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1 TUTORIAL REPORT King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2018 2 REPORT Annual Report 2018 TUTORIAL Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 5 Tutorial 21 Undergraduates 37 Graduates 42 Chapel 46 Choir 52 Research 60 Library and Archives 64 Bursary 67 Staff 71 Development 75 Major Promotions, Appointments or Awards 103 Appointments & Honours 104 Obituaries 107 Information for Non-Resident Members 319 The University has been the subject of press attention in relation to The Provost the relatively narrow diversity of its students. While we at King’s are determined to attract applications from young people with non-traditional backgrounds, we intend to do more to encourage such students to apply, and to provide not just extra support for them at the start of their time 2 I write this report shortly after returning here but additional preparation for them in advance of their arrival. Our 3 THE PROVOST from the Eastern US, meeting alumni and own initiatives will be undertaken in concert with the University’s own friends of the College. In both New York plans for improving access. City and Boston there was a good turnout THE PROVOST at our evening event. NRMs of all ages were I am very pleased to report, after a number of years of anticipation, that represented, and I was once again struck the Register is finished and is now on sale. It is a very valuable resource by the warmth of recollection of the College and we are enormously grateful to the editors for persevering in the face from so many who had been there. For this of initial difficulties in organising the data. It was completed before the degree of affinity, we can thank the very new GDPR regulations came into force: producing another volume in the informal and inclusive atmosphere of the future will be next to impossible because of the difficulties surrounding Professor Michael Proctor College, which has done so much to make its data retention under the new rules. members, from whatever backgrounds, feel at home and appreciated. The proposals, mooted last year, to cease the publication of class lists have not been accepted. However, larger numbers of students are exercising Two big building projects are in progress. Bodley’s Court is being their right to opt out, which means that the full lists are available only reroofed with new stone tiles extracted from the King’s-sponsored mine privately to Colleges. Thus the Baxter Tables have not appeared this year, in Collyweston village. Work will take well over a year and meanwhile a but the information we have allows us to calculate that had they appeared, giant crane provides an addition to the skyline between Bodley’s and the King’s would have been in fifth place, a highly creditable outcome and a river. The hot dry summer together with recent rain has led to a large crop tribute to our hard-working supervisors and Directors of Studies. of quinces on the old tree in Bodley’s – the first for many years thanks to new pruning methods. Unfortunately the fruit cannot be picked as it is in There are two momentous events ahead of us. The first is the retirement the middle of a building site! in September 2019 of Stephen Cleobury, who has been Director of Music since 1982. He has conducted the Choir with energy and determination and The other project is the construction of two new buildings on the Cranmer has not only maintained its world-wide reputation through all these years Road/Grasshopper Lodge site to provide extra rooms for our graduate but overseen important initiatives such as the College’s concert series and students. This has been funded by a very generous donation. Other the commissioning of new music. We are immensely grateful to him for his initiatives are planned that should lead to us having rooms for all our contribution. Stephen will direct his last Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols graduate students within the next few years. Graduates can sometimes feel this Christmas Eve; this will also mark the centenary of the service, first sung out of touch with the College if they have to find accommodation at some in 1918. Stephen will be succeeded by Daniel Hyde, a former King’s Organ distance, so this has been a long-held aim. Scholar, presently Director of Music at St Thomas’ Church, New York. 2018 will also see the launch of the College’s major fundraising campaign. There will be a series of inaugural events in the College on 1 December, The Fellowship with the aim of reaching the £100M target for needs we have identified in the areas of student support, research support and buildings. Thanks to some generous recent donations we have reached half this total since the 4 start of the campaign in 2012. New Life Fellows 5 THE FELLOWSHIP Professor Anne Davis Universities, and the country at large, face a number of uncertainties over the next year. But I am cautiously optimistic that King’s is in good shape Fellows moving on THE PROVOST to ride out any storms that may arise. The following left their Fellowships in the last year: Stephen Fried MICHAEL PROCTOR Juan Garaycoachea Rachel Hoffman Simone Teufel Paul Sagar New Fellows CAROLINE GOODSON (Fellow, History) Caroline Goodson grew up in Texas, USA. She studied Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design, then completed a PhD in Archaeology and Architectural History at Columbia University, New York City (2004). From 2005–17 she was a member of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2017 she joined the Faculty of History at Cambridge as University Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History. Her research and teaching considers the formation of early medieval societies in the post-Roman world, especially Italy and North Africa. Her published work concentrates on the nature and experience of power in these places, examining how different groups positioned themselves as successors of Rome’s past glories or innovators in a developing world. Her work deliberately moves between the disciplines of history and archaeology, considering not only medieval documents and historical texts but also excavation and standing-buildings archaeology, archaeological archives and material culture. During 2017–18 she holds a Leverhulme observed during childhood. In addition to typical development, his lab Research Fellowship to work on her current book project examining urban studies babies at-risk for autism, ADHD and related conditions, in order gardening in early medieval Italy. This research attests to the political, to understand the early precursors of these conditions. He is an elected economic and social values of food cultivation, reconfiguring urban fellow of several academic societies including the British Academy (FBA) landscapes in the period c600–1100. and has been awarded a number of national and international prizes. 6 7 THE FELLOWSHIP She is author of The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817–24) (2010), and RICHARD BOURKE (Professorial Fellow, History of Political Thought) co-author and -editor of Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power Richard Bourke grew up in the Republic of Ireland, and studied for his first in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2017); Villa Magna: an degree in English and Philosophy at University College Dublin, graduating Imperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006–10 (2016); Cities, with a BA in 1986. After a year at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Richard THE FELLOWSHIP Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500: Experiences and Perceptions of moved in 1987 to King’s, where he took his PhD in 1990. He then spent Medieval Urban Space (2010); and Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San three years as a temporary lecturer in Dublin before taking up a position Sebastiano, Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance at Queen Mary, University of London in 1993. He took a second BA Villa and Beyond (2005). in Classics at Birkbeck College in 2001. Richard has held a number of fellowships in Europe and the US, and his work has garnered a number She is the recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy, of awards and prizes, including the István Hont Memorial Book Prize in Rome (2002–3) and is a member of the Royal Historical Society Intellectual History in 2016. (2010) and the Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani (2010). Richard’s research has for the most part been on the history of political MARK JOHNSON (Professorial Fellow, Psychological & Behavioural Sciences) thought, with a focus on Enlightenment political ideas, but he has also Mark Johnson was born in London of Anglo-Polish descent, but then raised written on ancient and modern intellectual history, and on literary history. in Scotland. After obtaining a degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology In addition, he has published on Irish history, ranging from the history of at the University of Edinburgh, he was a PhD student at King’s College the modern Troubles to the history of historiography. Much of his writing from 1982 to 1985, supervised by Gabriel Horn and Pat Bateson. From has focused on the themes of empire and democracy in political thought. 1985 to 1998 he worked as a research scientist for the Medical Research His major publications include Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas (2003) Council in London, interrupted by a period of four years during which he and Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (2015). was Associate Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in He is currently working on ideas of progress in the philosophy of history, Pittsburgh, USA. In 1998 he moved with MRC funding to take up the chair and on the history of democracy.