Visiting Fellows 2025-2026

The College is pleased to announce that the following have accepted offers of Visiting Fellowships for the 2025 – 2026 academic year:

Professor Elise Bant: Law, The University of Western Australia (Michaelmas Term)

Mr Christopher de Bellaigue: History, Author and Journalist (Trinity Term)

Professor Pablo Gilabert: Philosophy, Concordia University (Michaelmas Term)

Ms Avril Haines: Politics and International Relations, Former US Director of National Intelligence and Independent Researcher (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Dr Joseph Hone: Language and Literature, Newcastle University (Michaelmas Term)

Professor Tatjana Hörnle: Law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Hilary Term)

Professor Maria Lasonen: Philosophy, University of Helsinki (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Dennis Lehmkuhl: History, University of Bonn (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Michael Lucey: Language and Literature, UC Berkeley (Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Dr Kerry McCarthy: Musicology, Independent Scholar (Hilary Term)

Professor Jennifer McElwain: Physical Science, Trinity College Dublin (Michaelmas Term)

Professor Alex Murray: Language and Literature, Queen's University Belfast (Michaelmas Term)

Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty: History, King's College London (Trinity Term)

Dr Amber Riaz: Philosophy, Lahore University of Management Sciences (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

A/Prof Celeste Rodriguez Louro: Linguistics, The University of Western Australia (Hilary Term)

Dr Alan Ross: Classical Studies, The Ohio State University (Trinity Term)

Professor Dinesha Samararatne: Law, University of Colombo (Trinity Term)

Professor Gwen Seabourne: Law, University of Bristol (Hilary Term)

Dr Michal Smetana: Politics and International Relations, Charles University (Trinity Term)

Professor Anna Sun: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University (Trinity Term)

Dr Graham Turnock: International Relations (Hilary Term)

Professor Charles Vial: Mathematics, Bielefield University (Michaelmas Term)

Dr Daniel Yon: Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London (Hilary Term)

4th December 2024

Head and shoulders shot of Shastikk Kumuran

Shastikk Kumaran

Law

Examination Fellow since 2024

Contact:shastikk.kumaran@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

BA in Jurisprudence at Mansfield College, University of Oxford (from 2021 to 2024)

Research Interests

International Law of Armed Conflict
International Humanitarian Law
International Criminal Law

Selected publications

Kumaran, S. (2025). ‘The ICJ’s Treatment of Questions of Occupation in Gaza’. The 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 1. Auflage., pp. 121–32. Verfassungsbooks: Berlin. DOI: 10.59704/76a1858d7cde405b
The United Kingdom's Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention: An Emerging Norm of International Law? Oxford U. Undergraduate LJ, 86. Kumaran, S., & Norton de Matos, M. (2023)

Research awards and grants

Bonavero Institute Student Fellowship, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (2024)
Law Faculty Prize for Dissertation (2024)
Lord Hoffman Prize for Best Public Law Submission to the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal (2023)
Des Voeux Chambers-Oxford Junior Scholar (2023)

Justas Petrauskas

Politics and International Relations

Examination Fellow since 2024

I am broadly interested in the politics of difference, engaging with it from both political philosophy/theory and comparative politics perspectives. Currently, I am pursuing an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government), with my thesis focusing on the long-term effects of institutional solutions designed to manage ethnic differences in divided societies, particularly on ethnic salience and the quality of democracy. I also maintain an active interest in the politics of the European Union, especially institutional reform, enlargement and rule of law issues.

Contact:justas.petrauskas@politics.ox.ac.uk

Background

MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government), University of Oxford (2024 - present)
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (from 2021 to 2024)

Research Interests

Politics of difference
Ethnic power-sharing institutions and their long-term effects
Politics of the European Union (esp. institutional reform, enlargement, rule of law)
Democratisation and democratic backsliding
Epistemological issues in political theory and practice

Professor of Poetry Lecture: Upping the ante

29th November 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes (Professor of Poetry lecture, Nov 2024)

29 November at 5.30pm, Examinations Schools, 75 - 81 High St, Oxford

A. E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture will be on: 'Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes'. The talk will take place at Examination Schools in Oxford on 29 November at 5.30pm.

All welcome; no booking required. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.