disrepair. 

The site was purchased by the University from St John’s and given to the new 

Wolfson College in 1966. Outline planning permission was sought from the city, 

and in 1967 the architects Powell and Moya were chosen from a shortlist of three 

firms. An architectural design was agreed after three years, and the building work 

was completed three years after that; in 1974 the Chancellor of the University, 

Harold Macmillan, opened the new college. The contribution of Powell and Moya 

to the gardens was chiefly to commission early work to clothe the site in vegetation. 

Individuals who have counted 

The Wolfson gardens owe their form to a network of individuals working to 

enhance the site, a network that extends into the Botanic Gardens of Kew and of 

Oxford. Two key individuals working together determined what we now see in the 

forms and plant variety of the College gardens: Ken Burras, Fellow and Honorary 

Gardens Adviser from 1967 to 2000, and Walter Sawyer, Head Gardener from 1982 

to 1991 and subsequently Honorary Gardens Adviser (2000 to present). These two 

men, with some different, some overlapping skills in botany and plantsmanship, 

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landscape design and planning, plant maintenance and garden management, 

through their excellent enduring relationship and mutual respect, brought into 

being the landscape we continue to enjoy. 

Burras and Sawyer were surrounded by a group of Wolfson people who, in the early 

days of the establishment of the college at its new site and during the subsequent 

decades, were enthusiastic about gardens in general but also keen to create a special 

space within the land available at Wolfson. They included Bill, Lord Bradshaw 

(1985 to present), Dr Cecilia Dick (Bursar 1965–95), Tom Edwardson (1965–91), 

Felicity, Lady Fisher, wife of Sir Henry Fisher (President 1975–85), Dr Geoffrey 

Garton (1967 to present) and his wife Nathalie, Sheila McMeekin (1983 to present), 

Dr Alison McDonald (1981 to present), Dr Joan Mott (1966–94), Dr Ellen Rice 

(1978 to present) and Dr Stan Woodell (1967–2004). (The dates refer to their years 

of attachment to Wolfson, in whatever role.) 

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A visitor to the College now will find a diversity of spaces: the formality of 

the Granite Quad and the Berlin Quad, the more natural Tree Quad, the open, 

sweeping River Quad – all of these are relatively simple in structure with varying 

combinations of lawn and tree species. Beyond this there is the calm, ordered formal 

garden: a croquet lawn bordered by wide beds of diverse perennials, the glasshouse 

used for propagation, and a pergola covered with wisteria and roses. Further 

on, the allotments in domestic misrule show differing degrees of horticultural 

expertise and labour input. Then there is the concealed world of the southern 

gardens, tucked away behind the car park, leading down to the edges of the river. 

The plants here are dramatic, the soil is wet, and flowing water is the only sound. 

To the north of the main buildings, the Gandy Quad has a quite different atmosphere: 

the surfaces are mostly hard, but on a warm day the many sculptural perennials 

create an exotic, almost sub-tropical feeling and, occasionally, a fountain plays. 

Across the river are the two Wolfson Meads, North and South: 4.6 hectares of open 

fields bordered by dense hedges and grazed by livestock. For over a thousand years 

the Meads have been traditionally managed for livestock, and neither ploughed 

nor treated with chemical fertilizer. Wolfson leased them originally, but purchased 

them in 1982 on condition that they remain green, open and undeveloped. 

How it was at the start 

In 1967 Ken Burras was Superintendent of the Oxford Botanic Garden, having 

moved here from the botanic garden at Kew, and Sir Isaiah Berlin appointed him to 

act for a three-year period as Wolfson’s Honorary Gardens Adviser. He was invited 

to take lunch at Common Table in exchange for his advice, and the arrangement 

with the College rolled on: he became a Member of Common Room in 1975, a 

Supernumerary Fellow in 1976, and remains an active member of the Wolfson 

Grounds sub-committee to this day. A Landscaping sub-committee was formed by 

1967, and an initial tree survey organised, involving Ken Burras, Tom Edwardson 

(lecturer in Silviculture) and Stan Woodell (lecturer in Botany). This survey 

identified a number of fine tree specimens which Burras, Edwardson and Woodell 

thought worth retaining – even to the extent of varying the building line where 

necessary. Other trees were classed as ‘keep – if possible’, whilst others would be 

lost, including the orchard trees. Trees that still remain from that time include the 

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horse-chestnut at the entrance, an oak between the car park and the Hall, pines on 

the southern boundary and three sycamores in Tree Quad. 

It is interesting to note that, apparently in response to the design and construction 

of the new college, the North Oxford Conservation Area was extended northwards 

to encompass the Bardwell estate. Ken Burras recalls that in response to criticism 

in the Oxford Mail that the Wolfson entrance was harsh and ‘barracks-like’, the 

decision was made to plant trees in the Granite quad. He recommended the planting 

of a semi-mature London plane (Platanus x hispanica), to speed the time by which it 

would make a significant impact on the quad. He also recommended the planting 

there of a Manna ash (Fraxinus ornus) and two Magnolia grandiflora ‘Goliath’, thus 

selecting a clone which would flower at a younger age than other large-flowered 

magnolias. 

Fifty years ago, when Powell and Moya handed over the buildings, the conservation 

of trees had been neglected – despite penalty clauses – and the contractor had 

defaulted on the landscaping contract, leaving it incomplete. Ken Burras 

recommended Ted Darrah, previously at Rhodes House, as Wolfson’s first Head 

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Gardener in 1975. Darrah came recommended by the Warden of Rhodes House 

as ‘an outspoken Northumbrian who touches his forelock to no man’. The first 

need was to cover the ground and so improve the appearance quickly. Contractors 

John Banbury Ltd had established lawns across the main quadrangles; Darrah took 

them over, as well as restoring boundary fences and installing recreational spaces 

on newly acquired land to the North. He planted the island and the Marsh, but is 

particularly remembered by Burras for ‘double-digging’ the land for the croquet 

lawn by hand – a particularly arduous technique – as well as for some unsuitable 

planting schemes, such as bedding plants on the slope down to the harbour. In 

the early 1970s the Amelanchier (snowy mespilus) was planted in the lawn of River 

Quad to add interest. This small flowering tree was suggested by Lady Fisher; Ken 

Burras recommended the multi-stemmed form, as a more ‘architectural’ addition 

to the quad. 

At this stage problems for the gardeners included the made-up ground levels, 

residual concrete on the site and compacted ground: many existing trees had failed 

because of this. Then Dutch Elm Disease affected the site and the Meads across the 

river in the late 1970s. 

How the grounds developed 

Ted Darrah eventually moved on from Wolfson in 1982 and Ken Burras was again 

called upon to help with finding a new Head Gardener. This time he suggested 

a young man who had worked with him at the Oxford Botanic Garden during a 

‘sandwich year’ away from his horticultural studies in York and his job with the 

Newcastle Parks Department. This was Walter Sawyer, only 23 years old but 

already demonstrating skills in landscape planning and garden development and in 

propagation, which he much enjoyed. Walter’s role was to turn the green land into 

designed gardens with varying plant interest. A severe winter in 1981-2 meant that 

much of Darrah’s earlier planting had been lost, so Sawyer had space to act. 

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Sharing an interest in unusual plants, Burras and Sawyer introduced well over 

a hundred different plant species to the Wolfson landscape, including a national 

collection of Ceratostigma species (plumbago). The stone pinnacle from Merton 

College chapel, which Bill Beaver had spotted in a builder’s yard, was installed as 

a feature of what became the Winter Garden, between the car park and the top of 

the slope to the river. This was the first of Walter’s planting plans, chosen because 

it was an area viewed from the Lower Common Room; and the winter plants theme 

(with hellebores, Mahonia, forsythia and other early-flowering species) was chosen 

as this was the time when more people were around in College. By this time Tom 

Edwardson had retired, but still came in to College to share his thoughts and advice 

with Walter Sawyer. 

After the Winter Garden came the Woodland Garden, the walk on the southern 

boundary, and the improvement of the croquet lawn borders with Acanthus, 

Hemerocallis, lavender and flowering bulbs. In 1986 the Formal Garden was created 

in what had been a plant nursery – the space that Walter Sawyer most enjoys 

as a ‘reflective space’ – with the covered pergola, the sundial court now with its 

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yellow tree peony and a medlar tree. A handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata) will 

increasingly dominate this area. In 1988-89 the Bog Garden with its ferns, great 

Gunnera leaves and cascade, was installed in what had been a tangle of snowberry 

(‘This was fun’, says WS). By then other garden spaces, such as the garden at the 

rear of the Annex (then St Luke’s) had been improved. To the north of the site work 

was done around the old allotments, and it was decided to move them to the south, 

creating more allotments, although smaller, as they were in demand. After that, the 

Rose Garden was established in a problem area around the Squash Courts, with less 

well-drained, heavier land. At about this time the College also leased the field to the 

north, converting it into a sports field. 

The development of the College gardens in the early years was evolutionary. 

Walter Sawyer says that at the time he thought the College was conservative, 

but now realizes that it was not; and the gardens were always adequately funded. 

During these years the Grounds sub-committee continued to support its Head 

Gardener and took great interest in the garden. In her role as College Secretary, 

Sheila McMeekin was able to shepherd requests for funding through the necessary 

committees; later, as Sheila Glazebrook, she chaired the Grounds sub-committee. 

Having made, planned and then created the diversity of spaces that we now enjoy 

at Wolfson, Walter moved on in 1991 to become Superintendent of the University 

Parks, with responsibility for more than two hundred University sites. He was 

succeeded as Head Gardener by Mike Pearson, who is still in post, with a team 

of three. During the last two decades there has been much further building at the 

northern side of the site: public allotments at Garford Road were acquired and used 

for the Gandy block; M and Q blocks were later built, entailing further design and 

planting work. 

Walter became a Member of Common Room: it was not easy to leave the Wolfson 

community, and he was glad to retain this link. He returned as Honorary Gardens 

Adviser in 2000 and still assists the College, also as Secretary to the Grounds Subcommittee. 

He comments that if the grounds of a new college were being laid out 

today, the design would be less diverse, as landscape architects are less likely to 

have the level of plantsmanship and enthusiasm that Wolfson was able to call upon 

in its early days. 

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The likely future of the gardens 

Ken and Walter agree that, although over time existing collections have aged and 

become overgrown, there has been recent improvement. Nevertheless, both would 

like to see the development of a new long-term plan to restore and replenish the 

gardens. New areas are to be created in the next year or two: the new arbour, 

running from the Granite Quad down past the auditorium towards the Gandy 

Building, promises to be a very pleasant addition to the College’s green spaces. 

With the extension of 2015 and enclosure of the Granite Quad, the plane and ash 

are to be removed, and replaced with a fastigiate beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Dawyck 

Purple’) and a group of Swedish birch. Recently the College grounds team has 

taken over the the very large garden of the Bishop’s House, with its many intimate 

and distinctive spaces, including a small orchard. Its work is actively supervised by 

the Grounds sub-committee, and many Fellows share the President’s keen interest 

in the College gardens. 

My thanks go to Ken Burras and Walter Sawyer for their time and help, and to Liz Baird, 

the Archivist, for her support. The Archives hold a copy of Jane Parker, A Conservation 

Management Plan for Wolfson College (MSc thesis, Bath 2012), to which I am 

indebted; and also to Alison McDonald, A History and Ecology of North and South 

Mead (Wolfson College 2009). 

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The Bishop’s House and its history 

by Liz Baird, Archivist 

The College held a ‘Grand Opening’ of the garden at 27 Linton Road on 30 April 

2015 to celebrate the return of the Bishop’s House – the house and its two sections 

of garden – to the College. The house and one section of garden is now rented 

out, but the rest of the garden has been integrated into the College grounds and 

is available for all to enjoy. This event was attended by local residents as well as 

Fellows, College staff and students, and provided an opportunity to look round the 

very large house before the new tenants moved in, and to consider its history. 

Photographer: Derek Sobon 

St John’s College has owned property in north Oxford ever since its founder in 1555, 

Sir Thomas White, endowed it with St Margaret’s parish. Houses were built on its 

land in Summertown and its environs in the nineteenth century, and in 1855 the 

College obtained an Act of Parliament which permitted it to grant 99-year leases. 

The Linton Road houses were built between 1895 and 1925 by various architects, 

the architect of 27 Linton Road being George Gardiner. The College archives hold 

his blueprint dated February 1910 for ‘Proposed Houses, Chadlington and Linton 

Roads’. The freehold, like so many in this area, was owned by St John’s until it was 

transferred to Wolfson in the early days of the College. 

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The archives also hold a copy of the 99-year lease from 1911 – the first that was 

granted for this property – signed by George Inness, the builder, and John Frederick 

Stenning, Fellow of Wadham College. The leaseholder was required to ‘in a proper 

manner paper and paint with 2 coats of good paint and in the same manner as 

the same shall be originally papered and painted the inside of the said premises 

in every 7th year’. At the end of the lease, he was required to ‘quietly yield up’ 

the property with its fixtures and fittings, listed as ‘the gas and water system and 

chimney pieces stoves grates windows doors bells fastenings waterclosets cisterns 

partitions fixed presses shelves pipes pumps pales rails locks and keys and things 

of a like description …’ The house was to be used as ‘a private dwelling place only’. 

Some decades later, the lease was taken on by the Revd Leslie Basil Cross, Fellow 

and Chaplain of Jesus College (Emeritus Fellow from 1960), and it is believed that 

much of the layout of the garden is due to the Crosses. Apparently Mrs Cross was 

a keen gardener; she was also blind, so the garden was designed as much for scents 

as for colours or shapes. The myrtle by the front door was grown from a sprig of 

her wedding bouquet. The Revd Cross – who is said typically to have answered the 

‘phone with the phrase: ‘Cross of Jesus’ – died on Good Friday 1974. 

More recently, the house was inhabited by the eminent Oxford metallurgist, 

Professor J W (Jack) Christian and his wife Maureen, Labour councillor and 

sometime Lord Mayor of Oxford. In July 1979, the lease was bought by the Church 

Commissioners, whereupon the house became home to three successive Bishops 

of Oxford; most recently, Bishop John Pritchard. With his retirement in October 

2014, the lease reverted to the College. 

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Photographer: John Cairns 

With thanks to all who have kindly assisted with research for this article, including Lord 

Harries of Pentregarth, Peggy Morgan, Michael Riordan (Jesus College Archivist) and 

Philip Allen (Linton Road Neighbourhood Association); Darek Sobon and John Cairns 

for photos. 

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The Splendour of Dunhuang Buddhist Art 

By Jacob Ghazarian (VF 1981–82, 1991–92, MCR 

2000–) 

In June 2007 at Wolfson, at the reception which followed the celebration of the life and 

work of Sir Gareth Roberts, I was photographed in the marquee with Jeremy Johns 

and Charles Ramble, who was then Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. Dr 

Ramble’s lecture on Dunhuang at the Khalili Research Centre in Oxford, of which 

Professor Johns was (and still is) Director, had inspired me with the splendour 

of the Buddhist caves hewn into the rock face of the Mingsha Mountains on the 

south-western edge of the Gobi desert. But I did not imagine that three years later, 

in the winter of 2010, I would be standing nearly 2000 kilometres west of Beijing, 

beholding paintings and sculptures which are perhaps the greatest artistic gift of 

Buddhism to humanity. 

Dunhuang commanded the narrow Hexi Corridor in the Chinese province of 

Gansu, which led to the fertile plains of the Middle Kingdom and its ancient 

capitals of Chang’an (Xi’an) and Luoyang. By the fourth century CE, the trade 

routes of the ancient world known as the ‘Silk Road’ had brought Dunhuang 

commercial wealth, and a growing Buddhist community which was centred some 

twenty five kilometres south-east of the city along the cliffs of the Mingsha Shan 

mountains, in what came to be known as the Mogao Caves. Dunhuang, however, did 

not remain immune from the political pressures of the time. After several centuries 

of prosperity, it suffered under Tibetan occupation from 781 to 847 CE while the 

Middle Kingdom was enjoying a cultural renaissance during the Tang dynasty. It 

recovered somewhat under the patronage of the Western Xia dynasty in 1035 CE, 

but in 1226 CE the victorious Mongol armies decimated the area. Nevertheless, 

some 492 magnificent caves remain to this day under the auspices of the Chinese 

central government. Unfortunately only a select handful are open to the public 

under tightly regimented tours, but with proper credentials entry into a few of the 

restricted caves is also possible. This allowed me to visit Caves 98 and 100 under 

the watchful eyes of an armed guard. 

During the Former Qin dynasty in the year 366 CE, a local Buddhist monk and 

his companion Fa Liang began to carve out a cave on the cliff face of the Mingsha, 

and they were followed in the next thousand years by untold numbers of monks, 

devout Buddhists and pilgrims, who left their own imprint in hundreds of caves 

nearby which they endowed with visions of the holy and the sacred, a legacy which 

includes about three thousand murals. Although no paintings have survived from 

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the early fourth century CE, a significant number from the fifth century can still 

be seen. Most of the paintings take their themes from the Jataka stories which 

originate from India, a folklore-like literature concerning the past births of the 

Buddha. The imagery of these multi-coloured paintings is dynamic and attains a 

celestial plane with swirling clouds interspersed with floating ribbons. The murals 

of later centuries are less ethereal; instead they express a greater sense of stillness, 

with the emphasis on serene Buddha figures surrounded by Bodhisattvas. 

The earliest monks were Indian and arrived in Dunhuang by the southern branch 

of the Silk Road. They entered the ‘Western Regions’ of China either directly at 

Yarkand across the Karakorum Range in the south, or reached Kashgar through 

the Pamir Mountains in the west before continuing their mission further east 

to Dunhuang. Here they studied and reproduced their scriptures, and filled the 

grottoes with an extensive and exquisite collection of Buddhist art. Interestingly, a 

small number of Christian relics also reached the Dunhuang grottoes, including a 

document called the ‘Jesus-Messiah Sutras’. 

The artistic heritage of Dunhuang reflects a mixture of cultural influences clearly 

drawn from the Middle Kingdom, Central Asia and India. Influences from India are 

more apparent in the earlier pre-Tang period, when the art is more rigid in style and 

appearances severe. Later styles by contrast are more fluid, lively and expressive. 

Some caves were obviously re-occupied over the ages. In Cave 328, for example, 

the sculptures of the Buddha and his attendant Bodhisattvas, Ah Nan and Jia Ye, 

belong to the Tang period with faces that reflect Indian features, but the murals on 

the walls and ceiling are of the Song period (960–1279 CE). Similar contrasts can 

be seen in Caves 98 and 100. In Caves 35, 45, 249, 285, 321 and 325, are beautifully 

decorated flying Apsaras (Buddhist angels), dancers and flying Devis (the female 

aspect of the divine) with long exposed necklines and shoulders, dressed in pastelcoloured 

transparent garments that emphasise sensually the female form. On a less 

celestial plane, the Tang murals of Cave 45 tell the age-old stories of merchant 

caravans encountering bandits, or of a father paying the ransom for his son. The 

murals of Cave 85 illustrate female musicians dressed in Tang fashion playing their 

instruments in a placid field. 

The sanctuaries at the Mogao caves began to decline in about the twelfth century 

and slipped into obscurity until the early years of the twentieth century, when 

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Wang Yuanlu, an unassuming Taoist monk who lived nearby, stumbled into a 

cave that had been partly uncovered. His accidental discovery of this artistic trove 

would impel many Western archaeologists such as Aurel Stein, Albert von Le Coq 

and Paul Pelliot, to take the lead in rediscovering the splendour of Dunhuang’s 

legacy which reflects a thousand years of political, religious and cultural change in 

Chinese Buddhism 

Dunhuang Cave 45. Life-size figures flanking the Buddha (Tang Dynasty). 

Photographer: Jacob Ghazarian 

Dunhuang Cave 98, ceiling. Mandala of the iconic three rabbits in clockwise circumambulation. 

Photographer: Jacob Ghazarian 

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William Godwin and the Quest for a Just 

World 

by Pamela Clemit (MCR 2007– ) 

The last decade of the eighteenth century in Britain was in some respects a time 

like our own: riches and poverty; ostentation and indigence; meaningless violence, 

cruelty, and heartlessness. But in one respect it was different. Across the Channel, in 

France, the people had risen, and had overthrown the monarchy and the aristocracy. 

It was possible, briefly, to envisage a better future. 

William Godwin: portrait by 

James Northcote (1802) 

William Godwin (1756–1836), a London journalist 

in his mid-thirties, imagined how that future life 

should be. In 1793 he published a massive book, An 

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on 

General Virtue and Happiness. Despite its high price, it 

was an enormous success. Godwin became the most 

celebrated public intellectual of the 1790s. He married 

Mary Wollstonecraft, the early advocate of women's 

rights, but lost her shortly after the birth of their 

daughter Mary (who grew up to marry Percy Bysshe 

Shelley, and to write Frankenstein). Godwin’s heyday 

was brief, but his reputation revived from the 1880s 

onwards, and is now surging again. 

We read him today for his sense that things might be different from how they are. 

Godwin refused to be bound by immediate considerations and took the long view. 

In a society that was one-tenth as wealthy as our own, he was disdainful of too 

much stuff. What was the use of striving for possessions? There had to be another 

purpose, and that purpose had to accord with the best in our natures. At the heart 

of his vision was leisure, but not the mindless leisure that follows from overwork. 

It was a state of heightened awareness, the ‘leisure of a cultivated understanding’, 

which would foster creativity, sociability, and work for the public good. 

How did Godwin arrive at this arresting vision? As an Enlightenment thinker, 

he started from first principles, and followed a chain of reasoned deduction. One 

argument seemed to him to follow seamlessly from another, until it reached an 

inevitable conclusion. He began with Tom Paine’s view that government was a 

necessary evil, but ended up arguing for its ‘utter annihilation’. He rejected all forms 

of political authority in favour of a society based on justice, equality, and mutual 

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moral accountability. The rule of law would be replaced by the rule of reason. 

It was self-evident to Godwin that as human beings we all share the same need 

for subsistence and dignity. Until everyone’s needs are met, no one has a claim to 

anything above these basic needs. That is simple justice. This bedrock of human 

dignity requires the equalisation of property. 

Must we sacrifice all that is colourful, pleasurable, and enjoyable in life to satisfy 

some abstract notion of justice? Not at all, says Godwin. Equality is going to be fun. 

Intellectual improvement comes first. Imagine what opportunities for creativity 

will open up once everybody is educated. People will be naturally far-sighted, and 

will crave lives of experiential fulfilment, not the baubles of the marketplace. Less 

is more. A great deal of effort is wasted in meeting superfluous wants, in leapfrogging 

for status. The rich spend ten-fold, a hundred-fold, more than the rest, 

without any visible increase in satisfaction over a middle-class person like Godwin 

himself. If wants were reduced to what is really satisfying, much less would be 

required. If less were required, less effort would be needed to produce it. Godwin 

estimated (quite wrongly) that the work of one man in twenty would be sufficient 

to feed, clothe, and house everyone. From this it followed that, if everyone worked, 

they would need to work only one-twentieth of the day. Say, half-an-hour a day. The 

rest of the time could be devoted to cultivated leisure. 

Outside radical circles, few people took Godwin's vision seriously. Thomas Robert 

Malthus, for example, said that people would use their spare time to have sex. 

They would multiply sufficiently to require so much food that everyone would 

have to work harder, and all this leisure time would quickly disappear. But Godwin 

had a point. Already in that society there was a wealthy stratum living in just 

the way he imagined, cultivating their minds in their town and country mansions, 

and doing very little by way of useful toil. Even middle-class people like William 

Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Godwin himself, lived rich (though 

financially precarious) mental lives without much in the way of material abundance. 

If wealth were spread equally, how many more people would have the chance to 

engage in creative discoveries and improvements for the benefit of all, rather than 

merely scrabbling for a living wage. 

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More than two hundred years later, we are ten times wealthier, but not much idler. 

Godwin himself was tireless in communicating his vision of cultivated leisure. 

After Political Justice, he wrote six full-length novels, works of educational theory, 

biographies, histories, political pamphlets, plays, and children's books. When he 

was not writing books, he was writing letters; when he was not writing letters, 

he was socializing. He was the friend or acquaintance of almost everybody of note 

on the political left from the era of the French Revolution to the Great Reform 

Bill. In partnership with his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, he ran a children’s 

bookselling and publishing business for twenty years, ‘the inglorious transactions 

of the shop below-stairs’ furnishing him with ‘food, clothing and habitation’, so he 

could continue to write. 

From philosophical anarchist to small businessman: Godwin reminds us of the 

unattainable balance between competing impulses which we continue to strive 

for – between love of personal distinction and social justice, between craving and 

contentment, between effort and repose, between gratification and prudence. He 

still speaks to us. 

Pamela Clemit is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of English and editor of The 

Letters of William Godwin (6 vols, OUP 2011 – ) 

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Personal News 

Deaths 

Burman Sandra Beatrice (MCR 1973–2015) on 14 January 2014. 

Cousins Lance Selwyn (MCR 2001–07, SF 2007–09, MCR 2009– 

15) on 14 March 2015. 

Mattock Sheila Ann (Staff 1989–97) in May 2015. 

Meade Christopher (Staff 2003–14) on 19 October 2014. 

Oueis Raja (GS 2013–15) on 10 February 2015. 

Perez Alessandro (MCR 1975–86, VF 1989–90, VS 1991–95, 

MCR 1996–97, VS 1997–98, MCR 1998–2015) on 8 

January 2015. 

Shepstone 

Basil (SRF 1978–81, GBF 1981–2002, EF 2002–15) on 

3 February 2015. 

Stallworthy Jon Howie (GBF 1986–2002, SRF 2000–02, EXF 2002– 

15) on 19 November 2014. 

Professional News 

Abdullah, Ummi 

Aldiss, Brian 

Aveyard, Paul 

Barry, Stephen Francis 

(GS 2011–) Awarded the Ita Askonas Medal by the 

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), 

Oxford University, for being the Best Student Presenter 

of a DPhil project at WIMM Day in March 2015. 

(MCR 1996–) Appointed President of the Maktumkuli 

Poetry Society. 

(GBF 2012–) Featured in a BBC Horizon Special aimed at 

helping members of the British population who are obese 

to reach a healthy weight. 

(GS 1979–80, MCR 1980–) Appointed Associate Lecturer 

in Mathematics and Statistics at the Open University 

in September 2014. Retired from the Department of 

Surgical Sciences, Oxford University, in August 2015. 

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Bonacic, Cristian 

Brockington, John L 

Chatterjee, Margaret 

Charters, Erica 

Corsi, Giovanna 

Curtis, Julie A E 

Dalrymple, Robert 

De Haas, Hein G 

Elsner, Jas 

Ehler, Anke 

(GS 1996–2001, MCR 2002–) Appointed Professor at the 

School of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering in the 

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in July 2015. 

(MCR 2014–) Awarded honorary Vidyāvācaspati degree 

[DLitt] by Silpakorn University, Bangkok. 

(VS 1991–92) Awarded a Distinguished Service Award 

by the University of Delhi. 

(GBF 2009–) Awarded the Templar Medal for Best 

First Book in 2014 by the Society for Army Historical 

Research. (See books published by Wolfsonians below) 

(MCR 1988–98, VS 2013–14, MCR 2014–) Elected 

President of the Italian Society for Logic and the 

Philosophy of Science in July 2014. 

(GBF 1991–) Appointed Professor of Russian Literature, 

Oxford University, Recognition of Distinction, in Autumn 

2014. 

(MCR 1977–78) Retired in July 2015 as Professor in 

the Department of Geological sciences and Geological 

Engineering at Queen’s University. Awarded the 

Middleton Medal, Canada’s top award for Sedimentology, 

and a major international award, the Twenhofel Medal. 

(GBF 2012–15) Awarded a €1.75 million grant by 

the European Research Council to conduct a five-year 

research project entitled ‘Migration as Development’. 

(MCR 2012–15) Appointed Professor of Late Antique 

Art, Oxford University, Recognition of Distinction, in 

Autumn 2014. 

(SF 2013–) Awarded the Wilhelm Wundt-William James 

Award 2015 which is jointly awarded by the European 

Federation of Psychologists’ Associations and the 

American Psychological Foundation. 

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Flewitt, Peter (IF 2004–08, MCR 2008–) Awarded an Honorary 

Doctorate by the University of Surrey for contributions 

to Physics. 

Ghazarian, Jacob G (MCR 1982–90, VS 1991–92, MCR 2000–) Launched an 

exhibition at the John C Hitt Library of the University of 

Central Florida in Orlando, based on his book Treasures of 

the Silk Road. 

Giustino, Feliciano (RF 2008–09, GBF 2009–) Appointed Professor of 

Materials, Oxford University, Recognition of Distinction, 

in Autumn 2014. 

Grotti, Vanessa (GS 2000–01, MCR 2002–10, RRF 2008–16) Awarded 

an ERC Starting Grant for a project entitled ‘Intimate 

Encounters in EU Borderlands: Migrant Maternity, 

Sovereignty and the Politics of care on Europe’s 

Periphery’. Appointed part-time Professor in the Robert 

Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European 

University Institute (Fiesole). 

Harriss-White, Barbara (RF 1987–88, GBF 1988–2011, EF 2011–) Appointed 

Visiting Professor, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour 

Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2015. 

Hannan, Anthony (JRF 1997–2001, MCR 1997–1998, MCR 2001– 

02) Appointed Professor in the Florey Institute of 

Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne University. 

Hardwick, Nicholas (VF 2000-01, MCR 2002–04) Appointed Curatorial 

Director of the Toula Museum of Australia, Sydney, a 

museum of Lebanese village culture. 

Hodges, Christopher J S (MCR 2011–14, SF 2014–) Appointed Professor of Justice 

Systems, Oxford University, Recognition of Distinction, 

in Autumn 2014. 

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Kuprov, Ilya 

(RF 2011–12, MCR 2012–) Appointed Fellow of the 

Royal Society of Chemistry and an Associate Professor of 

Chemical Physics at Southampton University. 

Mavridou, Despoina (RF 2009–15) Awarded a five-year Career Development 

Award by the MRC to carry out research on bacterial 

antibiotic resistance. 

McKenna, W Gillies (GBF 2005–) Awarded the 2014 Gold Medal from the 

Royal College of Radiologists. As Head of Oncology, 

Oxford University, and Director of the Cancer Research 

UK Oxford Centre, will head the Precision Cancer Medical 

Institute, a new world leading Centre for targeted cancer. 

Miller-Friedmann, Jaimie 

(GS 2013–) Won an award at the British Research 

Association Annual Conference in October 2014. 

Newton, Paul (GS 1979–84, MCR 1985–86, GS 1986–89, MCR 1989–) 

Appointed Professor of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield 

Department of Medicine, Oxford University, in July 2014. 

Nurse, Jason R C (JRF 2014–) Recognised as Inspirational Scientists and 

Engineers Rising Star (RISE) by the Engineering and 

Physical Sciences Research Council. 

Paxton, Anthony Thomas 

(GS 1984–87, MCR 1993–94, RF 1994–95, MCR 2011–) 

Appointed to the Chair of Computational Materials 

Science in the Physics Department, King's College 

London, September 2014. 

Pila, Jonathan (VS 2009–10, GBF 2010–) Elected Fellow of the Royal 

Society in May 2015. 

Potter, Barry 

(GS 1977–80, JRF 1980–81) Awarded Royal Society of 

Chemistry, Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Section, 

Lecturership in Medicinal Chemistry for 2015/16. 

Appointed Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator from 

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Rhodes, Peter J 

Sorabji, Richard 

Books published by Wolfsonians 

Barnard, John M 

Boehmer, Elleke D 

Borg, Jemma 

Brock, Sebastian P 

Charters, Erica M 

2014, Professor of Biological and Medicinal Chemistry 

in the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, 

from March 2015, and Visiting Professor, University of 

Bath. 

(VF 1984, MCR 1990–92) Appointed President of the 

Classical Association for 2014/15, and in May 2015 

awarded a Chancellor’s Medal of the University of 

Durham. 

(MCR 1991–96, SF 1996–2002, HF 2002–) Knighted 

in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2014 as Knight 

Bachelor. 

(HMCR 2008–) Edited John Keats: Selected Letters. Penguin 

Classics, 2014. 

(GBF 2007–) The Shouting in the Dark. Sandstone Press, 

2015. Dutch translation De Veranda Cossee, 2015. Indian 

Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire. OUP, 

2015. 

(GS 1992–96) The Illuminated World. Eyewear Publishing, 

2014. 

(GBF 1974–94, EF 2003–) (with G A Kiraz) Syriac- 

English, English-Syriac Dictionary. Piscataway N J: 

Gorgias, 2014 Syriac Studies: A Classified Bibliography, 

vol. 2 (1991-2010). Kaslik: Parole de l’Orient, 2014. 

Piscataway N J: Gorgias, 2014. (with P C Dilley) The 

Martyrs of Tur Ber’ain (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac, 4). 

Piscataway N J, 2015. 

(GBF 2009–) Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The 

Welfare of British Armed Forces during the Seven Years’ War. 

Chicago Press, 2014. 

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Chatterjee, Margaret 

(VS 1991–92) A Cluster of Perspectives: Taken from the 

Author’s Notebooks Vol. 5 and Vol. 6. Promilla / BSA, 2014 

Dar, Shimon (MCR 1987–92, VS 1995–96, MCR 1997–2011) 

Rural Settlements on Mount Carmel in Antiquity. Oxford: 

Archaeopress Archaeology, 2014. 

Gardette, Raymond (MCR 1978–95) Translation into French of Arnold 

Wesker, Shylock. RADAC, 2014. 

Harriss-White, Barbara (RF 1987–88, GBF 1988–2011, EF 2011–) Edited (with 

Judith Heyer) Indian Capitalism in Development. London: 

Routledge, 2015. Edited Middle India and Urban-Rural 

Development: Four Decades of Change. New Delhi: Springer. 

Henig, Martin (SF 1998–2009, MCR 2009–) Edited (with Lydia Carr, 

Russell Dewhurst) Binsey: Oxford’s Holy Place. Its saint, 

Village and People. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014. Edited 

(with Penny Coombe, Francis Grew, Kevin Hayward) 

Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. Great Britain vol 1, 

fascicule 10. Roman Sculpture from London and the South- 

East. Oxford: OUP for the British Academy, 2015. 

Jenkins, Lyndsey (GS 2014–) Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, 

Martyr. Biteback, 2015. 

Kauffmann, Thomas (GS 2004–11, MCR 2011–) The Agendas of Tibetan 

Refugees: Survival Strategies of a Government in Exile in a 

World of Transnational Organisations. Berghahn, 2015. 

Lewis, James B (GBF 1994–) The East Asian War, 1592–1598: International 

Relations, Violence, and Memory. London: Routledge, 2015. 

Lowe, John J 

(GS 2007–12, MCR 2012–) Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: 

the Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms, Vol. 17 

in the series Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historial 

Linguistics. Oxford: OUP. 

Metcalf, Christopher (JRF 2013–) The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek 

and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry. Oxford Classical 

Monographs Series, OUP 2015. 

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Meyer, Eric 

Nettleship, David N 

Potter, Jane 

Rhodes, Peter J 

Robey, David 

Roesler, Ulrike 

Rojas Corral, Hugo 

Shaw, Sarah 

Siegel, Lee A 

(RMCR 2013–) (with R Schroeder) Knowledge Machines: 

Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. 

Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 

(MCR 1971–) Edited Voyage of Discover: fifty years of marine 

Research at Canada’s Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Bio- 

Oceans Association, 2014. 

(GS 1993–99, MCR 1999–) (with Carol Acton) Working 

in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives 

of Medical Personnel in War Zones. Manchester University 

Press, 2015. 

(VF 1984, MCR 1990–92) A Short History of Ancient Greece. 

I B Tauris, 2014. Edition of Thucydides, History I. Aris and 

Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow, 2014. Atthis: the Ancient 

Histories of Athens. Kieler Felix-Jacoby-Vorlesungen, 

Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2014. 

(GBF 1970–89, EF 1989–) (with Peter Hainsworth) 

Dante. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2015. 

(GBF 2010–) Compiled (with Charles Ramble) Tibetan 

and Himalayan Healing: An Anthology for Anthony Aris. 

Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 2015. 

(GS 2011–15) Edited in Spanish (with S Millaleo, J C 

Oyanedel, D Palacios) Sociology of law in Chile. Alberto 

Hurtado University Editions, 2014. 

(MCR 2009–) The Spirit of Buddhist Meditation. New 

Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. (with Naomi 

Appleton) The Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha: The 

Mahānipāta of the Jātakatthavannanā, 2 vols. Chiang Mai, 

Thailand: Silkworm Press, 2015. 

(GS 1972–75, MCR 1990–) Trance-Migrations: Stories 

of India, Tales of Hypnosis. University of Chicago Press, 

2014. 

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Simpson, St John (GS 1987–93, MCR 1993–94) (with J Ambers, C R 

Cartwright, C Higgit, D Hook, E Passmore, G Verri, 

C Ward, B Wills) Looted, Recovered, Returned: Antiquities 

from Afghanistan. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 

2014. 

Sorabji, Richard (MCR 1991–96, SF 1996–2002, HF 2002–) Moral 

Conscience through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present. 

OUP and Chicago University Press. 

Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient Philosophy 

(extensively revised papers, mostly on perception). 

Ashgate Variorum Series. Farnham, Surrey. 

Electrifying Russia, New Zealand and India: The three lives 

of engineer Allan Monkhouse (biography self-published on 

Amazon). 

Edited Volumes 101 and 102 in series of translations 

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Bloomsbury Academic, 

London. 

Sykes, Bryan 

(MCR 1981–85, RF 1985–88, GBF 1988–2004, SRF 

2004–14, EF 2014–) The Nature of the Beast. London: 

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2015. 

Szalkai, Istvan (MCR 1987–88) (with Gyorgy Dosa) Algorithmic 

Number Theory, with digital animations and programs 

in Hungarian as an e-book, 2015. Budapest: Typotex 

Publications. 

Woodward, Roger D (VS 2010–11) The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet. 

Cambridge University Press, 2014. 

Zeitlyn, David (JRF 1989–91, MCR 1992–93, RF 1992–95, MCR 2008– 

13, SF 2013–) (with Roger Just) Excursions in Realist 

Anthropology: A Merological Approach. Cambridge Scholars 

Press, 2014. 

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Brian W Aldiss 

(MCR 1996–) 

On 18 August 2015, Brian Aldiss celebrated his ninetieth birthday, which his 

publishers are celebrating by publishing a limited edition in facsimile of his teenage 

collection of stories ‘Whip Donovan’, illustrated by his own watercolours which he 

made when he should have been studying Theology. He is currently writing a long 

novel set in Russia in the eighteenth century, which he calls ‘typical SF, of course’. 

When the Record asked him to reflect on his long and productive writing-life, he 

replied: 

‘Writers come in all kinds of roles to live in all sorts of conditions. As an infant I 

suffered, since my mother had wanted a daughter, not a son. I became rebellious. 

At the age of three, I began to write little stories – which fortunately charmed my 

mother, who bound them up and set them on my nursery shelf. This was in Norfolk. 

‘Prep school embraced me when I was seven. I never blubbered. Indeed, after lightsout 

in the dormitory, I told horror stories in the dark. When some pathetic lad 

cried: “Shut up, Aldiss, you rotten sod!” – my first words of praise – and burrowed 

himself under his bedclothes, the mode of my later life began to make a ghostly 

appearance. By day I lectured the boys on prehistory. 

‘Three years abroad in World War II, in Burma and Sumatra, reinforced a strong 

feeling of alienation. Sumatra was so ripe and beautiful. I became engaged to a 

lovely Chinese woman there. But the British Army prevented marriage, so at last 

I bought a copy of Homer's Odyssey and caught a troopship to the UK. Once back 

in that cold unwelcoming country, I made for Oxford. I have lived there ever since, 

with my growing family, and energetically I began to turn out serried ranks of 

stories, poems and novels. All my published writing is now being reprinted. I am 

also an artist, working mainly in the abstract, and have had two exhibitions. My 

novels are of a great variety, as life has been so far.’ 

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Tulips and spring blossom in the Bishop’s Garden. 

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