It is with great sadness that the College announces the death on 21 January of Professor Michael Sheringham FBA.  Michael was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of the College from 2004 to 2015, when he became an Emeritus Fellow.  He previously taught at the University of Kent and Royal Holloway. 

The funeral will take place in All Souls College Chapel on Friday, 5 February at 1.30 pm, followed by tea in the Hall.

The College is pleased to announce that the following have accepted offers of Visiting Fellowships for the 2016 – 2017 academic year:

Dr Francesco Ademollo (Università di Firenze, Philosophy, Michaelmas Term)

Dr Edel Bhreathnach (The Discovery Programme, Dublin, Medieval History, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, History, Trinity Term)

Dr Richard Davenport-Hines (Independent Researcher, History, Michaelmas Term)

Dr Silvia Ferrara (Sapienza, University of Rome, Classical Studies, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Dr Marco Gentile (Università degli Studi di Parma, Medieval History, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Professor Simon Keefe (University of Sheffield, Musicology, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Maggie Kilgour (McGill University, Literature, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Øystein Linnebo (University of Oslo, Philosophy, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Archaeology, Trinity Term)

Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran, Oriental Studies, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Dr Jesse Norman MP (Independent Researcher, Politics, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Dr Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln, History of Science, Trinity Term)

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Economic History, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Professor Megan Sweeney (University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Catherine Wilson (University of York, Philosophy, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Christopher Hood, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has with Ruth Dixon been awarded the 2015 Louis Brownlow Book Award by the United States National Academy of Public Administration, for their book A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government.

The Warden and Fellows have elected the following to Fellowships by Examination at the College:  Claire Hall (History; Christ Church); Hasan Dindjer (Law; New College); and Andrew Wynn Owen (English; Magdalen). 

Tessa Baker, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, has been awarded the Women of the Future award for Science. Tessa, a theoretical cosmologist, is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, on leave from her All Souls Fellowship.

Professor Andrew Burrows, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls, is President of the Society of Legal Scholars for academic year 2015/16. 

Dr James Adams , Emeritus Fellow (Senior Research Fellow, 1998-2010), has been appointed CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours List for services to Classics.