Jørgen Rennemo

BSc, MSc
Quondam Fellow since 2017

Dr Erik Panzer

MASt, PhD
Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2021

Dr Philipp Nothaft

PhD
Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2021

Most of my research revolves around the history of astronomy, chronology, and time-reckoning in medieval and early modern Europe, with a heavy focus on unpublished sources in medieval Latin manuscripts.

Dr Dmitri Levitin

BA, MPhil, PhD
Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2022

I am an intellectual, cultural and religious historian of early modern Europe. I have published extensively on philosophical, scientific, medical, religious, legal and political thought in early modern Europe. Although I have made several discoveries about individuals and institutions (including Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, the Hebraist John Spencer, the early modern study of Persian religious history, and the Society of Apothecaries), I am above all interested in large-scale patterns of change from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, patterns that transcend the influence of any individual or group. My first book, Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science (2015), demonstrates how almost all educated people in the seventeenth century engaged deeply with the history of ancient philosophy, in stark contrast to the still prevalent stereotype of the period as one that witnessed a move away from humanistic modes of thought. My current project, provisionally entitled An age of erudition, explores, largely on the basis of previously untapped manuscript sources, how from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries ideas about religion and theology were historicised at an institutional level, especially in the universities, and how that institutionalisation in turn led to wider cultural awareness of the historical dimension to Christianity and other religions.

Dr Tess Little

BA, MPhil, DPhil
Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2022

I am a writer and historian, with research interests in twentieth-century Europe and the US. My doctoral thesis examined the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s in transnational perspective through a case study of the links between the movements in the US, UK, and France. I surveyed archival material and conducted life history interviews with activists in all three countries to trace theory, protest tactics, and organisational ideas which spread across national borders. The collection of interviews will be available in future at the British Library. I also write fiction; my debut novel, The Ninth Guest (published in North America as The Last Guest) was published in 2020.

Max Harris

BA/LLB (Hons), BCL, MPP
Quondam Fellow since 2021

Dr Jonathan Katz

MA, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2017

Professor Francis Brown

Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
PhD
Senior Research Fellow since 2015

Professor Constantin Teleman

Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
BA, MSc, PhD
Quondam Fellow since 2018

Professor Catherine Morgan

Professor of Classics and Archaeology, University of Oxford
OBE, BA, MA, PhD, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2015

My interests include the study of island societies in Classical antiquity, early Greek religion, and the development and transformation of political identities in the Archaic to Hellenistic Greek world. My current research is focused in the Ionian islands and north-western Greece, where I direct fieldwork on Ithaca on behalf of the British School at Athens and participate in field projects on Kephallonia, Leukas, and Meganisi. I am writing a book on the Ionian islands from the Archaic period to Roman times, examining such issues as the economic and political forces operating to unite or fragment the archipelago, the impact of colonisation, and the nature of migration and its effects upon the development of political communities.
I have two further areas of interest. The first is industrial archaeology in the Greek world. I co-direct a survey of the limestone quarries at Kenchreai in the eastern Corinthia which aims to reconstruct the history and organisation of stone extraction and the impact of over a millennium of quarry activity on local settlement and supply chains. The second is the history of archaeological research in Greece, most recently involving a collaboration with colleagues in the British Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, and the Musée du Louvre to investigate the archaeological activities of the Allied armies on the Salonica Front during World War 1.

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