The College Record 2022

Reports and College Activities
of migrant networks on the labour market in Switzerland; general equilibrium effects
of cash transfers in Kenya; and mask use in Kenya and Uganda. In addition to holding
his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and an MSc in Economics
from LSE, Dennis read PPE as an undergraduate at Oxford.
Marina Perkins was elected to a Career Development Fellowship in French.
A specialist in early modern French literature, in particular Michel de Montaigne,
Dr Perkins has published articles on Corneille, Montaigne, and Leonard Vair. Her
doctoral studies in Cambridge were funded by a Gates Cambridge scholarship, and
she holds an MPhil from Cambridge and a BA from Brown. During her fellowship,
she will be working on speech, authority, and force in the tragedies of Corneille
and Racine.
Our new Career Development Fellowship in Philosophy is Andreas Ditter, who
specializes in metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and history
of logic. Prior to being a Stalnaker Postdoctoral Associate in the Department
of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, Dr Ditter received his PhD from New York
University and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford. His primary research explores
foundational questions about the nature of essence, metaphysical necessity, ground,
and fundamentality.
Farsan Ghassim was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Politics.
Dr Ghassim’s research agenda broadly focuses on global governance and
experimental survey methodology, and he will continue to work on world public
opinion on global governance during his fellowship, provisionally titled How the
World Wants to Be Governed. In addition to holding degrees from LSE and Yale and
a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford, Dr Ghassim was a postdoctoral fellow
on the Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) project at Lund University, and on
the Decline and Death of International Organisations (NestIOr) project in Maastricht.
We also elected Nima Khalighinejad to be an ‘extraordinary’, or non-stipendiary,
Junior Research Fellow in Psychology. Dr Khalighinejad is a Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Discovery Fellow working on the
cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action and decision-making for the Wellcome
Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN). Before earning an MSc in Neuroscience
and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, he studied medicine at Isfahan
University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan, Iran.
The College also launched its call for applications to join us as Academic Distinguished
Visitors for up to an academic year. The first such Distinguished Visitor, James Unwin
from the University of Illinois at Chicago, will be with us during Hilary and Trinity Terms
2023, while he works in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. Dr Unwin’s
research concerns theoretical studies of physics beyond the Standard Model, with
a focus on dark matter. In particular, his research is focused on trying to discern the
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