College Record 2014

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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2014 

WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2014

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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 

2014

Contents 

page 

President and Fellows 5 

College Officers and Membership 16 

Editor’s Note 18 

The President’s Letter 19 

Obituaries 26 

Remembering where the bomber 

crashed 36 

Alumni Relations and Development 

2013–14 43 

List of Donors 45 

Gifts to the Library 51 

Scholarships, Travel Awards, and 

Prizes 2013–14 52 

Degrees and Diplomas 55 

Elections and Admissions 62 

Fellows 62 

Visiting Scholars 63 

Graduate Students 63 

Elected members of the 71 

Governing Body 

Clubs and Societies 72 

AMREF Group 72 

Arts Society 73 

BarCo 76 

Boat Club 77 

Cricket 79 

Croquet 81 

Entz 81 

Family Society 82 

Meditation 83 

Middle Eastern Dance 83 

Music Society 84 

Old Wolves Lunch 87 

Reading Group 88 

Squash 89 

Summer Event 89 

Tennis 90 

Wolfson/Darwin Day 2014 91 

Yoga 91 

J M Coetzee reads at Wolfson 92 

Research Clusters 94 

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 96 

The President’s Seminars 99 

The View from (semi) Retirement 

by Jan Scriven 102 

Font Matters 105 

by Liz Baird 

The Canteen of Creativity 107 

by John Duggan 

A fossil Bible 111 

by Liz Baird 

Cupboards and Crypts 115 

by Martin Henig 

Waiting for Jesus 118 

by Richard Holland 

The Record 122 

Births 122 

Marriages 122 

Deaths 122 

Professional News 123 

Books published by 128 

Wolfsonians

Wolfson College 

at 1 October 2014 

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 

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 

Cluver, Lucie, DPhil (MA Cambridge) 


Evidence-based Social Intervention 

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Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free 

University of Brussels) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Quantum 

Computer Science; Professor of Quantum 

Foundations, Logics and Structures 

Conner, William James, MA (BA 

Grinnell) Ordinary Fellow, Development 

Director 

Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn, 

MA, DPhil Ordinary Fellow, Professor 

of Russian Literature; Secretary to the 

Governing Body (HT 2015) 

Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS 

Copenhagen, PhD California) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Assyriology 

Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, 

DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George 

Washington, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary 

Fellow, University Lecturer in Russian and 

East European Political Economy, Reader 

in Command and Transition Economics 

De Haas, Hein, (MA Amsterdam) 


Migration Studies 

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, 

PhD Reading) Ordinary Fellow, 

University Lecturer in European 

International Politics, Professor of 

European International Politics; Research 

Fellows’ Liason Officer 

DeLaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD 

Adelaide) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Roman Archaeology 

De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo, 

MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS) Ordinary 

Fellow, Associate Professor of Classical 

Philology 

Dercon, Stefan, MA, MPhil, DPhil 

(BPhil Leuven) Professorial Fellow, 

Professor of Development Economics 

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA 

Vienna, Dr Phil Basel) Ordinary Fellow, 

Associate Professor of Non-Russian 

Slavonic Languages 

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 

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 

Jarvis, R Paul, (BSc Durham, PhD 

Norwich) Ordinary Fellow, University 

Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor of 

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 

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, (Diplom 

Munish, MA PhD Stanford) 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 

Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil 

(BA Mount Holyoke College, MA 

Cambridge) Senior Research Fellow, 

Ancient History and Archaeology; Fellow 

Librarian and Archivist 

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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 

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 

Stallworthy, Jon Howie, BLitt, MA, 

FBA, FRSL Extraordinary Fellow, 

English Literature 

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 

Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance, 

MA (BA, PhD London), FSA Ordinary 

Fellow; Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean 

Museum 

Watson, Oliver, (BA Durham, PhD 

London) Professorial Fellow, I M Pei 

Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture 

Wells, Andrew James, (MA, PhD 

Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, Associate 

Professor of Physical Climate Change 

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 

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 

Khalili, Nasser David, (BA Queens, 

New York; PhD SOAS, London) 

Levett, Christian Clive, (BTECH New 

College, Durham) 

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, Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil, 

FBA 

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne 

Wood, Sir Martin, OBE, MA (BA 

Cambridge, BSc London), FRS 

Emeritus Fellows 

Abraham, Douglas Bruce, MA, DSc 

(BA, PhD Cambridge) 

Allen, Nicholas Justin, BSc, BLitt, BM 

BCh, Dip SocAnthrop, MA, DPhil 

Anderson, David Lessells Thomson, 

MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St 

Andrews) 

Ashton, John Francis, MA, DLitt (STL 

Lyons, LSS Rome) 

Booker, Graham Roger, MA, DPhil 

(BSc London, PhD Cambridge) 

Briggs, George Andrew Davidson, MA 

(PhD Cambridge) 

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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 

Dudbridge, Glen, MA (MA, PhD 

Cambridge), FBA 

Francis, Martin James Ogilvie, MA, 

DPhil 

Galligan, Denis James, MA, BCL, (LLB 

Queensland), DCL, AcSS 

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) 

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 

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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, MA 

Shepstone, Basil John, BM, BCh, MA, 

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

MSc, DSc Free State; MD Cape Town), 

DMRD (RCP and S), FInstP, FRCR 

Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil 

(MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc 

Liverpool, PhD Bristol); Dean of 

Degrees 

Tomlin, Roger Simon Ouin, MA, 

DPhil, 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) 

Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale, MA, 

BPhil, DPhil 

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) 

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Maltby, Colin Charles, MA 

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 

Wood, John V, (BMet, DMet Sheffield, 

PhD Cambridge) 

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 

Berczi, Gergely, (MSc Eotvos Lorand, 

PhD Budapest) 

Bhaskaran, Harish, (BE Pune, MS, 

PhD Maryland) 

Chen, Yi Samuel, (AM Harvard) DPhil 

Colomo, Daniela, DPhil (Laurea Dipl 

Pisa) 

Creutzfeldt, Naomi, (BA, MA, 

Southern Queensland, PhD Göttingen) 

Datta, Animesh, (BTech Indian 

Institute of Technology Kaupur, PhD 

New Mexico) 

Dahlsten, Oscar, (MSc, PhD Imperial) 

Davison, Lucy Jane, (BA, VetMB, MA 

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) 

Gromelski, Tomasz Witold, DPhil 

(MA Warsaw) 

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, MSc (Maîtrise 

Sorbonne, PhD Cambridge) 

Hadjiyiannis, Christos, (BA 

Nottingham, MPhil Cambridge, PhD 

Edinburgh) 

Haslam, Michael Alan, (BA, PhD 

Queensland) 

Hesselberg, Thomas, (MSc Aarhus, 

PhD Bath) 

Hewitt, Rachel, BA, MSt, (PhD Queen 

Mary) 

Huetteroth, Wolf-Dietman Moritz, 

(BSc PhD Philipps-Universitat 

Marburg) 

Jankowiak, Marek, (MA Warsaw, PhD 

Paris) 

Kazachkov, Ilya, (PhD McGill) 

Kong, Anthony Hee, (MB, BS, MSc 

London, PhD, UCL) 

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) 

Pyrah, Robert Mark, MA, MSt, DPhil 

Parker Jones, Oiwi, MPhil (BA 

Colorado) 

Querishi, Kaveri, BA, (MSc, PhD 

London) 

Ray, Nicholas Martin, (BSc, MPhil 

Bradford, PhD Leics) 

Raz, Avi, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv) 

Robinson, Paul John Robert, DPhil 

(BSc London) 

Roy, Shovonlal, DPhil (BSc, MSc, PhD 

Jadavpur) 

Ryder, Judith, BA, MA, DPhil 

Sabiron, Céline, (MA, PhD Sorbonne) 

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Smith, Olivia Freunolich, (BA, UEA, 

MA, PhD London) 

Stansfeld, Philip James, (BSc 

Edinburgh, PhD Leicester) 

Still, Clarinda Lucy Marion, (MA 

Edinburgh, MREs UCL, PhD LSE) 

Sullivan, Kate Helen, (BA York, MA 

Heidelberg, PhD ANU) 

Toth, Ida, (BA, MPhil Belgrade) DPhil 

Vicary, Jamie Oliver, (MA Cambridge, 

PhD Imperial) 

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) 

Bowes, Lucy Nicola, BA, MSc, (PhD 

King’s) 

Calabrese, Katherine, BA MSt, (PhD 

UCL) 

Cartlidge, Benjamin John, BA (MA, 

Cologne) 

Clark, Michael Ben, (MSc Otago, PhD 

Queensland) 

Cook, Christina Lillian, (BSc, PhD 

British Columbia, LLB Victoria) 

Cross, Katherine, BA, MSt (PhD UCL) 

De Sabbata, (BSc, MSc Udine, PhD 

Zurich) 

Evans, Rhiannon Mari, (BSc, PhD 

Wales) 

Gillebert, Celine, (MSc, PhD Leuven) 

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Guerrero Omar, (BA, ITESM, MSc 

Essex, PhD George Mason) 

Hedesan, Delia Georgiana, (BA 

Nevada, MSc Leeds, MA, PhD Exeter) 

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

Essex), 

Jin, Xianmin, (PhD Sci and Tech Univ 

China) 

Kannan, Pavitra, (BA Grinnell, PhD 

Karolinska Inst) 

Kissinger, Alexander, DPhil (BSc 

Tulsa, MSc) 

Kunnath, George, (BA Ranchi, MA 

Poona, MPhil Mumbai, PhD SOAS) 

Lal, Raymond, DPhil (BSc York, MSc 

Imperial) 

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) 

Nurse, Jason Ricardo Corey, (BA West 

Indies, MA Hull, PhD Warwick) 

Owald, David, (BSc Heidelberg, PhD 

Gottingen) 

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

Ringel, Zohar, (BSC Hebrew Univ 

Jerusalem, MSc, PhD Weizmann Inst) 

Schaller, Nathalie, (BSc, MSc, PhD 

ETH Zurich) 

Shin, Min-Su, (BA Yonsei, PhD 

Princeton) 

Vatri, Alessandro, Laurea Specialistica 

La Sapienza, DPhil 

Verhoeven, Harry, DPhil (MA Gent, 

MSc LSE) 

Viney, Tim James, (MBiol Bath, PhD 

Basel) 

Wood, Rachel Katherine Lloyd, BA, 

MSt, DPhil 

Yu, Ying, (BA Chongqing, LLM 

Dalian, PhD Wuhan) 

Creative Arts Fellow 

Duggan, John, BA 

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College Officers 

President 

Vicegerent 

Bursar 

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 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

Professor Marcus Banks 

Mr Edward Jarron 

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 Julie Curtis HT 2015) 

Professor Anne Deighton 

Dr Dan Isaacson 

College Membership 

Governing Body Fellows 59 

Honorary Fellows 18 

Emeritus Fellows 45 

Supernumerary Fellows 28 

Research Fellows 51 

Socio-Legal Research Fellows 2 

Junior Research Fellows (Stipendiary) 4 

Junior Research Fellows (Non-Stipendiary) 35 

Visiting Fellows 1 

Graduate Students 598 

Members of Common Room 698 

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Abbreviations 

EF 

EXF 

GBF 

GS 

HF 

HMCR 

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 

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 

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Editor’s Note 

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

covers the academic year 2013–14. 

Please send by email, if possible, any changes of address, personal and professional news 

including books (but not articles) published to college.secretary@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 

The Record welcomes photographs which illustrate College life and reminiscences 

of your time here and experiences since. They should reach the College Secretary, by 

e-mail if possible, to college.secretary@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 1 June for publication 

that year. 

We gratefully acknowledge photographs in this year’s Record by Liz Baird, William 

(Bill) Beaver, Christopher Bentley, Linda Boehmer, Phil Brown, John Cairns, Josh 

Dick, Jithin George, Edward Gillin, Greg Hall, Anne Hedegaard, Weimin He, Rob 

Judges, James (Jim) Kennedy, Christina Lienen, Thomas Quartermain, Jan Scriven, 

Roger Tomlin, Akash Verma, Glen Wong, Kim Wilkinson, Johana Zuleta. 

Please let the College Secretary know of any errors or omissions. She will also 

help Wolfsonians who have lost touch with former colleagues. You can contact the 

College: 

e-mail: juliet.montgomery@wolfson.ox.ac.uk OR 

college.secretary@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 

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

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

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

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A research cluster in the College gardens

The President’s Letter 

Every year I have an individual meeting with as many as possible of our 600 or so 

Wolfson students, from the new arrivals to the just-viva’d DPhils, and hear their 

views of the College. I’m always encouraged by their enthusiasm for Wolfson and 

their keen sense of the value and character of the College. One of them, a new 

student from abroad, told me this year that he’d been anxious about settling in, but 

was reassured by finding that at Wolfson, as he put it, ‘everyone speaks globe-ish’. 

And this year we have had more international and interdisciplinary activities than 

ever in our global community. 

We have had our sad losses. We mourn the passing on 23 October 2013 of that 

great English sculptor, our Honorary Fellow Anthony Caro, whose welded steel 

‘Double Half ’ on the landing of the Marble Hall I pass every day, but can never 

take for granted. We were saddened by the death on 30 April 2014 of our first 

Bursar and first and only Vice-President, the historian Michael Brock, who worked 

alongside Isaiah Berlin from 1967 to 1976 to make the College what it is today. 

Michael’s latest publication, which he was working on in his last months at the 

age of ninety-four, the Great War diary of Margot Asquith, was published in the 

early summer of 2014 by Oxford University Press. I take this as an ideal model 

for an academic life, to be working up to the very end. This year’s Berlin lecture, 

on the Berlinian subject of ‘Pluralism and Human Rights’, admirably delivered by 

Baroness Onora O’Neill, was dedicated to Michael Brock. 

We have said goodbye to, and welcomed as Emeritus Fellows, Dan Isaacson and 

Andrew Neil. We were sorry, also, to say goodbye to Theo Redvers-Harris in the 

Administrative Office, to Alex Guerrerio in Development, and to Rosalind Clark 

after twenty years in the kitchen. 

But we have new arrivals and achievements to celebrate too. A new Wolfson 

baby has arrived, Marieke, offspring of Bob and Selma Coeke. The first Wolfson 

nuptials of my time here took place this month, between Feliciano Giustino and 

Despoina Mavridou, whom we heartily congratulate. We ring out the bells too 

for our new arrivals and newly honoured members. As Governing Body fellows 

we have welcomed Tarje Nissen-Meyer, UL in Geophysics, Paul Jarvis, Professor 

Plant Cell Biology, and our splendid new Senior Tutor, Gillian Hamnett. Our new 

Supernumerary Fellows are Dr Paul Collins, Assistant Keeper for the Near East 

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at the Ashmolean, and the comparative philologist Dr Peter Barber, whose wife 

Kathleen brought us yet another new arrival, a baby boy born on 30 June 2014. Our 

new Honorary Fellows are the Right Honorable Lord Jonathan Mance, Justice of 

the Supreme Court and our College Visitor, and Christian Levett, the collector and 

businessman, owner and founder of the Mougins Museum, and generous patron of 

the College’s Ancient World activities. 

But our distinguished connections are not the only people we celebrate. The 

College is fuelled, day in day out, by the people who work with dedication and 

professionalism in all the offices, from nursery and housekeeping and the kitchen 

to accounts, from accommodation and the lodge to PA’s and secretaries. In that 

context we have welcomed Shaun Darby to the Administrative Office, Victor 

Martinez as our new Assistant Steward, and Karen McNally in Accounts. We note 

with gratitude and awe that Mike Pearson has worked here as college gardener, this 

year, for twenty-five years. Thanks to him and his team, the gardens are looking as 

good as I’ve ever seen them. 

Various Wolfsonians have been showered with honours this year, none more 

deserved than for our admired colleague Richard Sorabji, newly knighted for 

services to philosophical scholarship. Notable honours have also gone to Emeritus 

Fellow Tony Watts, made a Fellow of the Royal Society; to Samson Abramsky, 

awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal for 2013; to Gillies McKenna, awarded the 

2014 Gold Medal of the Royal College of Radiologists; to Glyn Humphreys, given 

the Donald Broadbent Prize for Research by the European Society for Cognitive 

Psychology; to Jonathan Pila, awarded the 2013 Karp Prize of the Association for 

Symbolic Logic; to Elleke Boehmer, appointed one of the judges of the International 

ManBooker Prize; to Supernumary Fellow James Crabbe, elected as a National 

Leader of Governance for the Association of Colleges; and to Susan Walker, who 

won a Getty Museum Scholar Award for 2015. 

Our colleagues Ulrike Roesler, Nikita Sud and Mark Ventresca have been acclaimed 

with Teaching Excellence awards and an award for Innovation in Teaching. And 

let us not neglect our Research Fellows, who are so important to us and who do 

so much to make the College the distinctive and rich environment that it is. They 

will forgive me if I pick out just one of their many achievements, that of Dr Elise 

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Morero, who has been awarded funding for the study of the medieval Islamic rock 

crystal industry, and who as a result was the first person since the eleventh century 

to handle all the surviving rock crystal ewers, known as the Magnificent Seven, 

made for the Fatimid caliphs of Cairo around the year 1,000. 

We held many events in our now one-year-old, much admired and much used, 

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, one of the most keenly attended of which was Sir 

Tony Epstein’s speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Epstein- 

Barr virus, on 24 February 2014. We enjoyed a remarkable appearance by the 

Nobel Prize-winning novelist J M Coetzee, masterminded by Elleke Boehmer. We 

were given a fascinating London Lecture on migration by Hein de Haas. We ran 

a Wolfson Lecture series on South Asian fiction-writing, for which our speakers 

were Romesh Gunesekera, Michael Ondaatje, Kamila Shamsie, and Anita and Kiran 

Desai. Other major events this year have included the Syme Lecture by Walter 

Scheidel on ‘The First Fall of the Roman Empire’ and Steven Pinker’s Haldane 

Lecture on his book The Better Angels of Our Nature. 

Professor Steven Pinker and the President at the Haldane Lecture 

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These distinguished individual appearances have been matched by the vigorous 

activity of our research clusters. There has been too much going on for me to 

describe it all here, but I pick out, for the South Asia cluster, numerous workshops 

and the securing of funding for an annual lecture on Pakistan; for Himalayan and 

Tibetan studies, a workshop on Samten Karmay’s translation of the autobiography 

of the fifth Dalai Lama; for the Ancient World, Sir Richard Sorabji’s colloquium 

on the re-interpretation of Aristotle and his influence, and an international 

postgraduate conference on Assyriology; some brainstorming meetings in the 

Mind, Brain and Behaviour cluster; an all-day workshop on e-publishing in the 

Digital Research cluster; and at OCLW, our Life-Writing Centre, an international 

three-day conference on ‘The Lives of Objects’, a year-long programme of visiting 

writers, including Edward St Aubyn, Marina Warner and Richard Holmes, and a 

conference on Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment. 

Music is thriving in College, with our Creative Arts Fellow John Duggan directing 

the Isaiah Choir, writing a commissioned piece for our wonderful Fournier Trio, 

and creating an audio-visual collage of Wolfson sounds, Wolfscapes, and an 

‘Innocent Ear’ listening project. Our beautiful small-size Steinway, a generous loan 

from Erich Segal’s widow Karen Segal while we continue to fund-raise for a fullsize 

grand, has been much in use and much enjoyed in the LWA. We have a new 

Poetry Society, the Arts Society is creatively busy, and our AMREF activities go 

from strength to strength under the careful stewardship of Andy Cutts. All these 

activities in Art and Music are made possible by the unflagging support of Jan 

Scriven. 

In sport, Wolfsonians have been victors, heroes and heroines: winners of High 

Profile and Blues Awards; excelling in football with, now, two Wolfson / St Cross 

teams; and sharing an outstanding year with St Cross in cricket, at the top of the 

table and winning the league title in their final match against St Peter’s. Wolfson 

gloriously retained the cup on Wolfson-Darwin day. And our rowers did famously 

on the river in Eights Week, with particular honours going to M3, who bumped 

every day and won blades, and achieved M3’s highest-ever position in Summer 

Eights. 

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We are approaching our fiftieth anniversary in 2016; and as 50-year-olds do, we 

look to our past as well as to our future. The Old Wolves get together regularly for 

nostalgic lunches; the History of the College booklet is to be brought up to date for 

the anniversary by John Penney and Roger Tomlin. On 4 May 2014 we marked a 

tragic moment in the College’s pre-history, by unveiling a plaque on the side of the 

LWA in memory of those who died when a Whitley V aircraft crashed on the site 

of Wolfson College on 4 May 1941. A number of those who witnessed the crash 

as children were present; and, even more remarkably, we learnt from our current 

Fellows, Jon Austyn and Nick Rawlins, of the medical outcomes of the event in the 

development of transplant surgery, which have affected many people’s lives to the 

good. 

We look to the past and respect our traditions, but we invest in and celebrate 

our future. Phase II of our building plans starts in October, and we’re immensely 

grateful to our major donor for the project, John Adams, as we are to the Wolfson 

Foundation. We hope that the new library extension, the new café, the new lodge 

and the new front quad, will be as much admired and as much used as the auditorium. 

Our students are our future, and we applaud their work, their spirit and their 

involvement with the College. We currently have 608 students from all over the 

world, 229 of whom arrived this year, and 431 of whom are DPhil students. We 

have four Rhodes scholars and six Wolfson Foundation Humanities scholars. We 

are doing as much as we can to help and support our graduates, with unstinting hard 

work coming from the Development Office and the Senior Tutor’s Office, and with 

the generous and imaginative commitment of our Bursar, whose priority is always 

the students. We currently award 28 scholarships, with that number set to rise to 

49 when all of our Oxford Wolfson Marriott scholarships come on board. We gave 

out 103 travel and conference awards and 24 academic bursaries this year, and our 

total expenditure on scholarships, travel awards and academic bursaries, was just 

over £213,000. We also had a very successful ‘Wolfson Innovate’, or WIN event 

this year, organised by Pat Nuttall, with support from Bill Conner, which attracted 

a number of donors to provide prizes, judging and mentorship for students pitching 

creative new ideas for social innovation. We hope it will be the first of many such. 

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That is the broad sweep of our College life in 2013-14. But I want to mention also 

three individual achievements. First, that of Jon Stallworthy, who in this year of 

commemoration of the outbreak of the Great War is having a great flowering of 

publishing: new editions of his prize-winning biography of Wilfred Owen and a 

two-volume edition of Owen’s Complete Poems, soon to be followed by the New 

Oxford Book of War Poems and by his own collection, War Poet. It is our great 

good fortune that this distinguished poet, author and editor, continues to play such 

an active and dedicated part in the life of the College, and we thank him for it. 

Secondly, one of our Common Room members, Stephanie Dalley, had an enormous 

success with her book and her Channel 4 programme on the Hanging Garden of 

Babylon, which transformed everyone’s previous assumptions about the location 

of one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Thirdly, we were all entertained and 

fascinated by Bryan Sykes’s three-part Channel 4 series ‘The BigFoot Files’, soon 

to be revisited in his book, The Yeti Enigma. Bryan’s quest for the Yeti adds to the 

storehouse of larger-than-life, adventurous and often eccentric, legendary figures 

on which Wolfson’s history thrives. 

The story of Wolfson College is still unfolding and always changing; I count myself 

fortunate to be part of this history, and I am immensely grateful to all of those who 

work, in all their different ways, for the College’s present life and its future legacy. 

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Lady Berlin 

As the Record was going to press, the College was deeply saddened to hear of the 

death, on Monday 25 August 2014, of Lady Berlin, the widow of the College’s 

founding President, Sir Isaiah Berlin. A full tribute will appear in next year’s 

Record. 

Lady Berlin at the Isaiah Berlin centenary celebration held on 6 June 2009 

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Sir Anthony Caro 

(1924–2013) 

The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, who was elected to an Honorary 

Fellowship in 1991, died on 23 October 2013. 

Caro was regarded as the pre-eminent sculptor of his day for his abstract work and 

pieces made from metal and ‘found’ industrial objects. A former assistant to Henry 

Moore, Caro is credited with being one of the first people to remove sculpture 

from its plinth – a radical departure from the way the art form had been previously 

displayed – allowing the viewer to engage with the work on a one-on-one basis. He 

first came to prominence when he showed his large, abstract sculptures brightly 

painted and standing directly on the ground at a Whitechapel Gallery show in 

1963. 

Three years later, Caro was one of the artists to bring the British ‘New Art’ across 

the Atlantic and into the mainstream when he exbihited as part of the Primary 

Structures show in New York in 1966. He often worked in steel as well as bronze, 

silver, lead, wood and paper. Caro had retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art 

in New York in 1975, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo 20 years 

later. Tate Britain mounted a major retrospective in 2005. 

Caro was also involved with the ‘blade of light’ design of the London Millenium 

Footbridge in London, which had a controversial opening in 2000. 

Born in Surrey in 1924, Caro embarked upon his artistic education after achieving 

a degree in engineering from Cambridge University. He studied sculpture at the 

Royal Academy in London between 1947 and 1952 before assisting Moore in the 

Fifties. 

Nicholas Serota, Tate’s director, paid tribute to Sir Caro saying he was ‘was one of 

the outstanding sculptors of the past 50 years’ and ‘established a new language for 

sculpture’. Serota added, ‘Caro was a man of great humility and humanity whose 

abundant creativity, even as he approached the age of ninety, was still evident in 

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the most recent work shown in exhibitions in Venice and London earlier this year.’ 

Maria Miller, Culture Secretary, commented that Caro was ‘a ground-breaking and 

monumental figure in 20th century art, and the British art scene will miss him 

greatly, although I have no doubt his work will be admired and enjoyed for many 

generations to come.’ 

He leaves his wife of 64 years, the painter Sheila Girling, his two sons Tim and 

Paul, and three grandchildren. 

Alice Vincent 

(By courtesy of The Daily Telegraph) 

Sir Anthony Caro in conversation at Wolfson with Margaret O’Rorke and Jon Stallworthy 

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Michael Brock 

(1920–2014) 

Sociologists bifurcate humankind into ‘locals’ and ‘cosmopolitans’. These categories 

are, for them, ‘latent’, not ‘manifest’: that is, they are rarely even acknowledged, let 

alone institutionalized. As employees, ‘locals’ are seen as loyal, ready for humdrum 

tasks, sociable, popular with colleagues, and unself-advertising, but relatively 

amateur; promotion for them comes with seniority. ‘Cosmopolitans’, by contrast, 

orient themselves towards nation-wide professional structures, and (in universities) 

prepare for a career-move elsewhere by publishing energetically; so promotion 

for them comes with ‘merit’. In 1983, when Warden of Nuffield College, Brock 

described himself as ‘someone who has lived through the great change ... from 

someone who’s institutionally based ... – a tutor, and so on – to someone who’s 

professionally based, and there’s no question that my career spans that great divide’. 

The Oxford Magazine rarely publishes obituaries nowadays, but it singled him out 

from the many who continuously depart to join what Brock used reassuringly to 

describe as ‘the great majority’ (born on 9 March 1920, he died on 30 April) because 

his career illustrates how greatly Oxford changed during his long life, and helps to 

refine the sociologists’ important categories. 

R.K. Merton says that whereas ‘locals’ relish local newspapers, ‘cosmopolitans’ 

prefer the national press. Brock in his early career did not neglect the (local) 

Oxford Magazine, and served on its committee. By then, admissions questions 

were supplanting syllabus reform and examination results among the Magazine’s 

preoccupations, and in 1962-6 he wrote five articles for it, four of them on 

admissions. Yet Brock was simultaneously a ‘cosmopolitan’, acting as the Guardian’s 

counterpart to Peter Bayley in the Times by using a national newspaper to alert 

outsiders to significant events within an Oxford University which saw its concerns 

as transcending the merely local. Brock wanted Oxford’s admissions system and 

its Norrington table of examination results more widely understood. As tutor in 

history and politics from 1950 to 1966 at Corpus, where he held all the major 

college offices, he became expert on Oxford admissions, and honed his expertise 

through his close and fruitful relationship with President W.F.R. Hardie, who 

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chaired the University’s committee on admissions in 1962. Brock brought to 

Oxford’s admissions debate two of the administrator’s skills: a meticulous pursuit 

of relevant empirical detail, and a faith that its accumulation would generate the 

consensus that was so central to Brock family traditions. He detected in himself 

a ‘habitual tendency to discover that everybody is quite right’: this ‘was, and is, 

my temper’. He was later a founder member of the Social Democratic Party, and 

was unobtrusively central to Roy Jenkins’s successful campaign in 1987 to succeed 

Harold Macmillan as the University’s Chancellor. These empirical and consensual 

features – accuracy, balance, perspective, lucidity, open-mindedness – were also 

integral to the fine historian that he was. 

Thus equipped, Brock set out to buttress useful institutions and to challenge those 

that he thought redundant. Cambridge preceded Oxford in reducing language 

requirements at admission, and Brock was alert to Cambridge’s competition, but 

his concerns were wider: he thought his researches would tempt Oxford into 

more meritocratic recruitment. Powering his reforming and researching impulse 

was an intense institutional loyalty, especially to his family. Much-loved uncles 

and aunts in this extended family had regularly visited his parents on Sundays: 

‘I was frightfully lucky in my aunts and uncles altogether’, he told me, especially 

in his headmistress aunt Dame Dorothy Brock and in his publisher uncle Percy 

Hodder-Williams. Brock was also loyal to his school, his World War II regiment 

(the Middlesex), his successive Oxford colleges, and his university. Convinced that 

one must reform in order to preserve, he was in short a nineteenth-century British 

Whig, and when Oxford momentarily lost its balance in 1985 he was unashamed 

in voting for Thatcher’s honorary degree: ‘I did so rather publicly’, he recalled in 

1988, ‘sitting behind the Vice-Chancellor. I’d do it again’. He was a Whig, too, in his 

zeal for an extended participation which would stabilize authority by broadening 

its base – not a stance then inevitable among seasoned University administrators. 

At both his graduate colleges, Wolfson and Nuffield, he successfully pursued a 

genuine internal democracy. 

Brock was a gifted tutor, uniting his mother’s intuitive qualities with his civil-servant 

father’s calm rationality and balance. In a small college like Corpus before ‘history’ 

and ‘politics’ were mistakenly prised apart after the 1960s, a single tutor taught 

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history in two schools: Modern History and PPE. Brock’s tutorials brimmed with 

enthusiasm and encouragement, and in his nineties grateful pupils funded in his 

honour Corpus’s M.G. Brock Junior Research Fellowship in modern British history. 

Clever undergraduates affectionately and delightedly mimicked Brock’s emphatic 

way of speaking, which at times verged on self parody. His lectures in the late 

1950s on parliamentary reform sounded authoritative and incisive, and attracted 

a large following. In Corpus hall his strong Oxford Union-trained carrying voice 

needed no microphone. In seminars his pupils were an orchestra whose conductor 

brought out the best in his performers by honing their intellects with timely and 

arresting interjections, by varying his mood from serious to ironic to hilarious, 

and by never depreciating their contributions; like Maynard Keynes, Brock always 

elicited something constructive from the most callow remark. 

Why, then, did he forsake teaching for administration in 1966? The decision to 

become Vice-President and Bursar of the newly-founded Wolfson College surprised 

many, but Brock was now in his mid-forties, and felt that his teaching career had 

reached a plateau; tuition was, he thought, ‘to some extent a young man’s job’. 

Besides, his administrative talents were by then well-known, and as early as 1956- 

7 they had been advertised beyond Corpus when he was Junior Proctor. Soon a 

mainstay of university committees, which never bored him, he became a well known 

Oxford figure, often glimpsed scurrying (rather late) between commitments. In 

running his second college, Wolfson, his administrative partnership with its 

President, Isaiah Berlin, was as close as his earlier partnership with Corpus’s Frank 

Hardie. It was an alliance based on mutual respect and affection, and Brock kept 

this ‘natural anarchist’ (Brock’s phrase) administratively on the rails. Together they 

carried the College through the difficult period of erecting buildings, establishing 

a role within the University and neutralizing student radicalism through timely 

concession. Once described as ‘a monster of integrity’, Brock for Berlin possessed 

‘a kind of moral charm ... behind the unassuming exterior’. Tactful, honest, 

assiduous, judicious, yet unyielding when necessary, he combined reason with a 

humane sympathy. In 1973 he somehow also found the time to publish his one 

book-length scholarly publication, The Great Reform Act, which predictably showed 

a special interest in the ‘waverers’ during the crisis, and immediately became the 

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standard work on a large theme, thus falsifying the whispered predictions that it 

would never be finished. Brock was among that rare breed of perfectionist scholars 

who eventually ‘deliver’. 

The decision of Wolfson’s Fellows not to make Brock Berlin’s successor resembled 

Corpus’s earlier decision not to make him Hardie’s successor, and it was entirely 

understandable (though not predictable) that Brock moved to Exeter University 

in 1977 as Professor of Education, buying a house that he thought suitable for 

his eventual retirement. Yet his move to Exeter was also in some ways natural, 

given his long-standing interest, enhanced by Wolfson seminars, in educational 

institutions. At a crucial time he presided over the University’s Department of 

Education, and was a founder and discriminating member of the Oxford Review of 

Education’s editorial board. At Exeter his skilful chairmanship, his integrity, and 

his conscientious grasp of detail eased through what would otherwise have been 

a difficult reform: integrating an Anglican college of education with a flourishing 

university department. 

Yet Oxford could not do without him for long, and as Warden of Nuffield College 

(1978–88) he confuted gossips who saw him as always the Adjutant, never the 

Commanding Officer. He had indeed in his early twenties been twice an adjutant in 

the Second World War, and Nuffield was a difficult inheritance: the social sciences 

were in trouble; his predecessor Warden Chester (1954-78) had been the College’s 

unofficial second founder; and Brock lacked expertise in the College’s three main 

fields – politics, economics and sociology. Yet he identified completely with Nuffield, 

and his consensual, approachable, unpretentious and open-minded style suited a 

college with Fellows of national and international standing. Besides, the style came 

naturally to him, and he brought to Nuffield five major assets: a deep knowledge of 

the University’s machinery; skill at harnessing diverse talents for a shared purpose; 

tact astutely deployed on formal occasions; unadvertised but extensive contacts; 

and bags of common sense. 

Most would have retired at 67, but Brock then took a three-year post as Warden 

of St George’s House, Windsor, a small study-centre within Windsor Castle, 

encouraging influential people to engage in confidential discussion. It was ideal 

for him. Hospitable, intellectually lively and shrewd, Brock as always identified 

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with the institution, and his influence there was lasting. So happy, energetic and 

successful was he that his term was extended for two further years, until 1993. 

Even then his career was far from over, for no scholarly ‘retirement’ could have 

been more productive, yet he never fully adapted to a typewriter, let alone to a 

word-processor; for him, his firm and distinctive handwriting sufficed. His many 

administrative distractions had by now made editing more feasible than authorship, 

and his academic interests had advanced to Edwardian Britain, where his knowledge 

became encyclopaedic. He and his wife Eleanor, who had studied English at Lady 

Margaret Hall and whom he had married in 1949, were now a powerful editorial 

team, and they jointly published a meticulous edition of H.H.Asquith’s Letters 

to Venetia Stanley in 1982. Michael as political historian had always interpreted 

‘politics’ broadly, and the Brocks were the ideal editors, never obtrusive, always 

on hand when needed, and erudite on a remarkable range of topics – informing 

readers, for instance, that a cleek ‘corresponded roughly to the number 2 iron of 

a modern golf bag’, that a ‘Collins’ is ‘a letter of thanks to a hostess’, and that in 

1911 a hobble skirt ‘was liable to impede such actions as boarding a bus’. Michael 

simultaneously undertook the huge task of co-editing with Dr.Mark Curthoys the 

1,890 pages of volumes 6 and 7 in the History of the University of Oxford (published 

in 1997 and 2000, respectively); to them he contributed three substantial chapters 

as well as volume 8’s judicious concluding chapter on ‘the University since 1970’. 

Not content with this, the Brock consortium moved forward to editing Margot 

Asquith’s diaries, and well into his eighties Michael was often seen at a desk in 

the Bodleian Library, his bird-like frame now somewhat bent and seemingly 

ever slighter. His wealth of insight and learning was lightly worn and elegantly 

deployed, and against all prediction, the proofs of Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 

1914-1916, edited by ‘Brock & Brock’, were in Michael’s hands shortly before he 

died. O.U.P. published it in June 2014, at the same time as re-issuing the Letters to 

Venetia Stanley in paperback. 

Brock was one of the distinctive and well-known personalities once seemingly 

prevalent in Oxford, but now rare – a part-time bureaucrat who was far from 

faceless. On Hebdomadal Council from 1965 to 1976 and from 1978 to 1986, he was 

a Pro Vice-Chancellor from 1980 to 1988. He was a late recruit to that small elite 

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of public-spirited dons who lent mid-twentieth-century Oxford its cohesion. ‘I used 

to think as they emerged from their Colleges and met in the Broad’, Lord Franks 

recalled in 1986, ‘[that] they informally decided on the direction of University 

policy and went off to work in their several committees to win acceptance’. Brock 

may have been ambitious, but justifiably, because to ambition he added the necessary 

ingredients of talent and industry. He told me that ‘I really regard my career as a 

lot of luck’, in which ‘one thing leads to another’ in unplanned sequence. 

Relevant here, though, is the remark of Louis Pasteur, that ‘chance favours only 

the prepared mind’, for at least three influences ‘prepared’ Brock’s mind. The first 

was his family. In its earlier and later generations it shaped his values and lent 

stability to his life. His long partnership with Eleanor was central to his happiness 

and achievements, and he dedicated his Reform Act to the ‘wife and sons’ (three in 

number) who frequently featured in his conversation. The shared husband-andwife 

academic career, which in pre-feminist days had usually concealed the female 

contribution, was upfront on the Brocks’ title pages in 1982 and 2014, together with 

a dedication to, respectively, Katharine (wife of their eldest son George), and Patricia 

(wife of their second son David). There was, secondly, the remarkable energy which 

among other things made Michael a fascinating conversationalist. His overflowing 

and emphatic articulation was rich with family recollection, humorous anecdote, 

mimickings, old-fashioned phrases and vocabulary, and maxims as guides through 

life. It could have been misunderstood as merely frivolous, even in some of its aspects 

as ingratiating – self-deprecating, unhesitatingly assuming that you would pick up 

recondite references, and conducted in a confiding tone so inaudible in later life 

that the confidences (not always substantial) were seldom at risk. On one occasion, 

when discussing prime minister Asquith’s daughter Violet Bonham Carter with 

Vernon Bogdanor, Brock said that our understanding of her had been distorted 

by Evan Charteris; ‘and’, he added, ‘we all know what Evan was like, don’t we’. 

Bogdanor, a leading expert on modern British political history, later confessed that 

he had never heard of Charteris. Yet underlying all this conversational energy lay a 

serious purpose, for Brock possessed that elusive quality: integrity. Behind that lay, 

thirdly, an inherited and unsophisticated religious commitment. His father’s family 

were nonconformists, but Michael as an adult became an Anglican: ‘I can’t imagine 

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my life without religious influence’, he told me. Loyalty to established institutions 

often accompanies conservatism, but Brock’s evangelical, Congregationalist and 

professional family background ensured a very different outcome: he was a liberal 

with backbone – positive in outlook and thinking the best of people, while facing up 

to reality – yet also principled, and unsanctimoniously upright. His optimism, his 

constructive priorities and his sheer niceness shone out within a University whose 

critical faculty was if anything over-developed. The values associated with the 

English Christian gentleman – a title that earlier generations might have bestowed 

– were unfashionable in late-twentieth-century Oxford. 

In 1981 Brock was appointed CBE, but many thought he deserved more. His career 

encountered setbacks, though he never dwelt upon them. They owed something (very 

unfairly) to the fact that he lacked a magisterial ‘presence’. A close colleague in later 

life did not forget first hearing his authoritative voice in a seminar: ‘I couldn’t see 

the body behind the voice, but I was so keen to catch a glimpse that I leant forward, 

and, between the gaps, spied this sparrow-like frame. Such a powerful mind, but in 

the slightest of bodies – a contrast that never left me; it actually became more acute 

as he got older, and frailer.’ To those less energetic and less public-spirited than 

himself, the flow of paper that Brock generated in his participatory zeal seemed 

overwhelming, his verbosity tiresome, his incessant busy-ness irritating. He was 

too conscientious adequately to delegate, though a sympathetic Nuffield colleague 

confessed that this ‘enables the rest of us to shuffle off quite a lot on to him … 

which is very agreeable – though not necessarily very good – for us.’ The rare 

combination of qualities the successful administrator requires – industry, efficiency, 

self-effacement, fair mindedness, discretion and (unfashionable word!) wisdom – is 

at risk of neglect in a self-advertising age. The tactful after dinner speech, the 

effective committee intervention, the timely memorandum, the deft use of personal 

contacts, even the judicious summary from the chair are, after all, arcane aptitudes. 

Academic careers like Brock’s, rarer now than they once were, facilitate scholarship 

in others by providing a smooth-running and liberal context. Was Michael Brock, 

then, a ‘local’ or a ‘cosmopolitan’? It would for him have been an unreal distinction. 

He knew that, whether among senior or junior members, Oxford colleges are 

little arenas for a self-discovery that is later applied more widely. Among its JCR 

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Presidents, this little college, Corpus, produced the Miliband brothers, but also 

Michael Brock. 

Professor Sir Brian Harrison, FBA, Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College 

(A revised version of the obituary first published in the Oxford Magazine) 

Eleanor and Michael Brock with (in front) Sir Isaiah Berlin at Summer Eights, 1973 

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Remembering where the bomber crashed 

Under this title in 2012, the Record published an appeal by local historian Ann 

Spokes Symonds that the College should commemorate a tragedy in its pre-history 

on 4 May 1941, when a Whitley V aircraft on a training flight from RAF Abingdon 

crashed on the site of what is now the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, killing all 

three crew members and a local resident. The College responded warmly, and 

on the anniversary of the crash, on Sunday 4 May 2014, the President unveiled 

a plaque on the wall of the Auditorium before an audience of some fifty persons, 

who included the nephew and niece of the aircraft’s wireless operator, and three 

surviving eye-witnesses. 

(Seated, from the front) Ann Spokes Symonds, Mrs Robb, Colin Robb (nephew of Sgt Mochan), Karen 

Sherrington (niece of Sgt Mochan), Professor Sir Peter Morris, Lady Morris 

Before the plaque was unveiled, the President briefly welcomed everyone who had 

come, and invited the Bursar, Edward Jarron, to describe what had happened. 

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His speech follows: 

‘It is 73 years to the day since Pilot Officer Charles Nairn Small took off from RAF 

Abingdon with his two crew members, Pilot Officer William Halley, the observer, 

and Sergeant John Alfred Mochan, the wireless operator, on a local training sortie 

in Whitley Bomber N1467 from the Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon 

to carry out practice take-offs and landings on the airfield. It was a sortie from 

which the crew never returned. 

‘The accident had been known about within the College since it was established 

in 1966; however, it was only last year that the building you see before you was 

commissioned on the site of the crash. It therefore seemed fitting that we should 

take the opportunity to establish a permanent memorial to the aircrew and to 

Mrs Frances Emma Hitchcox, a local resident who was killed on the ground. The 

memorial has been masterminded by Ann Spokes Symonds, whose research and 

initiative have been central to bringing the memorial into being. 

‘I feel privileged to be able to say a few words on this occasion, having started my 

career in the Royal Air Force as a bomber pilot, so I can understand some of the 

challenges Pilot Officer Small faced on that fateful morning. 

‘Interestingly, 4 May 1941 was also a Sunday, which did surprise me since in nearly 

30 years in the Royal Air Force I never flew on a Sunday except on an air display. 

But when I was in the Air Force there wasn’t a world war going on! 

‘The Whitley Bomber was not one of the Air Force’s greatest aircraft. One 

thousand eight hundred were built and they made a significant contribution to the 

war effort; however, having entered service in 1937, they were withdrawn from 

front-line service in 1942 and taken out of service altogether in 1945 – not a long 

life span when one considers that the current RAF Tornado entered the service in 

1979 and is still flying. 

‘John Lloyd, the Chief Designer of Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, was unfamiliar 

with the use of flaps on large heavy aircraft, so the Whitley was initially designed 

without them. To compensate, the wings were set at a high angle of incidence (8.5°) 

to give good take-off and landing performance. The problem was that, as speed 

increased, the nose needed to be lowered progressively to keep the aircraft flying 

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level. As a result, the Whitley flew with a pronounced nose-down, tail-up attitude, 

which caused a great deal of drag. Not very efficient! 

‘During the war there were around 86 aircraft losses from RAF Abingdon, and 

interestingly half of them occurred near the airfield itself. Something like 180 

aircrew lost their lives while serving at Abingdon and of these, 70 were in the fields 

around the base. Indeed, some seven aircraft were lost in the immediate Oxford 

area. 

‘The high ground of Boars Hill on the north end of the airfield was a particular 

hazard. In the memoirs of one Wing Commander Corby who was stationed at 

Abingdon during the War, he clearly remembered the dangers of Boars Hill. He 

stated that the early Whitleys were so underpowered that their angle of climb 

on take-off was about the same as the gradient of Boars Hill. Not a comfortable 

thought on a dark rainy winter’s night with a full fuel and bomb load on board! 

‘That is in sharp contrast to the aircraft I flew, which in certain configurations 

could climb from zero to 40,000 feet in 4 minutes, so I have much sympathy with 

Pilot Officer Small, whose aircraft struggled to climb at an angle no steeper that 

Boar’s Hill on two engines, and which probably meant that with a heavy fuel load it 

couldn’t maintain height on one. 

‘I suspect, however, that we did share the same emotions. A pilot’s first solo flight is 

generally accepted to be an exciting and slightly frightening experience, but for me 

it was the first flight in charge of an operational aircraft that remains in my mind 

as the most daunting. 

‘There is a massive step up from a tiny training aircraft like, in Pilot Officer Small’s 

case, a Tiger Moth and a Harvard, to a large powerful operational aircraft. I 

distinctly recall that on my first operational solo – as I taxied out for take-off, I 

hoped earnestly that nothing would go wrong – and I guess I was lucky! 

‘I don’t know whether this was Pilot Officer Small’s first operational flight, but it 

was no doubt quite close to it, bearing in mind Abingdon’s training role – and he 

was not so lucky. 

‘Eye-witnesses told of hearing one of the engines misfiring, which probably meant 

that for him and his crew in the mighty Whitley drag-master with a full fuel load, 

they had a struggle on their hands to maintain height. 

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‘The newspapers reported that “just before it reached the ground, the plane was 

seen to be in difficulties by people in many parts of the neighbourhood. The sound 

of the crash was heard all over North Oxford.” 

‘Derrick Holt of Headington was walking with a friend, Gordon Carter, beside the 

River Cherwell when they saw the aircraft circling. He recalls: “As it flew towards 

us from the direction of New Marston, the engines gave off four puffs of smoke 

before it dived directly at us. Fortunately, it started to flatten out and flew overhead 

before hitting the far bank of the Cherwell, sliding up Linton Road and exploding 

in a ball of black smoke, followed by the crackle of exploding ammunition.” 

‘So it happened that the aircraft, approaching from the direction of the river, struck 

the house that stood on this site and continued on to hit No 31 Linton Road, which 

is still standing, killing Mrs Hitchcox in the process. 

‘A truly tragic accident. And I hope that you will agree with us that this small piece 

of World War II history should be commemorated in perpetuity by means of the 

plaque we are about to unveil.’ 

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The President then thanked the Bursar and all the team of helpers in Wolfson 

who had worked towards the day’s event. She also thanked the historian Ann 

Spokes Symonds and her own colleague Roger Tomlin, who had been the driving 

force behind the memorial, and Liz Baird the Assistant Archivist. She recalled the 

initiative of the late Desmond Kay, Fellow of the College and Archivist for many 

years, who as long ago as 1989 suggested in the Oxford Times that there should be 

a memorial to those who died in the crash. She continued: 

‘There are, I believe, a number of people here today whose lives were directly 

affected by that crash. There are the nephew and niece of Jack Mochan, the wireless 

operator, Colin Robb and Karen Sherrington, and we’re very moved that they 

should have attended. There are three eye-witnesses here, Peter Brooks, George 

Fulkes and Richard Sorabji, who have never forgotten what they saw as small boys. 

There is Lois Godfrey, grand-daughter of the eminent family of scientists, the 

Haldanes, who lived in the big house, Cherwell, which pre-dated the College, and 

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who vividly remembers that Frances Hitchcox was the wife of Mr Hitchcox the 

farmer and bailiff; their cottage adjoined the farm buildings. 

‘But I also want to note that there were outcomes from this event in medical 

research, which have affected very many people’s lives to the good, and which link 

to present members of Wolfson. 

‘Our colleague Nick Rawlins, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University, is the son of 

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir John Rawlins, who at the time was a medical student in 

Oxford training with the National Fire Service. He attended the crash and, despite 

the exploding ammunition, attempted to rescue one of the airmen. He went on to 

be Medical Director of the Royal Navy. 

‘Another Wolfson colleague, the immunologist Jon Austyn, had as his head of 

Department Sir Peter Morris, and both Jon Austyn and Sir Peter are here today. 

Sir Peter, Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital and eminent 

transplant surgeon, has spent much of his career working on kidney transplants. 

Behind his work lies the example of Sir Peter Medawar, who was awarded the Nobel 

Prize in 1960 for his pioneering research into transplant surgery. This was inspired 

by his experience of the crash. Medawar was working in the School of Pathology 

as an experimental biologist in 1941, and he attempted to treat one of the severelyburnt 

victims by means of skin grafts from different parts of the victim’s body. As 

Sir Peter Medawar, he opened the new Oxford Transplant Unit at the Churchill 

Hospital in 1977, and referred to the crash on Linton Road as the event which 

inspired his pioneering research in immunology which made transplant surgery 

possible, and he linked his work to the work of Sir Peter Morris. 

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Professor Sir Peter Morris between the Bursar and Professor Jon Austyn 

‘In his speech at the opening of the Transplant Unit, Sir Peter Medawar said that, 

after his vain attempt to save the life of the airman, “I saw it as my metier to find out 

why it was not possible to graft skin from one human being to another, and what 

could be done about it. If anybody had then told me”, he went on to say, “that one 

day, in Oxford, kidneys would be transplanted from one human being to another, 

not as a perilous surgical venture, but as something more in the common run of 

things, I should have dismissed it as science fiction; yet it is just this that has come 

about, thanks to the enterprise of Professor Morris and his colleagues.” 

‘It is a remarkable outcome of the tragic event we are commemorating today. It is a 

tribute to those three young men serving in the RAF, and to the woman who lived 

and worked here, that so many people with connections to, and a historical interest 

in the air-crash, are here today.’ 

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The President then unveiled the plaque, which reads: 

IN MEMORY 

of the crew of the Whitley V aircraft which crashed here 

on a training flight from RAF Abingdon, on 4 May 1941 

Pilot Officer Charles Nairn Small, pilot, aged 23 

Pilot Officer William Alexander Munro Halley, observer, aged 19 

Sergeant John Alfred Mochan, wireless operator, aged 20 

and of 

Frances Emma Hitchcox, local resident 

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Alumni Relations and Development 2013–14 

A message from Bill Conner, the Development Director 

Last year was our first year without builders for some time. The Wolfson community 

was able to enjoy the benefits of all the work of the past few years and in particular 

the newly-opened Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. It has been a marvellous addition 

to our resources, bringing together more people than ever around the College’s 

extensive programme of lectures, seminars and other academic and cultural events 

across a broad range of subjects and interests. The academic clusters and the activity 

they generate continue to contribute significantly to Wolfson’s public profile. 

The College’s expanded outreach has continued with more events offered to 

alumni. Most events, described elsewhere in the Record, are available to everyone, 

and we encourage your participation. In London, the 2013 Christmas drinks party 

took place at Waterstones on Piccadilly. The 2014 London Lecture took place at 

the Museum of London. This year Dr Hein de Haas addressed a full auditorium 

on ‘Human migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts’. In April, the President and I 

attended the University’s reunion in New York City where we hosted two events: 

a dinner for academic friends and partners of the College at the Penn Club, and an 

alumni reception at the Waldorf Astoria. As we get closer to the fiftieth anniversary, 

I hope we will continue to engage more alumni and old friends of the College in 

our various activities. 

Our international community continues to grow, and the activities and interests 

of the greater Wolfson family are breath-taking in their scope. We have invested 

successfully over the last five years in communications and data systems that 

help us stay connected, and will continue to exploit new technology and better 

communications to knit our global family together. In 2014 our efforts to bring 

alumni together with students was focused on ‘Wolfson Innovate’. A number of 

alumni acted as judges, mentors and advisors to some of our aspiring entrepreneurs. 

Wolfson Innovate was deemed a success and a useful window onto the world of 

entrepreneurship for students wanting to take their ideas forward commercially or 

as a social investment. One student said to me ‘it beats going to work for a bank’. 

Our sixth successive year of growth in donor numbers continues to prove to me 

that alumni support of the College can matter. The annual phone campaign is 

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popular, and student callers seem to enjoy engaging with alumni. Last year 306 

families contributed to Wolfson, of which 60 had not given the previous year. 

Undergraduate colleges do much better than Wolfson in terms of alumni giving, 

but we also know that a large number of Wolfson alumni contribute to other 

colleges and departments around the University. 

Wolfson continues to be one of the most generous Oxford colleges in providing 

scholarships to graduate students. There are now scholarships for physics, classical 

art, early Christian-Jewish studies, Korean literature and a wide range of subjects 

supported by the Marriott legacy including politics, social policy, anthropology, 

archaeology, health care innovation, linguistics and Islamic studies. Our aim is 

to provide 50 scholarships for the fiftieth anniversary year, and to bolster our 

reputation further as one of Oxford’s most supportive and generous colleges to 

graduate students. The need to sustain and continue to grow this level of support 

is paramount in our thinking. In addition to addressing the competitive advantage 

of the rich American universities, we have a growing concern about the impact 

of much higher undergraduate tuition fees and British students’ ability to fund 

graduate fees once personal and family resources have become depleted. 

The Wolfson Strategy Group continues to be a valued activity in considering plans 

for the future. It is made up of a combination of alumni and friends of the College. 

The WSG met twice during 2013/14 and considered plans for the South Asia 

Research Cluster including a presentation on Pakistani studies, Wolfson Innovate, 

the fiftieth anniversary plans, the College art collection, the College’s five-year 

plan, fundraising and aspects of student life at Wolfson. Last year we welcomed 

alumnus Dr Christopher Rose as the newest member of the Group. 

Save the Date: 8-10 July 2016 will be Wolfson College’s fiftieth anniversary party. 

Mark your diaries and please plan to return to Oxford to help us celebrate. 

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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 

Lord Moser 

Mr George Nianias 

Professor Pat Nuttall 

Dr Christopher Rose 

Mr Thomas Sharpe, QC 

Dr Kenneth Tregidgo 

Baron Lorne Thyssen- 

Bornemisza 

Lady Patricia Williams 

Sir Martin Wood 

Dr Allen Zimbler 

List of donors 

2013‒14 

The Romulus Society 

Principal Gifts (£500,000+) 

Mr John W Adams 

Dorset Foundation 

Estate of Dr Francis Marriot 

Oxford Graduate Match Funding 

Scheme 

Wolfson Foundation 

President’s Fund (£20,000) 

Berlin Charitable Trust 

Berlin Literary Trust 

Dr Simon Harrison 

International Communication 

Foundation (YBM Si- sa Corporation) 

Morningside Foundation 

Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza 

Patron (£10,000+) 

Mr William Kelly 

2nd JA Littman Foundation 

Mr Jonathan L Rosen 

Mr Max Watson 

Sponsor (£5,000+) 

Professor Sir Antony Hoare 

Investec Bank Plc 

Mr Aamer Sarfraz 

Member (£1,000+) 

Anonymous 

Dr Stephen R Donaldson 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Dorothy Holmes Charitable Trust 

Dr Ira W Lieberman 

Professor Pat Nuttall 

Mr Richard A Percy 

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Professor Nick Rawlins 

Mrs Karen I Segal 

Mr Graeme J Skene 

Dr Derek G Wyatt 

The President’s Club 

(£500+) 

Mr Girindre K Beeharry 

Professor Derek A Boyd 

Professor Roger L Burritt 

Dr Timthy Clayden 

Mr Douglas J Colkin 

Mr Willian J Conner 

Professor Masa Ikegami 

Professor Yong-Seok Kim 

Dr Helen Lambert 

Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

Dr Roland M Littlewood 

Dr Jody L Maxmin 

Dr T M McCulloch 

The Rt Hon Lord Claus A Moser 

Mr Benito Muller 

Professor Andrew Neill 

Mrs Judith Peters 

Dr Andrew Prentice 

Ms Krista Slade 

Sir David Smith 

Professor Sir Richard R K Sorabji 

Mrs Lindsey F Stead 

Dr Lloyd H Strickland 

Dr Ken M J Tregidgo 

Dr Lesley Tupchong 

Dr Anthony J Wickett 

Dr Anthony S Wierzbicki 

Supporters of the College 

(£100+) 

Professor Jonathan R S Arch 

Dr Phillippa Archer 

Mrs Gillian Argyle 

Professor Martin A Arkowitz 

Mr Birker B Bahnsen 

Professor Marcus J Banks 

Dr Simon R Barker 

Dr Annabel Beacham 

The Revd Dr William C Beaver 

Professor Mette L Berg 

Dr Thomas J Black 

Professor Harry C Blair 

Dr David G Bounds 

Professor David G Brandon 

Professor Kevin M Brindle 

Mr Kieran P Broadbent 

Dr Sebastian P Brock 

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Professor Harvey R Brown 

Professor Richard J Butterwick- 

Pawlikowski 

Professor James V Byrne 

Lady Helen Caldwell 

Dr Denis Canet 

Miss Wendy L Capes 

Dr Cyril J Chapman 

Ms Leila I A Cheikh Ismail 

Mr Chia-Kuen Chen 

Dr Adam R H Clarke 

Mr Howard R Clarke 

Dr Ruben Conrad 

Dr Andrew J Crane 

Dr Paula Curnow 

Professor Shimon Dar 

Dr Roberto Delicata 

Professor Kennerly H Digges 

Mr Anthony P Drayton 

Dr Charles Ehrlich 

Dr Adi Erlich 

Mr Thomas J Filbin 

Mr David Freestone 

Dr Matthew Frohn 

Dr Julie M Fyles 

Mr Siddartha Ghoshal 

Miss Laurence C Gillen 

Brigadier Alan F Gordon 

Dr Roger L Hall 

Mr Iain M Handley-Schlachler 

Professor Barbara Harriss-White 

Dr Stephen J Hemingway 

Dr Paul G Henry 

Dr Peter N Herissone-Kelly 

Dr Raymond Higgins 

Mrs Louise Hillman 

Dr Alfred M Hirt 

Dr Mark Hockly 

Dr David S Holloway 

Dr Susan K Hookham 

Dr Peter Iredale 

Professor Ann M Jefferson 

Dr Jeremy Johns 

Mrs Linda Johnson 

Dr Carolyn M Kagan 

Dr Michael Katz 

Dr Philip B Kay 

Professor Richard D Keshen 

Professor John A Koumoulides 

Dr John J Koval 

Ms Patricia J Langton 

Dr Margaret A Laskey 

Professor Rosemary H Lawton Smith 

Dr Robin E Leake 

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Professor Luigi Lehnus 

Dr Christopher W Letchford 

Dr Brian Lloyd 

Mr Hirosshi Maeno 

Dr John P G Mailer 

Ms Elizabeth Mann 

Mr Alan Mapstone 

Dr Ruth McAdam 

Dr Tom D McLean 

Dr Gregor A McLean 

Dr Graham H McVey 

Miss Mira L B Mehta 

Dr Jean-Louis Metzger 

Mrs Sarah F Metzger-Court 

Professor Louisa M A Morgado 

Mrs Elizabeth V K Mort 

Mrs Lesley A Murray 

Dr Caroline M A Mussared 

Dr Sara Paretsky 

Dr Joanna R Perkins 

Dr John C Pinot de Moira 

Dr Jake M Piper 

Professor Anthony J Podlecki 

Mr Raymond Pow 

Dr Christina Redfield 

Dr Julie R Richardson 

Dr Donald A Ringe 

Professor David J B Robey 

Professor David J Roulston 

Dr Alison G Salvesen 

Professor Iwan B Saunders 

Mr Malcolm Savage 

Mr Philip J Seeley 

Dr John Sellars 

Dr Sunay S Shah 

Professor Joanna M Shapland 

Dr Charles W Smith 

Dr Alan C Spivey 

Mrs Gillian R Stansfield 

Dr William H Steel 

Professor Ian C Storey 

Professor Aslak Syse 

Professor Heinrich Taegtmeyer 

Dr Swee L Thein 

Dr Noreen L Thomas 

Professor Robert S D Thomas 

Professor Charles F Thompson 

Dr Edward J Thorogood 

Mr Peter N Toye 

Professor Sir Richard H Trainor 

Dr John G Troyer 

Dr Peter G Turner 

Dr Kevin E Varvell 

Dr Drahosh Vesely 

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Professor Meinolf Vielberg 

Ms Lynn Villency Cohen 

Dr Thomas Vojta 

Dr William Wagner 

Mr Christopher H Walton 

Mr Yu Wang 

Dr Emmeline R Watkins 

Dr Tim D Wolfenden 

Dr Adam S Wyatt 

Friends of the College 

Professor Anat Barnea 

Dr Janet E Barnes 

Mr Stephen F Barry 

Ms Claire L Blaxland 

Dr Steven Bosworth 

Mrs Sonia Boue 

Dr Donald E Broadbent 

Mrs Margaret Broadbent 

Dr Michael G Brock 

Mrs Eleanor H Brock 

Professor Dr Harry L Bryden 

Mr Charles D Burkitt 

Dr Andrew K Busby 

Dr Robin D Buxton 

Mr Carl E Calvert 

Professor David Clarke 

Dr Rochelle M Cornell 

Dr Diana G L Crane 

Professor David W Cranston 

Dr Robert J Crawford 

Mr John E Cubbon 

Professor Robin P Cubitt 

Dr Anoushka Dave 

Miss Francoise M R G Deniaud 

Professor Robert W J Dingwall 

Dr Simon D Dowell 

Mr Mohit Dubey 

Dr Veronica J Dudley 

Mr John K Edgley 

Miss Emily Emmott 

Dr Gillian Evison 

Ms Mary Ferry 

Mr Harry Firth 

Professor Peter Flewitt 

Dr Geoffrey Garton 

Dr Alun German 

Dr David P Gormley-O’Brien 

Dr Michael R Gover 

Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani 

Professor Paul J Harrison 

Mr Jonothon Hart 

Mr Bjorn Haugstad 

Dr Christine R Hemming 

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Dr Lindsay Houseman 

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig 

Mr Benjamin Jewell 

Mrs Elizabeth E Krishna 

Dr Norbert Kunisch 

Dr Naomi R Latham 

Mr Nathan Lenzin 

Mrs Vicki Lloyd 

Dr Heidi F Luckhurst 

Mr Stephen E Ludlow 

Dr Masliza Mahmod 

Dr Diana Martin 

Dr Ian P S Martin 

Mr Anthony E D Maude 

Mrs Audrey K Maxwell 

Dr Axel Michaels 

Miss Kyriaki Michailidou 

Professor David R Miers 

Professor Stephen E Moorbath 

Professor Eiichi Motono 

Professor Philip Mountford 

Dr Jonathan P Noble 

Ms Elizabeth A Oughton 

Mr Adam S Pearcey 

Professor Christopher M Perrins 

Mrs Julie A Pettitt 

Mr Charles D Poate 

Miss Charlotte I Purkis 

Mrs Lea N Raitt 

Dr Sarah A Ramsay 

Professor Peter J Rhodes 

Dr Andrew P Roach 

Mr Andrew G Roberts 

Dr Peter M Rossington 

Dr Karen A Rowe 

Dr Anona J Scobie 

Dr Aho Shemunkasho 

Dr St John Simpson 

Dr Timothy N Stockdale 

Dr Steven Swain 

Dr Robert E Tanner 

Dr Mark A Tito 

Mr David M Trebilcock 

Dr Michael J Tully 

Mr Mothusi J D Turner 

Ms Julia A T Wheare 

Mr Sidney M Wilkinson 

Mr Jonathan M Woolf 

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Gifts to the Library 2013–14 

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. This year it 

has received two notable and generous gifts. 

Professor Barbara Harriss-White, on her retirement, has given her collection of 

books on South Asian and Development Studies. This multi-disciplinary collection 

includes works on development economics, poverty, health and nutrition and food 

policy, gender, caste and rural development. It enhances our resources for students 

in the MPhil in Development Studies and the MSC in Contemporary India, as well 

as for readers in other subjects. 

Dr John Penney has given a seventeenth-century Pentateuch Bible, Biblia Sacra 

Vulgatae Editionis (Paris 1662), printed by Antoine Vitré. It contains many fullpage 

copper plate engravings which were originally conceived for a different book 

altogether, the first volume of Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra. Our copy once belonged 

to another Fellow of Wolfson, the late Godfrey Lienhardt. 

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) 

The Bible donated by Dr Penney is described more fully below, in ‘A fossil Bible’ by Liz 

Baird. 

Mr Wei Shen Aik 

* Professor James Vincent Byrne 

* Professor Margaret Chatterjee 

* Dr Samuel Chen 

* Dr David Cranston 

* Dr Stephen M Cullen 

* Dr Stephanie Dalley 

Mr Chihab El Khachab 

* Professor Rolf George 

* Dr Henry Hardy and the Isaiah 

Berlin Literary Trust 

Professor Barbara Harriss-White 

* Dr George J Kunnath 

* Professor Dame Hermione Lee 

* Professor Luigi Lehnus 

Dr Gayle Lonergan 

* Dr Francisco Mora 

Ms Lucia Nixon 

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* Miss Kirsten Norrie 

Professor Desiree Park 

Dr John Penney 

Professor Hugo Rojas Corral 

Revd Professor Michael Screech 

* Dr Sarah Shaw 

* Professor Jon Stallworthy 

* Professor Ian C Storey 

Ms Liz Wade 

Dr Susan Walker 

* Dr Peter Wallis 

Dr Merryn Williams 

* Jerermy and Nicole Wilson 

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Scholarships, Travel Awards 

and Prizes 2013–14 

The Black Family Scholarship (with Materials Department) 

Andrew London 

The Godfrey Lienhardt Travel Grant 

Marthe Achtnich (Kellogg) 

Geraldine Adiku 

Eleanor Beevor (St Antony’s) 

Julia Binter 

Cory Rodgers (Keble) 

Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship 

Medical Sciences and Chemistry 

Thomas Coxon 

Claudia Vadeboncoeur 

Isaiah Berlin/Clarendon Scholarships 

Humanities 

Georgiy Grebnyev 

Barak Blum 

Isaiah Berlin/Classics Department Scholarship 

Felix Meister 

Isaiah Berlin ESRC Anthropology Scholarship 

Elo Luik 

Isaiah Berlin UKRC Scholarship 

Kathryn Olivarius 

Amar Hadzihasanovic 

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Physics Scholarship 

Benjamin Yadin 

Jeremy Black Clarendon Scholarship 

Eva Miller 

Life-Writing Cluster Scholarship 

Lucinda Fenny 

Oli Hazard 

Nanette O’Brien 

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Lorne Thyssen Scholarship 

Helen Ackers 

Mougins Museum Ashmolean Scholarship 

Nicholas West 

Tim and Kathy Clayden Prize for Ancient Near Eastern Studies 

Laura Selena Wisnom 

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 

The Wolfson Socio-Legal Centre Scholarship 

Heather McRobie 

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Degrees and Diplomas conferred during 

the academic year 2013-14 

Abdul Rahman, Danial 

Alarcon, Andrea 

Apostolidou, Ilektra–Georgia 

Bai, Tiantian 

Betts, Jill Frances 

(GS 2012–13) BCL 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Social Science of the 

Internet 

(GS 2007–11) DPhil Engineering Science, 

‘Variable Density Shallow Flow Model for 

Flood Simulation’ 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Sociology 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Psychiatry, ‘D-Amino 

Acid Oxidase, D-Serine and the Dopamine 

System: Their Interactions and Implications 

for Schizophrenia’ 

Boote, Christopher 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Nature, Society and 

Environmental Policy 

Bruff-Robinson, Celeste (GS 2012–13) MSc Criminology and 

Criminal Justice (Research Methods) 

Burroughs, Juliette 

Bush, Ruth 

Buzano, Maria 

Chang-Wai-Ling, Nolanne 

Chauhan, Jayesh 

Christensen, Sasja 

Cloete, Ingrid 

Cooper, Sarah 



(GS 2009–13) DPhil Medieval and Modern 

Languages, ‘Publishing sub–Saharan Africa 

in Paris 1945–1967’ 

(GS 2009–12) DPhil Mathematics, ‘Topics in 

Ricci Flow with Symmetry’ 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Orthopaedic Surgery, 

‘Towards the development of vascularized 

constructs for bone repair’ 

(GS 2008–09) MSc Biomedical Engineering 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Modern Chinese Studies 

(GS 2011–12) BCL 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Radiobiology, ‘Base 

excision repair of radiation-induced DNA 

damage in mammalian cells’ 

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Crisp, Thomas 

(GS 2012–13) BCL 

Crossley, Adam (GS 2012–13) MSc Cognitive and 

Evolutionary Anthropology 

Curtis, Helen 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Systems Biology 

(EPSRC CDT) – Physiology, Anatomy and 

Genetics, ‘Developing gene knockdownreplacement 

therapies for spinocerebellar 

ataxia type 7’ 

de Berrie, Isabel 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Music (Musicology) 

Dhariwal, Chidambra 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Clinical Embryology 

Di, Jiexun 

(GS 2007–13) DPhil Engineering Science, 

‘Development of Highly Active Internal 

Steam Methane Reforming Catalysts for 

Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel 

Cells’ 

Donohoe, Michael 

(GS 1996–98) MPhil in International 

Relations 

Doyle, Kerrie 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Evidence-based Social 

Intervention 

Dransfield, Katherine 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Social Science of the 

Internet 

Elhaddad, Abdelrahman 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Global Health Science 

Erturan, Gurhan 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Musculoskeletal Sciences 

Fanous, Rafik 


Francis, Sarah 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Clinical Embryology 

Galani, Aikaterini (GS 2006–11) DPhil History, ‘British 

Shipping and Trade in the Mediterranean in 

the Age of War, 1770–1815’ 

Georgakopoulou, Maria 

(GS 2010–13) MPhil Economics 

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Giacomantonio, Christopher 

Goossens, Anouk 

Hansard, Leah 

Hargreaves, Alice 

Hashmi, Tahir 

Hopkins, Rachel 

Hu, Yiyi 

Huo, Tairan 

Ilupeju, John 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Criminology, ‘Policing 

Integration: The inter– and intra– 

organizational coordination of police work’ 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Film Aesthetics 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Classical Archaeology 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Late Antique and 

Byzantine Studies 


(GS 2012–13) MSc Archaeological Science 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Computer Science 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Radiation Biology 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Organic Chemistry, 

‘Synthesis and Use of New Chiral DABCO 

Derivatives for Asymmetric Fluorination’ 

Ip, Vicky 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Modern Chinese Studies 

Ismail, Mohammad (GS 2004–05) MSc(Res) Atmospheric, 

Oceanic and Planetary Physics, ‘Modelling 

Studies and Observations of the Mount 

Hekla Eruption of 2000’ 

Jiang, Jingliu 

(GS 2010–11) MSc Social Anthropology 

Johal, Esha 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Pharmacology 

Kelly, Jacqueline 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Radiation Biology 

Kim, Jun Soo 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Integrated Immunology 

Kopsacheili, Maria 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Archaeology, ‘Palaces 

and Elite Residences in the Hellenistic 

East, late fourth to early first century BC: 

formation and purpose’ 

Koubenec, Laura 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Social Anthropology 

Kovalaskas, Sarah (GS 2012–13) MSc Cognitive and 


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Lander, Bonnie 

Lee, Jae Min 

Lee, Seung Youb 

Lefevre, Marie 

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(GS 2008–13) DPhil English, ‘Chastity and 

the Early Modern English Stage, 1611–1649’ 

(GS 2008–13) DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic 

and Planetary Physics, ‘Retrieval of 

Atmospheric Structure and Composition of 

Exoplanets from Transit Spectroscopy’ 

(GS 2012–13) MBA 

(GS 2006–09) DPhil Pathology, ‘Role 

of helicobacter hepaticus in intestinal 

inflammation’ 

Lersten, Augustus Emanuel Nils (GS 2011–12) MSt Islamic Art and 

Archaeology 

Lica, Adela 


Lourenco, Jose 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Zoology, ‘Unifying 

the Epidemiological, Ecological and 

Evolutionary Dynamics of Dengue’ 

Lutteropp, Michael 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Clinical Laboratory 

Sciences, ‘The emergence and early fate 

decisions of stem and progenitor cells in the 

haematopoietic system.’ 

Lyngs, Ulrik (GS 2012–13) MSc Cognitive and 


Mann, Philip 

Manocha, Nisha 

Markakis, Menelaos 

(GS 2007–13) DPhil Geography and the 

Environment, ‘Achieving a Mass-Scale 

Transition to Clean Cooking in India to 

Improve Public Health’ 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil English, ‘Generic 

Insistence: Joseph Conrad and the Document 

in Selected British and American Modernist 

Fiction’ 

(GS 2012–13) MJuris

Marquis, Caitlin 

Martin, Matthew 

Masamaro, Kenneth 

McGill, Julian 

McHardy, Karina 

Menzel, Torsten 

Meyer, Robin 

Meysami, Seyyed Shayan 

Mir, Hizer 

Montecinos, Yacqueline 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Environmental Change 

and Management 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Study of Religion 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Global Health Science 

(GS 2006–11) DPhil History, ‘The Beautiful 

and the Profitable in the Origins of Town 

Planning’ 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Public Health, ‘Obesity 

monitoring in schools’ 

(GS 2011–12) MSc Comparative Social 

Policy 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil General Linguistics 

and Comparative Philology 

(GS 2010–13) DPhil Materials, ‘Development 

of an Aerosol-CVD Technique for the 

Production of CNTs with Integrated Online 

Control’ 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Oriental Studies 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Geography and the 

Environment 

Muller, Julia 



Ocampo Valencia, Sebastian (GS 2012–13) MSc Law and Finance 

Parameshwaran, Meenakshi (GS 2008–09) MSc Sociology 

Pearcey, Adam 


Pennas, Charalampos (GS 1983–2013) DPhil Archaeology, ‘A 

Study of the Late Twelfth and Thirteenth 

Centuries Byzantine Architecture and 

Painting: the Church of Krena in Chios’ 

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Platt, Belinda (GS 2010–13) DPhil Experimental 

Psychology, ‘The role of peer rejection in 

adolescent depression: genetic, neural and 

cognitive correlates’ 

Price, Maryanna 

Rabin, Anthony 

Raney, Abigail 

Reilly, Adam 

Repetskyi, Viktor 

Richardson, Noelle 

(GS 2011–13) MSt General Linguistics and 

Comparative Philology 


(GS 2011–12) MSt Film Aesthetics 

(GS 2011–12) BCL 

(GS 2012–13) MBA 

(GS 2010–13) MPhil Modern South Asian 

Studies 

Ross, Emily (GS 2012–13) MSc Criminology and 

Criminal Justice 

Ryan, Andrew 

Sarazin, Marc 

Saurabh, Kritarth 

Sehnalova, Anna 

Shah, Aakash 

Shah, Jaideep 

Sharma, Rajan 

Shaw, Allen 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Russian and East 

European Studies 



(GS 2011–13) MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan 

Studies 

(GS 2012–13) MBA 

(GS 2011–13) MPhil Classical Indian 

Religion 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Pharmacology 

(GS 2006–10) DPhil Geography and the 

Environment, ‘India’s Electricity System: 

Power for the States’ 

Soares Barbosa, Rui Miguel (GS 2009–10) MSc Mathematics and 

Foundations of Computer Science 

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Sonthalia, Shreya 

Strebler, David 

Tai, Li Yian 

Tao, Wenye 

Teal, Scott 

Tearney, Thomas 

Tignol, Eve 

Tolan, Hillary 

Toth, Dominika 

Vatri, Alessandro 

Veltfort, Sophia Elena Pies 

Vu, Quoc Huy 

Walker, Lucy 

Wang, Joseph 

Warr, Tashi 

Watson, Rachel 

Wouters, Jelle 

Zarcula, Flavia 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Evidence-based Social 

Intervention 

(GS 2012–13) MSt Archaeological Science 

(GS 2012–13) MSc Financial Economics 


(GS 2008–13) DPhil English, ‘Specters of 

Poverty and Sources of Hope in the Novels 

of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry’ 

(GS 2011–12) MSt Yiddish Studies 


(GS 2012–13) MSt Social Anthropology 

(GS 2012–13) MJur 

(GS 2009–13) DPhil Classical Languages 

and Literature, ‘The Linguistics of Orality: 

a Psycholinguistic Approach to Private and 

Public Performance of Classical Attic Prose’ 

(GS 2012–13) MSt English (1900 – present) 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Computer Science, 

‘Higher-Order Queries and Applications’ 

(GS 2008–12) DPhil Clinical Medicine, 

‘Function, phenotype and development of 

human CD161+ CD8 T cells’ 



(GS 2010–13) DPhil Anthropology, ‘The 

ritualistic child: Imitation, affiliation, and the 

ritual stance in human development’ 

(GS 2009–11) MPhil Social Anthropology 


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Elections and 

Admissions 2013–14 

Emeritus Fellows 

Galligan, Denis James, MA, BCL, (LLB 

Queensland), DCL, AcSS 

Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc 

Liverpool, PhD Bristol); Dean of 

Degrees 

Honorary Fellows 

Levett, Christian Clive, (BTECH New 

College, Durham) 

Mance, Jonathan, the Rt Hon Lord 

Mance, MA 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Collins, Paul Thomas, (MA, PhD UCL) 

Hodges, Christopher, MA (PhD King’s) 

Sheldon, Benjamin Conrad, MA (MA 

Cambridge, PhD Sheffield) 


Creutzfeldt, Naomi, (BA, MA, Southern 

Queensland, PhD Göttingen) 

Dahlsten, Oscar, (MSc, PhD Imperial) 

Davison, Lucy Jane, (MA, VetMB 

Cambridge, PhD London) 

Devolder, Katrien, (DEA Bruxelles, 

MA, PhD Ghent) 

Jankowiak, Marek, (MA Warsaw, PhD 

Paris) 

Pyrah, Robert Mark, MA, MSt, DPhil 

Querishi, Kaveri, BA, (MSc, PhD London) 

Ray, Nicholas Martin, (BSc, MPhil 

Bradford, PhD Leics) 

Smith, Olivia Freunolich, (BA, UEA, 

MA, PhD London) 

Still, Clarinda Lucy Marion, (MA Edin, 

MREs UCL, PhD LSE) 

Walton, Philippa Jane, PGDip (MA 

Cambridge, PhD UCL) 

Stipendiary Junior 


Biggs, Alison, (BA SOAS, MPhil, PhD 

Cambridge) 

Junior Research Fellows 

Cartlidge, Benjamin John BA (MA, 

Cologne) 

Clark, Michael Ben, (MSc Otago, PhD 

Queensland) 

Cook, Christina Lillian, (BSc, PhD 

British Columbia, LLB Victoria) 

De Sabbata, (BSc, MSc Udine, PhD 

Zurich) 

Evans, Rhiannon Mari, (BSc, PhD 

Wales) 

Guerrero Omar, (BA, ITESM, MSc 

Essex, PhD George Mason) 

Hedesan, Delia Georgiana, (BA Nevada, 

MSc Leeds, MA, PhD Exeter) 

Kannan, Pavitra, (BA Grinnell, PhD 

Karolinska Inst) 

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Kunnath, George, (BA Ranchi, MA 

Poona, MPhil Mumbai, PhD SOAS) 

Li, Xiannan, (BMaths Waterloo, PhD 

Stanford) 

Loopstra, Rachel, (BSc Guelph, MSc, 

PhD Toronto) 

Mansfield, Shane Joseph, DPhil (BSc, 

MSc Cork, Cert Cambridge) 

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc 

Torrino) 

Nurse, Jason Ricardo Corey, (BA West 

Indies, MA Hull, PhD Warwick) 

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

Ringel, Zohar, (BSC Hebrew Univ 

Jerusalem, MSc, PhD Weizmann Inst) 

Schaller, Nathalie, (BSc, MSc, PhD 

ETH Zurich) 

Vatri, Alessandro, (Laurea Specialistica 

La Sapienza), DPhil 

Wood, Rachel Katherine Lloyd, BA, 

MSt, DPhil 

Yu, Ying, (BA Chongqing, LLM Dalian, 

PhD Wuhan) 

Visiting Scholars 

(in residence during the academic year 

2013–14) 

Akae, Yuichi, (MA Univ Ksukuba, MA 

PhD Leeds) 

Allena, Miriam, (BL, Milan Catholic; 

PhD State Univ, Milan) 

Arambepola, Carukshi, (MSc, MD, 

MBBS Colombo) 

Balmaceda, Catalina, MA, DPhil (BA 

Univ Catolica de Chile) 

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

State) 

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, (BA Durham, 

MLitt. NUT, PhD Notts) 

Broadhead, Dr Edwin, (BA Mississippi, 

MDiv, PhD S Bapt Theol Sem, DrTheol, 

Zurich) 

Brown, Richard, (BSc, Victoria, MA, 

PhD Dalhousie) 

Burrell, Barbara, (BA NYU, MA, PhD 

Harvard) 

Dakic, Borivoje, (MSc Belgrade, PhD 

Vienna) 

Duymus Florioti, (MA Pamukkale, PhD 

Gazi) 

Dyck, Corey W (BA, British Columbia, 

MA Catholic Univ, Leuven, PhD 

Boston) 

Eph’al, Israel, (MA, PhD Hebrew Univ 

of Jerusalem) 

Frame, Grant, (MA Univ of Toronto, 

PhD Chicago) 

Gorkay, Kutalmis, (PhD Ankara) 

Halliday, Simon, MA (LLB Edin, PhD 

Strathclyde) 

Hancock, Christopher, MA (BA, PhD 

Durham) 

Haug, Dag, (MA, PhD, Oslo) 

Hostein, Antony, (PhD, Univ. Paris 1 

Pantheon-Sorbonne) 

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Jacobs, Mark, (BA, Columbia, MA, PhD 

Chicago) 

Kapadia, Karin, MA (MA Madras, 

MLitt Edin, PhD LSE) 

Kawamura, Yukio, (LLB Keio Univ, 

LLM Miami) 

Kent, Adrian, (MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Kristensen, Troels, (MA, PhD Aarhus 

University) 

Kumo, Kazuhiro, (BA, Osaka, MA, PhD 

Kyoto) 

Lee, Jae-Young, (MA, Hanyang, PhD 

Moscow State, HonPhD Chinggis 

Khaan, Mongolia) 

Mizoguchi, Akiko, (MA Tokyo Woman’s 

Christian Univ, MA Leeds, ABD Tsuda) 

Moon, Gab Sik, (MA Yonsei, MA, 

Hanyang) 

Myzgin, Kyrylo, (MA, PhD Karazin 

Kharkov National Univ) 

Nehru, Lolita, B.Litt (MA Calcutta, 

PhD Cambridge) 

Potts, Tracey J, (BA Wolverhampton, 

MA, PhD Warwick) 

Schirn, Matthias, (PhD Freiburg, 

Dr.Phil.Habil. Regensburg) 

Sheedy, Kenneth, (PhD Sydney) 

Thicknesse, Philip, (BA Lancaster, MA 

King’s) 

Tsongkha, Yongdrol, (MA Qinghai, 

PhD ACTM, Beijing) 

Zhang, Quan, (BE, PhD National Univ 

of Defence Technology) 

Vassella, Carlo, (Laurea, PhD Sapienza, 

Rome) 

Yun, Suk Ho, (MA Yonsei Univ) 

Zimi, Eleni, M.Phil, DPhil (BA, National 

and Kapodistrian Univ) 

Graduate Students 

Adiku, Geraldine (DPhil International 

Development) 

Adriaenssens, Elias (MSc Pharmacology) 

Ahmed, Maryam (DPhil Healthcare 

Innovation Centre for Doctoral 

Training) 

Ajuogu, Augustine (MSc Integrated 

Immunology) 

Al Saud, Mashael (MSc Biomedical 

Engineering) 

Ali, Muntazir (MSt Modern South 

Asian Studies) 

Almeida Oleas, Natalia (MSc Law and 

Finance) 

Alshuhri, Sultan (MSc (Res) Inorganic 

Chemistry) 

Amit, Ben (MSc Pharmacology) 

Asamaphan, Patawee (MSc Integrated 

Immunology) 

Assael, Ioannis-Alexandros (MSc 

Computer Science) 

Bennett, Charlotte (DPhil History) 

Beresford, Lydia Audrey (DPhil Particle 

Physics) 

Bhatty, Devkaran Singh (MSc 

Contemporary India) 

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Binter, Julia (DPhil Anthropology) 

Blum, Barak (DPhil Classical Languages 

and Literature) 

Boles, Ambrose (MPhil Egyptology) 

Brandeberry, Elizabeth (MSc Evidencebased 

Social Intervention) 

Brazier, Hannah (DPhil Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Broad, William (DPhil Plant Sciences) 

Brook, John (MSc Economic and Social 

History) 

Bustraan, Peter (MPhil Classical Indian 

Religion) 

Cadena Perdomo, Luisa (Master of 

Public Policy) 

Chang, Matthew-Louis (MSc Financial 

Economics) 

Chauhan, Seema (MPhil Classical 

Indian Religion) 

Chikhladze, Tatia (MSc Russian and 

East European Studies) 

Chino, Takeshi (MBA) 

Choi, Jongyun (Certificate in Diplomatic 

Studies) 

Choo, Arthur (MSt Socio-Legal 

Research) 

Cole, Seth (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Coxon, Thomas (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Crosse, David (MSc(Res) Zoology) 

Curran, Kieran (DPhil Earth Sciences) 

Cuturic, Danijel (MSc Education 

(Comparative and International 

Education) 

Dalglish, Dominic (DPhil Classical 

Archaeology) 

Dalmaijer, Edwin (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Daneshmand, Mohammad (MPhil 

Cuneiform Studies) 

Dastageer, Muska (MSc Refugee and 

Forced Migration Studies) 

Davies, Loretta (DPhil Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Deng, Xian (MSc (Res) Chemical 

Biology) 

Dorbez, Claudia (MSc Russian and East 

European Studies) 

Drozdzik, Arthur (MSc Migration 

Studies) 

Edwards, Antonia (DPhil Archaeology) 

Edwards, John (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Eghdamian, Khatereh (MPhil 

Development Studies) 

Eldridge, Aaron (MSc Social 

Anthropology) 

Engel, Jakob (DPhil Geography and the 

Environment) 

Enock, Florence (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Eziza, Eziza (MSc Comparative Social 

Policy) 

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Falah, Maysa (DPhil Pharmacology) 

Falkenburg, Naomi (MSc Global 

Governance and Diplomacy) 

Freitas Teixeira, Ivo (DPhil Inorganic 

Chemistry) 

Frickle, Amanda (MSt Women’s 

Studies) 

Garratt, Luke David (MSc Mathematics 

and Foundations of Computer Science) 

Garret, Matthew (MPhil Eastern 

Christian Studies) 

Georgala, Ifigeneia (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

Glushko, Anastasia (MSc Russian and 


Gopalakrishnan, Shreeppriya (MSc 

Social Anthropology) 

Gray, Patience (MPhil General 

Linguistics and Comparative Philology) 

Gronvold, Benjamin (MPhil Classical 

Archaeology) 

Gruszczynski, Jacek (DPhil Oriental 

Studies) 

Gurau, Corina (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Hadzihasanovic, Amar (DPhil 

Computer Science) 

Halbroth, Benedict (DPhil Clinical 

Medicine) 

Hamilton, Thomas (DPhil 

Musculoskeletal Sciences) 

Hedegaard, Anne (MSc Neuroscience) 

Herbert, Alan (DPhil Theology) 

Hill, Leila (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Hodgson, Max (MSc Russian and East 


Holgate, Benjamin (DPhil English) 

Holt-Martyn, James (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Hook, Sarah (DPhil English) 

Huang, Shanshan (MSc Law and 

Finance) 

In, Daesub (DPhil Theology) 

Inoue, Haruko (DPhil Philosophy) 

Ishikawa, Ken (DPhil Archaeology) 

Jain, Nina (MSc Evidence-based Social 

Intervention) 

Japaridze, Liana (MJuris) 

Jiang, Mengyin (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Kampianaki, Theofili (DPhil Medieval 

and Modern Languages) 

Kasim, Muhammad Firmansyah (DPhil 

Particle Physics) 

Kaufman, Lauren (MSt History of Art 

and Visual Culture) 

Khunte, Rucha (MSc Clinical 

Embryology) 

Kim, Yeji (MSt Korean Studies) 

King, Rachel (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Klein, Nina (DPhil Materials) 

Koh, Si Jie Daveen (MSc Visual, 

Material and Museum Anthropology) 

Kroese, Maurits (MSc Applied 

Statistics) 

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Krylova, Olga (MSc Environmental 

Change and Management) 

Kularatnam, Kaushalya (MSc Computer 

Science) 

Kumar, Hari (MSc Contemporary India) 

Lakhani, Vishakha (MSc Clinical 

Embryology) 

Laurent, Yanick (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Lavin, Mary (MPhil Modern British 

and European History) 

Lecznar, Matthew (MSt World 

Literatures in English) 

Lee, Jae Won (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Lee, Minho (DPhil Social Policy) 

Lenk, Stefanie (DPhil History of Art) 

Levine, Ariel (MPhil Classical 

Archaeology) 

Levitskiy, Andrey (MPhil Russian and 


Li, Zhu (DPhil Statistics) 

Liao, Hanbin (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Lienen, Eva Christina (MJuris) 

Lima, Joana (MPhil Sociology) 

Liu, Nan (MSc Contemporary India) 

Llosa Isenrich, Claudio (DPhil 

Mathematics) 

Lonsdale, Thomas (DPhil Inorganic 

Chemistry) 

Luettich, Alexander (DPhil 

Experimental Psychology) 

Malik, Amna (DPhil Paediatrics) 

Markwardt, Marie (MSt World 

Literatures in English) 

Marriner, Charlotte (DPhil 

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary 

Physics) 

Mastrangelo, Giovanni (MSc Law and 

Finance) 

McCosker, Catherine (MSc Evidencebased 


McKee, Justin (DPhil Clinical 

Neurosciences) 

Mekareeya, Aroonroj (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Mercer, Leo (MSt Philosophical 

Theology) 

Mhaske, Ketki (MSc Clinical 

Embryology) 

Miah, Azaher (MPhil Islamic Studies 

and History) 

Miller, Eva (DPhil Oriental Studies) 

Miller-Friedmann, Jaimie (DPhil 

Education) 

Millington, Michael (MSt Ancient 

Philosophy) 

Milner, Kevin (DPhil Cyber Security 

(EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training)) 

Miron Sardiello, Ezequiel Josue (DPhil 

Biochemistry) 

Misra, Shriya (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Moerkve, Svein Harald (MSc 

Endovascular Neurosurgery 

(Interventional Neuroradiology)) 

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Mohamed Mokhtarudin, Mohd (DPhil 

Engineering Science) 

Molteni, Marco (MPhil Economic and 

Social History) 

Motnenko, Anna (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Mummadi, Aparnareddy (MSc Global 

Health Science) 

Nebel, Jacob (BPhil Philosophy) 

Necula, Andra (DPhil Interdisciplinary 

Bioscience (BBSRC Doctoral Training 

Programme)) 

Ng, Shee Ern (MSc Financial 

Economics) 

Nikolyan, Levon (MSc Russian and East 


Nixon, Mickaela (MPhil Economics) 

Nomoto, Kyoko (DPhil Archaeology) 

O’Boyle, Lauren (MSc Archaeological 

Science) 

O’Brien, Nanette (DPhil English) 

Ochere, Jason (MSc Comparative Social 

Policy) 

O’Gorman, Thomas (DPhil Materials) 

Olivarius, Kathryn (DPhil History) 

Ollikainen, Jussi Aleksi (MPhil Law) 

Ortega Sanchez, Raquel (MPhil 

Archaeology) 

Oueis, Raja (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Out-Wong, Pandita (MSt Modern 

South Asian Studies) 

Overton, Charlotte (MSc Water Science, 

Policy and Management) 

Paine, Peter (MSc Russian and East 


Parker, Andrew (DPhil Systems Biology 

(EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training)) 

Parrish, Sabine (MPhil Social 

Anthropology) 

Patel, Sunit (DPhil Theology) 

Perombelon, Brice (DPhil Geography 

and the Environment) 

Peter, Noel (MSc (Res) Musculoskeletal 

Sciences) 

Petrova, Marina (MSc Global 

Governance and Diplomacy) 

Phyo, Aung Pyae (DPhil Clinical 

Medicine) 

Podolski, Michal (MSc Migration 

Studies) 

Purchase, Jessica (MSc Social 

Anthropology) 

Raghu, Jyoti (DPhil Theology) 

Rauschenberger, Armin (MSc Applied 

Statistics) 

Ribaucourt, Aubert (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Rogers, Gregory (DPhil Materials) 

Rose, Anyusha (MSc Contemporary 

India) 

Rosenfeld, Marissa (MSt Modern 

Jewish Studies) 

Rossetto, Bruno (MSc Mathematical 

and Computational Finance) 

Rubinstein, Mor (MSc Social Science of 

the Internet) 

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Safar, Ahmed (Master of Public Policy) 

Sarazin, Marc (DPhil Education) 

Savill, Benjamin Charles (DPhil 

Theology) 

Scerra, Ilenia (MPhil Islamic Art and 

Archaeology) 

Schafer, Philipp (DPhil Organic 

Chemistry) 

Schaufele, Nicolas (MSc Financial 

Economics) 

Schonfeld, Michael (MSc Endovascular 

Neurosurgery (Interventional 

Neuroradiology)) 

Sefer, Lea (DPhil Structural Biology) 

Shaharom, Mus Ab Bin (DPhil 

Engineering Science) 

Shalev, Nir (DPhil Experimental 

Psychology) 

Sharma, Amogh Dhar (MPhil 

Development Studies) 

Sinclair, Katherine (MSc History of 

Science, Medicine and Technology) 

Siriviriyakul, Prach (MSc Mathematical 

and Computational Finance) 

Siu, Martin Man Kit (MSc Applied 

Statistics) 

Small, Oliver (MSt World Literatures in 

English) 

Smith, William (MSt English (1900 – 

present)) 

So, Karwei (DPhil Materials) 

Sohns, Juliet (MSc Refugee and Forced 

Migration Studies) 

Sophoulis, Lycourgos (DPhil History) 

Staddon, Rebecca (MSc Comparative 

Social Policy) 

Steingrimsen, Katrine (MSc Refugee 

and Forced Migration Studies) 

Sweida-Metwally, Samir (MSc 

Comparative Social Policy) 

Syntrivanis, Leonidas-Dimitrios (DPhil 

Organic Chemistry) 

Tam, Jonathan (DPhil Sociology) 

Tan, Si Ying (MSc Evidence-based 


Tan, Tiong Kit (DPhil Medical 

Sciences) 

Tena Cucala, David Jaime (MSt 

Philosophy of Physics) 

Tidman, Gemma (DPhil Medieval and 

Modern Languages) 

Tran, Ngoc Khanh (MSc Global Health 

Science) 

Tran, Thi Le Thuy (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Tu, Liwen (MPhil Traditional East 

Asia) 

Vadeboncoeur, Claudia (DPhil Public 

Health) 

Vafeiadou, Evgenia (MSc Education 

(Learning and Technology)) 

Valenzuela Rivera, Luis (DPhil 

Economics) 

van de Ven, Gido (DPhil Pharmacology) 

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Wachtel, Elizabeth (MSt Modern 

Languages) 

Wallin, Johanna (MPhil Development 

Studies) 

Wang, Ziyu (DPhil Computer Science) 

Williams, Jake (MSc Biodiversity, 

Conservation and Management) 

Williams, Samuel (MPhil Politics: 

Political Theory) 

Winter, Curtis (DPhil Fine Art) 

Wong, Chuen (MSc Sociology) 

Xuan, Ye (MSc Comparative Social 

Policy) 

Yadin, Benjamin (DPhil Atomic and 

Laser Physics) 

Yap, Kenny (Postgraduate Diploma in 

Diplomatic Studies) 

Yu, Bin (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Zerkalov, Oleksii (MBA) 

Zhang, Chi (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Zhang, Duo (DPhil Engineering 

Science) 

Zhang, Yining (MSc Computer Science) 

Zhou, Changqi (MSc Applied Statistics) 

Zhu, Danni (DPhil Pharmacology) 

Zhu, Keren (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Zuendorf, Nina (MSc Nature, Society 

and Environmental Policy) 

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Elected members of the Governing Body 

Michaelmas Term 2013 and Hilary Term 2014 

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

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

Ghillani, Francesca (MA Università degli Studi di Parma) [GS 2009–] 

Price, David William MPhil (PhD Lampeter) [GS 2003–] 

Rasheed, Tabassum Parveen BA [GS 2012–] 

Trinity Term 2014 

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–] 

Chairs of the General Meeting 

Michaelmas Term 2013 and Hilary Term 2014 

Rasheed, Tabassum Parveen 

Trinity Term 2014 

Kahn, Joshua 

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Clubs and Societies 

AMREF Group 

The African Medical and Research Foundation has been the College charity for 

more than twenty years, in which time more than £100,000 has been raised. This 

was another fruitful year, with the annual battels appeal bringing in over £3,400. 

Our continued support was recognized in February by a visit from Roisin Fogarty 

of AMREF HQ in London, who updated us on the various fundraising schemes 

that AMREF is supporting. During the year we have supported the ‘Stand Up 

for African Mothers’ campaign, in which training is provided for midwives with 

transport to get them to births in remote locations. The surplus in the AMREF 

account has funded the training of two more midwives and the purchase of fifty 

second-hand bicycles. We will continue to support this campaign next year. 

AMREF has been supported by many College events. In Michaelmas Term, the 

household goods sale in Freshers Week week raised £368, with new Wolfson 

members getting the chance of buying crockery etc. Our thanks go to everyone 

who donated items, and to Gary and Andy of Housekeeping for setting up the 

sale, and to Jan Scriven and Tracy Fuzzard for helping to run it. A second-hand 

bike sale raised £165, thanks to Barry Coote and the bike workshop team, and 

the Fireworks Night collection raised a record £706. Many thanks go to all the 

collectors, including Julie Curtis, Garlen Lo and Christopher Lethbridge. Other 

events included a well attended post-Ball brunch, and the Christmas concert at 

which the Group served seasonal refreshments in the interval. 

In Hilary Term, a band night was held in the cellar bar, with performances by two 

Wolfson bands and one from outside. Donations at the door raised £150. 

In Trinity Term, Jamie Lachman performed a Pete Seager tribute concert in the 

Auditorium which raised £400. Jackie Ang organised a tasting of South African 

Wines and a wine raffle, both of them highly successful and well attended. There 

have also been classical music recitals, all profits being donated to AMREF. Many 

thanks go to Jan Scriven and Kylash Rajendran for their work in organising these 

concerts. 

The Sunday Coffee Shop has run throughout the year, with an average weekly 

income of £50. Many College members have made cakes, so many thanks go 

to them and to everyone who helped to run it. Thanks also to Karl Davies for 

supplying gluten-free cakes. 

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Special thanks should go to Jan Scriven, Juliet Montgomery, Tracy Fuzzard, 

Christopher Lethbridge, Mark Pottle, Lucie Cluver and John Sutton, for all their 

hard work in supporting AMREF at Wolfson. Michaelmas 2014 will see a new 

AMREF rep in place, when Charlotte Bennett takes over from me. I am very 

grateful for all the support I have received, and I am sure that Charlotte will do a 

fantastic job next year. 

Andy Cutts 

Arts Society 

The Arts Society continues to offer exhibition space to a range of artists who 

apply, and this year we have enjoyed a good mix of different media. We started 

the year with a new initiative: a collaboration with the Pegasus Theatre, an arts 

centre in East Oxford specialising in a range of performing arts for young people 

which was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with an exhibition of photographs 

by David Fisher. The theatre was particularly keen to reach a new audience and 

to encourage links with students. Our next exhibition hailed from closer to home. 

We were delighted that Roger Tomlin was persuaded to exhibit his ‘Landscapes 

of a summer’s day’ – works in oil on board which he has painted over recent years 

in Dorset, Australia, Oxfordshire, North Wales and northern England. This 

was followed by Les McMinn’s abstract work ‘On the Edge of Life’, the artist’s 

responses to the landscapes of the North of Scotland and India. 

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LANDSCAPES OF A SUMMER’S DAY 

Gad Cliff, Isle of Purbeck 

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Roger Tomlin 

EXHIBITION OF OIL SKETCHES 

28 October until 15 November 2013 

(Private View 27 October, 12.00 to 4.00) 

Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD 

Exhibition daily 10.00 until 7.00, subject to College commitments: 

visitors are advised to ring the lodge (01865) 274100 to be sure it is open

In the New Year we held an exhibition of textile jigsaw pieces by the Craftivist 

Collective, organised by Alex Messenger, Wolfson’s Assistant Accountant, in 

support of Save the Children’s ‘Race against Hunger’ campaign. Next, we hosted 

striking works on paper by Chilean artist José Miguel Valdivieso, brought to our 

attention by Sebastion Castro (GS). Our third exhibition in Hilary Term was textile 

work by Wendy Hughes. Her use of colour and texture to produce landscapes and 

abstracts proved hugely popular. 

In Trinity Term we enjoyed another exhibition of landscapes by John Somerscales. 

For Oxfordshire Artweeks we had invited local artist Jon Rowland to exhibit. This 

was his third exhibition at Wolfson, and it was fascinating to see how his work has 

developed over the years. After his last exhibition, two years ago, he kindly donated 

one of his paintings to the College, which now hangs in one of the seminar rooms 

in the Leonard Wolfson Lecture Theatre, together with a painting from his first 

exhibition at Wolfson donated by John Penney. 

Our final exhibition of the year was life drawings and drawings in biro by Helen 

Whitley and Christina Day respectively. 

The display cases have also been put to good use. Roger Tomlin surprised us with his 

imaginative ceramics of beasts and birds, followed by John Hall three-dimensional 

pieces in wood and Louise Calder’s crafts. In the new year Rose Wallace exhibited 

her flatback figures crafted from casts of contemporary packaging. For Artweeks 

we were fortunate to have works by Crabby Taylor, whose ceramic forms and 

colours blended beautifully with the Wolfson building. 

We have continued to provide weekly Life Drawing Classes in term. Our tutor 

this year was Tara Benjamin-Morgan, a recent graduate of the Ruskin who has 

worked hard to encourage participants at all levels. In July she will be hosting a 

day’s workshop of life drawing and painting. 

The Arts Society sponsored two special visits to the Ashmolean. The first, in 

November, was part of the Museum’s University Engagement Programme. The 

tour, led by Mallica Kumbera Landrus, focussed on ‘Routes and Roots: Displaying 

culture in a multi-cultural society’. Then, in Trinity Term, a group of Wolfsonians 

enjoyed a guided tour of the special exhibition ‘Cezanne and the Modern’. One 

of our students described these tours as ‘brilliant’ and ‘superb’, and we have been 

asked to organise more such visits. 

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The highlight of our calendar this year, 

however, was a ballet demonstration and talk 

by Colombian dancer Fernando Montano, 

Soloist with the Royal Ballet, in the Leonard 

Wolfson Auditorium in collaboration with 

the University Colombian Society. Fernando 

told his extraordinary life story from his 

childhood in Colombia and ballet school in 

Cuba to Italy and finally to the Royal Ballet 

in London. He showed a short film and then 

gave a performance of the Dying Swan. 

It is thanks to the enthusiasm and dedication 

of Arts Sub-Committee members that this 

lively programme of arts activities continues 

from year to year, and in particular to our 

Chairman, Mark Norman who, despite a very busy schedule as Head of Conservation 

at the Ashmolean, still finds time to get involved with all that the Arts Society 

does, efficiently chairing our meetings, attending openings and providing me with 

invaluable advice. 

Jan Scriven 

Arts Administrator 

BarCo 

It has been an exciting year. We refurbished a pool table and the darts area, and 

added a football table. The games room was up-graded with a new sound system, a 

big-screen, a DVD player, a Playstation 3, a video-stream box, and ports to connect 

a computer to all of them. Johan Paulsson, our retiring beer manager, used a 

Raspberry Pi to automate many of the day-to-day tasks required to run the Bar: go 

to http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/07/raspberry-pi-powered-bar 

The new facilities have been used extensively by Wolfson members, clubs and 

societies, and there is no sign of slowing down. 

DW Bester 

BarCo Chair 

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Boat Club 

Wolfson College Boat Club (WCBC) has had another very successful year. The 

season started well, with 22 novice men and 15 novice women training regularly. 

Unlike last year, we were lucky with the weather in Michaelmas Term, which 

allowed our novices to develop their skills without interruption. Our senior men’s 

and women’s squads were also training hard and entered a number of regattas in 

Michaelmas term, including Autumn Fours, Nephthys Regatta and Head of the 

River Fours. 

The women’s novice boat in Christ Church Regatta. Left to right: Laura Hawkins, Mickaela Nixon, 

Anny Li, Kim Wilkinson, Irene Milana, Kelsey Murrell, Amelie Hartmann, Katie Rickard, Claudia 

Vadeboncoeur 

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Unfortunately the weather in Hilary Term limited training time and caused the 

cancellation of Torpids. Once conditions improved on the river, however, our novices 

and seniors continued to train hard, and several rowers were able to compete in 

a number of external regattas in our preparation for Summer Eights, including 

Worcester Regatta, Oxford City Bumps and Women’s Head of the River. 

The Club fielded six strong boats in Summer Eights 2014 and gained a net total of 

seven places. The highlight was M3 getting blades in men’s division 5 – the result of 

many years of investment on the men’s side of the boat club – by bumping St Benet’s 

Hall, Queen’s II, Wadham III, and Pembroke III. M4 and W1 got an impressive 

three bumps each, W2 bumped up twice, but despite strong performances from 

M1 and M2, they were bumped down two and three places respectively by very 

powerful crews behind them. 

The men’s third boat celebrate after winning blades on the Saturday of Summer Eights. Back row, left 

to right: Wybo Wiersma, Mark Nixon; middle row, left to right: Matthew Chang, Duncan Palmer, Nan 

Liu, Jan Ahrend, Giovanni Mezzano, Maurits Kroese, Matteo Gianella-Borradori; front row, top to 

bottom: Oscar Yang, João Sousa Pinto 

WCBC was also wonderfully represented at the University level, with a total of 

eight trialists. Alexandra Bridges, Cynthia Eccles and Nicky Huskens rowed with 

the Oxford University Women’s Lightweight Rowing Club; Lea Carrot coxed with 

the Oxford University Women’s Lightweight Rowing Club; Miriam Driessen and 

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Elo Luik rowed with the Oxford University Women’s Boat Club; and James Ellison 

rowed with the Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club. Nicky Huskens, Lea 

Carrott, and James Ellison competed with the first boats of their squads in the 

Henley Boat Races. 

Other highlights of the year include securing a three-year sponsorship deal from 

Investec worth £5,000 per year; hosting a naming ceremony last summer for our 

new single scull, Bernard Henry II; and purchasing a new women’s eight, which is 

yet to be named. 

Many thanks to everyone who made this incredible year possible, and in particular 

to all the committee members and coaches who carried out their duties flawlessly. 

With the high levels of dedication and commitment shown this year, we can all 

look forward to another successful rowing season next year! You can follow our 

progress by joining our Facebook page, ‘Wolfson College Boat Club, Oxford,’ or via 

our website, www.wolfsonrowing.org. 

Laura Hawkins 

WCBC President 2013-14 

The women’s first boat race in Summer Eights. (From left to right: Heather Harrington, Laura 

Hawkins, Sofia Hauck, Alexandra Bridges, Nicky Huskens, Elo Luik, Cynthia Eccles, Miriam Driessen, 

Sarah Johnson 

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Cricket 

This has been a vintage year for the combined Wolfson / St Cross team. We had a 

large pool of committed players to draw on throughout the season, and translated 

this enthusiasm into success on the field. In the first round of Cuppers we knocked 

out a competitive Christ Church team on their home ground, thanks to tight 

bowling from our seam bowlers Andrew Powell and Abdul Khan. But sadly, in the 

second round, Univ knocked us out. Although we held them to 123 in twenty overs 

(Powell with 2/14, Shaum Bhattacharjee with 2/17), our batting was poor. After 

five overs we were five wickets down for 7 runs. Sami Jaffar hit a defiant 19 not out, 

but this was not enough to save us from being dismissed for 56. 

In the League, however, we have enjoyed good form, and go into the final match of 

the season top of the premier Second XI division. A win against Worcester will see 

us League champions. Because of rain we have managed only two games, against 

Keble JCR and Balliol, but we won them both convincingly. Ahsan Minhas hit a 

blitzkrieg innings of 47 against Keble, which included five fours and three huge 

sixes, to help us to 145 in our twenty overs. We dismissed Keble for just 99, thanks 

to Bhattacharjee’s 2/12 and Jim William’s 4/20. Bhattacharjee was equally effective 

against Balliol, conceding just nine runs from his four overs. Thanks also to two 

wickets from fast bowler Minhas, and economical spells from medium-pacers Tim 

Rose and Mohsin Javed, we limited the opposition to just 92 runs. In response Javed 

hit a classy 62 to see us home with eight wickets in hand and seven overs to spare. 

Everyone has contributed and played well, but more important than this, there has 

been a positive and often amusing team spirit. At least fifteen would-be players 

signed up each week; eleven places have just has not been enough. Special mention 

must be made of Bhattacharjee, who has led the bowling attack; Shrochis Karki, 

who has kept wicket splendidly; Paul Platzman, who has become a regular member 

of the side despite being an American with no prior knowledge of the game; and 

Anjul Khadria, for his often humorous commentary on what he believes to be the 

poor standard of Oxford college cricket grounds. The way we have been playing 

recently, he will soon get to play at Lords – which might just be good enough for 

him! 

Edward Gillin 

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Croquet 

Wolfson / St Cross Cricket Team 

This year we entered three teams into Cuppers, which all advanced to the third 

round. Training sessions were held at weekends and taken very seriously. We hope 

to spend the summer training, and look forward to next year’s Cuppers. 

Matthew Naiman 

Entz 

Another big year began with the biggest freshers week yet; Entz helped out with 

the quiz night, a free BBQ, and the Alphabet Bop where students dressed up as 

something that started with the first letter of their name. In Michaelmas we tasted 

whisky, beer, Christmas pudding and mulled wine; we sang at Karaoke, OxJam and 

Carols at the Christmas event, and we visited Trinity, St Catherine’s, St Anne’s and 

Wadham on dining or MCR exchange events. In Hilary, we celebrated Australia 

Day and the Chinese New Year; we challenged our intellects and imaginations at a 

board-games night and at an evening of poetry reading; we visited Christ Church, 

Magdalen and Linacre on various exchanges, and partied hard at the Open Mic 

night, the 90s-themed Bop, the Winter Olympics Bop (which raised money for 

charities) and the Great Gatsby Bop after Darwin Day. Trinity brought sunshine 

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as well more board games, more music and the Communist Bop, which raised even 

more money for charity. We have also gone on trips outside Oxford, visiting Bath, 

with trips planned to the Blenheim Palace battle Proms and the Isle of Wight. 

Wolfson has a great community and we have had a lot of fun de-stressing from our 

studies. 

Erin Cutts, outgoing Entz Chair 

Family Society 

The first event this year was a barbecue to say goodbye to people who were leaving 

and hello to new arrivals, with homemade burgers, salads, drinks and desserts. There 

were outdoors games, much enjoyed by the children. Later in the year, we held the 

Halloween Party. The children in their costumes went trick-or-treating; we visited 

more than twenty houses round the college and collected huge amounts of candy, 

followed by a nice get-together in the Buttery. 

Halloween 

The Christmas party was also held in the Buttery, where Father Christmas paid the 

children a visit and gave them all presents. There was lots of food, drinks, desserts, 

coffee and tea provided by the Society and its members. We had several rehearsals 

and a very nice performance of Christmas carols: everyone participated in the singing. 

In February and March, the Valentine’s Day and Easter parties were also lots of fun. 

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The egg-hunt was held outside, and the weather even allowed some outdoor sports. 

These events all provided a festive environment with appropriate music and décor, 

and the feedback has shown that families enjoy the chance to relax and exchange 

common interests. The Society with its food and drink creates a cosy atmosphere, 

even if just for one morning or afternoon! 

Rosario and Hugo Nava. 

Meditation 

This year the Society has had the pleasure of bringing together members from a 

number of different traditions with a wide range of interests, which resulted in a 

vibrant community and a fascinating array of conversations during our meetings. 

Let’s hope it also deepened our meditation practice! 

In Trinity term, Raquel Ortega Sanchez began offering daily mindfulness sessions, 

while Ciara Williams continued to hold weekly meditation sessions. Experienced 

members were welcome to practise whichever form of meditation they chose, while 

new members were offered instruction in techniques to reduce stress and improve 

concentration. Ciara looks forward to passing responsibility for the Society on to 

Raquel Ortega Sanchez, a dedicated and enthusiastic member, in the course of this 

summer. 

Middle Eastern Dance 

The wonderful professional dancer and performer Caitlyn Schwartz continued to 

teach our weekly classes, this year’s theme being ‘tribal fusion’, a modern dance 

form evolved in America with influences from Hip Hop, Flamenco, Egyptian, 

Balinese and other styles. The Society made a strong start to the year with its 

debut performance in the Oxford Middle Eastern Dance Society (OMEDS) winter 

showcase 2013. The feedback from fellow dancers was very positive. In addition, 

Penny Feng and Katherine Allen continued to perform with the ever-expanding 

OMEDS troupe. They took part in shows supporting charities such as Breast 

Cancer UK and Helen and Douglas House, and performed throughout Oxford. 

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As well as dancing, the Wolfson classes had a visiting artist, Weimin He, who is 

artist-in-residence at the Oxford University Estates Directorate. He is interested 

in the depiction of movement through art, and came to our classes to sketch the 

dancers. It was always a treat to enjoy the beautiful sketches at the end of a class! 

Penny Feng 

Music Society 

There has been a surge of musical activity in College, fuelled in part by the opening 

of the new Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, the purchase of an electronic drum kit 

and digital piano, and the generous loan of a small Steinway grand piano by Karen 

Segal, which resulted in more than twenty different concerts, gigs, and jams of 

bewildering and fantastic variety. The Cellar Bar staged two open mic nights, a 

jam night, an acoustic night, and a band night featuring legendary Oxford blues 

rock band Steamroller. The Hall hosted the annual Winter concert, which treated 

the audience to a spread of AMREF cakes, mulled wine and mince pies, while it 

enjoyed performances from College musicians – including an impromptu jazz piano 

improvisation by Hein de Haas (GBF) – and both College choirs. There was also 

the unforgettable OxJam charity gig in the Bar, in its second consecutive year, 

which raised over £600 for charity. The concert was headlined by the electrifying 

Southern Blues Fiasco, and featured performances from many Wolfson musicians, 

notably a mesmerising rendition of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ by Janamarie 

Truesdell, and the hilariously infectious delivery of Ylvis’s ‘The Fox’ by the Howlin’ 

Wolves. 

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The LWA hosted an eclectic series of concerts such as ‘Wavedance: The Ocean’s 

Call’, performed by Dave Bowmer (chapman stick) and David Holmes (percussion), 

which was preceded by the premiere broadcast of ‘Wolfscapes’ by the Creative 

Arts Fellow, John Duggan. There was a Lute Song recital by visiting Common 

Room member and countertenor Óscar García-Prada, who presented a selection of 

songs and solos from sixteenth-/seventeenth-century France, Spain and Italy with 

accompanist Din Ghani. Jamie Lachman also organised a memorable tribute concert 

to the memory of folk activist Peter Seeger, which featured rousing singalongs of 

such Seeger favourites as ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’. 

On the classical front, we enjoyed excellent piano recitals by Patsy Toh, Masachi 

Nishiyama, and JongSun Woo, as well as a wonderful performance by soprano 

Susannah Fairbairn. Countertenor Glenn Wong organised two concerts; the 

first an evening of classical arias and art song, and the second a superb ‘Duo of 

Duos’ with soprano Aditi Kar. Isabel de Berrié and Maria Kallionpää put together 

a performance of viola and piano music in Michaelmas, including pieces by 

Shostakovich, Feldman and Rachmaninoff. They followed this with a second concert 

in Hilary, together with vocalist,Tal Katsir, that featured an eclectic selection of 

British and Finnish new music. The magnificent Fournier Trio continued their 

association with the College with a series of three exceptional concerts, of music by 

Haydn, Dvorak, Vasks, Beethoven, Bridge, and Mendelssohn. In the final concert 

they also performed ‘Seven Meditations’, a piece written especially for the Trio by 

John Duggan. 

Our thanks go out to the performers, as well as to Barco, Entz, Barry Coote, Tracy 

Fuzzard, Louise Gordon, Jan Scriven, and all the wonderful Wolfsonians, too 

numerous to name, whose hard work and dedication made this a truly magnificent 

year of music at Wolfson. 

Kylash Rajendran 

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Music Society: the Fournier Trio 

The Fournier Trio’s concerts have become a termly treat in the Wolfson calendar. 

As always, the programme for their Trinity concert was broad and adventurous. 

The first half began with a little-known set of variations by Beethoven, and ended 

with Frank Bridge’s complex and mysterious Fantasie. The two pieces displayed the 

two sides of of the trio’s playing, the first a sort of innocent delight and joyfulness, 

and the second a weighty, sustained cohesiveness. The second half was devoted to a 

classic Mendelssohn trio, played with real energy, yet letting its wonderful, soaring 

melodies rise up. 

At the heart of the concert was the premiere of a work by Wolfson’s Creative Arts 

Fellow, John Duggan, written specially for the Fournier Trio. Duggan’s work 

uses the miniature form that is common in choral music, and transplants it to the 

piano trio. This seven-movement series hints at Christ’s Seven Last Words on the 

Cross, building on a musical tradition from Haydn to James Macmillan. What 

stands out in the work is its variety: Duggan explores different soundscapes that 

the three instruments can produce, and offers distinct harmonic worlds in each of 

the miniatures. Some, like the first and fourth, push tonality to its seams, whereas 

others, like the second and fifth, soften into meditative spirituals, at times filmic, at 

times exotic. The second movement is a particular highlight, living up to its name 

‘A Taste of Paradise’: over the piano’s ripple-whisper arpeggios, cello and violin 

sing their calm, still duet. 

The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium is a beautiful space for concerts such as these: 

with the lights dimmed, it is intimate and the acoustics are warm. The Fournier Trio 

are enthusiastic performers: their passion emerges through the sheer physicality of 

their playing, which brings life to the full range of music in the programme, from 

delicate moments and soaring melodies to rhythmic bounce and explosive fury. 

Leo Mercer 

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Old Wolves Lunch 

In last year’s Record we reported the first informal lunch for ‘Old Wolves’, defined 

as anyone with memories of the College in former days, including Emeritus and 

other ‘old’ Fellows, students and support staff. They have continued termly at 

tables reserved in Hall, with guests paying for their own lunch (battels, or cash at 

the till) and the College providing wine. Guests have appreciated the informality 

and jolly atmosphere, and the archivists in attendance have gained a more rounded 

picture of College history than they would by merely perusing documents. 

On 7 November 2013, the College welcomed back some of its very first students, 

postgraduates in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Back row: Dr Hubert Zawadzki, Christopher Schenk (nephew of Founding 

Fellow H.G. Schenk, holding some of his uncle’s early College papers), Margaret 

Dick, Emeritus Professor George Smith (JRF 1968-72, RF 1972-1977, 

sometime tutor at Wolfson); in front: Stephen Grounds and the Revd Dr 

William Beaver 

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Some of the same ‘old’ students and others came to the lunches in February and 

May 2014, which proved equally popular. In May they were able to toast Dr Derek 

Wyatt (EF), who had recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday. 

Left to right: Derek Wyatt (EF), David Roulston (MCR), Fay and (obscured) Roger Booker (EF), 

George Smith (EF), Judy Peters (widow of George Peters GBF), John Kemp (MCR) 

Any ‘Old Wolves’ who missed these enjoyable and friendly occasions may like to note 

that the next lunches are scheduled for 12.30 on Thursday 6 November 2014, and 5 

February, 7 May and 5 November 2015. But do please check the date with the College 

Newssheet (or Assistant Archivist), and RSVP to archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk. 

Liz Baird, Assistant Archivist 

Reading Group 

The Group, now in its tenth year, meets every couple of months in the evening. 

There is always lively discussion of the text to hand, and then which book to choose 

next. This year’s decisions were that historical masterpiece The Merchant of Prato 

by Iris Origo, in July 2013; then Effie Briest by Theodore Fontane; The Leopard 

by Giusseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; two collections of short stories in Hateship, 

Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro, and in Dubliners by James 

Joyce; and lastly South Riding by Winifred Holtby, whose story, intertwined with 

her own, is recorded in Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain. Next term’s 

choice, appropriately for 2014, is All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria 

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Remarque. The Group with its varied backgrounds and interests always welcomes 

new members. It thanks the Academic Committee for the continued support which 

enables us to offer refreshments at our meetings. 

Peggy Morgan 

Squash 

It has been an excellent year of participation and competition. Although we only 

made it to the second round in Cuppers, we were placed first in division 1 of the 

League in Michaelmas Term. During the year we managed to build up a strong core 

of players, with others popping in from time to time. Training sessions have been 

held twice a week, much to everyone’s benefit, enabling us to build up some of our 

newer players to the point of competing at high level for the College. That said, it 

has been a fun year of training and matches, as well as light-hearted gamesplay. 

Mike Kohlhoff and Matt Naiman 

Summer Event 

Since this year’s Event coincided with the World Cup and featured competitive 

games, it was rebranded as the ‘Wolfson Cup Summer Event 2014’. There was the 

usual mixture of garden games, music, family activities, Pimms and assorted drinks, 

and the inevitable bouncy castle. Talented Jazz musicians were whisked all the way 

from London from the occasion, and the children heartily enjoyed the bouncy castle 

and sumo wrestling games. Competitive games were inaugurated by a spectacular 

performance from Beatroots, the famous Reading-based community Samba band, 

and featured egg and spoon races, the caterpillar game, sack races, ‘catch the tail’, 

and a game of ‘quack and moo’. 

The moment the winning team received their prize, the much-expected rain began 

to pour, and the crowd happily went indoors to catch the beginning of the World 

Cup knock-out match between Brazil and Chile. Then, just as the BBQ was ready 

and cooking, the rain stopped and the sun glared out from behind the clouds. The 

day ended with collective watching of the next World Cup match, Colombia against 

Uruguay. 

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The organisers would like to thank AMREF, BarCo, the Family Society and all the 

other Wolfsonians who brought good will and dedication to the Event. 

Marc Sarazin and Kylash Rajendran 

Tennis 

This was a year of change. After losing our long-standing captain Sam Clark and 

other players from the first squad, the team was rebuilt with new, very strong 

players. We took part in the League with two teams. The first team did quite 

well, and it should move into division IV after losing only one tight match against 

Lincoln in division V, where it is likely to finish second. In Cuppers sadly we could 

not repeat our very strong performance of last year, but lost in the second round 

against fourth seeds Teddy Hall. 

First team: Ben Dean, Max Hodgson, Arthur Drozdzik, Alberto Pino, Sebastián 

Castro, and Corey Dyck. Second team: Aleksi Ollikainen (captain), Joao Sousa 

Pinto, Konrad Wojciechowski, Kun Liang, and Anna Motnenko. 

Sebastian Castro 

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Wine Society 

The Wine Society has had a bumper year, hosting nine themed tastings of fine 

wines from around the world including a year-end Charity Tasting, which raised 

more than £100 for AMREF. Attendance averaged about twenty throughout the 

year, with the AMREF Tasting attended by nearly forty. Wines tasted include 

Chateau La Lagune, Chateau Larcis Ducasse, Jim Barry’s ‘The Florita’ Riesling, 

Lopez de Heredia’s Vina Tondonia, and many others including an eclectic selection 

of Greek and Cypriot wines. I am honoured to share my passion for fine wines with 

members of the College, and hope to do so next year. 

Jackie Ang, Chairman 

Wolfson / Darwin Day 2014 

This year’s competition with our Cambridge sister college took place in Oxford. 

Darwin sent fifty of their finest to compete with us in Croquet, Basketball, Squash, 

University Challenge, Football, Rowing, Tennis, Field Games, Tug of War, Board 

Games and Bar Games. The competition was fierce, but Wolfson ultimately won 

the day and the trophy by a fair margin. The Day ended with dinner in Hall and a 

Great Gatsby-themed bop organized by Entz. We remember it all fondly, and look 

forward to next year’s competition in Cambridge. 

Matthew Naiman, Sports Representative 

Yoga 

Classes have grown since Michaelmas term 2013, and have been attended by a mix 

of Wolfson students and members with other Oxford students and residents. This 

year we have been blessed with beautiful weather, so we have been able to enjoy 

yoga in natural surroundings, on the beautiful lawns of the College, which brings 

a whole new experience – fun, energising classes in the sun, where practitioners 

can practise mindfulness in relaxing surroundings. On wet or colder days, we hold 

classes in the Buttery or the Haldane Room. These classes, whether outdoor or 

indoor, will continue through the summer. They are open to students of all ages, 

shapes and sizes, and welcome beginners and experienced yogis alike. 

Kristine Homoki 

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J M Coetzee Reads At Wolfson 

On 12 June 2014 the 2003 Nobel Laureate for Literature and two-times Booker 

winner, J M Coetzee, paid a welcome return visit to the College to give a reading 

from his work. Since the millennium, Oxford has been fortunate in having a visit 

from him every five years or so. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by 

the University, and in June 2009 he gave memorable readings in the Sheldonian 

Theatre and at Wolfson alongside the writers Zoe Wicomb, Helen Simpson and 

Elleke Boehmer. If ticket sales and queues seeking signatures this time round were 

anything to go by, the number of his readers and admirers here in Oxford only 

continues to grow, both within the University and more widely across the city. 

The College hosted the reading with assistance from the English Faculty’s 

Postcolonial Writing and Theory seminar. The organisers, Professor Elleke 

Boehmer and the President, Professor Dame Hermione Lee, were ably assisted by 

Wolfson’s hospitality team, headed by Louise Gordon, as well as by Rachael Sanders 

and the English Faculty office, and the English DPhil students Eleni Philippou and 

Erica Lombard. 

Welcoming J M Coetzee, Elleke Boehmer expressed her gratitude and delight on 

behalf of the whole audience, at his having coming all the way from Australia that 

very day, ‘a taxing trip across half the world’, as his novel Elizabeth Costello describes 

it, in order to read at Wolfson. She also drew attention to the fine concentration 

on the complexities of human embodiment that in different ways marks each one 

of Coetzee’s novels, from the early Dusklands (1974) and In the Heart of the Country 

(1977), through Age of Iron (1990) to The Childhood of Jesus (2013). These remarks 

resonated intriguingly in the passages which the author then shared with his 

audience. 

In spite of the prevailing heat, Coetzee delivered his readings with customary cool 

self-containment, beginning with a warm thankyou to Wolfson for inviting him. 

His first reading was from a piquant and even light-hearted section of his most 

recently published novel, The Childhood of Jesus (2013), on ‘the poo-ness of poo’, a 

characteristic investigation of the closeness of life to death and decomposition. He 

concluded with two letters from his new work in progress, the epistolary exchange 

about psychoanalysis he has been conducting with the Leicester analyst Arabella 

Kurtz. This was Coetzee’s first public airing of this new work, due to be published 

next year. The letters were fascinating for the light they shed on his understanding 

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of the human belief that is invested in the ‘as if ’ of story, and on the relationship 

between reality and representation. As a writer he does not seek to reflect reality, 

Coetzee observed; rather, he uses it. 

After the reading Coetzee signed copies of his novels in the foyer of the Leonard 

Wolfson Auditorium. The queue lasted for more than an hour. Eager readers 

stood in the sunshine and discussed their favourite Coetzee novels, before each 

experienced individually the humanity of this great literary figure. Next day the 

Oxford Centre for Life Writing held a colloquium at Wolfson entitled ‘Coetzee’s 

Lives’, which offered further opportunities for critical reflection on questions of 

representation, realism and the value of ‘life’ in his work. 

Elleke Boehmer 

J M Coetzee at Wolfson, 12 June 2014 

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Research Clusters 

The Art in Antiquity Workshops sponsored by the Ancient World Cluster have 

continued to be very popular and well attended, the practical workshop following 

an academic seminars. The seminars were ‘Decorated Vase Production in Ancient 

Athens’ (Thomas Mannack); ‘Early glass-making in Egypt’ ( Paul Nicholson); 

‘Dyeing textiles in Antiquity: purple dye production and use in ancient Greece’ 

(Eleni Zimi). The workshops featured wheel- and mould-made vessels (Graham 

Taylor); free-blown and mould-blown glass (Mark Taylor and David Hill, Roman 

glassmakers); spinning, dyeing and weaving techniques (Sue Day). 

In March, Wolfson and Corpus hosted Professor (now Sir) Richard Sorabji’s 

international workshop on the re-interpretation of Aristotle and its influence. 

In April, Wolfson hosted the third annual Oxford postgraduate conference on 

Assyriology, which drew an international gathering from the UK, Germany, Russia, 

the USA, Spain and Malta. This is becoming quite a fixture, and we hope that the 

student organisers (Eva Miller, Kathryn Kelley and Laura Hawkins) will repeat all 

their hard work to make it happen again. 

On 21 June there will be an international symposium on Indo-Iranian and Indo- 

European to honour Dr Elizabeth Tucker’s first forty years of teaching Indo- 

Iranian and Indo-European philology at Oxford. The speakers will be leading 

scholars from UCLA, Yale, SOAS, Oxford, the University of Georgia and Cornell. 

To judge by the advance bookings, it will be very well attended. 

Jacob Dahl completed his very successful tenure as Director, and officially stepped 

down at the end of March, although he has continued to provide endless advice and 

support. Next term he will be taking a well-earned sabbatical, and will then finally 

be able to relinquish all responsibility. 

Peter Barber 

The South Asia Research Cluster in its occasional lecture series ‘Big Themes: 

Public Intellectuals’ has heard George Kunnath on India’s Maoist movement, and 

Parvathi Menon, London correspondent of The Hindu newspaper, on the decline 

and changed role of the foreign correspondent. It has organized no fewer than four 

workshops led by graduate students, on Christianity in South Asia; on the notion of 

progress; on urban health; and on South-Asian urban development from 1850 to the 

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present. ‘Juxtapose’, its graduate student workshop in 2012¬–13 which compared 

China and India, has had over 3,000 visits to its website and has now generated a 

second workshop on the same theme, to be held this September at Jawarhalal Nehru 

University, New Delhi. Matthew McCartney has secured funding for an Annual 

Pakistan Lecture in College, and further Pakistan-based activity is envisaged. 

Barbara Harriss-White 

The Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Cluster has also been very active. 

In Michaelmas Term we celebrated the launch of the new JRF in Tibetan and 

Himalayan Studies, created with generous support from the Tise Foundation 

and the Dalai Lama Trust. In May we held a book launch and workshop on ‘The 

Fifth Dalai Lama and his Circle’, to celebrate the publication of Samten Karmay’s 

translation of the autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama. This event continued 

the collaboration between the Cluster and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and 

was opened by the President, with speakers coming from the UK, France, Nepal 

and the USA. The audience numbered more than seventy, and there was very good 

feedback. 

In Trinity Term, Jeff Watt is giving a further series of lectures on Himalayan 

art. In May Mingji Cuomo, a member of the Cluster, organised a workshop to 

commemorate the life and work of Akong Tulku. In June the Cluster will organize 

a workshop on Tibetan Protective Deities, to be held in Wolfson. 

Ulrike Roseler 

The Mind and Brain Cluster has organised a series of brainstorming (‘speed 

dating’) meetings to encourage new interactions between students, research fellows 

and tenured faculty on developing new interventions for psychological health and 

well-being. They have been followed by a summer lecture from Professor Anke 

Ehlers. There will also be an international workshop bringing together researchers 

in experimental psychology, psychiatry and public policy. 

Glyn Humphreys 

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 

This was another successful year for OCLW, the internationally-renowned hub for 

life-writers and researchers of life-writing based at Wolfson. 

The Centre’s first triennial, three-day residential conference in September 2013 

was attended by over 120 delegeates. Its theme was ‘The Lives of Objects’, with 

sixty papers, five plenary sessions (Neil MacGregor, Edmund De Waal, Jenny 

Uglow, Hugh Haughton, Michael Burden) and trips to Oxford museums. 

The Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing, OCLW’s annual series of lectures, were 

given on the theme of ‘Voicing the Self ’ by leading practitioners of the genre: Blake 

Morrison, ‘“The Worst Thing I Ever Did”: Confession and the Contemporary 

Memoir’; Edward St Aubyn, in conversation with Hermione Lee; Richard Holmes, 

‘The Biographer’s Other I’; and Marina Warner, ‘Hearing Voices, Travelling Back.’ 

At the heart of OCLW is its busy programme of events that include regular lectures, 

seminars and research workshops. This year’s themes varied from obituaries 

and war veterans to the lives of letters, life-writing and Alzheimer’s. OCLW has 

continued to organise practical writing workshops for professional, amateur and 

postgraduate life-writers, and has also organized or hosted short conferences, 

symposia and colloquia; subjects have included the poet and critic T E Hulme, 

photography and life-writing, artistic production and economics in the nineteenth 

century, Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment, and the ‘lives’ of the South African 

Nobel laureate J M Coetzee. 

In Michaelmas Term, Hannah Sikstrom convened a one-day conference on 

‘Navigating Networks: Women, Travel, and Female Communities’. Kathryn 

Hughes spoke on ‘George Eliot’s Milk Churn’, and Ray Monk discussed his latest 

work Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre, in conversation with Hermione Lee. 

Professor David Zeitlyn convened a workshop on obituaries, ‘From Life-Writing 

to Death Notices: Obituary, Portraiture and Commemoration’, which featured 

Neil George (Producer of BBC Radio 4’s Last Word), Martin Rowson (cartoonist 

and writer), Laurence Goldman (editor of DNB), Shearer West (Professor of the 

History of Art, Oxford), and Harry de Quetteville (obituary editor, Daily Telegraph). 

Kate McLoughlin (Birkbeck) and Celeste-Marie Bernier (Nottingham) convened a 

seminar on ‘War Veterans: Memory and Storytelling’. David Amigoni (Keele) gave 

a lecture on ‘Writing lives, inscribing familial distinction: inheritance, science and 

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culture in life writings by the Darwins, the Huxleys, and the Batesons.’ Lee-Von 

Kim and Christine Fouirnaies organized a very successful conference on ‘Intimate 

Archives: Photography and Life-Writing’. The life-writing lunch talk was given by 

Marcus Ferrar. 

In Hilary Term, as well as the Weinrebe lectures, OCLW organized a workshop on 

literary letters, convened by Professor Pamela Clemit. This focused on letters in 

their own right, papers including discussion of genre, reciprocity, self-presentation 

and the material culture of letters, as well as some explorations of the work of 

individual letter-writers. Speakers included John Barnard, Pamela Clemit, Grace 

Egan, Daniel Hitchens, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Mark Pottle, Henriette van der 

Blom and Maria Rita Drumond Viana. OCLW’s Visiting Scholar, Dr Tracey Potts 

(Nottingham), and Visiting Doctoral Students, Jeffrey Gutierrez (Brown), Sophie 

Scott-Brown (ANU) and Maria Rita Drummond Viana (Sao Paolo), discussed their 

research whilst in residence here. Tom Couser (Hofstra) gave a lecture on ‘The 

Work of Memoir; or, Why Memoir Matters’, and Paul Strohm (Columbia) asked 

the question: ‘Was there Life-Writing in the Middle Ages?’ The life-writing lunch 

seminar hosted James Hamilton. 

In Trinity Term, activities included a seminar on ‘Writing Family Memoir’ with 

Lyndall Gordon (biographer of Emily Dickinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry 

James, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf), who discussed family memoir, building on 

this year’s Wolfson Public Lecture Series which was themed around South Asian 

writing and articulated a clear interest in family memoir. The Director, Hermione 

Lee, presented her work Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. The deputy-Director, Elleke 

Boehmer, convened a workshop on ‘Coetzee’s Lives’, which featured a keynote 

address by David Attwell, Professor of Modern Literature at the University of 

York. Mark Thompson gave this term’s life-writing lunch talk, in which he spoke 

about his biography of the Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis, Birth 

Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis. The winners of the OCLW-TORCH Postgraduate 

Conference Award, Danielle Yardy and Elizabeth Chatterjee, organized a hugely 

successful conference on ‘Procrastination – Cultural Explorations’, which explored 

the phenomenon of procrastination, and the fraught moral and political claims 

it provokes. Hosted events included ‘Genius for Sale! Artistic Production and 

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Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century’, a conference convened by 

Jonathan Paine and Diana Greenwald; ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment’, a two-day 

interdisciplinary conference to examine Isaiah Berlin’s view of the Enlightenment 

and the presence of the Enlightenment in his work; and the sixteenth Oxford Dance 

Symposium: ‘The Dancer in Celebrity Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century: 

Reputations, Images, Portraits.’ 

As well as generating and overseeing a busy programme of events, OCLW has been 

very successful in enabling independent, original research. By means of AHRC 

doctoral studentships and other graduate scholarships, it is developing a community 

of affiliated postgraduate scholars. Its thriving doctoral community includes OCLW 

scholars Grace Egan (Samuel Richardson’s letters), Lucinda Fenny (life-writing, 

war, and Polish film), Oli Hazzard (John Ashbery and English poets at Oxford), 

Nanette O’Brien (modernism and food writing), Christine Fouirnaies (modernism 

and visual culture). Our Visiting Scholar and Visiting Doctoral Student programme 

has brought to Wolfson new and established researchers and practitioners from 

around the world, including Dr Tracey Potts (Nottingham; working on clutter 

and procrastination) and Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Sao Paolo; Yeats’ letters). In 

April 2014, OCLW was joined by Dr Olivia Smith as a Wellcome Trust Medical 

Humanities Fellow, working on the early-modern natural sciences and life-writing. 

In September 2014, Prof Jacek Mostwin will bring his externally-funded research 

project on ‘Human Experience and Medicine’ to OCLW and Wolfson. 

2013-14 has seen OCLW’s informal membership scheme reach 1,000 participants, 

across and beyond academic fields, who engage with the Centre through its full 

programme of events and its virtual presence (the website, blog, discussion board, 

Twitter feed and podcasts). OCLW is keen to develop its outreach potential by 

establishing writing and reading groups for practising life-writers to discuss and 

read work-in-progress. The Centre is also establishing formal and informal links 

with other life-writing centres in the UK and further afield, such as the Leon 

Levy Center for Biography in New York and the AHRC ‘Challenges to Biography’ 

Network. 

Christos Hadjiyiannis 

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The President’s Seminars 

The Seminars continue to be a vital and popular event in Wolfson’s busy calendar, 

and once again have showcased the many merits of its academic community. Their 

success is due to our speakers’ enthusiasm and their capacity to meet the challenges 

posed by our broad themes, always chosen to allow contributions from the widest 

range of faculties and departments: ‘Memory’, ‘Proof/s’, ‘Childhood’, ‘Law and 

Society’, ‘Dreams and Sleep’. The speakers’ willingness to participate is evidence 

of the continuing support of College members, regardless of their career stage, and 

have given us another series of captivating insights into the research undertaken 

within Wolfson. 

In the first of our seminars, Professor Jon Stallworthy (a very dear and respected 

member of the College) meditated on the function of ‘Memory’ in poetry, and 

eloquently and engagingly considered Memory as ‘the Mother of the Muses’. 

He was followed later in Michaelmas by Professor Bob Coecke, who spoke of his 

ground-breaking research in the Quantum Group which he co-heads – in particular 

his research into the application of categorical quantum mechanics to natural 

language processing in computational linguistics. In Hilary, we were delighted to 

welcome Dr Lucy Cluver and Dr Bettina Lange. Lucy spoke passionately about 

her work on reducing HIV risks for children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bettina spoke 

illuminatingly about developing law and society perspectives for understanding 

environmental regulation, and argued convincingly that regulation was important. 

In our final seminar, in the midst of an especially busy Trinity Term, Professor 

Anke Ehlers described the experiences of children suffering from Post-traumatic 

Stress Disorder. 

Our research fellows and graduate students were no less interesting, illuminating 

or, indeed, entertaining. At the first seminar Dr David Owald gave a fascinating 

and eye-opening talk drawing on his research on Drosophila (in particular, his 

research into visualising cellural processes of memory), and Heather Munro spoke 

of the role of memory in Social Anthropology. Dr Graham Leigh, who works on 

formalized theories of truth and employs techniques drawn from mathematical logic 

and constructive mathematics to provide a formal analysis of various meta-theoretic 

concepts including truth, provability and knowledge, asked whether mathematics 

is about truth or proofs. On a different subject, the ever-entertaining Matthew 

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Naiman (who works on the use of coins within Etruscan sanctuaries) spoke on 

‘Proof in Archaeology? The Ramblings of a Madman’. Dr Lucy Bowes presented 

her important, Leverhulme-funded research on the impact of bullying on child 

mental health. Again on ‘Childhood’, but from a different perspective, Charlotte 

Bennett discussed children’s literature of the First World War. Under the title 

of ‘Empowering Judges over Politicians: Puzzle and Method’, Dr Cristina Parau 

described her pioneering, interdisciplinary research into the political foundations of 

constitutional change in Britain. Amanda Frickle, who studies the relationships and 

interconnections between gender, reproductive rights and criminal justice systems, 

spoke about the fascinating yet understudied issue of fetal abuse prosecutions in 

the United States. Finally, Dr Tim Viney presented his ground-breaking research 

in hippocampal neurons and their roles in behaviour, in particular the activity 

patterns of identified GABA-releasing neurons in the rodent hippocampus during 

movement and sleep; and Delphine Fayard spoke about sylphs in French literature 

as emblems of imagination, desires and dreams. 

It was decided that, from Michaelmas 2014 onwards, there will be one President’s 

Seminar each term. The President and the President’s Seminar team are very 

grateful, as ever, to Louise Gordon, Linda Boerner, Karl Davies, and the Wolfson 

catering staff, who provide the technical and catering support that ensures the 

smooth running of the seminars and the enjoyable dinners afterwards. We are also 

grateful to Juliet Montgomery, who provides administrative support. Above all, we 

are grateful to our speakers for ensuring that the President’s Seminars continue to 

be the friendly, intellectually-challenging, and wholly stimulating events that they 

are intended to be. 

We welcomed Christine Fouirnaies, Anastasia Tolstoy and Andy Cutts to the 

organizing group, but Andy is now leaving Wolfson; we thank him for his hard 

work, imperturbability and good humour. 

Christos Hadjiyiannis 

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Speakers and Sessions 

Michaelmas Term 

‘Memory’ 

Jon Stallworthy (GBF); David Owald (RF); Heather Munro (GS) 

‘Proof/s’ 

Professor Bob Coecke (GBF); Dr Graham Leigh (RF); Matthew Naiman (GS) 

Hilary Term 

‘Childhood’ 

Lucy Cluver (GBF); Lucy Bowes (RF); Charlotte Bennett (GS) 

‘Law and Society’ 

Bettina Lange (Development Director); Cristina Parau (RF); Amanda Frickle (GS) 

Trinity Term 

‘Dreams and Sleep’ 

Professor Ankhe Ehlers (GBF); Dr Tim Viney (RF); Delphine Fayard (GS) 

Organisers: 

Andy Cutts, Christine Fouirnaies, Anastasia Tolstoy, Christos Hadjiyiannis 

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The View from (semi-)Retirement 

by Jan Scriven (Administrative Secretary 1992–94, 

College Secretary 1994–2012, Arts Administrator 2013–) 

When retirement law changed in 2011, I had to start actively thinking about what I 

wanted to do when I reached retirement age: should I carry on working as College 

Secretary – a job I enjoyed, which kept me constantly active and in touch with a 

community of lively minds – or should I retire gracefully and find something else 

to occupy my time? 

A conversation with the President helped me clarify my thoughts. I didn’t feel 

ready to give up work altogether, but I did have a desire to have more freedom 

and to travel while still young and fit enough to enjoy it. I was delighted when 

Hermione suggested the perfect compromise: continue to work at Wolfson with 

responsibility for arts and music on a part-time, flexible basis, and be free to travel 

during quiet periods. The chance to continue to play a part in College life after 

retiring as College Secretary was very appealing, and I am extremely grateful 

to Hermione. So in December 2012, after a splendid send-off from the Wolfson 

community, I moved on to a new phase in my life. 

My new role as Wolfson’s Arts Administrator still left a good deal of time for me 

to be ‘retired’, and this took a bit of getting used to. Tasks such as clearing out 

the loft help psychologically, but they don’t offer much job satisfaction. However, 

my free time was swiftly curtailed when the Development Director invited me to 

help him out for three months or so. This was the perfect way to wind down from 

working full-time and I still felt my knowledge was useful. But I soon realised that 

I needed to draw a line under regular working and to fulfil my plans to see more of 

the world. So in June last year I visited Brazil, meeting up with a Brazilian friend 

in Belo Horizonte. We travelled together to Salvador, Rio, and Guaxupe, followed 

by solo trips to Sao Paulo and Ouro Preto. It was an exhilarating way to start to 

experience the pleasures of retirement. Returning to the UK to warm summer 

weather was a bonus, and I began to appreciate the advantage of not having to be 

somewhere from 9.00 till 5.00. This meant more time to re-connect with friends, to 

do more yoga, more reading, and sometimes just sit in the garden doing nothing … 

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‘Girl band’, Salvador 

But the itchy feet soon returned, and in November I travelled to India, meeting 

up with a friend in Delhi and visiting Rajasthan, Mumbai and Kerala, returning to 

the UK in December just in time for Christmas, after another memorable cultural 

experience. We travelled independently, mostly by train and plane. The highlight 

of the trip were the days spent in Jaipur where we were fortunate enough to stay 

with Indian friends. 

Pushkar, Rajasthan 

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Back again in Oxford, there were plenty of arts and music activities to organise at 

Wolfson. The musical calendar in particular has become richer and busier since the 

opening of the auditorium, and we hosted no fewer than six musical events in Trinity 

Term. On my non-Wolfson days I enjoy volunteering for the Phoenix Prison Trust 

(who take yoga and meditation into prisons) at their office in Summertown, where 

I can use my admin skills in a completely different environment; and more recently, 

teaching at Asylum Welcome. I relish the different opportunities and new contacts 

that semi-retirement offers – long may it continue. 

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Font Matters: a surprising conversation 

by Liz Baird, Assistant Archivist 

One of the delights of my job is to meet alumni when they revisit the College. Their 

impressions, perhaps after some years away, often lead to anecdotes which open a 

window on the very past that is giving us our today and tomorrow. Sometimes their 

observations take an unexpected direction, such as gardening, personalities and, of 

all things, signage. Signage? During a recent visit from a postgraduate of 1970s 

vintage, he suddenly looked at one of the walls and said: ‘Ah, unfinished business.’ 

What, I wondered, did he mean by that? And thereby hangs a tale. 

It turned out he had had some involvement with the design of the College in the 

early days. When the buildings were nearing completion, great festivities were 

planned for the opening on 12 November 1974. Everyone in College contributed; 

this particular postgrad was given the task of organising the flow of guests, which 

meant designing tickets, parking stickers for cars, and much more, including a few 

directional signs which were intended to be permanent, and so were painted on the 

new walls. 

When the plans were well in train, the President was briefed. Sir Isaiah seemed 

content with it all – except for one thing, the idea of having signs up on the walls. 

‘This is Oxford,’ he murmured. ‘It is part of one’s education to discover what is 

where for yourself. Colleges do not have signs.’ ‘But,’ argued Sheila McMeekin, the 

first College Secretary, ‘the site is huge and some signage, at least, will be needed.’ 

The President reluctantly acquiesced. The Secretary and the postgrad then had to 

select the font to be used. After some discussion, they settled on one with elegant 

straights and gentle curves called ‘Albertus’. This is a typeface with minimal serifs, 

designed for the Monotype Corporation by Berthold Wolpe between 1932 and 

1940. At first it consisted only of capital letters, lower case and italics being added 

later, which was based on lettering developed by Wolpe for bronze inscriptions in 

which the letters (in his words) ‘… were not incised but raised; in other words the 

background was lowered and the outline only of the letters cut in. Such a metal 

inscription is cut with a chisel and not drawn with a pen, which gives it sharpness 

without spikiness, and as the outlines of the letters are cut from outside (and not 

from the inside outwards), this makes for bold simplicity and reduces the serifs to 

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a bare minimum.’ Wolpe named it after the thirteenth-century German theologian 

and philosopher Albertus Magnus, who had been canonized in 1931. 

Wolpe was himself a German, but of Jewish origin, and he emigrated to England 

in the 1930s. He taught in London art schools, and designed more than 1,500 book 

jackets for Faber and Faber, many with Albertus-type lettering. 

To conclude our tale: the College of Arms had just granted arms, and this was the 

font which was designated to go with them. The College Buildings Officer, Paul 

Boddington, found a sign writer (who had until then been blissfully unaware of 

Albertus) and he painted a few key signs on the walls. Only a few of these originals 

survive and, over time, perhaps inevitably, the link between the College arms and 

Albertus – indeed, Albertus as the College’s principal alphabet – has fallen into 

desuetude. 

With the opening of the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium and the forthcoming ‘Phase 

II’, the issue of font for signage has returned. Albertus itself now looks somewhat 

dated. The College may have been afraid to choose another font which, though 

attractive at first, might prove to have a limited shelf-life – and, it must be said, 

erring on the side of caution – so it has decided that the new font is to be one which 

is familiar to most of us, thanks to its adoption by Microsoft, namely … Arial. 

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The Canteen of Creativity 

by John Duggan, Creative Arts Fellow 

In my first year as Creative Arts Fellow, I focused on creating a big piece that would 

present some of the day-to-day sights and sounds of the College in an attentiongrabbing 

audio-visual collage called Wolfscapes. I wanted to make an impression, 

get to know people and set things in motion. This year I have been consolidating 

my work here, continuing to direct the Isaiah Choir which I formed in my first year, 

and organising a series of talks and recitals. I’ve also been doing what I love to do 

most: composing music. 

When people find out that I write music, they often say: ‘I could never do that; I 

mean, I wouldn’t know where to start.’ It’s an insightful remark, but I think that 

composing is essentially like any creative activity, be it cooking or painting, writing 

a thesis or playing table tennis. You may need some equipment: pen and paper, pots 

and pans, a bat and ball; but, more importantly, you need incentive and desire. Also 

you need ingredients, raw material, a strong sense of self-belief, and a small shot 

of ability. And, more important than knowing where to start, is having a reason to 

start. You may begin preparing a meal because you are hungry, or because you have 

friends coming to dinner. I start writing for a variety of reasons: because I have a 

commission and therefore a performance deadline, or because I am moved by an 

experience – another piece of music, a film, a life event. Sometimes I write because 

I feel I must; it is a calling. 

For most of us, our early attempts at cooking will inevitably involve pieces of shell in 

our scrambled eggs, lumps in our white sauce, and burn marks on the insides of our 

pans. When I was an undergraduate I was invited to dinner by a dear friend from 

Bolton. My excitement at the invitation was tempered by disappointment when he 

served up a plate of beans on toast. A few years later, however, he invited me over 

again and served the most exquisite Thai meal I’d ever eaten. I’ve been writing 

music in earnest now for about ten years. I feel as if I have developed a certain style 

and fluency, hard-won through learning and practice. It’s a well-trodden path but, 

at the same time, a journey unique to me, and I hope that my music is now more like 

tasty Thai food than beans on toast. 

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I know people who like to work to a recipe, and I know people who like to make 

it up as they go along. Some folk get to enjoy cooking so much that it permeates 

their day, their thoughts, conversations and shopping habits. Not because they live 

to stuff their faces, but because they derive great pleasure and satisfaction from the 

planning, the sourcing of ingredients, the reading of recipes, the sensual pleasures 

of preparing the food, the sights, smells and sounds of cooking, choosing the wine, 

laying the table and sharing the fruits of their labour with friends and family. In the 

same way, when I am writing a new piece it fills my thoughts and dreams. Ideas pop 

up unbidden, sometimes at very inconvenient moments. I imagine the sounds, the 

performance, the reaction of the audience. 

Lately I’ve been doing more preparation and research and, most importantly, I’ve 

developed a writing routine that involves habitually getting up early and composing 

30 seconds’ worth of music each day. This is a great practice in itself, and it means 

that I get much more done in less time. It led to the unprecedented event of me 

finishing several works well before the deadline date. 

In case you haven’t spotted it yet, I think writing music is a little like cooking. And 

stretching the analogy just a tiny bit further (and hoping that it doesn’t snap like 

a violin string, or like the waistband on my trousers), a composer is someone who 

prepares a list of ingredients, and then writes a set of instructions (a score) on how 

to put those ingredients together. Usually there is some wiggle room for a little 

interpretative nuancing and the whole project only comes alive in performance in 

front of an audience, like a meal on the table. So, if you are a composer or a chef 

working on a major piece, you need collaborators – performers, kitchen staff – to 

realise your creation and bring it to the table or concert hall. Everyone needs to 

work together; timing is critical. The pasta needs to be cooked and drained exactly 

30 seconds before the sauce is ready so that the plate can be in front of the diner 

exactly 30 seconds later. In the same way, the violin has to come in on beat 3 of bar 

5 and the bassoon two beats later or the whole carefully laid plan will fall apart. Of 

course this would be all for nothing if there was no one to eat our food or listen to 

our music. 

In short, cooking and composing are both about flair, panache and neatly pressed 

uniforms, but they are mostly about hard graft, training, study and practice. And 

let’s not forget the performers. Or the audience. 

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The year in brief 

In Michaelmas Term we welcomed new members to the Isaiah Choir and 

established an enthusiastic and dedicated group of singers, meeting every week 

to work on technique and sight-reading and to tackle new repertoire. I wrote a 

short piece called ‘The Wondrous Bells’ which the choir performed with great 

spirit and panache at the Winter Concert in December. Alongside this, I wrote two 

commissioned choral pieces, one for Magdalen College School, and the other for the 

Oxford-based chamber choir, Commotio. 

In much the same spirit of challenge and discovery, which drives chefs to introduce 

their eating public to new dishes, I set up the Innocent Ear project in Hilary Term. 

This involves posting three tracks for members of College to listen to each week. 

There is no information about the tracks, which presents the opportunity to enjoy 

the music (or not) without knowing that, for example, the singer is Barry White, or 

the conductor Bernard Haitink. I received a number of enthusiastic and supportive 

messages about this project and, although other commitments made me lay it aside 

in Trinity, I will be restarting it for the new academic year. 

Trinity Term was a whirl of activity. Towards the end of May, Susanna Fairbairn, 

who is a dear friend and a wonderful soprano, came to Wolfson with the pianist 

Matthew Schellhorn. Together they gave a stunning recital of English and French 

song around the theme of childhood, with works by Poulenc, Britten, Debussy and 

Colin Riley. They also performed the premiere of my setting of the Edward Lear 

nonsense poem ‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat’, and the concert was full of passion, 

verve and humour. My pièce de résistance (as chefs are wont to say) was a series of 

miniatures, written for the Fournier Trio. This work is called Seven Meditations, 

and each movement takes its title from the Seven Last Words (of Christ on the 

Cross). It’s not a religious work per se, but I wanted a meaningful starting-point. 

The Fournier Trio gave the premiere – a fine and moving performance – in late 

June in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. 

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Extra-curricular activities 

The past year has been one of preparation for commemorating the centenary of the 

outbreak of World War I. Last November, on Remembrance Sunday, my setting of 

Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Futility’ was played in Australia on ABC Classic FM and, 

in April, the London-based choir, Khoros, performed my setting of Ivor Gurney’s 

‘Requiem’ at the National Portrait Gallery. I have just finished preparing these 

two pieces, alongside four others, for publication by Shorter House, which will be 

launched at the ABCD Annual Convention in Cardiff this year. 

In addition, I have been working on a major new recording project A Multitude of 

Voices with my choir, Sospiri. In 2013 the choir commissioned ten composers to 

write new pieces based on texts from World War I. We encouraged the composers 

to look beyond the popular poetical canon and cast their nets far and wide. In return 

we received a superb set of new pieces with texts in French, English and German. 

The CD is released on Convivium Records. My contribution was a piece in German 

– ‘Urtod’ (Primal Death) – by the modernist poet August Stramm, plus two small 

vignettes for piano trio and solo voices, turning extracts from letters by Wilfred 

Owen and Edward Thomas into imagined conversations with their loved ones. The 

choir was delighted that the Fournier Trio came and recorded these pieces with us. 

It’s been an exciting, busy and fruitful year, and I’m looking forward to the 

opportunities that the new academic year will bring. 

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A fossil Bible 

by Liz Baird, Assistant Archivist 

The Haldane Room was packed on 13 March 2014 for a talk by Professor Jim 

Kennedy (EF), retired Director of Oxford’s Natural History Museum, on the early 

days of the study of natural history and how it related to the Genesis stories of the 

Bible. His talk focused on the Swiss scientist Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672– 

1733), whose Natural History of Switzerland (Helvetiae Historia Naturalis, 1716) 

was one of the chief sources for Schiller’s drama Wilhelm Tell (1804). He told us 

that Scheuchzer, like many of his contemporaries, accepted the Genesis account of 

Creation; he published several works on fossils – the word means, literally, ‘dug 

up’– and even had a fossil named after him: Andrias scheuchzeri. Scheuchzer believed it 

to be a child which had drowned in Noah’s Flood, but the French scientist Georges 

Cuvier (1769-1832) proved it was an amphibian. However, it has kept its name. The 

talk was accompanied by a display of the seventeenth-century Pentateuch Bible 

The Wolfson copy of Vitré’s Biblia Sacra, title page 

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(Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Paris 1662) recently donated to the College by Dr 

John Penney. It formerly belonged to the anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt (GBF 

1967–88), a friend and colleague of Evans-Pritchard, who mainly studied the Dinka 

of southern Sudan. 

This Bible was the work of Antoine Vitré (?1590-1674), a French printer who 

adopted the device of Hercules standing triumphant next to a dead monster, with 

the caption Virtus non territa monstris (‘Courage not scared of monsters’). He was 

the first Paris printer to use Syriac type in his Syriac and Latin Psautier (1625), and 

he became the King’s official printer for oriental languages in 1630. He was best 

known for his Bible Polyglotte (1645), which required a large financial outlay – for 

which he was never reimbursed, as he had expected to be – to buy the necessary 

typefaces, since it was to be ‘imprimée en arabe, en chaldéen, en grec, en hébreu, en 

latin, en samaritain et en syriaque’. This enormous – ultimately ten-volume – work 

of scholarship, which involved extensive expert collaboration, started in 1628 and 

was completed in 1645. Apparently the paper and the layout were attractive, but the 

inconvenience of the format, as well as the number of errors the work contained, 

sadly reduced its value. Nevertheless, Vitré’s folio Bibles are thought by some to be 

amongst the best printed books of the seventeenth century. 

Wolfson’s copy is distinguished by the biblical text being complemented by 364 fullpage 

copper plate engravings, which have been bound up with it into one volume. 

These illustrations, which are interspersed throughout, originate from quite a 

different publication, the first volume of Scheuchzer’s great work, the Physica Sacra. 

This was published in the 1730s in various Latin, German and French editions, 

and was, as Professor Kennedy informed us, intended to be an explanation with 

commentary of the Bible on natural-scientific grounds. Scheuchzer himself oversaw 

the illustrations, which were largely based on items either in his own natural history 

cabinet or in other famous European cabinets of rare specimens. The plates were 

created in Augsburg by Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674–1748), who employed many 

artists and engravers to produce a magnificent four-volume, lavishly illustrated 

folio work, in which it has been said that the Baroque attains, philosophically and 

artistically, its high point and conclusion. 

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Wolfson’s book, therefore, is a curious hybrid: with its illustrations coming from a 

quite different book, it may be described as ‘extra-illustrated’. This practice, which 

became known as ‘Grangerizing’, flourished in the UK and USA from about 1750 

till the early 1900s, and has been described as the pre-digital era equivalent of 

‘cut and paste’, since it involves adding to books illustrations collected from other 

sources – including other books. It is called after an early advocate, the Revd James 

Granger, whose own four-volume Biographical History of England … adapted to a 

Methodological Catalogue of Engraved British Heads (1769) included an enormous 

checklist of portrait engravings; the idea was that readers should collect the images 

listed of ‘engraved heads’, and stick them into their own copy. The first edition even 

included (apparently deliberately) blank pages for the purpose. Grangerization 

became a popular Victorian parlour activity, and the market for suitable prints 

expanded greatly. 

In this way, the concept of the book as a static, fixed object – insofar as it had ever 

actually been that – was changing: the book was now something that could be 

turned into a kind of personal display cabinet, with Shakespeare and the Bible being 

popular targets. 

‘Like Victorian ottomans and Victorian curiosity cabinets, Victorian Bibles 

tend to be overstuffed: with illustrations of the flora and fauna of the Middle 

East; with drawings of the ancient pottery and farming implements of the 

Mediterranean; with reproductions of well-known, if not always well-executed, 

art; with … learned … notes citing the work of 19th century archaeologists, 

biblical commentators, and historians …’ (L.A. Ferrell, The Bible and the People, 

Yale, 2008; p. 173). 

The British Library has its own extra-illustrated copy of the Vitré 1662 Bible, 

but instead of our Physica Sacra illustrations, it incorporates extracts from many 

different biblical works as well as numerous maps. An extreme example is the 

Huntingdon Library’s ‘Kitto Bible’, consisting of the Authorised Version with 

footnotes by John Kitto (1800-54) which was Grangerized by one James Gibbs until 

it reached gargantuan proportions, more than sixty volumes. According to Ferrell 

again (p. 177), more than 30,000 prints, engravings and drawings were added, as 

well as hundreds of leaves from other printed Bibles, and the illustrations represent 

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‘one of the most comprehensive collections of early European prints in America.’ 

Not surprisingly, they include many of the plates from Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra. 

Wolfson’s book, a Bible illustrated from Scheuchzer’s masterpiece, may well be 

unique. Its provenance is unknown. The title-page shows two prices: ‘10/- and fine 

engravings’ [10 shillings, or 50p], and ‘Fine imp, £28’. The binding is probably 

calf over pasteboard, with traces of gilding here and on the spine with its six 

raised bands. The marbled endpapers are typical of the nineteenth century, so we 

may conclude that a prosperous previous owner during that period selected the 

illustrations and had them bound up with his (it was probably a ‘he’) Bible according 

to his own wishes. Bibliophiles more often bound several unrelated works together 

in one volume, but this practice was not very unusual. 

A number of the illustrations in our book feature fossils. Professor Kennedy 

‘Grangerized’ his own talk and the book display by bringing some of the actual 

fossils, which were placed next to their depictions. It was a special occasion indeed, 

for which thanks are due to Professor Kennedy, to Dr Penney, and to those who were 

unable to attend in person but were doubtless present in spirit: Godfrey Lienhardt, 

Antoine Vitré, Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer, and the unknown previous owner. 

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Cupboards and Crypts: chasing after 

Roman sculpture in England 

by Martin Henig (SF 1998–2009, MCR 2009–) 

I am often asked what research I do, and even (very occasionally) what I am doing 

in Wolfson. If I reply that I am an archaeologist, conversation immediately shifts 

to the places I have excavated, generally assumed to be on some distant sun-soaked 

shore. Alas, I have to disabuse them for I have virtually never worked outside 

England, and the only digging I have done, apart from my garden, has been in halfderelict 

museum stores, generally in search of the sculptures, tombstones, altars 

and fragments of architectural moulding which once gave this country something 

of the appearance of Roman Italy. Most of my research has been for the British 

section of the great international project designed to record every sculpture in the 

Roman Empire, grandiloquently entitled Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. 

There are not too many people working on Romano-British art and culture which 

too many Classical Archaeologists regard as the Cinderella of Roman studies. 

However, for me the brightest aspect of basing myself here is that most of them are 

at Wolfson. Peter Stewart has published on Romano-British sculpture, while Roger 

Tomlin is more than familiar with recording Roman stone in curious places. Roger 

is, of course, the authority on epigraphy (inscriptions) which often graced the 

same monument or other item; for example, we worked together on two important 

inscribed tombstones from Gloucester, excavated by Oxford Archaeology and 

taken to their rather bleak store in Abingdon. I am pleased to say they are now 

proudly displayed in Gloucester Museum. 

Sometimes sculptures are immediately accessible in well regulated museums, but I 

found one altar discovered in restoring Uppington Church near Wroxeter in 1885, 

mouldering away in the churchyard; and writing of churchyards, I recall visiting 

a dingy chapel in a cemetery where Cirencester Museum had stored some of its 

sculpture, and having to feel the contours of the best piece, an image of Mercury, 

which was not accessible to sight. But this was as nothing compared with a Chester 

store in which an amazing collection of tombstones recovered from the North Wall 

of the Fortress, some of them by the young E F Benson, were consigned to a leaky 

lock-up under tarpaulins and in some cases totally out of sight. Thank goodness 

some excellent photographs had been taken forty years earlier. But that was not the 

worst scenario: accidents can happen, and part of a London store was bulldozed; 

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again there were photos, but no dimensions recorded. Fortunately I had worked in 

the relevant museum as a young graduate before coming up to Oxford to research 

Roman gemstones, and I had been given the chore of measuring these stones, so all 

I needed to do in working on the Corpus of Sculpture from South-East England 

(now in press) was to convert Imperial dimensions to Metric. 

There have been other experiences. I traced a fragment of an altar depicting the 

god Mars to a private house in Wotton-under-Edge. It was now set low down in 

the surround of a modern fireplace, and I had to lie on my stomach on the thickest 

pile carpet I have ever seen to photograph it. In the same county a sculpture from 

Winchcombe, last seen in the 1870s, turned up in a cupboard at Sudeley Castle a 

year or two ago, and I was glad to be able to confirm my earlier surmise from a 

sketch that it was indeed a representation of a hunter god. Not all sculptures have 

been ‘lost’ for so long. A brief report in the journal Britannia told me that a very fine 

statue of a standing male figure had been found at Dover about 25 years ago. The 

excavator denied all knowledge of it, but then to my satisfaction and his, discovered 

it was the very same block of stone which had lain undisturbed under his desk for 

two decades. 

Fortunately it was discovered in time for the Corpus. And of course I have made my 

own discoveries, amongst them a superb Roman imbricated (scale-covered) column 

that had been re-used by the Norman builders in the Holy Innocents’ chapel in 

Canterbury Cathedral crypt. This is by no means the only case of such re-use, 

for amongst other examples I have recorded there is architectural stonework 

incorporated in Atcham church, Shropshire, and the sculpture of a lion incorporated 

into the late-Roman wall at Richborough. From a later period of re-use there is a 

relief of a horseman still visible, set high up in the wall of a nineteenth-century 

barn at Gill Mill, Ducklington, a site which in excavations conducted by Oxford 

Archaeology has produced two other images of Roman gods. 

Of course sculpture is being recovered by archaeologists all the time, most recently 

a superb eagle from the site of a Roman cemetery in the Minories just east of the 

City of London, carved in Cotswold stone. I have been involved from the beginning 

in studying this iconic find, which evidently graced the mausoleum of a very 

important inhabitant of first-century London and was carefully deposited in a ditch 

when the mausoleum was apparently demolished soon after. 

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Scientists, I know, regard it as natural to work in a team. This is less often the 

case in the humanities. Until recently, in Shropshire, Chester, Gloucestershire and 

Oxfordshire, I have worked alone (and largely for love), but in South-East England 

I have had the joy for the first time of working with colleagues, one of them a 

geologist. Thanks to Kevin Hayward, we have been able to source many different 

stones, and to say something about the transport of the raw material from the 

Cotswolds, Northamptonshire and the Continent, into a region which had very few 

sources of native freestone. Other colleagues are former Oxford pupils, including 

Francis Grew, now very senior in the Museum of London and perhaps my first 

student in Oxford, and Penny Coombe, almost my last supervisee, whose flair is 

apparent in every page of the book. 

I began by saying that sculpture once gave this country something of the appearance 

of Roman Italy, and in Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, London 

and Kent, it includes sarcophagi, representations of gods and goddesses, and 

imperial busts. Two of the latter show signs of ancient damage as a result of 

political violence: a bust of Pertinax was decapitated and its shoulders were sliced 

off when Lullingstone Roman villa (perhaps once his property) was sacked, and a 

bust of Caracalla’s ill-fated brother Geta lost its shoulders, and had its ears were 

sliced off for good measure before being tossed into the Thames. Geta is now in the 

Getty Museum at Malibu, but I was able to see it when I was in Los Angeles for a 

conference. 

Quite a few marbles brought to England in modern times have been recovered 

in excavations, including some collected by the Earl of Arundel in the early 

seventeenth century, which were abandoned on the site of Arundel House in 

London, and thus never made it to Oxford. They include perhaps his best sculpture, 

a frieze of Medusa heads recorded long ago by Rubens in his painting The Constancy 

of Scipio. Such discoveries I hope will bring some joy to archaeologists who spend 

their time soaking up the sun in Italy, Greece and Turkey. And, in any case, it has 

all been and continues to be great fun. 

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Waiting for Jesus: winning the 1995 

Christchurch Novice Regatta 

by Richard Holland, Captain of Boats 1996–97 

It’s hard to imagine now, but in the 1990s the Boat Club struggled. Strangely, 

during this period, the College was always full of experienced, tall rowers, but they 

all seemed to find excuses why the crew was not good enough for them, or why 

their honour had been slighted, or that they had a funny feeling in their toe, or that 

they needed to write their thesis (the least acceptable excuse). This generally left 

the Torpids first eight full of novices, and only short guys remained to fill up the 

Summer Eights crew, leaving us generally running as fast as we could just to tread 

water. However, there were some bright spots, and one of them actually came about 

as a consequence of such a mass desertion. 1995 had been a particularly bad year, 

but incoming Captain Lars (‘Jumping Higher’) Wulf decided rather sensibly to get 

cracking on novices as soon as possible, and take advantage of Wolfson’s graduate 

status to utilise the quiet conditions on the Isis during summer to persuade new 

talent into the club. I was one such sucker. 

I had arrived at Wolfson to do my DPhil the year before, armed with the knowledge 

that rowing was far too hard work and involved early mornings, so I was not taken 

in by the hard sell at Fresher’s Week. I was also captain of the squash team and 

a linchpin in the cricket team, so did not see how I could abandon these for the 

absolute dedication that rowing appeared to require. I had not, however, bargained 

for my office mate (and later co-Boat Club captain) Theresa Burt taking up rowing, 

and every minute telling me how great it was. As a scientist, I felt I had no option 

but to collect the evidence myself to demonstrate that this was clearly not the case. 

So it was that I signed up for Lars’s summer novice training. 

Evening outings and warm summer evenings eased us in gently, and by the time 

term started and the rest of the novices arrived we had a core of four rowers (Phill 

Biggin, myself, Kartsten Heide and Derek Kennett) who would make up the stern 

four. We were joined by Rob Wills, Bill Steel, Francesco Gonzalez and Chris 

Russell. Jo Perkins, our cox, had the kind of accent that made the Queen sound 

common, but its authority had us at her beck and call. Lars’s contribution was one 

of the toughest land training programs that Wolfson had seen for quite a while, and 

its circuits became legendary for his cries of ‘Jumping higher’ and ‘Jumping even 

higher than before’. He also took no prisoners on the river, and I still remember his 

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cry of frustration at our failure to achieve perfection in an exercise: ‘It’s so simple, 

Wolfson! Hands, THEN bodies! Why can’t you do it?’ For some reason I was 

elected (or maybe just appointed) crew captain, apparently a meaningless title in a 

boat, as the cox has authority on the river, and the coach off it, but I felt honoured. 

By Autumn Fours the stern four were enough advanced to be entered as a four, a 

fairly rare event then. We raced in Wolfson’s ancient wooden four ‘The Graduate’, 

and little did we know that a film crew was filming scene-setting shots for the 

movie ‘True Blue’, the story of the Boat Race mutiny in 1987. Our wooden boat 

went well with the opening lines of the movie; so, if you watch, you can see us 

lifting the boat out at the boathouse, and then ploughing down the river. I am 

immortalized in my red cap at bow, leaning to the right at the finish of each stroke. 

This gave us some good race experience as well, and it seemed that we were coming 

together as a powerful crew. There was a sense of quiet confidence, tempered by 

the knowledge that Wolfson had never got past the semis, and rumours abounded 

of the big undergraduate colleges siphoning off athletic novices and sending them 

to intensive rowing farms. We did not seriously think we could win, but expected 

to put on a good show – until we drew Merton ‘A’ in the first round. The day 

before our first race we saw them cruise past as we pulled our boat out of the water, 

eight rowing Adonises balancing their boat perfectly. Oh well, we thought, there is 

always the repechage. 

The first race duly came, and after our frenetic start (in which Rob at 4 always 

seemed to dump a gallon of water in my lap at 7), we could see we had left them 

for dead already. We cruised across the line two lengths or so ahead, and the 

quiet confidence returned. On Friday the next race, also against an ‘A’ crew (I’m 

going to say Mansfield, but I can’t remember all the crews we raced), was another 

comfortable victory, but nerve-wracking for me as my shorts got stuck in the slide 

after the douche by Rob, and I had to row half-slide from about half-way down the 

course. I bought some cycle shorts that evening. On Saturday we were into the 

last 16, and again we raced against an ‘A’ crew, possibly Exeter. It was also one of 

those miserable November days, with incessant rain. Again we won comfortably: 

we seemed to have a start that just destroyed other crews; rarely did we not have 

clear water by the OUBC boathouses. Our next race was against a ‘B’ crew, Jesus, 

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and after a massage from the women’s first eight we got into the boat and were 

told: ‘You stay on the river now until you win or are knocked out.’ I have to admit it 

crossed my mind that the former would be preferable, as it would be a shorter route 

to the warmth of the Head of the River pub. Waiting on the bank for the start, Lars 

was greeted by the opposition coach who asked him whom we had beaten to get 

here. He replied: ‘Well, we have beaten Merton ‘A’, Mansfield ‘A’ and Exeter ‘A’, but 

Good Luck anyway.’ As we sat in the Gut, waiting to be marshalled forwards, we 

were asked by a steward: ‘Are you in this next race, Wolfson?’ Our cox Jo replied, in 

that cut-glass accent of hers: ‘NO, WE’RE WAITING FOR JESUS.’ 

In the race itself, we left them for dead at the start, and the rest was a cruise. That 

is all I remember of the semi-final too, which brought us up against Christchurch 

‘A’ in the final. The host college in its own regatta: surely we would not be able to 

beat them? Off we went, frenetic as usual, a gallon of water in my lap, but this time 

also soaking my oar. Christ Church stayed with us. This was new territory; how 

would we cope? Then we hit OUBC and the roar was incredible, we surged ahead 

and by the end of the boathouses we were a length in front. We had broken them. 

Three strokes before the finish, I had a heart-stopping moment as my oar slipped 

out of my hand. However, it just glided forward and I grabbed it and took the catch 

with everybody else. I guess it was our day. Wolfson had won Christchurch Novice 

Regatta for the first (and still the only) time in our history. 

Recriminations soon began at an upstart graduate college winning such a prestigious 

event. Surely it could not be legal for graduates to train before the start of term? 

It was. The stroke had been seen rowing in the Oxford City Regatta the previous 

summer, which would disqualify him … He hadn’t. But they had photographic 

evidence ... They didn’t; they had mistaken him for someone else. Not surprisingly, 

the Christ Church ‘A’ crew we had beaten dwelt on the injustice of it all. What was 

temporarily forgotten was that the said ‘advantage’ had been present every year, 

and this was the first time a Wolfson crew had won. I suspect the other graduate 

colleges were equally unsuccessful, but I don’t have the figures to hand. In the end, 

though, our victory had no impact on the rule-makers. There was no change the 

next year, and the same rules apply today. 

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This was pretty much the pinnacle of my rowing career. I almost quit after that, but 

was tempted back to row in the Torpids first eight. We went down eight places. I 

spent the next three years, including one as Captain of Boats, trying to recapture 

the magic of that victory. There were many good times and some great crew spirit, 

but my final record in bumps was something like 2 for and 13 against. Probably 

I should have quit while I was ahead and gone back to squash and cricket, but as 

anybody knows who truly gets the rowing bug, that would have been impossible. 

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The Record 

Personal News 

Births 

Barber To Peter (GS 2003–06, JRF 2006–08, RF 2008–13, 

SF 2014–) and Kathleen, a son on 30 June 2014. 

Coecke 

To Bob (RMCR 2005–07, GBF 2007–) and Selma, a 

daughter, Marieke, on 22 February 2014. 

Holland 

To Richard (GS 1994–98) and Alison Cameron, a son, 

Cameron Craig, on 15 August 2013. 

Marriages 

Aslany / Cockfield Maryam Aslany (GS 2012–13, MCR 2013–) to James 

Cockfield (GS 2008–), on 18 February 2014. 

Butterwick- 

Pawlikowski Richard Butterwick (RF 1995–97) to Wioletta 

Pawlikowska, on 13 July 2012. 

Giustino / Mavridou Feliciano Giustino (RF 2008–09, GBF 2009–) to Despoina 

Mavridou (RF 2009–) on 7 June 2014. 

Kelley 

Kathryn Kelley (GS 2010–12, MCR 2012–) to Sebastian 

Anstis, on 3 June 2014. 

Love-Bhabuta Alpha Bliss Love-Bhabuta (GS 2011–12) to James Shen 

Kit Koh, on 13 April 2014. 

Deaths 

Ahmed Meekal Aziz (GS 1974–81) on 30 January 2014. 

Bartlett Marianne Elisabeth (GS 1983–95, MCR 1996–99, 

MCR 2009–13) on 17 May 2013. 

Berlin Aline Elisabeth Yvonne (HMCR 1967–98, HF 1998– 

2014) on 25 August 2014. 

Boltz Judith Magee (MCR 1985–86) on 25 March 2013 

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Brock Michael George (GBF 1967–76, HF 1977– 14) on 30 

April 2014. 

Caro Anthony OM, CBE (MCR 1989–91, HF 1991–13) on 23 

October 2013. 

Gatherer 

Alexander (MCR 1994–99, SLAS 1999–03) in August 

2013. 

Hont 

Istvan (GS 1976–78, JRF 1978–86, MCR 2005–13) in 

March 2013. 

Phillips Terence Victor (VS 1977–78, MCR 1978–13) on 29 

December 2013 

Professional News 

Brissenden, Alan (MCR 1983–84, VF 1987–88, VS 1992, MCR 1996) 

Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of 

Adelaide, formerly Reader in English. Inducted into the 

Australian Dance Awards Hall of Fame, 2013 

Butterwick-Pawlikowski, (RF 1995–97) Appointed Professor of Polish-Lithuanian 

Richard 

History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 

University College, London. 

Chamberlain, Lesley (GS 1973–81) Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, 

University of Durham, Epiphany Term 2014. 

Chatterjee, Margaret (VF 1991) Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by 

the Indian Council of Philosophical Research in March 

2013. 

Cohen, Lynn V (GS 1985–86) Appointed to Historic Preservation 

Advisory Commission, City of Stamford, Connecticut, 

USA. Honoured at the Stamford and Nature Centre in 

June 2014 for thirteen years of Board participation. 

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Crabbe, James (MCR 1977–79, JRF 1979–82, RF 1982–87, GBF 

1987–88, SF 1988–2015) Appointed National Leader of 

Governance, working on tertiary education with BIS 

and the DfE. Appointed a Justice of the Peace, working 

as a magistrate in London. Appointed Senior Research 

Associate, Department of Zoology, Oxford University. 

Creutzfeldt, Naomi (VS 2005, RMCR 2010–13, MCR 2013–) Appointed 

ESRC Research Fellow, 2014–17 

Ehlers, Anke 

(SF 2013–) Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical 

Sciences. Awarded American Psychological Association 

2014 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to 

Clinical Psychology, German Psychology Prize 2013 and 

Oswald-Kulpe Prize 2013 for the Experimental Study of 

Higher Mental Processes. 

Ehrlich, Charles E (GS 1992–96, MCR 1996–) Appointed Program Director 

at Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. 

Forgas, Joseph P (VF 1986–88, VS 1990–91, VS 1994–95, VS 1999–2000) 

Appointed to the Order of Australia, 2013. 

George, Alexander (JRF 1985–88, MCR 1990–07) Appointed Rachel and 

Michael Deutch Professor of Philosophy at Amherst 

College, MA, USA. 

Harriss-White, Barbara (RF 1987–88, GBF 1988–11, EF 2011–) Elected 2013 

Academician (Fellow) of the Academy of Social Sciences. 

Gave the 2013 British Association of South Asian Studies, 

Annual Lecture. Held two Visiting Professorships: 2014 

Distinguished Fellow (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of 

Advanced Studies) and Visiting Professor, Centre for 

the Informal Sector and Labour Studies, JNU and 2013 

Visiting Professorship: China, Agricultural University, 

Beijing, PRC. Served on advisory councils for four major 

Indian Research programmes, and on committees for 

the British Council and British Academy. Member of a 

high-level Research Advisory Group advising the Chief 

Scientific Adviser to DFID. 

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Hawker, Nancy (GS 2006 –11) Awarded Leverhulme Early Career 

Fellowship from May 2014 at the Oriental Institute, 

Oxford. 

Henig, Martin (SF 1998–2009, MCR 2009–) Licensed by the Bishop of 

Oxford as Associate Priest in the Osney Benefice at St 

Frideswide’s Church on 27 May 2014. 

Kennedy, William James (GBF 1970–03, EF 2003–) First recipient of the newly 

inaugurated gold medal of the Palaeontographical 

Society. The medal honours individuals who have made 

a sustained and scholarly contribution to the study of the 

fossil fauna and flora of the British Isles. 

Lazarovits, Ronald (GS 1973–74) Inducted to an Honorary Fellowship of the 

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in June 2013. 

Leeson, Paul 

(RMCR 2007–12, MCR 2012, RF 2013–15) Appointed 

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of 

Oxford, Recognition of Distinction, in Autumn 2013. 

Letchford, Christopher (GS 1984–87) Elected Fellow of the Structural 

Engineering Institute and Fellow of the American Society 

of Civil Engineers. President-elect of the American 

Association for Wind Engineering. 

Ligler, Frances S (GS 1972–75) Appointed Lampe Distinguished Professor 

of Biomedical Engineering in the Joint Department 

between the Engineering School at North Carolina State 

University and the Medical School at the University of 

North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Maclean, Mavis (MCR 1974–87, SLRF 1987–2000). Elected Honorary 

Bencher, Middle Temple, in 2013. 

Mangel, Marc (MCR 1988–2007, MCR 2014–) Served as the Independent 

Scientific Expert of the Government of Australia in its 

case in the International Court of Justice, Whaling in 

the Antarctic: Australia v Japan: New Zealand Intervening 

(whether the Japanese special-permit whaling programme 

is for purposes of scientific research or not). Received a 

DSc honoris causa from the University of Guelph. 

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McLoughlin, Kate (VS 2009, MCR 2010–) Elected Fellow and Tutor in 

English, Harris Manchester College, Oxford. 

Meints, Kerstin (RMCR 1996–99, MCR 2001–) Appointed Professor in 

Developmental Psychology, University of Lincoln, in 

September 2013. 

Meri, Josef 

(GS 1995–99, MCR 2003) Appointed Allianz Visiting 

Professor of Islamic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian- 

University of Munich, 2013–14. Recipient of 2014 

Goldziher Award in Muslim-Jewish Relations from 

the Centre for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at 

Merrimack College, USA. 

Meysami, Seyyed S (GS 2010–13) Appointed postdoctoral Research 

Assistant, Department of Materials, Oxford University, 

in September 2013. 

Mobasheri, Ali (GS1993–97) Appointed Adjunct Professor at King 

Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in February 

2013. Appointed to a Personal Chair in Musculoskeletal 

Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bradford. 

Newton, Leonard (VF 1970, MCR 1974–78, MCR 1981–) Retired in 

October 2013 as Professor of Botany and appointed 

Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences at 

Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. 

Peach, Kenneth (SF 2005–10, MCR 2010–) Appointed interim Dean of 

Faculty Affairs at the Okinawa Institute of Science and 

Technology. 

Pierrehumbert, Janet B (MCR 1995) Elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science 

Society. Appointed Edward Sapir Professor at the 

Linguistic Society of American Summer Institute, Ann 

Arbor, in 2013. 

Piper, James Austin (JRF 1973–75, MCR 2006–) Appointed a member of the 

Order of Australia for services to Higher Education in 

applied laser physics. Retired in 2013 from Macquarie 

University, NSW, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor. 

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Sallam, Hesham (GS 2006–09) Director of Mansoura University 

Vertebrate Paleontology Centre and Faculty member at 

the Department of Geology, Mansoura University, Egypt. 

Sellars, John 

(JRF 2004–7, MCR 2007–) Appointed Visiting Research 

Fellow in the Philosophy Department, King’s College 

London, 2014–17. 

Shapland, Joanna (GS 1972–76, MCR 1976–79, JRF 1979–83, RF 1983– 

88, MCR 1988–) Edward Bramley Professor of Criminal 

Justice at Sheffield University, awarded the Outstanding 

Achievement Award by the British Society of Criminology 

in July 2013. 

Smith, James GS 1993–95, MCR 2009–) Appointed Senior 

Bioinformatician at the MRC Human Nutrition Research 

Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge University. 

Appointed Affiliated lecturer at the Cambridge 

Computational Biology Institute, Department of Applied 

Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge 

University. 

Storey, Ian Christopher ((VS 1990–96, MCR 1996–2005) Received the 

Distinguished Research Award for 2014 from Trent 

University, Ontario, Canada. 

Suarez, Mauricio (JRF 1995–96) Appointed Marie Curie Professorial 

Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of 

Advanced Study, London University, from October 2013 

until September 2015. 

Thomas, Noreen L (JRF 1979–82) Appointed Reader in Polymer Science, 

Department of Materials, Loughborough University. 

van der Blom, Henriette (RF 2009–13, MCR 2014–) Appointed lecturer in Classics 

at Glasgow University. 

Vitek, Vaclav (JRF 1969–74, MCR 1975, MCR 2007–10) Appointed 

Harold Pender Professor of Engineering and Applied 

Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA. 

Zimbler, Jarad (JRF 2009–12, RF 2012–13, MCR 2013–) Appointed 

Lecturer in Modern English Literature at Birmingham 

University, September 2013. 

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Books published by Wolfsonians 

Aldiss, Brian W (MCR 1996–) The Invention of Happiness. PS Publishing. 

Comfort Zone. Harper Collins 

Anstey, Peter (MCR 2005–06, MCR 2007–) Edited The Oxford 

Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. 

Oxford: OUP, 2013. 

Ashton, John (GBF 1984–96, EF 1996–97, EXF 1997–2000, EF 2000–) 

The Gospel of John and Christian Origins. Fortress Press: 

Minneapolis, 2014. Edited Revealed Wisdom: Studies in 

Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland. Brill: Leiden/ 

Boston, 2014. 

Barber, Peter (GS 2002–06, JRF 2006–08, RF 2008–13, MCR 2013–14, 

SF 2014–) Sievers’ Law and the History of Semivowel 

Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek. Oxford 

Classical Monographs. 

Blackman, David J (MCR 2005–) (with Boris Rankov, Kalliopi Baika, Henrik 

Gerding and Jari Pakkanen). Shipsheds of the Ancient 

Mediterranean. CUP, 2013. 

Bochner, Stephen (MCR 1979–82, VF 1991) Slow Boating in Britain: The 

Voyage of the Alexandra. Applied Matters Pty Ltd. 

Boret, Sebastien P (GS 2003–05, MCR 2005–) Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, 

Kinship and the Culture of Death. Routledge. 

Brock, Sebastian P (GBF 1974–94, EF 2003–) (with L van Rompay) Catalogue 

of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library 

of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt). Orientalia 

Lovaniensia Analecta 227, 2014. 

Butterwick- 

(RF 1995–97) The Polish Revolution and the Catholic 

Pawlikowski, Richard Church, 1788-1792: A Political History. Oxford: OUP, 2012. 

Polska Rewolucja a Kosciól katolicki. Kraków: Arcana, 2012. 

Chamberlain, Lesley (GS 1973–81) A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and 

the West. Harbour Books, 2014. 

Chatterjee, Margaret (VF 1991) Modalities of Otherness. Promilla, 2011. 

Cohn, Yehudah, B (GS 2002–07) (with Eual Ben-Eliyahu and Fergus Millar) 

Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 

CE. OUP for the British Academy, 2012. 

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Daher, Aurélie (RMCR 2010–11) Le Hezbollah. Mobilisation et pouvoir. 

Paris: PUF, 2014. 

Dalley, Stephanie (MCR 2010–) The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of 

Babylon, An Elusive World Wonder Traced. Oxford: OUP, 

2013 

Dobroruka, Vicente (GS 2001–06) Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: A Crosscultural 

Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish 

Literature. De Gruyter. 

Easting, Robert (VS 1995–96, MCR 1996–97) (with Richard Sharpe) 

Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. Toronto: Pontifical 

Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and Oxford: Bodleian 

Library, 2013. 

Forgas, Joseph P (VF 1986–88, VS 1990–91, VS 1994–95, VS 1999–00) 

Edited (with Orsolya Vincze and János László) Social 

Cognition and Communication. New York Psychology 

Press. 

Friedrich, Harald (MCR 1975–1976) Scattering Theory. Berlin-Heidelberg- 

New York: Springer-Verlag, 2013. 

Gilbert, Margaret (VF 1989–90, MCR 1991–92) How We Make the Social 

World. Oxford: OUP, 2013. 

Hardy, Henry (GS 1972–76, MCR 1976–90, RF 1990–97, SF 1997–16) 

Eleven new editions of books by Isaiah Berlin published 

in paperback by Princeton University Press. Personal 

Impressions with foreword by Dame Hermione Lee, 

Princeton University Press. Edited (with Mark Pottle) 

the third volume of Berlin’s letters, Building: Letters 1960- 

75. Chatto and Windus, 2013. The Book of Isaiah: Personal 

Impressions of Isaiah Berlin. Boydell and Brewer, 2013. 

Harriss-White, B (RF 1987–88, GBF 1988–11, EF 2011–) Edited (with 

Delia Davin) China-India: Pathways of Economic and Social 

Development. OUP for the British Academy. Edited (with 

Elisabetta Basile, Anita Dixit, Pinaki Joddar, Aseem Prakash 

and Kaushal Vidyarthee) Dalits and Adivasis in India’s 

Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas. New Delhi Press. 

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Hawker, Nancy 

Henig, Martin 

Jacobs, Mark 

John, Angela V 

Kay, Philip 

Khanna, Stuti 

Landrus, Matthew 

Maclean, Mavis 

Mayer, Robert 

(GS 2006–11) Palestinian–Israeli Contact and Linguistic 

Processes. Routledge, 2013. 

(SF 1998–09, MCR 2009–) Edited (with Crispin Paine) 

Preserving and Presenting the Past in Oxfordshire and 

Beyond: Essays in Memory of John Rhodes. Archaeopress. 

(VS 2014) Edited (with Hubert Knoblauch and Rene 

Tuma) Culture, Communication and Creativity. Peter Lang, 

2014. 

(VF 1998–99, MCR 2005–) Turning the Tide: The Life of 

Lady Rhondda. Parthian, 2013. 

(GS 2005–08, SF 2008–15) Rome’s Economic Revolution. 

Oxford: OUP. 

(GS 2002–07) The Contemporary Novel and the City: 

Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form. Palgrave 

Macmillan. 

(GS 1999–05, MCR 2006–09, RF 2012–15) Strumenti e 

meccanismi. Leonardo e l’art dell’ingegneria (Instruments and 

Mechanisms: Leonardo and the Art of Engineering: Drawings 

by Leonardo from the Codex Atlanticus). Milan: De Agostini, 

2013. 

(MCR 1974–87, SLRF 1987–2000) Edited (with J 

Eekelaar) Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies. 

Oxford: Hart, 2013. Edited (with J Eekelaar) Family 

Justice. Oxford: Hart, 2013. 

(GS 1985, VS 2002–04, MCR 2004–) (with Catherine 

Cantwell) A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland 

Synopsis: A Mahyoga Tantra and its Commentary. Vienna: 

the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Edited (with C 

Cüpers and M Walter) Between Empire and phpyi dar: the 

fragmentation and reconstruction of society and religion in 

post-imperial Tibet. Lumbini, LIRI. 

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Mora, Francisco T 

Pickering, William 

Potter, Jane 

Pstrusiska, Jadwiga 

Sorabji, Richard 

Turnbull, Dheeresh 

Wallis, Peter 

Wright, John 

Yaqoob, Parjeen 

Yam, Sheung (Philip) 

Zawadzki, Hubert 

Zimbler, Jarad 

(GS 1975–77, MCR 2009–) Neuroeducacion: Solo se puede 

aprender aquello que se ama. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 

2013. Rafagas de Tiempo. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2014. 

(VS 1993–95, MCR 1995–) (with H Martins) Debating 

Durkheim. Abingdon: Routledge. Edited Durkheim. Essays 

on Morals and Education. Cambridge: James Clarke, 

2014. (Edited (with G Walford) Durkheim and Modern 

Education. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014 

(GS 1993–99, MCR 1999–) Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated 

Life, with Preface by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Bodleian 

Library Publishing, 2014. 

(MCR 1987–90) On the Secret Languages of Afghanistan 

and their Speakers. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 

(MCR 1991–96, SF 1996–2002, HF 2002–) Perception, 

Conscience and Will. Variorum, Ashgate, 2013. Electrifying 

New Zealand, Russia and India: The Three Lives of Engineer 

Allan Monkhouse. Amazon, 2014. 

(GS 1981–85) The CBT-Pot: Learning to Play Your Mind. 

Indepenpress, Brighton. 

(GS 1972–77, MCR 1988–) Edited Louise Cochrane, 

Adelard of Bath: The First English Scientist. 

(VS 1993–94) Explaining Science’s Success: Understanding 

How Scientific Knowledge Works. Acumen, 2013. 

(GS 1990–94, MCR 1994–95) (with P C Calder) Immunity 

and Inflammation. Woodhead Publishing, 2013 

(GS 2004–08) (with Alain Bensoussan and Jens Frehse) 

Mean Field Games and Mean Field Type Control Theory. 

Springer. 

(GS 1968–73, JRF 1973–76, MCR 1976–95) (with Jerzy 

Lukowski) A Concise History of Poland. CUP with Orient 

Publishing Centre, Shanghai, 2013 (also published in 

Chinese translation). 

(JRF 2009–12, RF 2012–13, MCR 2013–) J M Coetzee 

and the Politics of Style. CUP. 

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