Revd Canon Rachel Carnegie

Chaplain

My research interests include the role of faith and culture in international development – having worked globally since 1985 in areas of education, gender, HIV, and the role of faith communities.

Background

Executive Director, Anglican Alliance: connecting global Anglican Communion in tackling issues of poverty, inequality and environmental crises (from 2014 to 2024)
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William's Secretary for International Development (from 2009 to 2013)
Coordinator of Church Mobilisation on HIV, Tearfund (from 2007 to 2009)
Ordained priest in Church of England (from 2005)
Consultant to UNICEF, Save the Children, etc. (from 1995 to 2007)
Creative Director, Meena Communication Initiative in South Asia, UNICEF (from 1990 to 1995)
Programme Officer and Lecturer, London University Institute of Education Child-to-Child Trust (from 1988 to 1989)
Teacher and curriculum developer, Voluntary Service Overseas and Save the Children US, Bhutan (from 1985 to 1988)

Research Interests

Role of faith and culture in international development.

Selected publications

A range of publications for health promotion, child literacy and social development (Macmillan, Longmans, and others, 1989-2001).

Involving People, Evolving Behaviour on strategic communication for social change, co-authored Neill McKee, Erma Manoncourt, Chin Saik Yoon, and Rachel Carnegie (Sage Publications, 2000).
Meena Communication Initiative for the Girl Child in South Asia: creative director and writer for story series on gender issues in animation, radio and print formats - some into 20 languages. (Unicef, BBC World Service and Longmans Educational Publishers, 1992-2000).

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Canon, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Head and shoulders photograph of Alpa Shah

Professor Alpa Shah

Professor of Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology

PhD, MSc, BSc

University Academic Fellow since 2024

My research and writings span many themes including revolutionary insurgency, state and citizenship; democracy, human rights and social justice; global capitalism, inequality and poverty; agrarian change, precarious labour migration and informal economies of care; indigenous politics, conservation and environmental justice; race, caste, class and gender relations. My writings are based on deep immersive field research among the forest dwelling indigenous people of eastern India – Adivasis. I have also conducted research in Nepal and among Dalits, villified as ‘Untouchable’ people. I have a deep interest in ethnography and ethnographic writing.

Link to website

Background

Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (2021-2024)
Reader in Anthropology, London School of Economics (2012-2021)
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London (2004-2012)
PhD in Anthropology, London School of Economics (1999-2004)
MSc in Anthropology, London School of Economics (1997-1998)
BSc in Geography, University of Cambridge (1994-1997)

Research Interests

Revolutionary insurgency, state and citizenship
Democracy, human rights and social justice
Global capitalism, inequality and poverty
Agrarian change, precarious labour migration and informal economies of care
Indigenous politics, conservation and environmental justice
Race, caste, class and gender relations

Selected publications

The Incarcerations: BK16 and the Search for Democracy in India. HarperCollins UK and India (2024).

Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Longlisted for the 2024 Moore Human Rights Prize
Financial Times ‘What to Read in 2024 List’
Guardian ‘One of Five best books on Indian Politics’

Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Hurst; New Delhi: HarperCollins India (2018).

Winner of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize, 2020
Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, 2019
Shortlisted for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, 2019
Finalist for the New India Foundation Book Prize, 2019
Longlisted for the Tata Literature Live Non-fiction Award, 2019
Book of the Year 2018 for the New Statesman, History Workshop, Scroll India and Hong Kong Free Press. Hindu ‘Year in Review Book’ and a Public Anthropology ‘Must Read’

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality Across India. London: Pluto Press; Delhi: Oxford University Press (co-authored with Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj and Vikramaditya Thakur) (2018).

2018 Book of the Year for the Indian daily newspaper, the Hindu

In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Durham (N.C.): Duke University Press. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2010)

Link to website for longer list of publications.

Research awards and grants

MacGeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne (2024-2025)
ERC Public Engagement with Research Prize 2022
Convenor of Research Theme on ‘Global Economies of Care’, LSE International Inequalities Institute. (£28,000) (2020-2023)
Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships grant of £1million to work on ‘The Challenge of Escalating Inequalities.’ Co-led the witing of the proposal for the LSE inter-departmental bid (2015-2018)
Principal Investigator. European Research Council. Starting Grant. To work on the ‘Underbelly of the Indian Economic Boom.’ (€ 1.5 million) (2013-2020)
Principal Investigator. Economic and Social Research Council UK. To work on ‘An Ethnographic Investigation into the Persistence of Poverty amongst Adivasis and Dalits in India.’ (£1.2 million). (2013-2019)
British Academy UK- South Asia Visiting Fellowship Scheme. UK Host to Visiting Fellow, Saroj Giri, Political Science, University of Delhi. (£7,500) (2011-2012)
Principal Investigator British Academy UK-South Asia Partnership Grant for ‘Inequality and Affirmative Action in South Asia: Current Experiences and Future Agendas in India and Nepal.’ (£30,000) (2009-2012)
Principal Investigator. Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship for ‘State, Society, Revolution: Everyday lives and livelihoods of marginalised people in Jharkhand, India.’ (£545,471) (2009-2011)
Principal Investigator. British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Maoism in India and Nepal: Anthropological Comparisons.’ (£7,484) (2007).
Wenner Gren Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Fellowship for the writing of ‘In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics in Jharkhand, India.’ (Award of $32,421) (2006).

Michael Braddick

History

FBA, FRHistS

Senior Research Fellow since 2024

I am currently working on two projects: a book on England in the 1650s, England’s Freedom, along with interpretive essays on the place of the English revolution in British history and the comparative history of revolution; and work on the politics of bread and the grain supply, related to an AHRC-funded project, ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’. These two strands of work are connected by an interest in attempts to characterise and explain the distinctive British path to nineteenth-century modernity, and to integrate the history of popular politics into discussion of these macro-historical questions.

Contact:mike.braddick@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

Temporary Lecturer, Lecturer (1992), Senior Lecturer (1998) and Professor (2001), Department of History University of Sheffield (from 1990 to 2024)
Assistant Professor, Birmingham Southern College, Alabama (from 1989 to 1990)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama (from 1988 to 1989)
King‘s College, Cambridge, PhD (from 1984 to 1988)
King’s College, Cambridge, BA (from 1981 to 1984)

Research Interests

The English revolution and the comparative history of revolution
The history of the English grain trade, c. 1315-1815
British history over the longue durée

Selected publications

Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian, Verso, 2025
The common freedom of the people: John Lilburne and the English revolution, Oxford University Press, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2015
God’s Fury, England’s Fire: a new history of the English civil wars, Allen Lane, 2008
Negotiating power in early modern society: Order, hierarchy and subordination in Britain and Ireland, co-edited with John Walter, Cambridge University Press, 2001
State formation in early modern England, c.1550-1700, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the British Academy
Editorial Board, Past and Present
Series Editor, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, CUP

Research awards and grants

2022-24 Wolfson/British Academy Research Professor
2022-26 AHRC Standard Research Grant ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’
2014 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
2013 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide
2012 AHRC speculative research grant, ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks’
2011 Leverhulme International Network Grant: ‘The comparative history of political engagement’
2011 Professeur associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2004-7 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
1999 Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt
1995-96 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Fellow
1991-92 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield
1988 Bankhead Fellow, University of Alabama
1987 Thirlwall Studentship, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

History of War Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2024

All events take place on Wednesdays at 17:15 in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, unless otherwise stated.

No booking required.

For more information contact Briony Truscott, briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk

Events in this series

History of War, Michaelmas 2024, Seminar 4: Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783

4th December 2024, 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Speaker: Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)

Location: Wharton Room, All Souls College

No booking required

Other events this month

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World

29th April 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant

6th May 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

History of War, Michaelmas 2024, Seminar 3: How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798

20th November 2024, 5:15 pm

Speaker: Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL)

Subject: British strategy in the French Revolutionary War

Location: Wharton Room, All Souls College

No booking required

Other events this month

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World

29th April 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant

6th May 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

History of War, Michaelmas 2024, Seminar 2: Every day militarism and the history of British military bases

6th November 2024, 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Speaker: Yasmin Khan (Oxford)

Location: Wharton Room, All Souls College

No booking required

Other events this month

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World

29th April 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant

6th May 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

History of War, Michaelmas 2024, Seminar 1: The Shadow of the Apocalypse? In Search of a New History of the Second World War

23rd October 2024, 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Speaker: Jonathan Fennell (KCL)

Location: Wharton Room, All Souls College

Booking not required

Other events this month

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 1. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Making Sense of a Fragmenting World

29th April 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2026: Lecture 2. War for Power and the Power of War: Charismatic Leaders in the Iron Age Levant

6th May 2026 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Old Library

Head and shoulders shot of Craig Maclean

Professor Craig MacLean

Professor of Evolution and Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

Natural Sciences

BSc, PhD

Senior Research Fellow since 2024

Bacterial infections have been a leading cause of disease and death throughout human history. Antibiotics have played a key role in reducing the burden of bacterial disease, but the evolution of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is rapidly eroding the clinical utility of antibiotics. My research investigates the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive the rise and fall of resistance in bacterial populations. Ultimately, we aim to use this approach to develop new ‘evolution-informed’ strategies to combat antibiotic resistance.

Contact

Background

Senior Departmental Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Oxford (from 2021 to 2024)
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (from 2016 to 2021)
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (from 2009 to 2016)
Departmental Lecturer in Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (from 2007 to 2009)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London (from 2004 to 2007)
PhD, McGill University (from 2000 to 2004)
BSc (Hons), McGill University (from 1996 to 2000)

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the interface of Evolutionary Biology and Microbiology.

Selected publications

Recent key publications:

Regulatory fine-tuning of mcr-1 increases bacterial fitness and stabilizes antibiotic resistance in agricultural settings. L. Ogunlana, D. Kaur, L.P. Shaw, P. Jangir, T. Walsh, S. Uphoff and R.C. MacLean. ISME Journal (2023) doi:10.1038/s41396-023-01509-7
The evolution of colistin resistance increases bacterial resistance to host antimicrobial peptides and virulence. P. Jangir, L.Ogunlana, P. Szili, M. Czikkely, L.P. Shaw, E.J. Stevens, Y.Yang, Q.Yang, Y.Wang, C. Pál, T.Walsh and R.C MacLean. eLife (2023) doi:10.7554/eLife.84395
Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients. J. Diaz Caballero, R.M. Wheatley, N.Kapel, C. López-Causapé, T. Van der Schalk, A. Quinn, L.P. Shaw, L. Ogunlana, C. Recanatini, B. Britto Xavier, L. Timbermont, J. Kluytmans, A.Ruzin, M.Esser, S. Malhotra-Kumar, A. Oliver and R.C. MacLean. Nature Communications (2023) doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39416-2
Gut-to-lung translocation and antibiotic mediated selection shape the dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an ICU patient. R. M. Wheatley, J. Diaz Caballero, T. E. van der Schalk, F. H.R. De Winter, N. Kapel, C. Recanatini, L. Timbermont, J. Kluytmans, M. Esser, A. Lacoma, C. Prat-Aymerich, A. Oliver, S. Kumar-Singh, S. Malhotra-Kumar and R.C MacLean. Nature Communications (2022) doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34101-2
Rapid evolution and host immunity drive the rise and fall of carbapenem resistance during an acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. R. Wheatley, J. Diaz-Caballero, N. Kapel, F.H.R. de Winter, P.Jangir, A.Quinn, E. del Barrio-Tofiño, C. López-Causapé, J.Hedge, G.Torrens, T. Van der Schalk, B. Xavier, F. Fernández-Cuenca, A. Arenzana, C. Recanatini, L. Timbermont, F. Sifakis, A. Ruzin, O. Ali, C. Lammens, H. Goossens, J. Kluytmans, S. Kumar-Singh, A. Oliver, S. Malhotra-Kumar and R.C.MacLean. Nature Communications (2021) 12:2460 doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22814-9
Efflux pump activity potentiates the evolution of antibiotic resistance across S.aureus isolates. A.Papkou, J.Hedge, N.Kapel, B. Young and R.C MacLean. Nature Communications (2020) doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17735-y

Website

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Microbiology Society
Member, European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Teaching

I teach on modules in Evolutionary Biology and Infectious Disease on the MBiol course. I supervise MBiol and Biology DPhil research students.

Research awards and grants

Current grants as principal investigator:

2024-2029: UKRI Frontiers Grant (ERC Advanced Replacement): Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Antibiotic Resistance in Patients (EEDARP). Principal investigator (2,500,000€)

2022-2025: JPI-AMR Consortium Grant: Novel interventions for eliminating one-health mobile antibiotic resistance genes from animal and human microbiomes (MOB-TARGET). Project Leader (1,500,000€).

Selected completed grants as principal investigator:

2016-2021: Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship: The Evolutionary Biology of Antibiotic Resistance. Principal Investigator (1,400,000£).

2012-2017: European Research Council Starter Grant: The evolution of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms of resistance and evolutionary context. Principal investigator (1,200,000€)

2009-2017: Royal Society University Research Fellowship: Evolutionary genetics: an experimental approach. Principal Investigator (1,029,000£)

All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Michaelmas 2024

This long-running series of seminars, convened by Dr Margaret Bent, considers all aspects of medieval and renaissance music. It runs on Zoom in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms and generally attracts a large international audience. Usually, a presenter speaks for around 30 minutes and then engages with invited discussants for another half an hour. The floor is then open for questions and lively general discussion.

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