The Antonian

January 2025

THE ANTONIAN January 2025

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CONTENTS

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RESEARCH REFLECTIONS

FUNDRAISING PRIORITIES IN 2025 An overview of where St Antony’s College plans to prioritise fundraising over the coming calendar year.

CAREER UPDATES

Interviews with Academic Visitors about their research and the impact they hope it will have.

Our Antonian community represents a huge diversity of professional pathways — here are the latest updates.

LETTER FROM THE WARDEN Roger Goodman, Warden, looks forward to 2025 at St Antony’s — the Year of the Snake.

FELLOW BOOK FEATURE

COLLEGE NEWS

LIFE MILESTONES Celebrating the personal moments from our Antonian community.

PRIZES, AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Antonian accomplishments that have been recognised with prizes or awards.

NEW BOOKS BY ANTONIANS

Emeritus Fellow Carol S. Leonard gives an insight into the context of her co-edited book The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy.

The latest news from St Antony’s College.

Books released in the last two years: authored, edited or co-edited by Antonians.

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LETTER FROM THE WARDEN

with students and, if time allows, to join an alumni event in London.

I am delighted to announce that Dr Richard Haass (DPhil Politics, 1973) will be the inaugural Visiting Distinguished Lecturer. As the President Emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations, there cannot be a better person to give a lecture on the impact of the American elections. He will do so at the College on 13 May and at an alumni event in London on 14 May. High Table As ever, do join us for High Table, for example after a seminar by the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship or the lecture by Richard Haass. All Antonians have an allowance of one of these dinners a year for life. For all the details and if you would like to join us at High Table, please follow this link . As always, I end by saying that I hope we will see as many of you as possible in the coming months.

Dear Antonians Happy New Year of the Snake!

the UK & Ireland) and Peter Kellner CBE (Former President of YouGov). For all the details, please follow this link. Other seminars in Hilary Term will be on The US election: what happened there and what happens now? (10 Feb); Security in the age of populism. The SDR, and the perils of nuclear proliferation (24 Feb); Multilateralism in the Age of Populism; What future for the Bretton Woods Institutions (3 March); and Communication in the age of populism (10 March). Antonian events in the USA I am very much looking forward to the Antonian events taking place in Boston (26 March), New York (28 March) and Miami (29 March). Once all the details are confirmed, invitations will be sent. In the meanwhile, if you think you will be in any of those areas on those dates, please save the date in your calendar. Margaret MacMillan North American Distinguished Visiting Lectureship I am also happy to be able to announce the first Margaret MacMillan North American Distinguished Visiting Lectureship. It has been established on a permanent basis to honour my predecessor for all that she did for the College around a subject that she is passionate about. The Visiting Lectureship allows us to invite each year a distinguished academic, historian, or author to spend a few days at St Antony’s in Trinity Term to deliver a public lecture, attend a workshop

In this first month of 2025, I want to write to you about this year’s Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship, Antonian events we are organizing in the US, and the inaugural Margaret MacMillan North American Distinguished Visiting Lectureship. Also to point you towards a fascinating piece by Emeritus Fellow Dr Carol S. Leonard on The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy in this edition of The Antonian and, as always, College news and updates from alumni from around the world and across the generations. Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship: Good policy in the age of populism As many of you will know, the St Antony’s Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship was launched in 1993 with the idea that two Members of Parliament – one from the governing party and the other from one of the main opposition parties – would be elected to the Fellowship each year. We are delighted that this year The Rt Hon John Glen MP and The Right Hon Liam Byrne MP will be our Visiting Parliamentary Fellows. John and Liam are organising a series of seminars on the topic of ‘Good policy in the age of populism’. The first seminar will take place on 3 February and address The world’s 2024 elections: what just happened? The rise of populism and its causes . Confirmed speakers are Kelly Beaver MBE (Chief Executive of Ipsos in

Professor Roger Goodman Warden

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The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in Soviet times. “”

The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy brings together leading historians of the Russian Revolution—from both Russia and the West, and different generations of historians—to explore how views have changed since the fall of Communism, and it also asks fundamental questions about the meaning of the Russian Revolution— indeed the definition of Revolution writ large. The October revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power, and the Communist government they founded lasted until its fall in 1991. (The February Revolution of 1917, Russia’s Democratic Revolution, which resulted in the unexpectedly rapid collapse of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of a liberal and then moderate socialist regime was denigrated and downplayed for most of the years of Soviet power). October was commemorated in Russia as a great event that represented the triumph of the proletariat, broadly conceived, and their peasant allies, fundamental socialist values and trailblazing economic development, not to mention cultural transformation. It was marked as the foremost Soviet public holiday, celebrated as the founding myth of nationhood, the world’s first socialist regime and later, as a great power on the global diplomatic stage. In a classic

move of wordplay, the Soviet Union advertised itself as the non-Imperial family of nations, or by later western scholars as the “affirmative action Empire” or even metaphorically as a “communal apartment house.” The fall of the regime led to considerable disillusionment; the October Revolution came to be seen as a tragic event, and it was celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation and Concord until 2004, when it ceased to be a public holiday at all. In the West, October has also long been seen as major turning point in the history of Russia and indeed the larger world, but it has also been viewed as a (Bolshevik) coup d’etat resulting in a hyper authoritarian regime (most often identified as “Stalinism”) promoting rapid, planned modernization (industrialization according to the five-year plans and collectivization of the countryside). Popular histories of the Soviet Union during the Cold War depicted the violence, the purges, the cultural revolution and repression of religion and civil society, and some used the term “totalitarian” to describe rule by Stalin and his successors. But these histories and the popular consciousness also trumpeted a newer replacement

FELLOW BOOK FEATURE Emeritus Fellow Carol S. Leonard gives an insight into the context of her co- edited book The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy , which provides

a major reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most important events.

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foundational myth—the victory over fascism in World War II. After the end of the Soviet era, viewpoints in Russia and in the West in some ways converged. In both Russia and the West and in global history, October remained a decisive event, but one that warranted closer study— fresh research—on the social and political context to explain why it turned out as it did. The revolution came to be viewed as a process, less important for its immediate outcomes than for the way it had engaged the entire society over a long revolutionary era in the struggle for change. How did the Communist party end up gaining mass support and what was so appealing about its vision of the future which promised the transformation of social and cultural as well as political history? The revolution now tends to be viewed as a process over an extended time frame, as Peter Holquist wrote, as a “continuum of crisis.” 1 World War I and the succession of Civil Wars on the Eurasian land mass offer new parameters (see Jonathan Smele, The Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World ; Oxford, Oxford University Press 2015). The vision is less Russia centred. Years of crisis beginning well before 1917 and lasting through much of the 1920s are seen not as discreet events, but as a protracted series of overlapping civil wars, including the gruelling Civil War in the former Tsarist heartland and borderlands, a violent state building process, the economic planning in the NEP and resistance to it, forced industrialization and even the harsh years of collectivization in early Stalinism. Depiction of an entire era of political and social upheavals shows interconnections between uprisings, social transitions and emerging ideologies. In the longer time frame, the rise of a new white- and blue-collar social order and a new Soviet bureaucracy became central to the Soviet project, empowered by industrialization and collectivization (modernization) of the country. In the long Soviet century, repeated episodes

of systemic violence as well as utopian idealism formed the foundational support for successive generations of revolutionaries. Evidence drawn from these decades shows this kind of support as sweeping emotional commitment to visions of the future, later commemorated as the country’s values. This emotional energy was used by the state to represent revolution itself, the banners and symbols of revolution as seen in works of art and films about October’s meaning. This book presents the diversity of contemporary opinion about the nature of the revolutionary process and its outcomes. To some, the Bolsheviks were driven by totalitarian principles and used decades-long suppression of rights and freedoms to serve state-driven production and the utopian endgame. To others, in contrast, the dominance of the Bolshevik party was achieved by their message for workers (and peasants), serving as a model and inspiration for the progressive forces of the whole world. Some, taking issue with that point of view, write how the progressive ideology was manipulated by Bolshevik propagandists; others about how participants in the revolution fully shared with the Bolsheviks the values and ideals of collectivism. One of the authors here suggests that the outcome represented the sheer weight of administrative responsibility taken on by the Bolsheviks, how, as the tasks of government grew, management space was entirely transformed until, following Lenin’s death (or even before), the party had taken over the government tasks of independent administration almost unconsciously, without any formal decisions to do so. In another contribution we see how historical conditions—in particular, the transportation revolution and the advancement of railroads—turned what were initially spontaneous strikes into an explosive spread of rebellion reaching from the industrial heartland across the entire

country in 1905 (a precursor of/rehearsal for 1917). Seeing the revolution as a process also engages authors in this collection to be concerned with the nature of revolutionary crowds and the undervalued and understudied role of rumour and intellectual currents as well as material conditions that inspired rebellion and brought people into the streets. This speaks to the emotional charge present in any Revolutionary situation. What emerges is not just a series of isolated events, but a vast tapestry of resistance that transcended borders, cultures, and eras. Revolutions do not just change governments; they transform societies, reshape economies, and reorder human relationships. Thus, the uniqueness of 1917 and Revolution as a distinct phenomenon is preserved even within the valid context of the continuum of crisis and global impact paradigms.

Carol S. Leonard and Daniel Orlovsky 3 January 2025

1 Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis,1914-1922 Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press 2002

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COLLEGE NEWS

The latest news from St Antony’s College.

New Painting by Artist-in-Residence Dr Karen Aarre A new painting by St Antony’s Social Anthropology graduate and the College’s first Artist-in-Residence, Dr Karen Aarre, has been unveiled in the Hilda Besse Building. The artwork (pictured left), titled Habitat , explores the interplay of natural and built environments on campus. The relationship between the natural and the man-made is a prominent theme in Karen’s work. To assist in the creation of Habitat , Karen observed and documented how the College gardens frame its architectural landscape and shape College life. The residency was supported by the Antonian Fund.

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Click here for the full news story about the Philip Leverhulme Prize

Click here for more information about Professor Ismail’s election

St Antony’s achieves Gold Green Impact Award for second year in a row St Antony’s College has, for the second year in a row, been awarded a Gold Green Impact Award. The Green Team has been busy improving the College’s green impact through a series of initiatives and events, including donating surplus food and taking part in the Big Butterfly Count. Now that the College has achieved two gold awards in a row, we can aim for Beyond Gold accreditation.

Professor Avi Shlaim wins 2024 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Professor Avi Shlaim was awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for 2024 at a ceremony in London in November. Professor Shlaim, whose research is focused on Arab-Israeli conflict, was presented the prize for his 2023 work Memoirs of an Arab- Jew . In this book, he discusses his family’s personal experiences of fleeing to Israel from Iraq and offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Jewish community in Iraq. The prize, which is awarded annually, recognises excellent non-fiction work on a specific historical subject.

Professor Federica Genovese awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize Federica Genovese, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. The Philip Leverhulme Prizes support early career researchers whose work has an international impact and who display great future promise in their careers. Professor Genovese, who specialises in topics such as climate politics and political action, will use the award to investigate how firms which are exposed to climate risks adapt to climate policy. She will collect data on firms based in European countries as well as in emerging economies.

Professor Raihan Ismail elected as Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Governing Body Fellow Professor Raihan Ismail has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Since its establishment in 1969, the Academy has been dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the humanities. The Fellowship of the Academy comprises over 700 individuals who are elected in recognition of the impact of their scholarship on diverse fields including archaeology, Asian and European Studies, classical studies and Indigenous studies. Professor Ismail’s election as a Corresponding Fellow illustrates the significant contribution she has made to her field and the high regard in which she is held by her peers in the humanities.

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Joshua Parker Allen awarded MAE- MAT Early Career Prize DPhil student Joshua Parker Allen has been awarded the MAE-MAT Early Career Researcher Prize for his article on the political economy of knowledge production in global health science. The prize was co-awarded by the Medical Anthropology Europe (MAE) association and the journal Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT). Josh’s winning article was based on his own ethnographic fieldwork in two biomedical scientific research institutes in Uganda.

Joseph Hincks wins Examiners’ Prize

Kirsten Boyd wins Best Dissertation Prize St Antony’s student Kirsten Boyd was awarded the MSc in Migration Studies Best Dissertation Prize for her masters’ dissertation in the previous academic year.

In Memoriam: Trevor Butler, 1953 – 2024

St Antony’s student Joseph Hincks was awarded the MSc in Migration Studies Examiners’ Prize for his masters’ degree work in the previous academic year.

The College is sorry to announce the death of Trevor Butler, Head Porter at St Antony’s between 2006 and 2018, who will be much missed by the College community.

Click here for the Warden’s reflections about Trevor’s time at St Antony’s

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Student support: scholarships Thanks to the support of the worldwide community of Antonians, other generous funders, and partners, we are currently able to support students from around the world to come to St Antony’s. The total value of the scholarships on offer for 2025/26 is roughly £1 million. However, the impact of increases in tuition fees and living costs is being felt by many of our students. Many of our students are facing financial challenges and hardship. Applications to our Financial Assistance Fund are increasing, as well as the number of students requiring personal payment plans due to financial challenges. Perhaps most worrying of all, in 2023, 73 students from Development Assistance Countries (DAC) who had been offered a place at St Antony’s had to withdraw due to lack of funding.

It is for all these reasons, and to ensure we can attract and support students to come to St Antony’s who may not otherwise be able to afford a graduate degree here, that student support is our top fundraising priority. Following the endowment and matching of the DAC Scholarship , we will continue raising funds for this programme and donors can designate their gifts to either the Spend-Down Fund or the Endowment Fund . More broadly, the Academic and Development Offices are looking into the criteria for scholarships, to ensure our scholarships are not too restrictive in nature. We will prioritise full rather than partial scholarships, and seek matched funding and partnerships where possible to grow existing partial scholarships into fully-funded ones.

FUNDRAISING PRIORITIES IN 2025

An overview of where St Antony’s College plans to prioritise fundraising over the coming calendar year.

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We look forward to speaking with the worldwide community of Antonians about the ways we can help all students offered a place at St Antony’s take up that place, regardless of their financial background. Student support: activities We are also keen to enhance the student experience and fund activities that benefit the entire community. The Antonian Fund supports a diverse range of projects as well as travel and research activities and writing-up bursaries. There are also several more specific funds in place that support our students such as the Malcolm Deas Fund for work on Latin America, the St Antony’s Boat Club Annual Fund, the Arthur Stockwin Scholars Fund for travel grants to Japan and the Diomede

Fund that helps with research activities on Russia and Ukraine. None of these funds would be possible without the support of our alumni and we are keen to increase the level of support that we can offer. Gifts of all sizes can have a profound impact on the quality of our students’ lives at the College, their academic pursuits, social activities and overall wellbeing.

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Legacies Legacies are one of the most meaningful ways of donating and St Antony’s has benefitted from very generous gifts in the wills of alumni and friends in recent years. With this in mind, we will soon be launching—in our 75th anniversary year— a legacy campaign designed to secure the next 75 years for the college. We aim to build upon our position as a leading global centre for the study of modern history, international relations, economics, development studies, politics, and anthropology, and to continue providing opportunities for talented and highly motivated students from around the world, regardless of their background or financial circumstances, for generations to come.

Thank you St Antony’s owes its very existence to the generous gift that Antonin Besse made in 1950. Over the last 75 years, our fellows, students, and facilities have all benefited from the incredible support received from our alumni and friends. Thank you. If you are considering making a gift to the College or would like to discuss any aspect of fundraising, please contact the Alumni Office at alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk.

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RESEARCH REFLECTIONS

Dr Alex Gath’s work spans the fields of sociocultural anthropology, psychology, and philosophy with particular emphases on religious culture as well as issues in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. As an Academic Visitor at St Antony’s, he aims to crystallise three decades of fieldwork investigating how pilgrimage practice, principally Hindu and Christian, has developed.

St Antony’s is built on an incredibly diverse and passionate global research community. In the Research Reflections series, we sit down with College Members, students and Fellows to discover the motivation behind their research and the impact they hope their work will have. Our first set of interviews has brought the spotlight onto some of our Academic Visitors.

Dr Jonathan Liljeblad’s research studies the complexities of promoting international norms in developing countries, with a focus on Indigenous rights, international human rights, and international environmental law. During his term as an Academic Visitor at St Antony’s he will be working on a monograph regarding Indigenous Rights to the Environment and a co-edited book project on Indigenous Theories of International Law .

Academic Visitor Dr Chen Xiang’s research focuses on the politics of climate change, aiming to bridge the gap between science and effective policymaking.

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Maxim Bouev has returned to St Antony’s as an Academic Visitor while taking leave from his duties at the New Economic School in Moscow, where he is professor and vice-rector for corporate projects. He is working on producing a history of the New Economic School, and exploring a new financial market design that could provide safeguards against the potential destabilisation of the world economy due to climate change.

Tomoya Terao is a Japanese career diplomat at the Embassy of Japan in the UK. Before being despatched to the UK, he devoted several years to establishing Japan’s foreign policy towards the Middle East. As an Academic Visitor at St Antony’s, his current interest lies in how Arab media has influenced regional society.

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CAREER UPDATES The Antonian community represents an incredibly diverse range of professional paths all over the world. Here are some recent career updates. 1990s

1980s

Mr Harold Hutchinson (MPhil Economics, 1985) recently retired from his full-time role as a Managing Director at Investec Bank plc, but remains a Senior Advisor there. He was recently appointed as a Non-executive Director at Electricity North West, a part of the Iberdrola group. He remains a Trustee at the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford. Lori Maguire (DPhil History, 1982) was promoted to the highest level of professor in France, classe exceptionnelle. Professor-Emeritus Iftikhar Malik (Senior Associate Member, 1989-1994) was elected to the trusteeship of the Oxford Union Society and his official designation identifies him as the Senior Librarian at this 200-year old institution. Professor Malik was also elected to the trusteeship of the Royal Historical Society, a four-year office that continues until November 2027. In addition, Iftikhar Malik’s second fiction work in campus genre, Pebbles from the Sulaiman Mountain , is in the press to be out soon. Professor Ayami Nakatani (MPhil Social Anthropology, 1988) moved to Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, as a Professor in Anthropology in April 2024.

Professor Sam Halabi (MPhil International Relations, 1999) has accepted positions of Professor at the Georgetown University School of Health and Director, Center for Transformational Health Law, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Huck-Ju Kwon (DPhil Politics, 1990) was appointed as President of the Korea Institute of Public Administration, a national think-tank specialised in public policy and administration in September 2024. Professor James Milner (MPhil Development Studies, 1997; DPhil Development Studies, 2001) was promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, as of July 2024. In December 2023, he began his term as Co- Chair of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. Established by the UN General Assembly in 2018 through the Global Compact on Refugees, the mandate of GAIN is to ‘facilitate research, training and scholarship opportunities which result in specific deliverables in support of the objectives of the global compact’.

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2000s

Thomas O’Keefe (MPhil Latin American Studies, 1990) has stepped down as President of Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd. after 32 years at the helm and launched Indigenous ADR based in Washington, D.C. to facilitate consultation and resolve social conflicts between natural resource extraction companies and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas. Professor George Pagoulatos (DPhil Politics, 1993) is the Ambassador of Greece to the OECD. Sarah Poralla (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1995) is Aviation Safety Risk Manager for Aerodromes, Ground Handling and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, in the Directorate for Safety Management at the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Mr Paul Riseborough (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1999) has been appointed Managing Partner at Capco UK, a global management consultancy. Marianne Scordel (MSt Oriental Studies, 1998) recently moved to the nonprofit sector after a career of 24 years spent in financial services where she won multiple awards. In November 2024 she was appointed Executive Director of the Paris Brain Institute America, located in New York, USA. Neena Shenai (MPhil International Relations, 1998) joined the law firm of WilmerHale as a partner in the International Trade, Investment and Market Access group in Washington, D.C. She focuses her practice on trade policy, sanctions and export controls. Charles Asher Small (DPhil Social Theory, 1996) has been appointed Research Fellow at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University; is Director of the Postdoctorate Fellowship Training Programme in Contemporary

Critical Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge; is Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is also heading an international research project that assesses how and why genocidal antisemitism has become part, once again, of western intellectual and scholarly discourse. Neil Sternthal (MSt Modern History, 1992) has been appointed as President & CEO of ACAMS, the leading global membership organization for the anti-financial crime sector. ACAMS provides training, certifications, intelligence, thought leadership, and conferences on money laundering, fraud, and sanctions for regulators, banks, fintech, law enforcement, tech vendors, professional services, and consultants. He will be relocating to Washington D.C. in the New Year. Mr Krzysztof Szubert (International Relations, 1992; Research at the European Studies Centre, 2020) is an Associate Member of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) at the University of Oxford. Mr Ivelin Zvezdov (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1994) works on natural and man-made catastrophe modelling and product development for the (re)insurance industry. His professional career of twenty- five years has developed in the financial and insurance industries with leadership roles in mathematical modelling and management for corporate, extreme, and catastrophic risks. He does research and writes on catastrophic risk, shocks and disaster, social fragility, and contagion from both the mathematical risk and moral philosophy aspects.

Geoffrey Politics Comparative Government, 2006) is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph. Cameron (MPhil Jonathan Dingel (MPhil Economics, 2006) is joining Columbia University as a tenured Associate Professor of Economics. He and his wife Amy will move to New York City in 2025. Associate Professor David Eaves (MPhil International Relations, 2000) has been appointed by the UK Government to its expert panel to help create a 10-year vision digital government to help drive innovation, transform services, improve lives, and unlock the full potential of digital and data. Tressa Guenov (MSc Politics Research, 2002) recently completed service as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the Pentagon. She now serves as Senior Fellow and Director of Programs and Operations at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Professor Steven Haines (Senior Associate Member, 2000-2001) has been appointed to the UN Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Expert Panel; became a Member of the International Law Association Committee on the Protection of People at Sea; Member of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee. He relinquished his long-standing (2014-25) role as a Trustee of the NGO Human Rights at Sea but remains engaged in advocacy for the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea.

Professor (Senior Associate Member, 2004-2005) has taken up a professorship of constitutional and administrative law in Yasuda Women’s University in Hiroshima since April 2024. Omi Hatashin Nino Japaridze (DPhil Politics, 2006) has been unanimously elected as the third President of the American Friends of Georgia, a charitable foundation dedicated to improving the lives of the most vulnerable populations in the Republic of Georgia. Isaac Kardon (MPhil Modern Chinese Studies, 2007) started a new position last year as Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.; and also started a new role as adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS. John Maher (Academic Visitor, 2008-2009) is Professor of Linguistics, Temple University, Japan. Professor Arzu Öztürkmen (Academic Visitor, 2005) is serving as Director of the Asian Studies Center at Boğaziçi University. Justin Pearce (DPhil Politics, 2006) has been appointed senior editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies. He is still a senior lecturer in history at Stellenbosch University. Manolo Reynaud (MSc Latin American Studies, 2008) has been appointed Senior Director for Corporate Affairs at Walmart Mexico and Central America, in charge of public policy and sustainability.

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2010s

Dr Ohis Ilalokhoin (DPhil Complex Networks, 2018) joins the Trustee Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), which is responsible for governance oversight of one of the foremost engineering institutions and the world’s first professional engineering body. As Trustee Board member, he will be responsible for the Learning Society portfolio and will be Chair of the Learning Society Committee with responsibility for driving the strategic lifelong learning of the Institution and its wider engineering knowledge programme. Dr Alexander Kofi Eduful (DPhil, 2015) returned to Ghana in the beginning of 2020 and was appointed as part-time lecturer at Ashesi, Ghana’s only liberal arts university. In March 2020, he was appointed as a Director of Works and Development at Sunyani Technical University. In August 2023, he was appointed as Director of Facilities Management in Ghana’s Parliament. Maciej Kuziemski (MPP, 2016) has become a CEO of the philanthropic arm of PKO Bank Polski. Jonathan Levin (MPhil Economics, 2012) will be stepping into a new role at Chainalysis as the company’s next CEO. He is honored by the collective trust and confidence in him to lead the company from their leadership team, employees around the globe, and the Chainalysis Board of Directors. Their impact on the industry, public safety and national security has never been stronger. To continue their growth and market leadership requires a strong commitment to their values and relentless focus on their customers’ ever-changing needs. They have built a strong foundation through tough market conditions, and now it’s time to unleash their full potential with the market tailwinds.

Kay Makishi (MSc Modern Japanese Studies, 2015) has been selected as Vice President for Lupoff/Stevens Family Office, a single family office based in NYC. Kay will advise the Family Office on their investments into impact- oriented early-stage venture capital funds and founders. Yassamine Mather (Senior Common Room, 2017; 2018-22) regularly appears on BBC Persian TV. LtCol Brittany Morreale (Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2010) has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, and will move with her family to Australia in 2025 to serve as the Air Attache in the US Embassy in Canberra. Wonyong Park (DPhil Education, 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Science Education at the University of Southampton. Dr Anna Plechata Krausova (MPhil Latin American Studies, 2010) has been appointed Chancellor (Rector) of Newton University, a private school and member of the Newton University Group, which excels in business and management education and research with campuses in Prague and Brno in Czechia and Bratislava in Slovakia. In September, Anna was thrilled to bring a group of their top students to a summer school at St Antony’s. Alexandra Schluntz (MSc Latin American Studies, 2014) has been promoted to Senior Attorney at Earthjustice, an environmental law nonprofit.

Jeaniene Spink (DPhil Education, 2008) is Research Director, Education and Development, at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). James Zackrison (DPhil History, 2000) is out of retirement and is now adjunct professor of early Christian history at Hartland College in Rapidan, Virginia, USA.

Furkan Aksoy (MSc Sociology, 2014) has started a new career in filmmaking with independent films such as Noah Land and Ayse. Ms Mariah Atiq (MSt Diplomatic Studies, 2019) is Director, Spokesperson Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan. Dr Bilal Baloch (DPhil Politics, 2013) has recently moved to Abu Dhabi after several years in Washington, D.C. and joined the MENA region’s fastest growing venture capital fund investing in early-stage companies across fintech, AI, biotech, and platforms. Arshan Barzani (MSc African Studies, 2019) received a JD from Yale Law School and began serving as a law clerk to a federal judge. Dr Giulia De Togni (MSc Social Anthropology, 2014) became Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Zapryan Dumbalski (MSc Russian and East European Studies, 2011) has moved to a new role as School Programmes Manager (Professional and Continuing Education) at the School of Global Affairs in King’s College London. Oana Dumitrescu (MSc Migration Studies, 2016) has become an official civil servant of the European Union. Her current posting is in the Directorate General for Structural Reform Support, working in the areas of social services and mental health. Axel Hellman (MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, 2016) joined the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Environment.

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PRIZES, AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

2020s

Jose Maria Valenzuela (DPhil Public Policy, 2017) was appointed as Director General for Research and Technology Development at the Department of Energy in Mexico (Mexico City), but will also remain a research affiliate to the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Associate Professor Antonio López Vega (Senior Associate Member, 2012) has become Director para América Latina Fundación Ortega y Gasset - Gregorio Marañón, and Academic Visitor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México 2025 (ITAM). José Vericat (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2016) started working in September 2024 as Senior Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid, covering the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel. He is Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. Zhuolun Wang (MSc Modern Chinese Studies, 2012) oversees reporting on major developments in Israel, Palestine, and the broader Middle East as the chief correspondent for China’s Xinhua News Agency in Jerusalem. Her responsibilities include coordinating news coverage, producing in-depth analyses, reporting from front-line war zones, and managing a team of journalists. With expertise and adaptability in a complex geopolitical landscape, she delivers timely, accurate, and insightful coverage of regional events, serving as a vital bridge for Chinese audiences to understand the Middle East and vice versa. James William (DPhil International Relations, 2015) moved to Singapore in September 2024 to take up a post as an Assistant Professor in Strategic Studies at RSIS, NTU Singapore. Dr Samson Yuen (DPhil Politics, 2012) is Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dennis Owusu-Sem (MBA, 2022) has been appointed Chief Operating Officer at This Week in Fintech, a leading global fintech media and events platform. In this role, Dennis oversees global operations, strategy, and partnerships. Previously, Dennis co-founded a successful edtech app and scaled large-scale events, drawing on his expertise from roles at Goldman Sachs and other entrepreneurial ventures. Kassie Scott (MSc Social Data Science, 2020) was recently appointed Economic Development Manager for the City of Springfield, Ohio. Current Norman Davies (Honorary Fellow, Current) published a history of Galicia, Galicja, historia nienarodowa , in Krakow, 2023. In September 2024, he presented the inaugural lecture at the University of Silesia in Katowice as part of the European City of Science. The academic procession was led by a Silesian brass band dressed in feathered shakos, and one hundred ermine-clad Vice-chancellors. He also placed a Freedom of Information request to establish the documentation of the Programme on Modern Poland, 2012-20. The many documents supplied included his original application to join the College in 1967.

Celebrating Antonian accomplishments that have been recognised with prizes or awards. 1980s

1970s

Lewis Siegelbaum (DPhil History, 1975) received the award from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for Distinguished Contributions for 2024 at the organisation’s annual conference.

Joan Alker (MPhil Politics, 1986) was presented with the Andy Hyman Award for Health Advocacy by Grantmakers in Health, Portland OR, June 2024. Mohamed El-Erian (MPhil; DPhil Economics, 1980) was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Kisaburo Ishii (Development Economics, 1980) constructed a Japanese Tea House in the National Museum of Arts during their mission in Romania. They were invited to speak at the Grand Opening and their name was engraved on the wall. Abraham Lowenthal (Academic Visitor, 1981; 1993) received the Kalman H. Silvert Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for lifetime contributions to the study of Latin American politics and international relations. The Association cited his research, teaching, and publications, including three individually authored books, some 20 edited or co-edited volumes, scores of scholarly articles in multiple languages, eight essays in Foreign Affairs, six in Foreign Policy and more than 200 op-eds as well as institution-building contributions as the founding director of the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and the Inter-American Dialogue.

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1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Immaculata Abb (MSt Global and Imperial History, 2019) received a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ Ideas Workshop to produce a project on how we can foster social healing in Nigeria through the humanities and social sciences. The project is titled Sweet Medicine and consists of a 22-episode podcast, a researcher directory, a public website, and community programs. The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Acast or wherever you listen to podcasts. Zapryan Dumbalski (MSc Russian and East European Studies, 2011) recently completed the Agile PM Foundation and Agile PM Practitioner project management qualifications. Richard Lesmoir-Gordon (MPhil; DPhil Modern History, 2019) was awarded a DPhil in Modern History in 2024.

Simon Mayall (Senior Associate Member, 1995- 1996) was appointed by HM King Charles III as King of Arms of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in succession to Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fulton KBE. Jacqueline Behrend (DPhil Politics; MPhil Latin American Studies, 1998) is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of the Americas from 1 January to 31 March, 2025. Samuel Gregg (DPhil Politics, 1994) was awarded the 2024 Bradley Prize. The Bradley Prizes honour scholars and practitioners whose accomplishments reflect The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. Michael Ignatieff (Senior Common Room, 1995-1996) has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences (Spain, 2024) and has been conferred an Hon D. Litt (Cambridge, 2024). Karen Van Dyck (DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages, 1990) was awarded Honorary Greek Citizenship on 12 December 2024 for building Hellenic Studies at Columbia University and promoting the Greek language and literature internationally through teaching, criticism and translations.

Arzu Öztürkmen (Academic Visitor, 2005) has been elected as the lifetime Fellow of the American Folklore Society in 2024. Ilan Peleg (Visiting Fellow; Research Fellow, 2002-2003) received The Lifelong Achievement Award from the Association for Israel Studies (in Prague, Czechia). Michaël Tatham (MPhil European Politics, 2004) was awarded the Best Article prize by the Journal of European Public Policy , 2023 (awarded in 2024). The article, ‘Tatham, Michaël & Peters, Yvette (2023). Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation. Journal of European Public Policy 30: 3, 574–598’, was selected out of a pool of more than 100 published articles.

Catherine Finnie (MSt Modern British History, 2024) was awarded the Best Dissertation in Strand Prize 2023/4 for the MSt in History, Modern British Strand for the thesis The Death of Anti-Devolutionism: A Study on the Tartanisation of the Labour Party in Opposition (1979-97) . Bernard Naughton (Senior Common Room, 2020-21) was recently promoted to Associate Professor in Industrial Pharmacy. TyraTucker (PGDip Diplomatic Studies, 2020), as Events Coordinator for Young Diplomats in London Official (YDL), led the organisation of an exceptional jazz soirée in partnership with the Government of Jersey and Farrer & Co., a prestigious law firm with ties to the Royal Family. The event, attended by over 150 diplomats, law partners, and government officials, featured a speech by the Jersey Minister, live jazz, and a historical exhibition. This successful evening exemplified YDL’s mission to foster meaningful connections within the diplomatic community.

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NEW BOOKS Books released in the last two years that were authored, edited or co-edited by Antonians.

1950s

1960s

Mr George Gömöri (B Litt Literature, 1957) Soknyelvű életem (My Life in Many Languages) Savaria University Press, 2024 Gömöri’s autobiography written in Hungarian, ending with the year 1990.

Professor Ladipo Adamolekun DPhil Politics, 1969) Sékou Touré’s Guinea: An Experiment in Nation Building [reissue] Routledge, 2023 Sir Richard Evans (DPhil, 1969) Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich Penguin/Allen Lane, 2024 Peter Michael Hacker (DPhil Philosophy, 1960; Senior Scholar, 1963-5) A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations Wiley, London, 2024 This volume interweaves lecture and dialogue that survey the central arguments of Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’, criticisms and their rebuttal. The Representational Fallacy in Neuroscience

and Psychology: A Critical Analysis [Co-authored with M. R. Bennett] Palgrave/Macmillan, 2024

This book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word ‘representations’ from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its current misuse in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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1970s

1980s

Dr Peter Harris (MPhil International Relations, 1977) Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems [edited and translated by Peter Harris] Everyman’s Library, Penguin Random House, 2024 A new translation of poems by the much-loved Tang Dynasty Buddhist recluse or recluses— there was probably more than one author— called Hanshan, meaning Cold Mountain. Lewis Siegelbaum (DPhil History, 1975) Reflections on Stalinism [co-edited with J. Arch Getty] Northern Illinois University Press, 2024 This book brings together twelve senior historians to reflect on their engagement with Stalinism, what they thought of it then and now. Sections include those devoted to social history, state terror, emotion, and spatial considerations. Professor Ryszard Stemplowski (Academic Visitor, 1974; Visiting Fellow) Polska polityka zagraniczna 1918-2023 [Edited with P. Długołęcki, A. Friszke, M. Kornat, W. Materski, A. Nowak-Far, R. Stemplowski] Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2024

Karim Tabet (MLitt Middle Eastern History, 1970)

Omer Bartov (DPhil German History, 1983) Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First Person History in Times of Crisis Bloomsbury, 2023 Winner of the 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, this book assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, argues for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder, examines how legal discourse has served to uncover (and deny) individual and national complicity, outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, considers links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and after 1948. President (Queens’ College Cambridge) Mohamed El-Erian (MPhil; DPhil Economics, 1980) Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World [co-authored with Gordon Brown, Michael This Times’ ‘Top Ten Book’ analyses what is at the heart of several of today’s sense and reality of rolling national and global crises—namely, broken approaches to growth, economic management, and global governance—and how to fix them. By illustrating the dynamics of permacrises, the authors show why the longer these three problems persist, the worse the situation gets. That’s why we must act now. Spence and Reid Lidow] Simon and Schuster, 2023

Lori Maguire (DPhil History, 1982) Consuls in the Cold War [co-edited with Sue Onslow] Brill, 2023

Un Écran de Fumée Complicités, 2023

A thriller inspired by the political situation in Lebanon. It focuses on the decision of one person to get rid of the gang that rules the country, through the adoption of the Trojan horse strategy: integrate the system, get close to the decision makers and then annihilate the political class through the execution of a Machiavellian plan. This fiction is inspired by the political situation in Lebanon. The name of the country has been changed for reasons of personal security.

No studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked ‘poor relations’ offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines. Dr Baņuta Rubess (DPhil History, 1982) Te bija Brunis Latvijas mediji, 2024 Translated by Leva Lešinska from the English manuscript called Bruno Slept Here . A documentary novel about Dr Baņuta’s teenage father during World War Two and how yoga saved his life. The story begins in Nazi-occupied Riga, in 1942, moves to Pomerania during the last year of war, and ends with the discovery of four forgotten POW camps in Germany and Belgium.

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