Professor George Holmes

BA, MA, PhD

University Academic Fellow from 1989 to 1994

22 April 1927 - 29 January 2009

Professor Amia Srinivasan

Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory

Philosophy

Politics and International Relations

BA, MA, BPhil, DPhil

University Academic Fellow since 2020

I work on topics in epistemology, ethics, metaphilosophy, and social and political philosophy. I am currently thinking about the role of anger in politics, the relationship between philosophy and feminism, and the genealogical contingency of our beliefs.

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Background

Associate Professor of Philosophy, St John’s College, Oxford (from 2018 to 2019)
Lecturer in Philosophy, University College London (from 2015 to 2018)
Examination Fellow (2009-2016), then Fifty-Pound Fellow (2017-2018), All Souls College
Postgraduate at Corpus Christi College and Christ Church, Oxford (from 2007 to 2009)
Undergraduate at Yale University, USA (from 2003 to 2007)

Research Interests

Epistemology
Philosophical methodology
Ethics
Feminist philosophy

Research awards and grants

Rhodes Scholarship (2007).

Professor Suzanne Aigrain

Professor of Astrophysics

Natural Sciences

MSc, PhD

University Academic Fellow since 2010

My research concerns the detection and characterisation of exoplanets and their host stars. I am interested both in exploring the full diversity of planets and planetary systems in the Galaxy, and in understanding the frequency and characteristics of other worlds that might be hospitable to extra-terrestrial life. I use data from space telescopes such as CoRoT, Kepler, and Hubble, as well as a range of ground-based telescopes, to discover new transiting planets and probe their atmospheres, and am involved in future space missions such as PLATO. I also work with the Machine Learning Research Group in the department of Engineering Science, using state of the art statistical methods to extract faint planetary signals in large, noisy time-series datasets.

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Background

University Lecturer in Astrophysics (from 2010)
University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010)
Lecturer in Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Exeter (from 2007 to 2010)
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (from 2004 to 2007)
Doctoral student, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge & Corpus Christi College (from 2001 to 2004)
Postgraduate, Physics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (from 1996 to 2000)

Research Interests

Detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets
Evolution of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
Ultra-high precision photometry

Selected publications

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Other professional memberships and roles

Member of the European Space Agency’s Astronomy Working Group (from 2008 to 2010)
Young Graduate Trainee, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (2001)

A head and shoulders picture of Andrew Scott

Professor Andrew Scott

Professor of Economics, London Business School

MA, MSc, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2016

My research focuses mainly on the economics of longevity and how individually and socially we need to adapt to the realities of longer lives and all that implies for the economy and the health sector as well as society more broadly. My past work focused on business cycles and in particular monetary and fiscal policy and debt management.

Contact:ascott@london.edu

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Link to Curriculum Vitae

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2016)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2005)
Research Officer/Lecturer, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford (from 1994 to 1995)
Research Officer, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics (from 1991 to 1994)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
Research Officer, Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School (from 1987 to 1990)
Undergraduate, Trinity College, Oxford (from 1987 to 1990)

Research Interests

Longevity
Government Finance
Macroeconomics

Selected publications

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Dr Judith Scheele

MA, MSc, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2017

My research focuses on trade, mobility and interdependence in Algeria, northern Mali and, more recently, northern Chad. My aim is to understand the local through the many ways in which it is connected to the outside, and thereby to develop a comparative framework for the study of the Sahara as a region. As part of this larger research project, I am currently working on a book-length study of Faya-Largeau, the main town in northern Chad. I am also involved in a collaborative project on the anthropology and history of non-state law.

Background

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009 to 2016)
Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College (from 2006 to 2009)
Postgraduate, Linacre College, and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (from 2001 to 2005)
Arts Administrator/Producer in Ivory Coast and Mali (from 1998 to 2001)
Undergraduate, University of Rennes, France (to 1999)

Research Interests

Social Anthropology
North and West Africa (Algeria, Mali, and Chad)
Sahara

Selected publications

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (Algeria) (Oxford: James Currey, 2009).
(ed. with Paul Dresch) Legalism: Rules and Categories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
(ed. with Fernanda Pirie) Legalism: Community and Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
(ed. with James McDougall) Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012).
'The Libyan connection: settlement, war, and other entanglements in northern Chad', Journal of African History 57/1 (2016), 1-20.
'The values of 'anarchy': moral autonomy among Tubu-speakers in northern Chad', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21/1 (2015), 32-48.
(with Julien Brachet) 'Fleeting glory in a wasteland: wealth, politics, and autonomy in northern Chad', Comparative Studies in Society and History 57/3 (2015), 723-52.

Other professional memberships and roles

Evans-Pritchard Lectureship, All Souls College (2009)

Research awards and grants

British Academy Small Research Grant for Fieldwork in southern Algeria and Mali (2008).

Professor Daniel Rothschild

Professor of Philosophy of Language at University College London

BA, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2020

My research is in natural language semantics and pragmatics. In particular, I study presupposition, the logical connectives, definite descriptions and pronouns, epistemic language, questions, context-sensitivity, and game-theoretic accounts of meaning.

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Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2020)
Reader in Philosophy of Language at University College London (from 2013 to 2018)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009 to 2013)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University (from 2006 to 2009)
Postgraduate, Princeton University (from 2001 to 2006)
Undergraduate, Yale University (from 1997 to 2001)

Research Interests

Philosophy of language
Linguistic semantics
Epistemology
Philosophy of cognitive science

Selected publications

'The Dynamics of Conversation', (with Seth Yalcin) Noûs, forthcoming.
'Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures', Philosophical Perspectives, 27(1), 2013, pages 438- 478.
'Do Indicative Conditionals Express Propositions?' Noûs, 47(1), 2013, pages 49-68.
(with Nathan Klinedinst), 'Connectives without Truth Tables', Natural Language
Semantics, 20(2), 2012, pages 137-175.
'Explaining Presupposition Projection with Dynamic Semantics', Semantics and Pragmatics, 4(3), (2011), pages 1-43.
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Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Research Associate, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London (from 2008)

Dr Fiona Burnell

BSc, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2013

Fiona Burnell has continued her research in theoretical condensed matter physics, and has co-authored three published articles and three articles submitted for publication. She has also given seminars at Cambridge and Birmingham universities, and presented an invited talk at one conference. She runs a weekly Condensed Matter Theory seminar series, organised a two-day workshop on Topological Quantum Information in September 2012, and served on the scientific committee for a follow-up workshop in February 2013.

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009 to 2013)
Postgraduate, Princeton University (from 2003 to 2009)
Undergraduate, University of British Columbia, Canada (from 1997 to 2002)

Research Interests

The physics of strongly correlated many-body systems, in particular topological phases of matter and frustrated magnetism and quantum magnets

Selected publications

(with M. M. Parrish, N. R. Cooper, and S. L. Sondhi), ‘Devil’s staircase and supersolids in a one-dimensional dipolar Bose gas’, (accepted to Phys. Rev. B)
(with B. A. Bernevig and D. P. Arovas), ‘Scenario for fractional quantum Hall effect in bulk isotropic materials’, Phys. Rev. B 79, 155310 (2009)
(with Shoibal Chakravarty and S. L. Sondhi), ‘Monopole flux state on the pyrochlore lattice’, Phys. Rev. B 79, 144432 (2009)
(with R. Shankar and S.L. Sondhi), ‘Flux Hamiltonians, Lie Algebras and Root Lattices with Minuscule Representations’, Ann. Phys., vol. 324, Issue 2 (2009), 267–95 [doi:10.1016/j.aop.2008.06.005]
(with S.L. Sondhi), ‘Classified Antiferromagnetism on Torquato-Stillinger Packings’, Phys. Rev. B., 78, 024407 (2008)
(with G. Kribs), ‘The Abundance of Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter with Co-Annhiltion’, Phys. Rev. D., 73, 015001 (2006)

Research awards and grants

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (from 2005 to 2007).
NSERC Julie Payette Postgraduate Scholarship (from 2003 to 2005).
Joseph Henry Prize in Physics (from 2003 to 2004).

Dr Rosemary Hill

Independent scholar

BA, MA, FRSL, FSA

Quondam Fellow since 2011

My subject is cultural history, focusing on the period 1750-1900. My principal interest is in the connection between objects and ideas, the expression of abstract concepts in three-dimensional artefacts. I have written on this theme in the context of the Victorian Gothic Revival, the cultural history of Stonehenge and antiquarianism in the Romantic period.

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Background

Visiting Fellowship at Melbourne University department of Architecture Building and Planning (2023)
Member of sub-committee of the sponsor body for Restoration and Renewal at the Palace of Westminster (2021)
Member of English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel (from 2014 to 2022)
Visiting Research Professor, York University, Department of History of Art and Architecture (from 2014 to 2016)
Senior Researcher on AHRC-funded project 'St Stephen’s Chapel Westminster: visual and political culture 1292-1941' (from 2014 to 2016)
Mellon Senior Research Fellow (from 2013 to 2014)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009 to 2011)
PhD, Queen Mary, University of London (from 2007 to 2011)
English Literature, BA Hons, Newnham College, Cambridge (from 1976 to 1979)

Research Interests

Victorian architecture
John Vanbrugh and Sarah Duchess of Marlborough

Selected publications

Books:

Time’s Witness: History in the age of Romanticism (Allen Lane) (2021)
Stonehenge (Profile) (2008)
God’s Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) (2007)

Articles:

Essay in Why We Read: 70 Writers on non-fiction, (Penguin) (2022)
‘Populist Palatial’ London’s West End: creating the pleasure district, 1800-1914, by Rohan McWilliam and Survey of London: volume 53, Oxford Street (4 March,2021)
London Review of Books (see www.lrb.co.uk for full index) includes:
‘A Keen Demand for Camberwells’ Inventing the property market in modern Britain, by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon (21 March 2019)
“‘Proceeding like Guy Faux’: The Antiquarian Investigation of St Stephen’s Chapel Westminster, 1790–1837.” Architectural History, vol. 59 (2016)

Other professional memberships and roles

Contributing editor, London Review of Books (from 2012)
Lecturer the Victorian Society of America Summer School (from 1997)
Trustee, Pugin Society (from 1994)

Professor Vincent Crawford

Economics

AB, PhD, FBA

Emeritus Fellow since 2020

My research focuses on game-theoretic microeconomics, with emphases on bargaining and arbitration, strategic communication, matching markets, learning, and coordination. My current research areas are behavioural and experimental game theory, and behavioural economics more generally.

Contact:vincent.crawford@economics.ox.ac.uk

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Background

University Academic Fellow and Drummond Professor of Political Economy, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2020)
Assistant Professor (1976-1981), Associate Professor (1981-1985), Professor (1985-1997), Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego (1997-2009). Emeritus Professor from 2010. (from 1976 to 2009)
Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from 1972 to 1976)
Undergraduate, Princeton University (to 1972)

Research Interests

Economic theory
Behavioural and experimental economics

Selected publications

(with Miguel Costa-Gomes and Nagore Iriberri), 'Structural Models of Nonequilibrium Strategic Thinking: Theory, Evidence, and Applications', Journal of Economic Literature 51 (March 2013), 5-62.
(with Michèle Belot and Cecilia Heyes), 'Players of Matching Pennies Automatically Imitate Opponents’ Gestures Against Strong Incentives', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110(8) (19 February 2013), 2763-2768.
(with Juanjuan Meng), 'New York City Cabdrivers' Labor Supply Revisited: Reference-Dependent Preferences with Rational-Expectations Targets for Hours and Income', American Economic Review 101 (August 2011), 1912–1932.
(with Nagore Iriberri), 'Level–k Auctions: Can Boundedly Rational Strategic Thinking Explain the Winner's Curse and Overbidding in Private–Value Auctions?', Econometrica 75 (2007), 1721–70.
(with Miguel Costa–Gomes), 'Cognition and Behavior in Two–Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study', American Economic Review 96 (2006), 1737–68.
'Theory and Experiment in the Analysis of Strategic Interaction', in David Kreps and Ken Wallis, editors, Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Seventh World Congress, Vol. I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 206–42.
(with Joel Sobel), 'Strategic Information Transmission', Econometrica 50 (1982), 1431–51.
(with Alexander S. Kelso, Jr.), 'Job Matching, Coalition Formation, and Gross Substitutes', Econometrica 50 (1982), 1483–1504.
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Other professional memberships and roles

Member of Academia Europaea (from 2014)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Fellow, Econometric Society (from 1990)
Guggenheim Fellow (from 1997 to 1998)
Co-Editor, American Economic Review (from 2005 to 2009)
Associate Editor, Econometrica (from 2004 to 2007)
Editor, Games and Economic Behavior (member, Editorial Board, from 1988) (from 2011 to 2024)
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory (1986–96, 1998–2004)
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (from 2001 to 2004)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, New Zealand Economic Papers (from 2007)
Member, American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee (from 2008 to 2013)
Member, US National Science Foundation Economics Advisory Panel (from 1996 to 1998)
Member, First Council of the Game Theory Society (from 2001 to 2003)
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (from 1982 to 1983)
Visiting Professor of Economics & Visiting Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University (from 1985 to 1986)

Research awards and grants

European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant, 'BESTDECISION: Behavioural Economics and Strategic Decision Making: Theory, Empirics, and Experiments' (2014-20).
Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grants (from 1979 to 1994).

Professor Paul Beaudry

Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia

BA, MA, PhD, FRS (Canada)

Quondam Fellow since 2010

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010)
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls (from 2009 to 2010)
Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia and Fellow, Bank of Canada.
Also Faculty Research Fellow (1994-2003), then Research Associate (2003–9), National Bureau of Economic Research, Boston (from 1994 to 2009)
Scholar (1996–9), then Associate Researcher, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (from 1996 to 2002)
Associate Researcher, Centre de Recherche et Développement en Economique, Université de Montréal (from 1989 to 2002)
Postgraduate, Princeton University (from 1984 to 1989)
Postgraduate, University of British Columbia (from 1983 to 1984)
Undergraduate, Université Laval (from 1980 to 1983)

Research Interests

Macroeconomics
Monetary economics
Technical change and growth
Labour economics
Income inequality

Selected publications

(with Patrick Francois), ‘Organizational Skill and Management in the Theory of Economic Growth’, Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming)
(with Charles Blackorby and Deszo Salay), ‘Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs’, American Economic Review (March 2009)
(with Franck Portier), ‘When can Changes in Expectations cause Business Cycle Fluctuations’, Journal of Economic Theory (2007)
(with Franck Portier ), ‘News, Stock Prices and Economic Fluctuations’, American Economic Review (September 2006)
(with Fabrice Collard), ‘Globalization, Returns to Accumulation, and the World Distribution of Income’ Journal of Monetary Economics (2006)
(with David Green), ‘The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany: What explains the differences?’ American Economic Review (June 2003)

Other professional memberships and roles

Visiting Professor and Researcher, MIT (2004)
Visiting Professor and Researcher, Université de Montréal (from 2002 to 2003)
Visiting Professor and Researcher, GREMAQ, Toulouse, France (from 2000 to 2001)
Visiting Professor and Researcher, MAD, Paris I-Sorbonne, France (1997)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (from 1992 to 1993)
Consultant, Economic Development Institute, World Bank (from 1988 to 1989)
Consultant, Research Department, National Bank of Canada (1987)
Visiting Researcher, Université Laval (1985)

Research awards and grants

2008 John Rae Research Prize for best economic research in Canada over the last 5 years.

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