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ST CROSS COLLEGE RECORD
NUMBER 23 2006
EDITOR’S NOTE
This edition of the St Cross College Record covers the academic year October 2005
to September 2006. This year I have extended the scope to include reports by most
College Offi cers. As always, I would be pleased to hear from any member of the
College past or present who would be prepared to write something for publication. I
have tried hard to remove errors in Fellows’ and Students’ entries that have crept in
over the years and would be glad to be notifi ed of any errors that remain.
EJ Williamson
February, 2007
CONTENTS
The College of St Cross at Oxford 3
Degrees Taken 20
Master’s Report 25
Awards, Prizes and Recognition of Distinction 28
New Fellows 29Michael Biggs Herb Marsh
Nick Bostrom Timothy Power
Elizabeth Frood Julie Scott-Jackson
Sten Jacobsen Kate Venables (2003)
Peter Kemp Angus Wilkinson
Jane McNicholl Margaret Yee
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Archivist’s Report 34
Bursar’s Report 36
Development Executive’s Report 39
Director of IT’s Report 41
Librarian’s Report 42
Senior Tutor’s Report 45
Tutor for Admission’s Report 46
College Choir 47
Obituaries 48Paul Morgan
David Patterson
Per Saugman
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THE COLLEGE OF ST CROSS AT OXFORD
2006
MASTER
Goudie, Andrew Shaw, MA, DSc. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.)
FELLOWS
Browning David George, Order of José Matías Delgado, MA, DPhil (BA R’dg)
by Special Election; Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
James, Wendy Rosalind, BLitt, MA, DPhil, FBA Professor of Social Anthropology
Zimmermann, Friedrich Wilhelm, BPhil, MA, DPhil (MA Erlangen) University
Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy
Tiffany, John Michael, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) University Lecturer in
Ophthalmological Biochemistry
Parsons, Barry Eaton, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics
Pethica, John Bernard, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FRS Senior Research Fellow
Hedges, Robert Ernest Mortimer, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Archaeology
Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb.) University Lecturer in Metamorphic
Petrology; Curator, University Museum of Natural History
Pendry, Anna Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (BEd Camb.; MA (Ed) Lond.) University
Lecturer in Educational Studies (History)
Garcia-Bellido, E. Paloma, MA (MA Texas (Austin); MA, PhD Universidad
Complutense, Madrid) University Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Philology
Kruger, Nicholas, MA (PhD Camb.) University Lecturer in Plant Sciences
Mayhew, Nicholas, MA, DLitt by Special Election; Professor of Numismatics and
Monetary History, Deputy Director (Collections) Ashmolean Museum
Treadwell, William Luke, MA, DPhil (BA Camb.) Samir Shamma University Lecturer
in Islamic Numismatics, Ashmolean Museum
Thompson, Peter John, MA (BA Warw.; PhD Pennsylvania), Sydney L. Mayer
Lecturer in American History; Tutor for Admissions
Scott, Katherine, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) by Special Election
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Adam, Christopher, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St And.) Reader in Development
Economics
Davage, the Revd. William Ernest Peter, MA (BA Newc.; MPhil Leic.) Pusey
Fellow
Pieke, Frank Nikolaas, MA (BA, MA Amsterdam; PhD Berkeley) University
Lecturer in the Modern Politics and Society of China; Assessor
La Rue, Hélène, MA, DPhil University Lecturer; Curator of the Bate Collection and the
musical collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum
MacCulloch, Diarmaid Ninian John, MA, DD, (MA, PhD Camb.; Hon Dlitt
E.Anglia) FBA Professor of the History of the Church
Hope, Ronald Anthony, MA, BM, BCh (PhD Lond.) MRCPsych by Special
Election; Professor of Medical Ethics
Hamerow, Helena Francisca, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin-Madison) University
Lecturer in European Archaeology (Early Medieval); Vice Master
Whiteley, Jon James Lamont, MA, DPhil by Special Election; Senior Assistant Keeper,
Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum
Chatty, Dawn, MA (BA, DPhil UCLA; MA Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague) Reader in Forced Migration; Tutor for Women
Doherty, Maureen, MA (BA Lanc.; MA Open) by Special Election; Bursar; Wine
Steward
Rainey, Paul Barton, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Canterbury NZ) Senior Research Fellow
MacGregor, Arthur Grant, MA (MA Edin.; MPhil, DLitt Durh.) by Special
Election; Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum
Endicott, Jane Anne, MA (MA, PhD Toronto) Professor of Structural Biology
Raynes, Edward Peter, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FInstP, FRS Professor of
Optoelectronic Engineering
Ulijaszek, Stanley Jan, MA (BSc Manc.; MSc, PhD Lond.) Professor of Human
Ecology
Forbes, Lesley Eleanor, MA (BA Durh.) Keeper of the Oriental Collections, Bodleian
Library
Taylor, James, MA (MA Camb.; MSc Lanc.; PhD Lond.) Reader in Decision Science
Mitter, Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar, MA (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb.) University
Lecturer in Modern History and Politics of China
Orford, Barry Antony, MA (BA, MTh, PhD Wales) Pusey Fellow
Briant, William Richard Christian, MA (MA Camb.) by Special Election;
Administrator, Saïd Business School
Baltag, Alexandru, MA (MS Bucharest; PhD Indiana) University Lecturer in
Computer Science
Dalton, Gavin Bruce, MA. DPhil by Special Election; University Lecturer in
Astrophysics
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Savulescu, Julian, MA (BMedSci, MB, BS, PhD Monash) Uehiro Professor of
Practical Ethics
Ellis, Vivian Thomas, MA (BA Warw.; MA Washington State; PGCE Camb;
PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English)
Deutsch, Hans-Georg, MA (MA Hanover; PhD SOAS) University Lecturer in
Modern History; Senior Tutor
Parker, Michael John, MA (BEd W.England; PhD Hull) Professor of Medical Ethics
Baker, Jonathan Mark Robert, MA, MPhil Principal of Pusey House
Jirotka, Marina Denise Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Lond.; MSc S.Bank) University
Lecturer in Computer Science
Lamb, Simon Henry, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) University Lecturer in Structural Geology
and Tectonics
Ligoxygakis, Petros, MA (BA Athens; MSc, PhD Crete) University Lecturer in
Genetics
Chambers, Stephan, MA, MLitt (BA Hull) by Special Election
Buck, Daniel, MA (BA, MA CSU Chico; MA, PhD Berkeley) University Lecturer in
Human Geography of China
von Mettenheim, Kurt, MA (BA Washington; MIA, PhD Columbia) University
Lecturer in Brazilian Studies)
Romero Morales, Dolores, MA (MSc Seville; PhD Erasmus University
Rotterdam) University Lecturer in Management Studies
Hall, Rodney Bruce, MA (MS, MA, PhD Pennsylvania) University Lecturer in
International Political Economy; Academic Director, Foreign Service Programme
Churchill, Grant Charles, MA (BSc, MSc Saskatchewan; PhD Minnesota)
University Lecturer in Chemical Pharmacology
Pfeiffer, Judith, MA (MA Köln; PhD Chicago) University Lecturer in Arabic; Welfare
and Equality Offi cer
Pelling, Margaret Hansen, MA, MLitt, DLitt by Special Election; Reader in Social
History of Medicine
Savage-Smith, Emilie, MA status (MA, PhD Camb.) Senior Research Fellow; Archivist
Perrow, David, MA (MA Camb.) by Special Election; Director University Library
Services; Bodley’s Librarian
Robinson, Mark, MA (PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology
Jaffe, Harold, MA (AB UC Berkeley; MD UCLA) Professor of Public Health
Venables, Kate, MA status (BSc, MSc, MD Lond.) by Special Election; University
Lecturer in Occupational Medicine
Lin, Kun-Chin, (BA Harvard; MA, PhD Berkeley) Leverhulme Research Fellow
Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Anthonia, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Junior Research Fellow;
Director of I.T.
Frenz, Margret, MA (MA, PhD Heidelberg) Junior Research Fellow
Hamill, Heather, MA, DPhil (MA St And.) University Lecturer in Sociology
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Papanikolaou, Dimitris, MA (BA Athens; MA, PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in
Modern Greek
Szymanska, Marzena Hanna, (MSc Warsaw; PhD Camb.) Junior Research Fellow
Thambisetty, Madhav, DPhil (MB BS Calicut) Emanoel Lee Junior Research Fellow
Sweetlove, Lee, MA (BSc E.Anglia; PhD Camb.) BBSRC Fellow; University Lecturer
in Plant Sciences
Dexter, Colin, (Hon MA Leic.; Hon DLitt Oxf.Brookes) by Special Election
Parr, Anthony Douglas, DPhil (MA Camb.) by Special Election
Kapanidis, Achillefs, MA (BA Thessaloniki; MSc, PhD Rutgers) University Lecturer
in Biological Physics
Hoellerer, Maria, (MSc Vienna) E.P. Abraham Junior Research Fellow
Wright, Timothy John, BA, MSc, DPhil (BA Camb.; MSc Lond.) Senior Research
Fellow
Watson, Oliver, MA (BA Durham; PhD Lond.) Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean
Museum
Mahone, Sloan Courtney, MA, DPhil (BA Hofstra; MS Boston) University Lecturer
in the History of Medicine
Anderson, David McBeath, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St And.) Reader in the
Economics of Development
Bostrom, Nick Rolf Lars, MA (BA Gothenburg; MA Stockholm; MSc Lond.;
PhD LSE) Director, Future of Humanity Institute
Marsh, Herbert, MA (BA Indiana; MA, PhD California; DSc Western Sidney)
Professor of Educational Studies
Morrill Visiting Fellow
Power, Timothy, (BA Massachusetts; MA Florida; PhD Notre Dame) University
Lecturer in Brazilian Studies
Scott-Jackson, Julie Eileen, MA status, DPhil, (BSc Oxf.Brooks) by Special Election,
Senior Research Fellow, Pitt Rivers Museum
Wilkinson, Angus, MA (BSc, PhD Brist.) University Lecturer in Materials
Yee, Margaret, MA status, DPhil (BSc NSW; BD Sydney) Senior Research Fellow
Kemp, Peter Anthony, MA (BSc S’ton; MPhil Glas.; DPhil Sus.) Barnett Professor
of Social Policy
Biggs, Michael, (BA Victoria; MA, PhD Harvard) University Lecturer in Sociology
Frood, Elizabeth, DPhil (BA, MA New Zealand) University Lecturer in Egypology
Jacobsen, Sten Eiric, (MD, PhD Berger) Bass Professor of Developmental and Stem
Cell Biology
McNicholl, Jane, MSc (BSc Liv.; PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Educational
Studies
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HONORARY FELLOWS
Allen,Professor Sir Geoffrey, Kt (BSc, PhD Leeds), FInstP, FPRI, FRS
Seyoum, Prince Mangashia, GCVO, MA
Stafford, Godfrey Harry, CBE, MA (MSc Capetown; PhD Camb.; Hon DSc
Birm.) FInstP, FRS Master 1979-87
Crutzen, Paul Josef, (MSc, PhD, DSc Stockholm) Director, Atmospheric Chemistry
Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie 1980- ; Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995
Lee, Hermione, CBE, MA, BPhil Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature 1998-
Repp, Richard Cooper, MA, DPhil (BA Williams College, Massachusetts)
University Lecturer in Turkish History 1965-2003; Senior Proctor 1979; Pro-Vice-
Chancellor 1994-2003; Master 1987-2003
Brook, Sir Richard John, OBE, MA (BSc Leeds; ScD MIT) Professor of Materials
Science
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, (AB Vassar; MA, PhD Radcliffe College)
DOMUS FELLOW
Skipper, Constable Ian, MA
EMERITUS FELLOWS
†van Heyningen, Ruth Eleanor, MA, DPhil, DSc (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-
1979; Senior Research Offi cer in Ophthalmology 1952-1978
†Jones, Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1980; Professor of Classical Arabic
1997-2000
Whittaker, Eric James William, MA (BSc, PhD Lond.) FInstP Fellow 1967-1983;
University Lecturer in Geochemistry 1965-1967, Reader in Mineralogy 1967-1983
†Tinsley, Thomas William, OBE, MA, DSc (BSc Durh., PhD Lond.) Fellow
1965-1984; University Lecturer in Invertebrate Virology 1962-1984; Director NERC
Institute of Virology 1963-1984
†Ward, Alan, MA, BLitt Fellow 1965-1984; University Lecturer in English 1951-1988
Walshaw, Charles Desmond, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Fellow 1968-1986; University
Lecturer in Atmospheric Physics 1963-1986
Porter, Simon Robert, MA, DPhil Fellow 1977-1987; Bursar 1977-1987
Hassall, Tom Grafton, OBE, MA, Fellow 1974-1988; Director, Oxfordshire
Archaeological Unit 1973-1985; Secretary, Royal Commission on the Historical
Monuments of England 1984-1993
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†Nye, Peter Hague, BSc, MA, FRS Fellow 1965-1988; Reader in Soil Science 1961-
1988
†Hodcroft, Frederick William, Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic,
MA (MA Manc.) Fellow 1965-1990; University Lecturer in Spanish 1953-1990
Juel-Jensen, Bent Einer, MA, DM (Cand. Med. Copenhagen) FRCP, MRCGP,
Hon FRGS Fellow 1973-1990; Medical Offi cer to the Medical School 1960-1977;
Clinical Lecturer in Communicable Diseases 1968-1990; University Medical Offi cer
1977-1990
Petford, Alfred David, MA, DPhil, FRAS Fellow 1967-1990; Senior Research Offi cer,
Department of Astrophysics 1961-1990
Tregear, Mary, MA (BA Lond.) FBA Fellow 1967-1991; Senior Assistant Keeper in
Chinese Art, Ashmolean Museum 1970-1987; University Lecturer in Chinese
Art 1978-1991; Keeper of the Department of Eastern Art 1987-1991
Barton, Revd John, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon DTheol, Bonn) Fellow 1974-1991;
University Lecturer in Old Testament Theology 1974-1989, Reader in Theology 1989-
91, Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991-
Hockey, Susan Margaret, MA Fellow 1979-1991; Computing Offi cer in the Arts 1975-
1991
Smith, George David William, MA, DPhil, FInstP, FRS Fellow 1977-1991;
University Lecturer in Metallurgy 1977-1993, George Kelley Reader in Metallurgy
1993-1996, Professor of Materials Science 1996-
†Britton, Dennis, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1992; University Lecturer in
Prehistory 1961-1992
Brookes, Edward Michael, MA (BSc Durh.; Hon LLD Waterloo; CEng, MICE)
Fellow 1972-1992; Assistant University Surveyor 1964-76; University Land Agent
1976-1983
Glare, Peter Geoffrey William, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1976-1992; Editor, Oxford
Latin Dictionary 1955-1981; Editor, Liddell & Scott Supplement 1981-1996
Brown, Helen Wingate, MA Fellow 1969-1994; Assistant Keeper, later Senior Assistant
Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-1994
Beckett, Philip Henry Trim, MA, DPhil, DSc Fellow 1966-1995; University Lecturer
in Soil Science 1958-1988, Redesignated University Lecturer in Plant Science 1988-
1995
Mould, Charles Marshall, MA, DPhil (BSc (Eng.) Lond.) Fellow 1981-1995;
Secretary of the Bodleian Library 1981-1995
Olliver, Joseph Gascon, MA, DPhil (BSc Nott.) Fellow 1970-1996; University
Lecturer in Surveying and Geodesy 1966-1996
Tyler, Godfrey John, MA (MSc Lond.; PhD Brist.) Fellow 1970-1996; University
Lecturer in Agricultural Economics 1968-1996
Atkins, Frederick Brian, MA, DPhil Professorial Fellow 1975-1997; University Lecturer
in Mineralogy 1969-1997; Curator of the Mineralogical Collection 1969-1997
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Nizami, Farhan Ahmad, MA, DPhil (MA Aligarh) Junior Research Fellow 1983-
1985; Islamic Studies Fellow 1985-1997; Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
1985 -
Bishop, David Hugh Langler, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD Liv.) Fellow, 1984-1998;
Director, NERC Institute of Virology 1984-1995
Roberts, Adrian David Scudamore, MA, BLitt (MA Camb.) Fellow 1978-1998;
Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library 1976-1998; Keeper of Oriental Books 1976-1998
Vessey, Martin Paterson, CBE, MA (MB, BS, MD Lond.) FRS Fellow 1973-
2000; Professor of Public Health 1974-2000
Richards, Donald Sidney, MA Fellow 1967-2000; University Lecturer in Arabic 1960-
2000; Dean of Degrees
Benton, Peter, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1987-2001; University Lecturer in Educational
Studies (English) 1976-2001
Woolnough, Brian Ernest, MA (BSc R’dg; Cert Ed Camb.) FInstP Fellow 1984-
2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (Physics) 1978-2001
Smith, Geoffrey MA, DPhil Fellow 1978-2001; University Lecturer in Astrophysics
1969-2001
Roe, Derek Arthur, MA, DLitt (MA, PhD Camb.) Fellow 1970-2003; University
Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology 1965-1997, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology
1997-2003
Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, DPhil Fellow 1981-2000; University Lecturer in
Modern Greek 1981-1996, Professor of Modern Greek 1996-2003
Williamson, Edward James, MA, DPhil Fellow 1970-2004; University Lecturer in
Physics 1968-2004; Dean of Degrees
Abramson, Glenda, MA (MA, PhD Rand.) Senior Research Fellow 1981-1989,
Fellow 1989-2004; Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew 1989-2004
Allan, James Wilson, MA, DPhil Fellow 1990-2005; Assistant Keeper, Department of
Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum 1966-1988, Senior Assistant Keeper 1988-1991,
Keeper (Professor) 1991-2005
McLatchie, Robert Craw Forsyth, MA (BSc Glas.) Senior Research Fellow 1991-
2005; Director, Oxford Parallel 1991-2005
Harris, Ann, MA (PhD Lond.) Fellow 1991-2005; University Lecturer in Paediatrics
1991-; Professor of Paediatric Molecular Genetics -2005
† Founding Fellow
VISITING FELLOWS
Thompson, Jon (BA, MB, BChir Camb.) May Beattie Visiting Fellow in Carpet
Studies
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RETIRED FOUNDING FELLOWS(other than Emeritus Fellows)
Barbour, Ruth, MA
Burridge, Kenelm Oswald Lancelot, MA
Zussman, Jack, MA, DPhil.
Griffi th, Thomas Gwynfor, B.Litt., MA MA, DPhil
Tucker, Richard George, B.Sc., BM, MA, DPhil.
Coles, Barry Arclay, MA, DPhil
GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS
1997 Charupongsopon, Wilert, (BBA Chulalongkorn Univ.; MBA
Thammasat Univ.; MPPM Yale)
1998 Antun, Thallein Mireille, (BA, MLitt, St And.)
Johnstone, Rachel Sara, (BA Univ. Idaho)
1999 Biggs, Timothy James, BA
Bruns, Dorothee, (ZP Berlin)
Bukach, David, (BA Victoria; BA Simon Fraser Univ.)
Kahlon, Amol, (MA, MPhil Jawaharlal Univ.)
Liy, Yan Tat, (BSc Sus.; MSc Wales)
Lou, Xing, (BEng Zhejiang)
2000 McGovern, Dermot Patrick Bracher, (MB, BS Lond.)
Mugume, Adam, (BSc Makerere; MA Botswana)
Rasool, Shahana, (BA Witwatersrand)
Washington, John Augustine, (BA Pepperdine)
2001 Acosta Garcia, Raul Gerardo, (BA Iteso Univ.)
Allan, Verity Louise, (BA Camb.)
Arapostathis, Efstathios, (BSc Thessaloniki; MSc Athens)
Arensdorf, Ashley Ives, (BA Penn. State; MA Millersville)
Bahg, Catherine, (MA New York)
Baiza, Yahia, MPhil (Dipl. Secondary Technical Coll. Tsnava, Czech
Republic)
Bassini-Jiuxianben, Patrizia, (BSc, MSc Brunel)
Dean, Anna Catherine, (BSc Durh.)
Edwards, Jane Andrea, (MA Edin.; MSc Sus.)
Fisher, Helen Sian, (BA Sur.; MA R’dg)
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Flanery, Patrick Denman, (BFA New York)
Gustafsson, Paer Lennart, MA
Lee, Jooha, MSc
Loukina, Anastassia, MPhil (Dipl. St Petersburg State Univ.)
Mustafa, Asma Basil, (BA R’dg)
Ruiz Castell, Pedro, (BSc Valencia)
Shimazono, Yosuke, (BA Waseda Univ.; MA Kyoto)
Shin, Ji Young, (BSc, MSc Yonsei Univ.)
Srimanosaowapak, Sompong, (MMet Sheff.)
Tacla, Adriene Baron, (BA, MPhil Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro)
Wells, Graham William Henry
Wilson, Linus Theodore, MPhil
Witte, Holger, MSc (Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Univ. Wedel)
Yonan, Jonathan Joseph, (BA Gordon College)
Zambone, Albert Louis, (BA Johns Hopkins; MA Catholic Univ. of
America)
2002 Armstrong, Michael Stuart, (BA Camb.)
‡ Atallah, Louis Nicolas, (Dip. Lebanese Univ.)
Axford, Daniel Nathan, (BSc Birm.)
Bateson, Jonathan Gilder, (MSc Nott.Trent.)
Bhugun, Ian, (BEng, MSc Nott.Trent)
Bozzi, Evelyne, (BA UCLA; AM Brown)
Brahimi, Alia, (MA Edin.)
Byfi eld, Cheron Marie, (BA Hull; MSc, MBA Aston)
Chen, Shih-Chung, (BA Nat. Chenghi Univ.; MA SOAS)
Chow, Kai Yeung Anthony, (MSc, DIC Imperial College, Beng
Univ.; PhD Hong Kong)
Davies, James Peter Michael, (BA Lond.)
Davies, Victor Ayodele Bamijoko, (BSc Fourah Bay College Univ.; MA
United Nat. SA Inst.)
Davis, Angela Elizabeth Rose, (BA Lond.)
Fan, Xinyue, (BE Zhejiang Univ)
Frampton, Philip Peter Charles, MChem
Gallant, Jeanette Elise, (MA Univ. BC)
Grigg, Stephen Peter, (BS Univ. Mass.)
Hausseker, Dirk, (Pre-Dipl. Heidelberg)
Hausseker, Pei Ling, (BSc Univ. Malaysia)
Hebbert, Benjamin Mark, (BSc Lond.Guild.; MMus Leeds)
Hellmich, Christina, (MA St And.)
Lau, Pui Yan, (BSc, MPhil Hong Kong)
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Lawrence, Robert William, (BSc Kent; MSc Brist.)
Nicholls, Jason Richard, (BSc Portsmouth Poly.; MA Nott.; PGCE
Lond.)
Oberman, Kieran, (BA Wales)
Ochs, Kimberly Corann, MSc
Pall, Pardeep, (MSc Lond.)
Pellissery, Sony, (MPhil Indian Inst. of Tech.; MSW Bombay; BA
Vikram Univ.)
Pialek, Nicholas Charles, (MA St And.)
Pickup, Lyndsey Clare, MEng
Ray, Nicola Jane, (BSc Bolton Inst.; MSc R’dg.)
Reade, John James, (BA Durh.)
Roitman, Karem, (BA, BSc Arizona State Univ.)
Ryder, Isabelle Marjorie Anne, BA (BA Camb.)
Schmitt, Jean-Marie Didier, (BA Bard College; MS Banaras Hindu
Univ.)
Simakova, Elena Guennad’evna, (Dipl. Moscow State Univ.)
Spektor, Matias, (BA, MA Univ. Brasilia)
Stahlkopf, Christina Louise, MSc (BA Bowdoin College)
Tan, Huiling, (BA Beijing)
Thompson, Claire, (BSc Glas.)
Williams, Christopher Charles, (BA Salf.)
Yared, Hala Maria, (MPhil Lond.)
2003 Angrish, Deepshikha, (BSc Delhi Univ.; MSc IIT Delhi)
Bailey, Katy Elizabeth, (BSc Wales)
Behjati, Sam, BA
Berger, Carol Ann, (MA Univ. Alberta)
Brett, Nicholas Daniel, (MSc Lond.)
Bright, Ashleigh, (BSc; MSc Univ. Waikato)
Burke, Claudine Francesca, (MSc Lond.; MA Edin.)
Campbell, Helen Elizabeth, (BA Tees; MSc York)
Choudhury, Sutapa, (BSc LSE)
Clack, Andrew Aaron, (BA Univ Pittsburgh; MSc Yale)
Clark, Christina Rose, (MPhil Camb.)
Croydon, David Alexander, (BA Camb.)
Esteris, Kathryn Lynsey, (BA Stir.; MA Durh.)
Guy, Gwyneth Hilda, (BA Durh.; PGCE West Sussex Inst. of Higher
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Education)
Hammami, Mona, (MPA, ID Harvard; BA American Univ. of Beirut)
Heyburn, Rosse Geoffrey, (BSc Edin.)
Huang, Jia, (BA Nanjing Univ.)
Hutton, Cherry Warrington, (BA Durh.; MA Chelt. and Gloucs. Coll.
Higher Education)
Ioannidou, Eleftheria, (MA Lond.)
Jones, Katherine Ann, (BA Camb.)
Kaur, Juss Rani, (BSc Concordia Univ.)
Kim, Yoon Hui, MPhil (BSc Georgetown Univ.)
Kim, Wook Sung, (BA, MSt Korea Univ.)
Mirza, Fareed, (BSc S.Bank; MSc Lond.)
Mofu, Suriel Semuel, (BEd Univ. Cenderawasih; MEd Univ. Sydney)
Nayak, Gopa, (MSt Hong Kong Poly. Univ.)
Newell, David Timothy, (MEng Sheff.)
Packer, Thomas Edmund, (BSc, MA LSE)
Raju, Paul Ananda, (BS Univ. Calif; MSc San Francisco State Univ.)
Ranawana, Romesh Mahen, (BSc Univ. Peradeniya)
Roberts, Shana Sun, (BA Univ. Swaziland; MSc Univ. Witwatersrand)
Schroeder, Hannes, (BSc Lond.)
Sheftel, Anna, (BA Concordia Univ.)
Shia, Alice Kwong Ha, (BSc Birm.)
Sihlongonyane, Mfaniseni Fana, (BA Univ. Swaziland; MSc Univ.
Witwatersrand)
Simon, Judit, (MSc York; MD, BSc, BA Univ. Szeged)
Souto Otero, Manuel, (MSc Bath)
Stefansson, Kolbeinn Holmar, (BA Univ. Iceland)
Stork, Anna Louise, (MSc Durh.)
Sturdy, Yvette Catherine, Mchem
Takaya, Kentei, (BA Univ. Queensland; MA NY Univ.)
Tan, Jo-Pei, (BSc, MSt Univ. Putra; MPhil Camb.)
Tzevelekos, Nikolaos-Pavlos, (BSc Univ. Athens)
Ukiwo, Ukoha Okarafor, (BSc, MSc Univ. Port Harcourt)
‡ Vlandas, Alexis, (MSc Lond.)
Wang, Xindan, (BSc Shanghai Jiau Tong Univ.)
2004 Abdulla, Fawaz Yousif, (BSc LSE)
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Athanson, Michael, MSt (MA Glas.; MPhil Glasgow School of Art)
Barisin, Ivana, (MSc Ulster)
Bin Ramli, Harith, (BA Durh.)
Blackledge, Aimee Evette, MSt (BA Oxf.Brookes)
Blackmore, Victoria Jayne, (MSc Lond.)
Chung, Dae Hae, MPhil (BA Brown Univ.)
Clifton, David Andrew, (MEng Brist.)
Cooper, Andrew David, (MPhil Camb.; BSc Durh.)
Davies, Graham Alan, (MSc, BSc Sheff.)
* Day, Michael Sean, (AB Georgetown Univ.)
Deganis, Isabelle Roseline Grace, (BBA Lanc.; Diplome Reims
Management School)
Efstathopoulos, Charalampos, (BA W.England; MA Warw.)
Eriyagolla, Udani Koushalya, (LLB Brist.)
Faitelson, David, MSc (BA Tel-Aviv Univ.)
Fazlali-Zadeh, Sara Roxana, (BA Brun.)
Fox, Melissa Kathryn, (MA Univ. of Virginia)
Fox, Kathleen Anne, (MA DePaul Univ. Chicago)
Grey, Matthew Richard, (BSc Univ. Cape Town)
Hale, Joseph John, (MRes York)
Hamer, Rebecca, (BA Camb.; MSc Exe.)
Harrington, Nicola, (BA, MA Lond.)
Harrington, Brian, (BSc Univ. Toronto)
Hart, Ian Menzies, (MSt Brist.; MA Sus.; MA Essex)
Hartung, Henrike, MSc (Pre-Dipl Philipps Univ.)
Heimsath, Kabir Mansingh, (MA Univ. Washington; BA Univ. of
California)
Hiruta, Kei, (MA Essex; BA Keio Univ.)
Hull, Bradley Douglas, (MA Edin.; MS Univ. Wisconsin)
Hung, Yu Yui Ruth, (BA, MPhil Univ. of Hong Kong)
Isom, Jesse Woodson, (BA Columbia Univ.)
Ivanov, Kalin Svetoslavov, (MSt NY Univ.; BA Conn Coll.)
Jefferson, Victoria Frances, (BSc Liv.)
Kerry, Philip Stephen, MBiochem
Kleinberg, Teri Tung, (BA Harvard)
Kotsovili, Eirini Dionysia, MSt (BA McGill)
Kuhn, Lars Thorsten, (BSc, MSc Univ. of Bonn)
Lachtman, Shane, (BA, MA Univ. California; MA Columbia)
Laffi n, Paul James, (BA Trinity Coll. Dublin)
Liu, Yi, (BA, MSt Fudan Univ.)
Lobley, Noel James, (MA St And.)
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Lopez Pascua, Laura Del Carmen, (BSc Bath; MSc Lond.)
Lowe, Avril V., (HDCR Merseyside Sch. Radiography)
McManus, Eoin, (BSc, MSc Univ. Coll. Dublin)
Mitchell, David Arthur, (MA UCL; BA Birkbeck; BA Kings)
Moore, Anne Lindsey, MSt (BA Westmont Coll.)
Morgan, Jasper, (BSc LSE)
Parsons, Robert Thad, (BA Duke Univ.)
Phillips, Amanda Hope, (MA Univ. Massachusetts)
Russell, Bruce Courtney, BA (BA Camb.)
Scales, Alan, (BA Kent)
Schauf, Zachary Charles, (BA Stanford)
Schoenaers, Caroline, (MPhil Univ de Liege; BA, AA Univ. Catholique
de Louvain)
Takeya, Nobuki, (MSc Lond.; BSc Univ. Tokyo)
Tee, Clive, (BSc S’ton Inst.)
Tetlay, Zein-Al Abideen, (BA Luton; MSc Cranfi eld)
Tsaltas, Dean Dexter, (BSc Dalhousie)
Wang, Lihui, (MSc Nat. Univ. Sing.; BSc Wuhan Univ.)
Weimer, Allyn Ann, (BA Univ. California)
Yakob, Laith William, (MSc Lond. BSc Glas.)
Zhang, Shu Yan, (MSc York; BSc Fudan Univ.)
2005 Afzal, Kashif Naseem, MSc (BSc Lond.)
Agius, Safja Marija, MSc (BDes Ontario College; BC Open)
Allen, Jonathan Kenneth, (BA Sheff.; MSc Lond.)
Alturki, Noura Saleh, MSc (BA Brown Univ.)
Aman, Amanullah
Arakelian, Catharine Isabel, (BA Brist.)
Azad, Arezou, MSt (BA, BS Boston Univ.)
Barr, Amie Rebecca, PGCE (BSc Brist.)
Barron Ayllon, Manuel Fernando, MSc (BA Catholic Univ. Peru)
Bassea, Erato, MSt (Ptychion Athens)
Bento, Thiago, (BA Lond. Metro Univ.)
Borsch-Supan, Johanna Ingrid
Boston, Nigel Alexander, MSc (BA Dalhousie Univ.)
Bowkett, Camilla Neale, MSc (BA Nott.)
Bowman, Clare Marie, MSc (BA, BSc Open)
Branch, Richard William, (MPhys Leic.)
Brosch, Maria-Christina, MSc (BA Int Partnership of B.S.)
Cahill, Nathan David, (BSc, MSc Rochester Inst. of Tech.)
Campbell, Peter Thomas Anthony, PGCE (BSc R’dg)
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Chao, Michael Jiajia, (MSc ICL; MSc KCL; BSc Luton)
Chitwood, Lauren Taylor, (BA Hawaii Pacifi c Univ.)
Ciocca, Christina Marie, MSt (BA Georgetown Univ.)
Cordingley, Alison Jane, PGCE (BA Univ. NUT)
Dairi, Mahmoud Omar, (BA UQAM)
Dave, Nomita, (BA Univ. Florida)
Dee, Michael William, (BSc Victoria Univ. of Wellington)
Dodson, Luke David, MSc BA North Texas Univ.)
Dutta, Diya, (BA Delhi)
Dutton, Vaughan Myles, (BSc, MSc Univ. Kwazulu, Natal; BSc Univ.
Natal)
Ekers, Michael Archer, (MSt York Univ. Toronto)
El Sayed, Maha Samer, MSc (BSc American Univ. of Beirut)
Erdal, Murat Ilican, (MSc LSE; BA Macalester College)
Everill, Bronwen Elisabeth, MSt (BA Harvard)
Ferguson, Christopher Alan, MSt (BA Univ. NUT)
Fowler, Jonathan David, (BA St Mary’s Univ.; MA Sheff.)
Gallo, Edoardo, (BA Harvard)
Ghanbari, Mohammed, (BSc Birm.)
Ghosh, Subhasish, Failed MSc (BA Moscow Power Eng Inst)
Gobo, Ayo-Kalata, Cert in Dipl St. (BA, MA Univ. Ibadan)
Godin, Marie Veronique Paul, MSc (BA ULB; BA Concordia Univ.)
Goldberg, Sarah Rachel, MSc (BA Swarthmore College)
Gorrie, Jonathan James, BA
Hall, Miguel Antonio Andrade
Hamill, Matthew, (BM, BS Brist.)
Harvey, Benjamin Mark, (MSt Bath)
Harvey, Ann Kirsten, (BA, MSc Oxf.Brookes)
Ho, Wei Meng, (BA, MA National Univ. Singapore)
Hocaoglu, Mevhibe Banu, MSc (BSc, BA William and Mary College)
Hollund, Hege Ingjerd, (BSc Cardiff; BA Oslo; BA Bergen)
Hunter, Kathleen Allison, (BA, MA, DPhil Univ. Western Ontario)
Hynd, Stacey, BA
Iqbal, Sarah, (BSc St Stephen’s College)
Jessop, Charlotte Laura, BA, PGCE
Johnson, Alexander Edward, (BA Durh.)
Jung, Jeeah, (BA, MA Korea Univ.)
Kang, Runbin
Kaplan, Josiah David, (AB Dartmouth College)
Kapur, Anjua, MSc (BSc LSE)
Karachiwalla, Naureen Iqbal, MSc (BA McGill)
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Kemal, Kiyim, (BA Cornell)
Kobayter Helayhel, Sabine, MSc (BA American Univ. Beirut)
Kuo, Caroline Chia, (BA Univ. Virginia)
Le Tu, Duc, MSc (BA Tech. Univ. Dresden)
Lee, Ericson Xuansheng, MSc (BEng Lond.)
Lee, Hanshin, (BA, MSc Yonsei Univ.)
Leigh, Claire Suzanne, (BA Camb.)
Li, Xingyu, MSc (BA SouthEast Univ.)
Liu, Hanqing, MSc (BSc Tsingua Univ.)
Lofi nk, Hayley Elizabeth, (BA, MSc Univ. Pennsylvania)
Lowne, Duncan Robert, (BSc Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Lundholm, Christiana Marie, MSc (BA Luther College)
Lynch, Anthony Howard, BA (Dipl Slough Coll)
Macalpine, Christopher Marcel, (BA Middx.)
Macfarlane, Elizabeth Clare, BA
Marshall, Matthew Spiro James, (BSc Toronto)
Matoses Osborne, Maria, MSc (BSc Univ. Valencia)
Matthews, Alexander William Geoffrey, BA, MSc
McCabe, David John, MPhys
McGill, Darryl Andrew, (BSc, MBBS Univ. NSW; PhD Austr. National
Univ.)
Milian, Dagmara Anna, BA, MSc
Milward, Polly Claire Evelyn, PG Dipl. in Sci. and(BM S’ton)
Morgan, Melissa Carolyn, MSc (BA Southern Methodist Univ.)
Mwangome, Martha Kaeni, MSc (BA Maseno Univ.)
Nathenson, Robert Aaron, MSc (BSc Wash. Univ. St Louis)
Oh, Yein Anna, (BSc Toronto)
Osborn, Michelle Ann, MSc (BA Vanderbilt Univ.; MSt Case Western
Res Univ.)
Oshmyansky, Alexander Roman, (BA Colorado; MD Duke)
Otton-Goulder, Catharine Anne, MA
Palm, Daniel James Wilmore, MSc (BBSc Univ. Cape Town)
Papo, Jacqueline Kim, (BA Stanford; MSc Lond.)
Pickavance, Graham Lee, (BSc Victoria; MSc Toronto)
Pieczynski, Piotr Janusz, (MA Adam Mickiewicz Univ.)
Presser-Velder, Gion-Otton
Pullinger, Claire Joanne, (BA Birm.)
Ranganathan, Sriram, MSc
Rasekhschaffe, Keywan Christian, (BSc Brist.)
Rode, Amit
Routh, David Chad, (BA Wabash Coll)
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Rubin, Sarah Ethel, MSc (BA Univ. Calif; MA Case Western Res.Univ.)
Schafer, Ulf, (BSc Univ. Appl. Schience Karlsruhe)
Schwartz, Julien Stephane, MSc (DEUG Louis Pasteur Univ.; BSc
Rennes; MSc Univ. SE Alaska)
Sengupta, Arindam
Sharpe, Bethany Ann, MSc (BA Louisville Univ.)
Shen, Boya, MSc (LLN Warw.)
Shuyska, Jane Alexen, (BA Roskilde Univ. Centre, Denmark)
Sikka, Pilleriin, MSc (BSc, MSc Tallium Pedagogical Univ.)
Sofi eld, Clifford Martin, (AB Princeton)
Solywoda, Stephanie, MPhil (BA Smith Coll, Mass)
Stan, Razvan Sebastian, (BA Bucharest Univ,; MA Nat. Sch of Political
and Admin. Stud.)
Sternberg, Troy, (BA Univ. California; MSc Texas Tech Univ.)
Stout, Jeffrey Neil, MSt (BSc Univ. Denver)
Summers, Kate, (BSc Thames V.; Dipl S.Bank; PGCE Brighton)
Sun, Jie, MSc (BS Shanghai Maritime Univ.)
Sun, Weili, MSc (BA Ocean Univ. of Gingdao; MSt Plym.)
Thoma, Paraskevoulla, MSt (BA Univ. Crete)
Thomas, Bethan Joan, (BA Durh.)
Thompson, Edwina
Tiedemann-Nkabinde, Ra, MSc (BA Lond.)
Tighe, Bernice Jane, PGCE (BSc Robert Gordon Univ.; MSt
Roehampton Inst)
Tinti, Gemma Maria, (Physics, Univ. Milan)
Tsouderou, Athina, MSc (BSc Nat. and Kapodistrian Univ. of
Athens)
Ursu, Silvia, MSc (BA Ac of Economic Studies, Moldova)
Vastenavondt, Marc, MSc (BSc Mahidol Univ.)
Verma, Siddharth, MSc (BA York)
Vinson, Christina Cleo, (MSt Federal Univ. of Para)
Vitacolonna, Valerio, MSc
Vyday, Galina
Wang, Jingbo, (MPhil Hong Kong)
Wawrzak, Kaja Jda, (BA TT Coll Czestochona)
Weaver, Corinne Michelle, (BSc, MSc, MPhil Sheff.)
Werrell, Caitlin Eloise, (BA Mount Holyoke Coll.)
White, Benjamin Geoffrey, BA
Whitnah, Lauren Linn, MSt (BA Gordon College)
Winfi eld-Lesk, Mellissa Penny, MSc (BES Univ. Waterloo)
Wood, Rachel Elizaeth, (BSc Durh.)
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Xi, Mengbing, (BSc Middx.)
Yang, Jingjing, (BA Nanjing Univ.)
Yang, Yungdong, (BA Peking Univ.)
Yang, Eun Jung (Jen), MSc (BA Toronto)
Yang, Ye, MSc (BA North China Elec. Power Univ.)
Zauner, Michaela Maria, (BA Univ. Osnabruck)
Zukowska, Kornelia, MSc (BA, BBA Hofstra Univ.)
* Healy Scholar
‡ Unilever Scholar
MEMBERS OF STAFF(not already listed)
Librarian Sheila Allcock
Master’s Personal Assistant Celia Balmer
Maintenance Operative Maurice Brown
Junoir Accounts Assistant Carolyn Eagle
Accommodation Offi cer Annette Evans
Annexe Caretaker Mike Henderson
Assistant Bursar Suzy Hodge
Bursar’s Aministrative Assistant Laura King
Accounts Manager Judith Ledger
IT Offi cer Razvan Novacovschi
Admissions and Academic Secretary Chris Roberts
Accounts Assistant Ann Rowles
Garden Master Suki Walton
Catering Manager John Ward
Porter Paul Wicking
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DEGREES TAKEN
2005
DPhil Handaka, Sophia Anthropological Refl ections on
Greek Orthodox Votive Offerings
(Tamata) with reference to
the Mikes Paidousis Collection
* Haussecker, Dirk Intergenic Transcription in the
Human B-Globin Locus:
Structural and Functional
Investigations
Townsend, Gabrielle Menzie Proust’s Imaginary Museum:
Reproduction and Reproductions
in a La Recherche du Temps Perdu
MA* Townsend, Gabrielle Menzie
MBA
* Fuji, Yoshinobu
Sawhney, Pawan
MPhil * Barrass, Natasha Elise
Lou, Xing
* Tancock, Christopher Michael
Tong, Yuet Man Nora
MSc
* Clack, Andrew Aaron
* Dhembo, Elona
* Dickinson, Nicolas Louis
Dudani, Richa
Edwards, Philip John
Faiges-Hijon, Arantza
Geva, Sharon
Hartung, Henrike
* Ho, Kiam Khoon
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* Hu, Wenjun
* Isler, Res
* Kalantzis, Konstantinos
* McGough, Kristin Leigh
Miles, Wendy
Nogueira, Maria Beatriz Bonna
Seelig, Leo William
* Skuja, Michael Joseph
* Wang, Vivian Huei-Wen
* Xypolytas, Nikolaos
MSt Allen, Chay Henry
Banerjee, Sohini
* Ehrlich, Jeremy Simon
Frischmann, Chad Jonathon
Grunstra, Lydia R.
King, Mark Allan
Moore, Anne Lindsey
* Phillips, Amanda Hope
Rees, Sarah Frances
Schaffer, Adam Baruch
* Yoshioka, Masatsugu
Zitzmann, Brooks
2006
BCL Behjati, Sam
DPhil Armstrong, Michael Stuart Holonomy of Cartan Connections
Boyd, Catherine Louise Titanium Imido Compounds with
Pendant Arm Amidinate Ligands
Brady, Sinead Theresa Structure and fusion activity of a
fl avivirus
Coopmans, Catelijne An Ethnographic Study of Medical
Imaging: Mobility, Representation
Boundaries and Utility in a Digital
Age
Danson, Edward James Frazer Site-Specifi c Roles of Nitric Oxide
in Autonomic Regulation of
Cardial Excitability
Davies, James Peter Michael A Grammar of Transformation
Analysing Anthropologically
the Construction of the
Psychotherapeutic Practitioner
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Fan, Xinyue Intra-Gate Fault Diagnosis of
Cmos Integrated Circuits
Fisher, Helen Sian The Literacy Hour at Key Stage 2
The Child’s Perspective
Grigg, Stephen Peter Serrate Coordinates of Shoot
Meristem Function and Leaf
Axial Patterning in Arabidopsis
Thaliana
Harambat, Emanuelle Creating Places: Landscape,
Memory and Identity in the Mid
Zambezi Valley
Howell, Caroline Church and State in
Decolonization: The Case of
Buganda, 1939-1962
Kaniari, Assimina Modernity and the Scientifi c Uses
of Design. A Critical Investigation
in the Notion of Art and Style of
the Artifi cial with Special
Reference to the Human Antiquity
Controversy 1558 – 1908
Lymperopoulos, Konstantinos Functional Characterisation of the
Bluetongue Virus Non-Structural
Protein NS2: Protein and RNA
Protein Interactions
Maas, Korey, Devlin Robert Barns (1495 - 1540) as
Historical Theologian
Marasingha, Aruna Gihan On Pairs of Quadratic Forms
Mo, Yuet-Ha Interpersonal Trust and Business
Relationships
* Mugume, Adam Essays on Macroeconomics in
Uganda
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* Mwangi, Annabel Namik Refugees and the State in Kenya
The Politics of Identity
Rights and Displacement
Ray, Nicola Jane Visual Sensory Processing in
Dyslexia and the Effects of
Coloured Filters
* Ruiz Castell, Pedro Astronomy and Astrophysics in
Spain (1850-1914)
* Wanelik, Kazimierz Some Aspects of Adiabatic Evolution
MBA Stevenson, Keely Colleen
MPhil Day, Michael Sean
Fazlali-Zadeh, Sara Roxana
Fox, Melissa Kathryn
* Isom, Jesse Woodson
* Lee, Toby Kim
* Tang, Beibei
MSc* Abdulla, Fawaz Yousif
* Babelon, Jan Antoni
Barr, Graham Harvey
* Barron Ayllon, Manuel Fernando
Berland, Ari Harris
Boston, Nigel Alexander
Brosch, Maria-Christina
Chue, Connie Man Ying
* Clary, Oliver George
Dodson, Luke David
El Sayed, Maha
El-Shaarawi, Nadia Rose
Gatsos, Panagiotis
Guo, Jiehan
Hiruta, Kei
Karachiwalla, Naureen Iqbal
* Kinder, Kimberley Anne
* Kleinberg, Teri Tung
* Kobayter, Sabine
Lee, Ericson Xuansheng
* Li, Xiaoyi
Lorenzoni, Natalia
Lowe, Avril V.
Lundholm, Christiana Marie
Matoses Osborne, Maria
Nathenson, Robert Aaron
* Ranganathan, Sriram
* Ranganathan, Sriram
Sadler Spencer, Maria Michelle
* Schwartz, Julien Stephane
Sekki, Miriam Joanna
* Sharpe, Bethany Ann
* Shin, Ji Young
Sikurajapathy, Lankani
Verma, Siddharth
* Vitacolonna, Valerio
Winfi eld-Lesk, Mellissa Penny
Wong, Ka Yi Anissa
Yu, Alice
Zukowska, Kornelia
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MSt
* Anderson, Lorraine Susan
Bassea, Erato
Everill, Bronwen Elisabeth
Feng, Tao
* In absentia
* Howell, Caroline
* Selby, Bradley Neale
Thoma, Paraskevoulla
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MASTER’S REPORT
During the summer of 2006 we have been undertaking quite a major site
conversion project as part of our new arrangements with Pusey House. The main
consequence of this is that we shall be acquiring a new college meeting room
in what is now called the Darwell Stone Room. We have also refurbished the
Saugman Common Room, with new lighting, recovered chairs, and new paint
work.
This year we have maintained our international fl avour, with over 50 nationalities
in our student body. The College has been very pleased to have been involved
in accepting students in a number of new MScs in some very important areas
including Global Health and in African Studies.
College fund raising has proceeded during the year. We have received legacy
pledges of c £1.25 million, and through the generosity of fellows, friends and
alumni we were able to obtain the maximum matching funding from the College
Contributions Scheme - 75K to match the 75K of donations we received.
The St Cross Singers performed before the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors at
a ceremony to admit Mr Tetsuji Uehiro to membership on 29th June 2006. I am
pleased to say that a book arising from our fi rst College lecture series on the Ethics
and Politics of Collecting Cultural Objects has now been published by Oxbow
Books – two of the three editors are fellows of the college: Luke Treadwell and
Chris Gosden.
Alumni events have included a Christmas party at the British Academy, the
annual Fred’s lunch, and a post-encaenia drinks party.
Each year, unfortunately, I have to report on sad losses, but this year they have been
especially grievous. Per Saugman, Emeritus fellow and Benefactor extraordinary
died on November 25th 2005. On December 10th 2005, one of our Founding
fellows, Dr David Patterson died. Our sympathy goes to José and the family.
There was a notable memorial gathering for him in college on June 18th, when my
predecessor, Dick Repp, spoke of David’s invaluable contribution to the College.
On March 10th 2006, we were sorry to learn of the death of Paul Morgan, a
former fellow (1978-1983). He was 91. He had also been college archivist. He had
a very extensive publication list and was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
On September 30th 2006 we were sad to note the departure of Margaret Taylor
from the fellowship following her resignation from her university post, Dr Tim
Wright on his appointment to a post in the University of Leeds, and Professor
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David Warrell, on his retirement as Professor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious
Diseases. David has brought great distinction to the College and has also been a
devoted and active member of our community. However, our fellowship continues
to be distinguished and active. Since I last reported, Dr Rana Mitter has won
the THES Young Academic Author of the Year 2005 for his book ‘A bitter
revolution’. We congratulate Chris Gosden, our former Dean, on his election to
the Chair of European Archaeology. Unfortunately this means he had to migrate
to Keble. Professor Harold Jaffe has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academies in the USA. Dr Helena Hamerow has been awarded a
Senior Research fellowship by the British Academy for 2006-7. Fortunately she
will be able to continue as Vice Master. Through the generosity of James Martin,
the University has been able to establish the James Martin 21st Century School.
Of the eight new institutes, two are directed by St Cross fellows: Nick Bostrom
- the future of humanity, and Julian Savulescu - the ethics of the new biosciences.
Professor Tony Hope was awarded a Teaching Excellence award by the Medical
Sciences Division.
On March 21st the Royal Mail produced a set of stamps of Ice Age Animals,
based on the work of Kate Scott at Stanton Harcourt pit near Oxford. Given the
speed of the Royal Mail these days a glacial theme seemed entirely appropriate.
Hermione Lee, Honorary Fellow, was Chair of the Mann Booker prize for 2006.
Paul Crutzen, Honorary Fellow, was elected a foreign member of the Royal
Society in 2006.
Perhaps most importantly of all, four of our fellows were created Professors in
the Distinctions exercise in 2006: Glenda Abramson, David Anderson, Helena
Hamerow, and Emilie Savage-Smith. Kate Venables and Andy Pollard were
created Readers.
Since October 2005 we have welcomed the following new fellows: Dr Inge Daniel
(Social Anthropology), Dr Elizabeth Frood (Egyptology), Dr Michael Biggs
(Sociology), Dr Mary Bosworth (Criminology), Prof. Peter Kemp (Social Policy),
Dr Jane McNicoll (Educational Studies) and Prof. Herb Marsh (Educational
Studies), Dr Andy Pollard (Medicine), Luciano Floridi (Ethics) and Prof. Sten
Eirik Jacobsen (Stem Cell Biology).
One of the gratifying things about the fellowship is that the number of women
who are fellows has increased from 17 in 2003 to 29 in 2006. This is a much
better ratio than is found in most Oxford colleges.
Our students have also been active. We had 4 players at the Varsity Rugby
match at Twickenham on Dec. 6th and although Oxford lost to Cambridge all
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the Oxford points were scored by our James Whittingham. Jon Gorrie obtained
a blue in Rugby League. Miguel Hall obtained a blue in the Varsity football
match. Richard Branch, one of our Life Sciences students, was chosen by the
European Space Agency to take part in a Parabolic Flight Campaign in an A300
aircraft to experience zero-gravity. Ben Hebbert, virtuoso fi ddler and former
Student President, who has been awarded a second Coleman fellowship at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – this time in Conservation Science.
Sam Behjati was jointly awarded the Radcliffe Infi rmary Essay Prize in Pathology
2006.
During the year we were sorry to see the departure of two popular members of
the administrative staff, Dawn Sheridan-Kasaj and Hannah Shadbolt, who left to
become a new mother to Toby.
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AWARDS, PRIZES AND RECOGNITION OF DISTINCTION
Jo Ashbourn has been awarded a National Endowment for Science, Technology
and the Arts (NESTA) Crucible Award.
Dimitris Papanikolaou has received a Teaching Award from the Humanities
Division.
Marina Jirotka has won an ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowship to conduct fi eld work
and interviews in the United States. She has also been awarded an Excellence in
Teaching award by the University of Oxford.
Dawn Chattey has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Arthur MacGregor has been elected Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological
Institute and to a Fellowship of the Linnean Society.
Rana Mitter was named ‘Young Academic Author of the Year 2005’ in the
inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement Awards for his book A bitter
Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World. The book was also a fi nalist for
the 2005 British Academy Book Prize.
David Anderson has been twice interviewed by the BBC in connection with the
Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. He has also embarked on an AHRC project in
collaboration with Sloan Mahone on Trauma and Personhood in Late Colonial Kenya.
Margaret Yee, as Honorary Associate Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, has
received a plaque from the Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia in recognition for
her group’s achievements, 2005-2006.
John Barton and David Warrell were appointed Delegates of the Oxford
University Press in Trinity Term 2006.
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NEW FELLOWS
The following ‘pen portraits’ of new fellows were available at the time of going
to press.
Michael Biggs grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. He did his postgraduate
work at Harvard, and was employed by the University of Illinois and Queen’s
University Belfast before coming to Oxford as lecturer in Sociology. His research
on social movements and political protest is animated by two theoretical puzzles.
The fi rst puzzle is the volatility of collective protest: why a mass movement can
emerge suddenly, appear powerful, and yet collapse quickly. He has investigated
two such episodes, the strike wave which swept American cities in 1886, and the
sit-ins against racial segregation in the American South in 1960. The second
puzzle is why protesters sometimes infl ict costs on themselves. That defi es the
logic of bargaining, exemplifi ed by strikes and sit-ins, which is to infl ict costs on
recalcitrant opponents. He has investigated protest by self- immolation across the
world since 1963, and is embarking on a new research project on hunger strikes
by female suffragettes and Irish Republicans in the early twentieth century. Aside
from work, he is enjoying living on a narrowboat, and hopes that this enthusiasm
will survive his fi rst winter.
Nick Bostrom left his native Sweden in 1996 after getting a graduate degree in
physics, philosophy, and mathematical logic. Arriving in London, he got another
graduate degree in computational neuroscience, and a PhD in philosophy of
science. He then taught at Yale for a couple of years, before returning to the UK
to take up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford. He is now the
director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, which is part of the Faculty
of Philosophy and the new James Martin 21st Century School. He is busy building
up this institute as well as with his own research, which ranges over multiple areas.
He developed the fi rst mathematically explicit theory of observation selection
effects (a topic in the foundations of probability theory). He has also done extensive
work in ethics, being one of the founders of the transhumanist movement, and
on the implications of future technologies. He has advised the CIA, European
Commission, and the UK Government on issues ranging from global catastrophic
risk to human enhancement technologies. He gets frequent calls from the media
and has done in excess of two hundred media interviews in the past several years.
There are currently some 150,000 web pages that refer to his work.
Elizabeth Frood began her study of Egyptology at the University of Auckland,
New Zealand, graduating with a BA and MA in the subject, with an additional
major in Archaeology. In 1999, Elizabeth was awarded a Commonwealth
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Scholarship to undertake doctoral research at Oxford (The Queen’s College) on
biographical inscriptions of nonroyal individuals from the Ramessid period (ca.
1280–1070 BCE). From 2002–03, she held a teaching post at the university and,
in 2003, she was appointed Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
Her doctorate was completed in 2004. This research has led her into broader
studies of the transformation of high culture in Egypt during the late second
millennium and early fi rst millennium BCE. Her work seeks to integrate textual
and visual components of elite representation with architectural structures and
landscape. Vital to this research is her involvement in fi eld projects in Egypt,
particularly at the site of Kom Firin in the Delta (British Museum Expedition to
Kom Firin) and at Saqqara (Oxford Expedition to Egypt).
Peter Kemp grew up in Essex and was subsequently educated at the Universities
of Southampton, Glasgow and Sussex. After leaving university, he worked as a
researcher for a housing charity for two years before becoming an academic,
initially as a research fellow and then as a lecturer. He held professorial posts at
the Universities of York and Glasgow before moving to Oxford in April 2006.
Peter’s DPhil research looked at the transformation of the urban housing market
in Britain between c1885 and 1939. This led onto a succession of research
projects on the post-war development of the privately rented housing market,
the characteristics and problems of this housing sector, and the nature of private
landlordism. Peter has also completed a succession of research projects on means-
tested housing benefi t (housing vouchers) and several studies of homelessness.
In recent years, his research has increasingly focused on social security policy,
particularly in relation to incapacity benefi ts (disability insurance) and people on
the margins of the labour market. As well as contributing to academic knowledge
and debates, Peter has also provided advice on policy to governments in Britain
and abroad.
Jane McNicholl grew up in North Staffordshire. She graduated with a degree
in biochemistry from the University of Liverpool in 1982 and then followed this
with a PhD in Human Biochemical Genetics from University College London.
The research for her PhD focused on the development of a cell assay system
for the detection of oncogenes in cells derived from patients with a hereditary
predisposition to colon cancer. Following a short career break she then completed
a Post Graduate Certifi cate of Education (PGCE) in science at the University
of Oxford before teaching science in two Northamptonshire secondary schools.
Her involvement in science teacher education began when she studied for an
MSc in Educational Research Methodology at the University of Oxford in 1997.
She continued her involvement in the Department of Educational Studies by
teaching on the PGCE, the Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies and
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the MSc in Professional Development in Education courses. Her main research
interest involves science teachers’ professional knowledge and the ways in which
this is developed in and by different contexts and draws largely upon socio-
cultural theoretical perspectives. In 2006 she was appointed to a Lecturership in
Educational Studies in association with a fellowship at St Cross College.
Herb Marsh is a recently appointed Professor at the University of Oxford’s
Department of Educational Studies. Born and educated in the USA (Psychology
BA-Hons, Indiana Univ; MA & PhD, UCLA), he moved to Sydney Australia in 1980
where he lived until 2006. He is a highly cited researcher on ISI’s list of the ‘world’s
most cited and infl uential scientifi c authors over a sustained period according
to a common standard that covers all countries and all scientifi c disciplines’
(http://isihighlycited.com/), one of only eight UK social science researchers to
achieve this recognition. He is the founder of the SELF (Self-concept Enhancement
and Learning Facilitation) Research Centre, an international programme (350
members from 45 countries) dedicated to the study of self-beliefs, motivation, and
related psycho-social constructs. The multidisciplinary rationale is that individuals
who feel more positively about themselves in a particular domain are likely to be
more successful; systems must simultaneously reinforce objective outcomes and self-
beliefs (e.g., academic self-concept and achievement in education). Translating this
message into diverse settings, his research program emphasises a methodological/
substantive synergy, drawing on advanced quantitative methodology in pursuit of
substantive/policy-oriented research published in leading international journals.
Other research areas include statistical modeling of latent variables, the peer
review process, students’ evaluations of university teaching, role of part-time
employment and extracurricular activities during high school, developmental
psychology, sport psychology, and higher education.
Timothy J. Power is a native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and spent part of
his childhood in Puerto Rico. He studied political science at the University of
Massachusetts and Latin American studies at the University of Florida before
moving on to a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame
(1993). His dissertation concerned the role of the civilian political right in Brazil,
examining how politicians who had previously supported military rule came to
endorse democracy in the 1980s. He taught at Louisiana State University and at
Florida International University before joining St Cross in 2005. He has lived and
worked extensively in Brazil, having served as Fulbright professor at the federal
universities in Brasília and Porto Alegre, and spends a good deal of his time
wandering the halls of Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist National Congress buildings
in Brasília. Most of his research concerns political parties, elections, and national
legislatures in Latin America and asks whether the design of political institutions
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affects the sustainability of democracy. He holds a joint appointment between the
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS) and the Department of Politics
and International Relations.
Julie Scott-Jackson joined St Cross College in 1992 as a doctoral student
studying Palaeolithic geo-archaeology under the supervision of Professor Derek
Roe. Her DPhil, ‘A study of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts found in
relation to deposits mapped as Clay-with-fl ints on the chalk downlands of Southern
England’, was awarded in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, as a Pitt Rivers Research
Fellow, she continued her research into the association of karstic environments and
the retention of high-level Palaeolithic sites. In 1999, under the auspices of the Pitt
Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, she established the PADMAC Unit (Unit
for the study of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts from deposits mapped as
clay-with-fl ints) which is a multi-disciplinary geo-archaeological Unit specialising
in geology; sedimentology; pedology; Palaeolithic artefact technology; landscape
archaeology, spatial analysis and geophysics. The Unit offers students and
researchers an opportunity to investigate geo-archaeological processes implicated
in the retention, over geological time, of high-level in-situ Palaeolithic sites on
karstic landforms, particularly the chalk downlands of southern England, and the
genesis, variability and distribution of the associated (English) deposits mapped
as clay-with-fl ints. Also investigated by the PADMAC Unit are Palaeolithic sites
found in similar high-level contexts both in Continental Europe and the Middle
East. In many instances, these high-level sites represent the earliest evidence of
human occupation - in Britain from around 600,000 to 40,000 years ago and in
the Middle East considerably earlier (see: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~padmac/index/
html). Her current fi eldwork includes investigations and excavation at Dickett’s
Field (Alton, Hampshire, UK, a Palaeolithic high-level site on deposits mapped
as clay-with-fl ints, and her newly discovered Upper Pleistocene high-level site, on
a limestone outcrop, in Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates. She also acts as
Palaeolithic geo-archaeological advisor for the Avebury World Heritage site, UK.
Kate Venables came from a medical family in Yorkshire and read medicine
at Barts, qualifying in 1973. After junior medical posts in London, she went on
to research at the National Heart and Lung Institute, with an MD on asthma
caused by tetrachlorophthalic anhydride. After this, she was appointed as a
Senior Lecturer and initiated, with colleagues, major programmes of prospective
epidemiological research on asthma caused by allergens in the baking and milling
industries, in laboratory research, and in the chemicals and plastics industries.
During a sabbatical at Harvard School of Public Health in 1991-92, she developed,
with colleagues, collaborative research which led to three multi-centre European
research programmes on occupational asthma. These interests also led to an
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investigation of the causes of a major epidemic of asthma attacks associated with
an unusually severe thunderstorm. She came to Oxford’s Department of Public
Health in 1998 as University Lecturer (now Reader) in Occupational Medicine.
Her longstanding interest in the aetiology of occupational disease led to ongoing
research, with colleagues, on mortality and cancer incidence after participation
in human trials at Porton Down, a study which includes some 40,000 military
veterans. Her interests in prevention of disease led to a national project on the
quality of occupational health provision. She is an Honorary Consultant in
Occupational Medicine and Public Health Medicine to the local Strategic Health
Authority and is active in the medical Royal Colleges, government advisory
committees, and professional societies.
(Kate Venables joined the college in 2004)
Margaret Yee born and brought up in Sydney, Australia, undertook her studies
at the University of New South Wales in clinical and industrial psychology, and
the University of Sydney for her honours degree in historical and philosophical
theology. Her doctoral and postdoctoral studies were undertaken at St. John’s
College, Oxford, re “The Validity of Theology as an Academic Discipline with
reference to the History and Philosophy of Science and the thought of Austin
Farrer.” She was appointed College Chaplain of Nuffi eld College (1989-
2004), is a member of the Faculty of Theology, and both tutors and lectures in
Christian Doctrine of Creation and Psychology of Religion. In 1996, she was
appointed Associate Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford, concerned
with regional activities for research in science and religion in Great Britain and
Ireland. She won John Templeton Science and Religion Program Awards in
1998 and 2000 for her lectures on “Current Issues in Theology and the Sciences
I & II: Methodology and Epistemology.” She has held Fellowships, lecturing
on The Principles of Knowing: Science, Humanities and Theology in Tokyo, Japan, and
been invited to speak at conferences in Australia, Europe and USA. She has
been Chairman of Examiners for the Master of Studies in Science and Religion
(2004-6). Her interest in multi-disciplinary exchange led to her appointment as
Chairman and Joint Convener of Sophia Europa Oxford. As Senior Research Fellow
of St. Cross College, her major research is concerned with the metaphysics and
philosophical theology of Austin Farrer, for which a book entitled “A Science of
God? Divine Action, Agency and Providence – An Introduction to the thought
of Austin Farrer” is being prepared for publication. Margaret is an ordained
Minister of the United Reformed Church of Great Britain, and is happily married
to Malcolm, a pharmacist.
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ARCHIVIST’S REPORT
In 2006 a team of four -- Alan Coates (our previous archivist), Jan-Georg Deutsch
(our Senior Tutor), and Angela Davis (one of our students working on oral history),
and myself -- began a project to record interviews with Founding Fellows, former
Masters, and early members of College. Because we are a young college, we have
the rare opportunity to record both visually and by sound many of the people
who were so important in the foundation and development of the College in its
early days. We began the project by testing our equipment and techniques on
Donald Richards (now an Emeritus Fellow and, though not a Founding Fellow,
nonetheless amongst the earliest members of the Fellowship and a Vice-Master).
After that successful launch of the programme, we proceeded to interview the
second Master of the College, Godfrey Stafford, who played a pivotal role in the
move of the College from the St Cross Road site to its present home on St Giles.
Thereafter we interviewed two Founding Fellows, Ruth van Heyningen and Fred
Hodcroft, as well as one of the very early Fellows and a former Vice-Master, Eric
Whittaker. Digital audio recordings are being made of these interviews and will
be stored in the archives. The project will continue throughout at least the next
year.
During this past year, the fi les of deceased Fellows (as well as Visiting Fellows,
and Members of Common Room) have been transferred from the College
Offi ce to the archives for storage and preservation. Additional transfers will
be made periodically, as need be. Three shelves were also constructed over the
desk in the archives room, thus providing much need storage space. Twenty
additional archival boxes were ordered and delivered, not only for newly
acquired materials but also for storage of material from over-packed boxes and
overfl ow from certain categories of records.
I would like to thank José Patterson (widow of David Patterson, one of our
Founding Fellows) for giving to the archives materials from the papers of her
late husband. These included letters as well as a number of pamphlets prepared
in the early days of the College that were otherwise missing from the archives,
and a complete set of the College Record (thus allowing the archivist to have a
full working set at hand while keeping another set in archival boxes). Founding
Fellow Ruth van Heyningen has also kindly given to the archives various
newspaper clippings and documents that relate directly to the history of the
College.
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Photographs from the days when the College was at the site on St Cross Road
are still very few. If anyone has photographs of the College in these early days,
or of events that were taking place in the College buildings, it would be greatly
appreciated if either those could be donated to the archives or the archivist
could make scans of them. Moreover, all donations of papers and memorabilia
(including ties, t-shirts, etc. of which there are presently none in the archives)
from any time in the life of our College are important contributions to the
archives and to the history of our College. They will be gratefully recorded and
acknowledged.
Emilie Savage-Smith
Senior Research Fellow and Archivist
‘Celebration on 2 July 1980 of the agreement between
St Cross College and Pusey House’
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BURSAR’S REPORT
Early in the year, the College was notifi ed that the Saugman Common Room
needed to be re-wired. We took the opportunity to re-furbish the room and
installed a new ceiling with a new, sophisticated lighting system, re-upholstered
and re-covered the furniture and Maurice gave the room a fresh coat of paint.
Everyone seems pleased with the results.
Refurbished Common Room
The east wing guest fl at on the second fl oor was also given a new lease of life. The
walls were re-plastered and painted, the fl oor was sanded and new furnishings
were installed. The bathroom and kitchen were re-fi tted to provide sparkling,
new spaces.
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Guest fl at lounge
The area on the fi rst fl oor corridor near to the Upper Library, which used to
contain Fellows’ lockers and students’ pigeon holes was re-decorated and the
beautiful oak fl oor was sanded. Chairs were provided and paintings put up to
provide a comfortable atmosphere in the new waiting area for visitors.
As part of the recent agreement with Pusey House, the stairwell from the lobby
to the waiting area has become the main entrance to the administrative offi ces
for students and visitors and during summer 2006 it was re-decorated and the
stonework was professionally cleaned. Ruth van Heyningen kindly provided the
funds to install a spotlight over the silver knight on horseback situated at the top
of the staircase. The Art Committee has decided to position some statues in the
window ledges and this work should be fi nished before too long.
In 2005 a wireless IT system was installed in the Saugman Common Room, the
Lange Room and at the Annexe. This facility has enabled students to use their
laptops in these rooms without the need to “plug in” to the network and has been
an immensely popular initiative.
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The Licensing Act 2003 ushered in a new era for colleges in relation to the sale
and provision of alcohol. The Master and Fellows were obliged to apply for a
Premises Licence, the Common Room gained a Club Licence for the bar and
the Bursar, Assistant Bursar, Catering Manager, Head Chef, Bar Manager and
various members of bar staff became “Personal Licence Holders” following a
day’s tuition and a stiff examination! Naturally, life continued as usual despite the
fl urry of activity.
During the year the College welcomed a new Accommodation Offi cer, Annette
Evans and a new Master’s PA, Hannah Shadbolt. Hannah departed after one
year to become a full time mother and was replaced by Celia Balmer. The
increase in student numbers in college and the increasing administrative load led
to the creation of two new posts. Carolyn Eagle joined the college in summer
2006 as Accounts Assistant and Dawn Sheridan-Kasaj took the post of Bursar’s
Administrative Assistant in summer 2005. Unfortunately Dawn departed in
summer 2006 when relocating with her husband, but the College has been
fortunate in obtaining the services of Laura King instead. The College also bade
farewell to the Catering Manager/ Head Chef, James Rudman and welcomed
the promotion of his twin brother, Robert to the position of Head Chef and the
arrival of John Ward from Oriel College, as the new Catering Manager.
Maureen Doherty
Bursar
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DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE’S REPORT
EventsIt has been another busy year for the Alumni and Development Offi ce at St Cross.
A programme of regular events for alumni, fellows and friends of the College
has now been established, with a drinks reception in London in the winter and
a summer party in Oxford on Encaenia day in June, in addition to the now-
traditional alumni reunion known as Fred’s Lunch in the Spring.
From time to time we hope to hold subject-related events and the fi rst of these
is planned to take place in March 2007, around the foci of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
Reports of past events – with photos – and announcements of forthcoming events
appear on the College website, and in the newsletter, Crossword.
CrosswordThe newsletter of St Cross College is published once a year in the Summer, and we
welcome your personal and professional news to include in the alumni networking
section. If you should like to submit a longer article about any aspect of your life
or work, please send it along with some photos.
If you have any photos of your time at St Cross, especially if these date from the
“hut days”, then we would be delighted to publish them with your reminiscences.
WebsiteOver the summer, the St Cross website underwent a complete overhaul to give it
a fresh new look and to introduce a number of improvements and additions. We
hope that the new site will be easier to use and have more information, and have
welcome innovations like on-line booking for Halls and dinners.
Supporting the College’s plans for the futureDuring the year, St Cross launched an Annual Fund to continue the important work
of raising funds to support all areas of activity of the College. Some alumni in the
US and the UK were also telephoned by current students to share experiences of
the College and to talk about our plans for the future, and to seek contributions.
We were fortunate in being able to attract the maximum matched funding allocated
by the Colleges Contributions Scheme, so a very big thank you to everyone who
helped us achieve this target. Supporters of the College are listed in the St Cross
newsletter, Crossword.
In addition to our major plans to build on the rear quad, several other renovations
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and refurbishments have been undertaken or planned. The Saugman Common
Room was given a face-lift over the summer, with new lighting and reupholstered
furniture, and the Darwell Stone Room is to be converted into a meeting room
for St Cross.
Keep in touch with St CrossAs ever, we try very hard to keep our records correct and up to date. Please do let
us know if you move house or change your name or job, so we can keep you in
touch with what’s happening at St Cross.
Joelle Hoggan
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DIRECTOR OF IT’s REPORT
IT at St Cross has been fl ourishing, particularly over the past year after the
establishment of a College IT Working Group chaired by the Director of IT to
oversee College IT facilities and to keep pace with the increasing developments
in IT infrastructure. This Working Group meets typically twice each term to
review various ongoing IT projects and to plan a longer-term IT strategy for
the College. Since 2005 there has been a thorough overhaul of the College’s IT
provision with several new initiatives which have greatly improved the availability
and accessibility of computing to all College members and visitors. The principal
new developments in IT during 2005-2006 are as follows:
1) An online booking system for dinners in College including Special Dinners and
Feasts was successfully introduced in Trinity Term 2006. This can be accessed
from the direct weblink for College Members on the College website.
2) A wireless network was installed both at the main site and at the Annexe with
wireless access points available in the Saugman Common Room, the Library
and the Annexe Common Room. This now enables all College members and
visitors to the College to use their laptops on site.
3) A new College website has been designed and went live in Michaelmas
Term 2006. The new website has an improved navigation system and now
incorporates the student website as well. It is fully standards-compliant for
special needs accessibility criteria and has been developed in such a way
that several authorised contributors (i.e. College Offi cers, staff and CRC/
SRC student representatives) will be able to update the site and to keep web
content dynamic and current. The new site, which has News, an Events
Calendar and also copies of the College Handbooks available online as well as
many new sections with College information for students and alumni, remains
at the URL address: http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk.
Jo Ashbourn,
Director of IT
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LIBRARIAN’S REPORT
The usual induction sessions to new students on “An introduction to Oxford
Library Services and Electronic Resources” were given during Noughth Week.
Students do not just use resources physically available in Oxford, but more and
more rely on the “virtual” or “digital” library resources. I always introduce them
to OXLIP as an easy way in to both the OLIS catalogue and online resources
such as electronic journals. For the fi rst time I offered three days in Noughth
Week and three different times and managed to see about 50 new students, a
greater number than previously but still well under half of the intake. I followed
up by sending an email telling them how to contact me and where to fi nd Library
information on the College website.
During the year the Library received six donations to the Alumnus Collection
– somewhat lower than in previous years. I would like to thank those listed below
for their generous donations to the Collection, and encourage others (especially
new members of College) to do likewise when they have a book published. As well
as contributing to the Library’s holdings it helps your colleagues in St. Cross to
appreciate and understand your work.
Jonathan Baker and William Davage, (joint editors)
Who is this man? Christ in the renewal of the church.
Continuum. 2006.
William Davage
In this sign conquer: a history of the Society of the Holy Cross (Societas Sancti Crucis), 1855-
2005.
Continuum. 2006
Margaret Pelling
Medical confl icts in early modern London: patronage, physicians and irregular practitioners,
1550-1640.
Clarendon Press. 2003.
Margaret Pelling et al., (joint editors)
The practice of reform in health, medicine and science, 1500-2000: essays for Charles
Webster.
Ashgate. 2005.
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Timothy Power and Nicol C. Rae, (joint editors)
Exporting Congress: the infl uence of the U.S. Congress on world legislatures.
Pittsburgh University Press. 2006.
Emilie Savage-Smith, et al.
Der mittelalterliche Kosmos: Karten der christlichen und islamischen Welt.
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
There were slightly fewer new accessions (360 as compared with 388 the previous
year). Part of the reason for this is the continuing work on Retrospective Cataloguing
of older books already in the Accessions Register but yet not catalogued on OLIS.
Of these new accessions only 75 (21%) were bought, mainly in response to student
requests, the rest were donations. These donations, of course, are very helpful for
the Library budget, but represent only a few individuals who are very generous.
An exceptional donation was made during the year by Dr. Philip Beckett of
Camden’s Britannica, 1695. There was an exhibition of this book and the other rare
books in the collection one lunchtime during Michaelmas term.
The number of books borrowed was down on 2004-2005 at 1,158 compared
with 1,338 loans last year – the record number so far. There were 116 “active
users” compared with 107 the previous year and 102 the year before. An “active
user” is defi ned as having borrowed at least one book during the year. Junior
members are the greatest users of the Library, as might be expected; 109 out of
the 116 being Junior members, leaving the same 7 senior members. There were
only 557 online renewals – a drop of 33% on the previous year.
The displays of new books continued, a different one each term. In Michaelmas
Term the display is always on study, research and writing techniques and is
very popular with new students. The other topics in Hilary and Trinity Terms
were geography, exploration and archaeology. We deliberately feature displays
of books which are normally shelved in the van Heyningen Room where it is
diffi cult for readers to browse.
During the year the pressure on space, which had become acute, was relieved by
the Art Committee removing some of the exhibits from the Lange Room thus
allowing two new bays of shelves to be constructed. As usual the new shelves have
been well designed and constructed to match the earlier ones and to new library
users will look as if they have always been there.
The Library Assistant, who also represents the students on the Library Committee
and the Library on the Common Room Committee, was again Angela Davis. She
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carries out much of the routine work of processing new books and re-shelving
returned books as well as organising the special displays. She has been very reliable
and helpful. I would like again to record my appreciation of her work
Sheila Allcock
Librarian
October 2006
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SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT
In the last few years the work involved in being a Senior Tutor at St Cross College
has seen few dramatic alterations. Routine tasks, such as organising the annual
‘Senior Sponsor System’, overseeing the Michaelmas ‘Student Induction Event’,
signing offi cial letters or talking to students who seek advice take up most of
the time. In this, as before, the Senior Tutors receive tremendous help from the
College administrative staff: their support is crucial and without it the Senor
Tutor would simply be unable to perform any of his or her duties.
The number and profi le of the students coming to the College has changed in
the last few years and thus the problems and issues with which the Senior Tutor
is concerned. Two aspects might be highlighted in this respect. In line with the
general trend within the wider University, the number of students taking one-
year courses and thus the ‘student turnover’ has signifi cantly increased. Secondly,
again in line with the general trend in the wider University, the international
profi le of the student body has expanded.
Many new students fi nd Oxford to be a particularly challenging environment,
particularly in the fi rst few months and the Senior Tutor is increasingly called
upon to assist the Senior Sponsors in helping new students to settle as quickly as
possible. The higher student turnover also means that there is a larger number
of students seeking support from College resources each year. Taken together,
these factors ensure that the Senior Tutor and the College Administrative staff
have very busy Michaelmas (matriculation) and Trinity (examination) terms.
Jane Endicott
Jan-Georg Deutsch
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TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS’ REPORT
My four years in the offi ce of Tutor for Admissions at St Cross saw both a great
expansion of student intake, and the introduction of a new central admissions
process (ISIDORE) by the University. Across the period 1998 to 2001, our student
intake increased from 73 per year to 93; between the years 2002 and 2005, our
intake increased from 95 to 139. This increase refl ects both the increased emphasis
that the University has placed on graduate education in recent years, and to some
extent also the increased awareness among potential graduate students of St Cross
College. Across the period of my stewardship of this offi ce, the balance of student
intake remained relatively equal in respect of gender, and of the arts – science
divide. A signifi cant and slightly increasing proportion of the new intake of
students across this period came to take one year courses; this refl ects the growth
in the number of of one year Masters degree in the University generally. The
College has maintained its internationalism, with the vast majority of the yearly
student intake coming from over 20 nations. The new admissions system promised
increased transparency and effi ciency of a system which at the Collegiate level
needed reform. I agreed to serve a fourth year of offi ce to see it into its fi rst year
of use. This was not without complication, and I thank the administrative staff
at College for working often beyond the call of duty, to see that we achieved our
admissions targets. I also thank the Fellowship for their critical and practical support
across the fi rst year of this new system. It has been an honour to serve College in
this way across an exciting period of increasing maturity and expansion.
Stanley Ulijaszek, Tutor for Admissions
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COLLEGE CHOIR
Each year, because so far St Cross has no endowed provision for music, we reinvent
the wheel by gathering a fresh choir to sing for the annual College carol service,
as we have done since the early days of the College. In recent years, as St Cross
numbers have expanded, the task of marshalling forces has been easier, and it is
now possible to gather an impressive body of singers without calling on friends
from outside. This year’s carol service in Pusey Chapel, led by Frs Jonathan
Baker, Barry Orford and William Davage, was as usual a standing-room-only-
occasion, beginning in darkness which was gradually lit up by Advent candles as
choir and congregation sang ‘O come O come Emmanuel’. Choir items ranged
in time and place from plainsong and the rousing medieval ‘Gaudete’ to the bell-
like eight-part setting of ‘In Dulci Jubilo’.
At the Musical Evening later in the year, singers from the choir vied with the
other contributions (including South African gumboot dancing, classical fl utes
and Northumbrian pipes) to deliver the most satisfyingly morbid of Victorian
ballads in choral arrangements. And in Trinity Term, St Cross Choir sang at the
University Ceremony of Admission for Mr Eiji Uehiro held in the Divinity School
on 29 June 2006. The program, ‘Songs for a Summer Ceremony’, included two
madrigals and a Finzi song. We are grateful to all those whose enthusiasm and
skill enriched the College’s life during the year.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
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OBITUARIES
Paul Morgan 1915 − 2006
Paul Morgan was as English as Shakespeare. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon on
19th October 1915, he devoted his life to and spent most of it in the land where
Shakespeare grew up and returned to live. His father was an estate agent at
Stratford, and he grew up knowing it and the country round intimately. His uncle
F.C. Morgan, who lived to be 100, was then a bookseller in the town - before
he moved to Hereford to become city librarian and honorary librarian of the
Chapter Library. Books, as well as the country, were in his nephew’s blood.
He was born in 1915 (at 11 Broad Walk) and attended King Edward VI School,
from which he went, in 1933, to Birmingham University, where he read English,
French, Philosophy and Latin, fi nding the last, which he studied with Louis
MacNeice, hard going.
Already as an undergraduate he had contributed to the Victoria County History
of Warwickshire, and regretted afterwards that he had not read History rather
than a general degree, which he had been told would better qualify him for a
career in libraries. In 1937 he was taken on by Birmingham University Library as
a library apprentice at £1 a week, working on the counter at Edmund Street. He
graduated next year, and got a job immediately as assistant in the Shakespeare
Memorial Library at Stratford.
On 3 September 1939 he volunteered for immediate service in the Warwickshire
Yeomanry, still then a cavalry regiment. He adored riding, and it was with horses
that he set off for the war. A storm in the Bay of Biscay prevented him from
reaching active service until after 31 December, thus depriving him of the 1939
Star, but he had every other campaign medal. Converted fi rst to lorries and
then tanks, he was busily engaged, fi rst in Palestine and Iraq, then fi ghting at El
Alamein in 1942 and following the Eighth and First Armies from North Africa
to Italy. After fi ve years’ continuous engagement, he fi nally got home leave and
was demobbed in December 1945. He loved the Yeomanry and kept in constant
touch with old comrades for the rest of his life.
Morgan went back to the Shakespeare Memorial Library, but Birmingham had not
forgotten him, and next year he was back, fi rst at the science library at Edgbaston,
then returning to Edmund Street in charge of history and archaeology. In 1948
he took over cataloguing and second-hand book acquisition. This gave him a
chance to deploy what had long been a personal interest professionally. He set a
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high standard, and sacked two cataloguers whose work was not up to standard;
one of those who stayed was Rosemary Bayne, whom he married in 1950.
He also found time to fi nish his MA in 1952, and, outside the library, he began a
long series of articles on matters of local antiquarian interest. He was Honorary
Secretary of the Birmingham Archaeological Society from 1949 to 1961, editing
its Archaeological Journal. He was an energetic member of the Dugdale Society,
which took its name from the great 17th-century Warwick antiquary William
Dugdale, and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1958 he published English Provincial Printing, a pioneering study. He compiled
the fi rst handlist of the great collection of Joseph Chamberlain’s papers when
they came to the university. He also worked on the libraries of Thomas Wigan
of Bewdley, and St Mary’s Church, Warwick, where he discovered a hitherto
unknown book printed by Caxton, which was acquired by the British Museum.
All this time he had been living in Stratford, taking the train to Birmingham every
day. When the university library moved to its new Main Building at Edgbaston
in 1960, the extra length of the journey seemed increasingly a waste of time. He
was quite glad to leave at the end of the year to become an assistant librarian at
the Bodleian Library, Oxford. There he was in his element, one of a singularly
talented and congenial group who shared his antiquarian interests. Together they
made the Bodleian a magnet for others with the same passion for books and
antiquity in general.
Settled in Oxford, he became a member of the Council of the Oxford
Bibliographical Society, editor of its publications (1968-80), and later its President.
He took his Oxford MA in 1968, and became a Fellow of St Cross College in 1978.
He compiled an invaluable guidebook in Oxford Libraries outside the Bodleian
(1973). He was also Librarian of the Printer’s Library at the Oxford University
Press, 1970-80, and served on the Council of the Bibliographical Society. He
retired from the Bodleian in 1983.
He did not lose touch with his Warwickshire roots. He was General Editor of the
Dugdale Society, 1977-84, and, halfway between Oxford and Stratford, President
of the Shipston-on-Stour and District Local History Society, 1979-86. With his
cousin Penelope, daughter of F.C. Morgan and his successor as Librarian of
Hereford Cathedral, he joined the successful campaign to frustrate the Chapter’s
nefarious attempt to sell the famous Mappa Mundi in 1985. In 1954 he was made
a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare
Company); in 1996 he became life trustee of the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust.
His last publication, Printing and Publishing in Warwickshire: miscellaneous
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notes, came out in 2004.
Paul Morgan’s burly fi gure and brusque manner of speech quite failed to conceal
a very warm heart. If he took all his duties, offi cial and self-imposed, seriously
and dealt with them punctually and effi ciently, he enjoyed all the gossip that they
generated as well. He took an almost limitless delight in helping friends and even
casual visitors with information, sometimes asked for but often unsolicited.
The Autobibliography that he published in 1999 is the record of over 70 years
spent in preserving the small but no less important details of Shakespeare’s
country over fi ve centuries.
Reprinted from The Independent
Per Saugman 1925 – 2005
Per Saugman was the pre-eminent medical and scientifi c publisher of his
generation.
After coming to England to join the fl edgeling Blackwell Scientifi c Publications
(BSP) in 1962, through a combination of fl air, determination, opportunism and
hard work, Saugman took the company to a position of dominance in its fi eld.
His infl uence on today’s leaders in academic publishing remains strong.
Per Saugman was born in Slagelse in Zealand, Denmark on June 26th 1925. His
determination and discipline came from his father who rowed in Denmark’s fi rst
Olympic eight and became director general of the Danish army medical corps.
His fl air came through his mother; one ancestor had been central in moving
Denmark from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy.
Saugman was the youngest of four and his siblings had had done nothing to
prepare his father, in particular, for his lack of enthusiasm for learning. They
never understood one another. He left school at 16 and began work with the
bookseller Ejnar Munksgaard (whose enterprise he would bring to the Blackwell
group many years later). From the moment he began commercial studies,
however, he knew he had found his way forward.
These took him to Switzerland and then on to George’s Bookshop in Bristol.
Bristol provided his introduction to both the Blackwells and to his future wife, Pat,
his foil and mainstay for more than 50 years.
Saugman’s business philosophy was simple: publish to meet a need, keep a keen
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eye on overheads and profi t will fall out of the bottom.
The 1950s and 1960s saw both an explosion in Bristol-led medical science and
an enormous hunger for information around the world. Saugman’s prodigious
energy saw to it that, in both book and journal publishing, the quality of the
company’s output and quality of authorship kept the business ahead of the
competition.
By the time he retired in 1987, he had taken BSP into the US, Australia,
Scandinavia and continental Europe, and served the Blackwell group more widely
on the bookselling and library supply sides.
He was a governor of local schools and then Oxford Polytechnic, now Oxford
Brookes University, where he helped to establish the publishing course. He chaired
the international Scientifi c Technical and Medical Group of Publishers. He
was a founding father and life president of Sunningwell School of Art. Oxford
University gave him an honorary MA and he was a Fellow of Green College
and Honorary Fellow of St Cross College. He was created Knight of the Order
of Danebrog in Denmark, and Chevalier, Order of Icelandic Falcon. He was,
however, probably most proud of the honorary OBE to which he was appointed
by his adopted country in 1989 for services to the booktrade and publishing in
particular.
Saugman was a generous and lively host with an appetite for red wine and
conversation, something that many authors learnt to their cost and benefi t. His
speeches, spontaneously delivered but meticulously planned, were legendary, and
he liked nothing more than to leave an audience weak with laughter, but wiser,
for all that.
His fi rst signifi cant contribution had been the creation of the British Journal of
Haematology. Although he retired to Denmark, he recently returned for the golden
jubilee of that journal. All present were deeply moved by his echoes of friendship
in earlier times.
Per Saugman died on November 25th, 2005 shortly after his wife Pat. He is
survived by two sons and a daughter.
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David Patterson 1922 – 2005Founding Fellow
As a scholar of modern Hebrew literature, David Patterson’s crowning achievement
was the establishment in 1972 of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew
Studies (now the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) within Oxford
University.
In the days before the Centre, modern Jewish studies at Oxford were inadequately
represented. Modern Hebrew literature had been taught as part of the degree
in Oriental Studies since the early 1950s, but modern Jewish history, Jewish
literatures and languages, the history of the State of Israel and a range of other
Jewish topics were broadly ignored by the University. Patterson’s ambitious
plan for a new institution of Jewish learning at Oxford arose out of a desire to
try to make good some of the losses to Jewish scholarship sustained during the
Holocaust, when thousands of Jewish educational institutions were destroyed.
His vision of a distinguished centre of Jewish studies rising from the ashes of the
Holocaust was one which caught on with the British Jewish community.
Patterson proved himself to be a brilliant fundraiser, public speaker and
administrator. If modern Jewish studies until the 1970s were something of a
Cinderella subject, this was to change. In 1973, a fi ne Georgian building in St
Giles’ was rented from St John’s College to house the new staff taken on by the
Centre. The following year, much of its administration moved to the Yarnton
Manor estate, a short distance from Oxford, which had been aquired for the use
of the Centre by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The estate was bought
by the Centre in 1991. Today the manor and outbuildings are used for teaching
and fellows’ accomodation, while the old tithe barn houses a fi rst rate Judaica.
In addition, a newly build fl oor of Oxford’s Oriental Institute, fi nanced by the
supporters and friends of the Centre, hosts modern Jewish and Hebrew activities
in the University. Within 14 years of its inception, the Centre had become one of
the leading institutions for the study of Hebrew and Jewish subjects in the world,
with a wide range of interests from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Yiddish literature.
It is truly remarkable that a single individual, and a gentle and modest one at
that, could achieve such a revolution in an institution so traditional and averse to
change as Oxford University. In recognition of his achievements with the Centre
Patterson was appointed CBE in 2003.
Patterson was a concerned and warm-hearted teacher, and his students now hold
important teaching posts in this and other countries. His published academic
work concentrated largely on the beginnings of modern Hebrew literature in
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Europe and particularly on the Hebrew novel in Tsarist Russia and on literary
translations from the Hebrew. Modernity for East European Jewry may be said
to have started with the Haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment movement. The
literature of the Haskalah – extressed initially in Biblical Hebrew – had been
largely ignored by western scholars. Patterson’s work on Abraham Mapu (1808
– 67), the fi rst Hebrew novelist, was published in 1964, and his wider treatment
of the Hebrew novel in its Russian setting was published in the same year (The
Hebrew novel in Czarist Russia). These two monographs, followed in 1990 by A Phoenix
in Fetters, provide students of the subject with a foundation for understanding
the complex evolution of the modern Hebrew novel. This Hebrew genre has
progressed from its obscure beginnings to be a major international literary force,
as exemplifi ed in the work of S. Y. Agnon, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Aharan
Aplefeld, David Grossman and many others.
David Patterson was born in Liverpool in 1922. His parents were part of the
great wave of Jewish emigration to the west which followed the pogroms of 1881.
Although Liverpool’s Jewish community had been founded in about 1750, it was
towards the end of the 19th century, swollen with refugees, that it reached its peak.
Indeed for a while it was the most important Jewish community outside London,
with about eight synagogues and a range of Jewish communal organisations.
Patterson’s family struggled through the depression but managed to provide
him with a warm and supportive home and a good education at Oulton High
School, which developed his musical as well as his linguistic gifts. Leaving school
in 1940 with his Higher School Certifi cate, he was sent to work in a “reserved
occupation” in Royal Ordnance factories as an engineering draftsman. Released
in 1945 he went to Manchester University where he read modern and medieval
Hebrew and Arabic. Patterson’s lifelong passion for modern Hebrew literature
had been ignited during his fi rst year at the University by reading the poetry of
Chaim Nahman Bialik – the uncrowned poet laureate of the Jewish people in the
fi rst decades of the 20th century.
Patterson received a fi rst class degree and in 1951 he embarked, with his wife
José, whom he had married the year before, for Israel. They joined Kibbutz Kfar
ha-Nasi, which is situated close to the Syrian border. One of the main tasks of
the young volunteers, working with hired Yemenite Jews, was to clear the volcanic
stones which covered most of the land surface of the kibbutz. This task, which
typifi ed the early years of Zionist endeavour, was called in Hebrew sikkul and was
regularly allocated to idealistic pioneers. Patterson often remarked that in those
days as a new immigrant in Israel if you were not a member of a kibbutz (and
thus engaged in sikkul) you had to provide a reason why not..
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After a few months of this tedious and back-breaking work, Patterson and his
wife left the kibbutz and moved around Israel, taking what jobs they could fi nd,
including a spell for Patterson as a high school teacher, until in 1953 Professor
H. H. Rowley wrote inviting him to return to Manchester University to take up
a new position in modern Hebrew literature. Three years later Patterson was
appointed Cowley Lecturer in post-biblical Hebrew at Oxford. He became a
founding fellow of St Cross College in 1965.
During the 1960s Patterson often spoke to his students of his dream of starting
some sort of new centre devoted to modern Hebrew studies. However the
acquisition of the manor came about by chance. One of his students put him
in touch with the owners of Yarnton Manor who after many months of gentle
persuasion agreed to sell the estate for a pretty hefty sum. This left the problem
of fi nding the money to buy it. To illustrate the problem he then faced, Patterson
enjoyed telling a story set in 18th century Poland. A matchmaker had visited
the Rabbi of a poor Jewish shtetl and told him that he had found a splendid
match for his somewhat overweight and dim-witted daughter – none other than
the illustrious son of Prince Radzivill. The Rabbi was furious at the suggestion
that he should marry off his daughter to a gentile, no matter how highly placed,
but was gradually persuaded by the undoubted benefi ts that might accrue to the
Jewish community as a result of such a match. Finally the Rabbi gave in. The
matchmaker exclaimed: “Splendid news! Now all I have to do is convince Prince
Radzivill!”
Patterson did persuade the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust to buy the manor
and carried on persuading friends of the Centre in Britain and the US to support
his vision. He was fond of quoting his father who used to say: “Even a thousand
friends is not enough”
He is survived by his widow José and their four children.
Reprinted from The Times.
The following Eulogy was delivered at David’s funeral by Professor Raymond
Dwek.
David Patterson was a remarkable man. He was a scholar, an administrator, a
leader and a visionary, and above all he was modest. David’s lasting legacy will
be that he founded the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, in a small
room in the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford in 1972.
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David was extremely astute at academic politics. He knew instinctively when
to go forward or when to hold his ground and such qualities, coupled with his
vision and devotion, made him an ideal institute builder. Many agreed with his
vision but few actually thought that it really would happen. In this David showed
once again the passion necessary in order to achieve dreams. Ben Gurion said
in another context “in order to be a realist you have to believe in miracles”.
David certainly seemed to bring about a number of miracles in founding and
sustaining the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and he always had
a remarkable and special affection for ALL the staff at the Centre.
David Patterson was a scholarly leader. Both his public and private life related to
the same person. The warmth and genuine affection that he showed to all his
friends and colleagues, and his kindness and sensitivity together with his humour
made David an exceptional man - who was liked by almost everyone. Isaiah
Berlin said of David that “I know of no man who combines intellectual and
personal honesty, kindness, professional integrity, a great deal of common sense,
administrative skills and what I can only describe as goodness of heart to an equal
degree”. There is a saying in the Pirtei Avot, kol shruah habriot nocha heymanu, ruah
hamakom nocha heymenu - when a person’s fellow creatures delight in him, God too
takes delight in him.
David was an outstanding translator and because he was also a connoisseur of
the English language and understood all the nuances - this led to wonderful
interpretations. Signifi cant among these was Moshe Shamir’s historical novel,
to which I have already referred, Melekh Basar Vedam - The King of Flesh and Blood
which was fi rst published in 1958 and is considered to be a landmark. In this
book Moshe Shamir writes about the Maccabean era while attempting to create
language that would be reminiscent of post-biblical Hebrew. What a tremendous
and exacting challenge for the translator. David told me that he could fi nd no
stratum in English which could refl ect the specifi c
quality of the post-biblical Hebrew, which is one of the novel’s main characteristics.
David, in recognising this diffi culty, nevertheless produced a brilliant translation
- a mark of his outstanding scholarship.
In his recent article in August 2005, which I have already mentioned, and which
was contributed for the Festschrift of Alan Crown, with whom he had a long and
lasting friendship, David revisited this novel and analysed the author’s instinctive
understanding of “some intriguing but elusive ancient texts”. One has only to
read David’s article to recognise his enormous grasp of Jewish sources such as the
Bible, the Talmud, Midrash, Jewish mysticism and of Rabbinic Judaism.
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Because David was a remarkable scholar, it explains, I think, his exceptional
judgement in selecting distinguished scholars from Israel and elsewhere to become
Fellows of the Centre. He was widely respected by all signifi cant scholars of
Jewish studies throughout the world. It was highly appropriate that David should
have been awarded the CBE in 2003 the fi rst, since the order was introduced in
1917, that had the citation “for services to Jewish Studies”.
I need to say a word about David’s publications so that we can revisit the depth
of his scholarship. These publications include Abraham Mapu, the fi rst Hebrew
novelist published in 1964 and republished in 1968. The Hebrew novel in Tzarist
Russia published in 1964, and the second revised edition published a few years
ago in 1999. A Phoenix Fetters was published in 1990 and Tradition and Trauma
published in 1994 was jointly edited with Glenda Abramson.
His translations which are indeed masterful include The King of Flesh and Blood by
Moshe Shamir published in 1958 which I have already mentioned, then there
is Out of the depth by J H Brenner published in 1992, and fi nally in 1999, Random
Harvest: The Novellas of Bialik which he translated jointly with Ezra Spicehandler
and which was republished in 2002. Only a couple of months ago he read from
this, at our house, at a Menorah Society evening.
David’s writings and translations will I am sure remain as a tribute to him and to
his original work on 19th century Hebrew literature in Russia – a comparatively
neglected fi eld until he started to work on it. Many have commented that his books
and articles have defi nitely helped the modern Jewish renaissance, particularly of
the Hebrew language.
His writings really show the enormous breadth and depth of his scholarship. And
he could communicate well. He had an easy and natural manner of speaking,
there was virtually no pomposity, but he did have a tremendous sense of humour
and fun, something I believe that he also shared with José.
His knowledge of the Bible and of the Talmud was considerable. Because he was
such a great scholar he was tolerant, something that comes easily to those with
great wisdom. This was coupled with David’s easy style which made his capacity
for friendship enormous.
I well remember him in the Choolant Society in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Every
Society was required by the University rules to have one senior member and
there was always confusion as to whether for the Choolant Society this was David
Daube, Professor of Roman Law or David Patterson as either could have been
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the senior member! At successive termly dinners fi rst one David then the other
would give a scholarly discourse using Talmudic and Biblical precedents to show
why he was the clear choice of senior member. The wit and the scholarship were
humbling to behold and we all felt tremendously privileged to be in the same
company as these two outstanding scholars.
David had become Cowley Lecturer in Post Biblical Hebrew at Oxford University
from1956 to 1989. Another skill of David was that he really understood the
nuances of Hebrew grammar. It was through this that David and I really
began to know each other. My own interest in Hebrew grammar was such that
whenever David and I would meet, usually in the Synagogue, we would exchange
comments on words that I had found or phrases that I had come across. We
discussed grammar in exceptional detail. I delighted in his knowledge, in his
breadth, in bringing new examples. When Amos Oz, another one of David’s
discoveries, visited Oxford I went to have tea in the Old Parsonage with him and
David to discuss certain grammatical interpretations of some phrases in Isaiah.
But it was David’s sense of fun, of mischief and of humour that made the process
of learning so exciting and exhilarating. And it was this, and his scholarship that
enabled so many people to benefi t from what he had set up at the Centre. He was
still passionate about raising funds for the Centre and even discussed ideas with
me at a Friday night dinner at my home, just a few weeks ago.
If David could leave one message about the Centre, I suspect he would quote
from the Pirkei Avot “lo aleha hamelacha ligmor velo ata ben-chorin lehitbatel mimenah”
– “you are not obliged to complete the task but neither are you free to give it up”.
He has created a legacy in providing a Jewish intellectual and cultural centre in
Oxford.
Indeed there are many scholars worldwide who have seen David as a guardian
angel of Jewish identity in Great Britain, not only for his founding of the Centre,
but because he was an expert on Jewish and Hebrew literature and a true admirer
of Israel and its culture. While the award of the CBE represented national
recognition of David’s contribution to Judaica in Great Britain, it was also
signifi cant that the best picture of David on the steps of Buckingham Palace had
Jose by his side. This was widely circulated in the community, largely because of
the Oxford Shir, the choir whose resident poet laureate/songwriter and borrower
of tunes is José, and where both of them sang.
Indeed, throughout his life David had José at his side. Organising him, supporting
him and helping him realise his dreams and sharing a great sense of humour.
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The Centre owes a huge debt to José as well. It was not a case of ‘behind every
successful man there is an amazed woman’! José knew it would happen because
she shared the dreams. And David liked José to be involved and he depended on
her. They had been married for 55 years. Together they made a lovely couple
and we shared with them the stories of their children, Deborah, Louise, Dan and
Ben and their grandchildren.
The last few weeks have been very diffi cult for José and the family and indeed for
their many friends. But we have seen how Jose has coped with David’s illness,
often without much sleep, but always with humour, and friendship courage and
practicality. But although it has been an enormous strain, Jose has still managed
to maintain her passionate interest in local events, especially the very successful
Oxford Shir concert at Yarnton two weeks ago, which she initiated but alas in
which neither she nor David could take part.
We shall celebrate and remember David’s achievements. We shall mourn the loss
of a good friend and a family man. He was universally loved as is his family. David
leaves the crown of a good name which is the greatest crown of all - as it says in
the Pirkei Avot. Perhaps though we can leave the last word to Shakespeare.
“His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him, that Nature might stand
up And say to the world, This was a man!”.
May his memory be blessed - Yihieyeh Zichromo Baruch.
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