Professor Peter Birks

QC, FBA

University Official Fellow from 1989 to 2004

3 October 1941 - 6 July 2004

Background

Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford

Sir Isaiah Berlin

BA (Literae Humaniores), PPE

Distinguished Fellow from 1975 to 1997

6 June 1909 - 5 November 1997

Lord [Max] Beloff

Emeritus Fellow from 1974 to 1999

2 July 1913 - 22 March 1999

Background

Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford

Professor Peter Wiles

Examination Fellow from 1947 to 1948

25 November 1919 - 11 July 1997

Professor Jacques Scherer

University Academic Fellow from 1973 to 1979

24 February 1912 - 4 June 1997

Anthony Gottlieb

Quondam Fellow since 2019

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Background

Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2017 to 2019)
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2014)
Executive Editor of The Economist (from 1997 to 2006)
Editorial staff member, The Economist (from 1984 to 1997)
Research student at University College London (from 1982 to 1984)
Undergraduate at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1978)

Research Interests

History of philosophy
History of ideas

Selected publications

Forthcoming: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Yale University Press, (Jewish Lives series)
2016: revised and expanded edition of The Dream of Reason, Penguin / Norton-Liveright
2016: The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Penguin (UK) / Norton-Liveright (USA)
2000: The Dream of Reason: A history of philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Penguin (UK) / W W Norton (USA)
1997: Socrates, Orion (UK) / Routledge (USA)

Professor Dame Marina Warner

Professor of English and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, University of London

Literature

DBE, CBE, FBA, FRSL

Distinguished Fellow since 2019

My critical and historical books and essays explore different figures in myth and fairy tale, such as the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc; more recently I have concentrated on fairy tales, including the Arabian Nights. I also write novels and short stories, often drawing on mythic or other imaginary predecessors to translate them into contemporary significance – to re-vision them. Stories come from the past but speak to the present, and I have found that I need to write stories as well as deconstruct them and place them in historical contexts, because I myself love reading works of imagination, and I would like to join the conversation with admired predecessors, who range from Apuleius to Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, and Angela Carter.

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2019)
Senior Fellow, Italian Academy, Columbia, New York (2014)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2015)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University, Abu Dhabi (from 2011)
Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University (2006)
Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998)
Mellon Professor, University of Pittsburgh (1997)
Tinbergen Professor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1991)
Getty Scholar (from 1986 to 1987)
Undergraduate, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from 1963 to 1967)

Research Interests

Fairy tales
Oriental tales
Myths and symbolism
Contemporary retellings and translations

Selected publications

A Corpus, Not a Canon (Podcast)
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
(ed. with Philip Kennedy), Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights (New York: New York University Press, 2013).
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; paperback 2013). Also published in the UK by Vintage Books in 2012.
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Chair, Man Booker International Prize (2015)
President, British Comparative Literature Association (from 2010)

Research awards and grants

Reith Lectures 1994.

Dr Péter-Dániel Szántó

DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2019

Background

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2019)
Nachwuchsinitiative Stipend, Hamburg University (from 2013 to 2014)
Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford (from 2010 to 2013)
Postgraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 2006 to 2010)
Diploma in Tibetan Studies and Diploma in Indology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (from 1999 to 2006)

Research Interests

Tantric or Esoteric Buddhism; sociography of mediaeval Indian Esoteric Buddhist communities

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Dr Justin Stover

Classical Studies

BA, PhD

Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2020

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Background

Lecturer, University of Edinburgh (from 2017)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2016)
College Fellow, Department of Classics, Harvard University (from 2011)
Postgraduate, Harvard University (from 2005 to 2011)
Undergraduate, Christendom College, Virginia, USA (from 2002 to 2005)

Research Interests

Classical tradition
Platonism
Humanism
Medieval Latin

Selected publications

‘Lost Authority: Reconstructing Plato’s Corpus in the Middle Ages,’ in Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris, Proceedings of the Sixth Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee, ed. Edoardo D’Angelo (Florence: SISMEL, forthcoming).
‘Hildegard of Bingen, the Schools and Their Critics’ in Beverley Kienzle, George Ferzoco, and Debra Stoudt (eds.), A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
‘The Origin, Meaning, and Development of the Latin Verb Matizare’, Archivum latinitatis medii aevi 69 (2011), pages 97-105.
‘An Encyclopedia in the Margins: Catena Commentaries, Marginal Glosses, and the Decline of Platonic Studies,’ Manuscripta 54.2 (2010), pages 189-206.

Research awards and grants

Harvard College Fellowship (2011-2013).

Dr Claudio Sopranzetti

BA, MA, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2019

Claudio Sopranzetti is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Central European University. His research interests sit at the nexus of theorizations of capitalism, urbanism, ecological transition, and social movements in Southeast Asia and Southern Europe. Currently, he is conducting a new research project in southern Italy exploring the aftermath of a phytopatological epidemic that killed more than 21 million olive trees.

Contact:sopranzetti.claudio@gmail.com

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Background

Associate Professor, Central European University (from 2019 to the present)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2019)
Post-Graduate, Harvard University (from 2006 to 2013)
Undergraduate, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ (from 2003 to 2005)

Research Interests

Social anthropology
Urbanism and social movements in the global south
Thai studies
Politics of everyday life
History of capitalism
Environmental Studies

Selected publications

The King of Bangkok, Toronto University Press, 2021 (translated in Italian, Thai, German, and English)
Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxis Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok, University of California Press, 2018 (translated in Italian and Thai)
Red Journeys: Into the Thai Red Shirt Movement, University of Washington Press and Silkworm Books, 2012
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good Governance, Translation and Word Coinage in Thailand, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol.12, No.3, 2023
An experiment in Graphic Ethnography: reflections of the King of Bangkok, JRAI: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.28, No.3, 2022
Framed by Freedom: Emancipation and Oppression in post-Fordist Thailand, Cultural Anthropology, Vol.32, No. 1, 2017

Research awards and grants

2024 – Kate Browne Creativity in Research Award – Society for Economic Anthropology
2023 - ICAS Best Read for the General Public Accolade – International Convention of Asian Scholars
2022 - INDIES Award – Best Humanities Graphic Novel
2021 - PROSE award Best Non-fictional Graphic Novel – Association of American Publishers
2020 - Thai Editor Choice Award – Association of Thai Publishers
2019 - Margaret Mead Book Award - American Anthropological Association
2012 - Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) Graduate Essay Prize

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