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SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT 2014-2015 Somerville College Report 2014-15 Somerville College Somerville College Report 2014-15 Somerville College Contents Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Somerville Development Lecturers, Staff 5 Board Members 64 Principal’s Report 10 Somerville Association Officers and Committee 65 Development and Alumni Relations 13 Events: Dates for the Diary 67 Fellows’ and Lecturers' Activities 15 Report on Junior Research Fellowships 20 J.C.R. Report 22 M.C.R. Report 22 Library Report 23 President’s Report 25 Somerville Senior Members’ Fund 26 Horsman Awards 26 Somerville's Great War 27 This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (Tel. 01865 270632; Members’ News and Publications 30 [email protected]) and Alex Monro Marriages 35 Designer: Laura Hart Printer: Hunts Births 35 Photographers: John Cairns, Keith Barnes, Duncan McRae, Somerville College Deaths 36 Archives et al Fonts: Foco by Dalton Maag, Helvetica by Obituaries 37 Max Miedinger Cover: A warm welcome to Somerville : Academic Report 53 Dave Atkins, Deputy Lodge Manager Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 5 Fellows Philip West, MA, (PhD Jonathan Burton, MA, Visitor, (in order of seniority) Cantab), Associate (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor of English, Times Professor of Organic Fellow and Tutor in English Chemistry and Tutor in Joanna Mary Innes, MA, Principal, Chemistry (MA Cantab), Winifred Holtby Fellow, Tutor in Julie Dickson, MA, DPhil, Fellows, Modern History (LLB Glasgow), Associate Mason Porter, MA, (BS Professor of Law and Tutor Caltech, MS, PhD Cornell), in Law Professor of Nonlinear and Lecturers, Almut Maria Vera Complex Systems and Tutor Suerbaum, MA, (Dr Phil, in Applied Mathematics Staff Staatsexamen, Münster), Manuele Gragnolati, MA, Associate Professor of (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, German and Tutor in Pavia, PhD Columbia, DEA Steven Herbert Simon, Visitor German Paris), Professor of Italian MA, (PhD Harvard), Literature, Tutor in Italian Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics The Rt Hon The Lord Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, and Tutor in Physics Patten of Barnes, CH, FIMechE, CEng, Professor Annie Sutherland, Chancellor of the University of Engineering Science, MA, DPhil, (MA Cantab), Tutor in Engineering Science Associate Professor in Hilary Greaves, BA, Old and Middle English, (PhD Rutgers), Associate Rosemary Woolf Fellow and Professor of Philosophy and Lois McNay, MA, (PhD Tutor in English Tutor in Philosophy Principal Cantab), Professor of the Theory of Politics, Tutor in Alice Prochaska, MA, Politics Daniel Anthony, MA, Luke Pitcher, MA, MSt, (PhD Lond), Professor DPhil, (PGCert Durham), DPhil, FRHistS of Experimental Associate Professor of Roman Walczak, MA, Neuropathology and Tutor in Classics and Tutor in (MSc Warsaw, Dr rer nat Medicine Classics Heidelberg), Reader in Vice-Principal Particle Physics, Associate Professor and Tutor in Michael Hayward, MA, Matthew Kenneth DPhil, Professor of Inorganic Higgins, BA, (PhD Cantab), Fiona Stafford, MA, Physics; Dean (HT, TT) Chemistry and Tutor in Professor of Molecular MPhil, DPhil, (BA Leicester), Chemistry Parasitology and Tutor in Benjamin John FRSE, Professor of English Biochemistry Language and Literature, Thompson, MA, DPhil, Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil, Tutor in English Literature (MA, PhD Cantab), FRHistS, Associate Professor of (Staatsexamen Münster), Simon Robert Kemp, Medieval History and Tutor Associate Professor of BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab), in History Ancient History, Barbara Associate Professor in Craig Fellow and Tutor in French and Tutor in French Ancient History Charles Spence, MA, (PhD Cantab), Professor of Alex David Rogers, (BSc, Experimental Psychology, Natalia Nowakowska, MA, PhD Liv), Professor of Tutor in Experimental DPhil, Associate Professor Conservation Biology and Psychology of History and Tutor in Tutor in Biology History Jennifer Welsh, MA, DPhil, (BA Saskatchewan), Professor of International Relations 6 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff Christopher Hare, BCL, Dan Ciubotaru, BSc MA Administrative John Hawthorne, MA, (BA (Dip. D’Etudes Jurid. Babes-Bolyai, PhD Cornell, Manchester, PhD Syracuse), Poitiers, MA Cantab, Associate Professor of Fellows Templeton Senior Research LLM Harvard), Associate Mathematics and Tutor in Fellow Professor of Law and Tutor Mathematics Sara Kalim, MA, Development Director in Law Muhammad Kassim Guido Ascari, BA Pavia, Javaid, (BMedSci, MBBS, Bhaskar Choubey, DPhil, MSc PhD Warw, Professor Anne Manuel, (LLB PhD London), MRCP (BTech Warangal NIT), of Economics and Tutor in Reading, MA, MSc, PhD Bristol), ACA, Librarian, Associate Professor of Economics Philip Kreager, DPhil Engineering Science and Archivist and Head of Information Services Tutor in Engineering Science Boris Motik, (MSc Zagreb, PhD Karlsruhe), Professor of Andrew Parker, BA, MA, Charlotte Potts, DPhil, Professorial Fellows Computer Science (BA Victoria University CIMA, Treasurer of Wellington, MA UCL), Stephen Weatherill, Frans Plank, (Staatsexamen Steve Rayner, BA, (PhD Sybille Haynes Associate MA, (MA Cantab, MSc Munich, MLitt Edin, MA Durham), FRAS, MInstP, Professor of Etruscan and Edinburgh), Jacques Delors Regensburg, DPhil Hanover) Early Italic Archaeology and Professor of European Law Senior Tutor, Tutor for Art, Katherine and Leonard Graduates and Tutor for Philip Poole, (BSc PhD Woolley Fellow in Classical Admissions Rajesh Thakker, MA, DM, Murdoch) Archaeology and Tutor in (MA, MD Cantab), FRS, Classical Archaeology FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, Michael Proffitt, (from May Professor of Medicine January 2015) Karen Nielsen, (Cand mag, Senior Research Cand philol Trondheim, MA, Fellows Stephen Roberts, Tessa Rajak, MA, DPhil PhD Cornell), Associate MA, DPhil, Professor of Professor of Philosophy and Engineering Science Amalia Coldea, (MA, PhD Tutor in Philosophy Owen Rees, MA, (PhD Cluj-Napoca) Cantab), ARCO, Professor Stephen Guy Pulman, Jonathan Marchini, DPhil, of Music MA, (MA, PhD Essex), FBA, Colin Espie, (BSc MAppSci (BSc Exeter), Professor Professor of Computational PhD DSc(Med) Glas, FBPsS, of Statistics, Professor of Linguistics CPsychol), Professor of Statistical Genomics and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Tutor in Statistics Honorary Senior Aditi Lahiri, (PhD Brown, MA, PhD Calcutta), Sir Marc Feldmann, (AC, Research Fellow Julian Duxfield, MA, (MSc Professor of Linguistics BSc (Med), MB BS, PhD, LSE), University Director of MD (Hon), DMSc (Hon), Stephanie Dalley, MA, (MA Human Resources Matthew John Andrew FAA, FMedSci, FRCP, Cantab, Hon PhD London), Wood, MA, DPhil, (MB, ChB FRCPath, FRS), Professor FSA Renier van der Hoorn, Cape Town), Professor of (BSc, MSc Leiden, PhD Neuroscience and Keeper of Sarah Gurr, MA, (BSc, Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, Wageningen), Professor of the College Pictures PhD London, ARCS, DIC), (BA Edinburgh, PhD Imperial), Plant Sciences, Associate Professor of Molecular Plant Research Director, Oxford Professor of Plant Sciences Pathology India Centre for Sustainable and Tutor in Plant Sciences Development Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 7 Junior Research Brian Hedden, (AB Giorgio Valmorbida, British Academy Princeton, PhD MIT), (MSc Campinas, PhD Fellows Templeton Junior Research INSAToulouse), Fulford Fellow Fellow Junior Research Fellow Charity Anderson, (PhD Helen De Cruz, BA Ghent, Saint Louis University), PhD Free Univ. of Brussels, Lisa Lamberti, (BSC Bonnie Van Wilgenburg, PhD Groningen, British Templeton Junior Research Geneva, MSc Copenhagen, Summa Cum Laude Utrecht, Academy Post-doctoral Fellow PhD ETH Zurich), Mary DPhil Oxf, Fulford Junior Fellow Ewart Junior Research Research Fellow Matthew Apps, BSc PhD Fellow RHUL, (MSc Reading), Joaquim Vieira, (PhD Fulford Junior Research Erik Marklund, MSc, PhD UCL), Fulford Junior Fellow Uppsala, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Emeritus Fellows Research Fellow Margaret Adams, MA, Lucy Audley-Miller, MPhil, Allison Wetterlin, (MA, DPhil, (BA Newcastle), DPhil Heidi Olzscha, (BSc, MSc DPhil Konstanz), Fulford Woolley Junior Research Hamburg, PhD Max Planck Junior Research Fellow Fellow Institute Munich), Fulford Pauline Adams, MA, BLitt, (Dipl Lib Lond) Junior Research Fellow Nahid Zokaei, BSc Matthew Benton, (MA Yale, PhD UCL, Fulford Junior PhD Rutgers), Templeton Benjamin Owens, (BSc Research Fellow Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA Junior Research Fellow Bristol, PhD York), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Marian Ellina Stamp Patrick Clibbens, (BA, Dawkins, CBE, MA, DPhil, MPhil, PhD Cantab), Mary Gokce Su Pulco, (BSc Career Development FRS Somerville Junior Research Bogazici, PhD Boston), Fellow Fellow Fulford Junior Research Katherine Duncan-Jones, Fellow MA, BLitt, FRSL William Dunaway, (PhD Donna Harris, (MPhil, PhD Michigan), Templeton Junior Cantab) Dani Rabinowitz, BA, Karin Erdmann, MA Oxf, Research Fellow DPhil, Templeton Junior Dr rer nat Giessen Research Fellow Jane Dyson, (BSc, MSC Miriam Tamara Griffin, Edinburgh, PhD Camb ), Early Career Fellows Jose Manuel Roche, MA, DPhil Fulford Junior Research (MSc, PhD Sussex), Fulford Fellow Siddharth Arora, B Junior Research Fellow Mary Jane Hands, MA Tech DA-IICT, DPhil Oxf, Vanessa Ferreira, DPhil, Parkinsons UK Early Career James Sleigh, DPhil, Barbara Fitzgerald (Bsc MIT, MD British Fellow (MBiol Bath), Fulford Junior Harvey, CBE, MA, BLitt, Columbia), Fulford Junior Research Fellow FRHistS, FBA Research Fellow Maan Barua, BSc Dibrugarh, MSc DPhil Oxf, Stephanie Thiem, BSc, Judith Heyer, MA, (PhD Edward Grefenstette, British Academic Early MSc, PhD Chemnitz Univ. of Career
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