A head and torso shot of Professor Amartya Sen

Professor Amartya Sen

Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
BA, MA, PhD, Bharat Ratna, CH, FBA, DLitt (Hon), DSc (Hon), D Law (Hon), DU (Hon)
Honorary Fellow since 2012

Amartya Sen taught Economics, Philosophy, History and Law at Harvard (as Thomas W. Lamont University Professor), authored An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin and Princeton University Press) jointly with Jean Drèze, and published a number of articles in professional journals and in the public media.

Dr Alexander Morrison

MA, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2013

Alexander Morrison won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in November 2012. In 2013 he published three new articles, and continued to work on a monograph on the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, making research trips to Kazakhstan and Georgia. In his capacity as President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies he organised the Society's 13th biennial conference in August 2013. He accepted the post of Professor of History at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, which he will take up in January 2014. As a result he is resigning his Fellowship with effect from 2 November 2013.

Dr Erik-Christiaan Landis

Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Oxford Brookes University
BA, MA, PhD
Quondam Fellow since 2012

Professor Cecilia Heyes

Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford
BSc, MA, PhD, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2008

I am a psychologist interested in the evolution of human cognition.  My work explores how natural selection, learning, developmental and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. I am especially interested in social cognition, including social learning, imitation, theory of mind and metacognition. 

The Rt Hon Sir Launcelot Henderson

PC, KC, MA
Distinguished Fellow since 2008

I am a full time Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, having been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2016 and a Member of the Privy Council in 2017. I sit in the Civil Division of the Court, hearing appeals and writing judgments on a wide variety of civil cases. I was previously a Judge of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) from 2007 to 2016.

Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky

Emeritus Professor of History, Tel Aviv University
BA, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon)
Quondam Fellow since 2010

Professor David Gellner

MA, DPhil, FBA
Emeritus Fellow since 2024

My research in Nepal (since 1981) has encompassed religion and ritual, social organization, ethnicity, history, activism, democratization, borderlands diaspora, and migration. Current research focuses on caste, class, and culture, including the position of Dalits (ex-Untouchables). Other research projects in which I have been involved are listed below.

Dr Elizabeth Chatterjee

Lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London
BA, MSc, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2021

Dr Sarah Beaver

MA, DPhil
Emeritus Fellow since 2020

Katherine Rundell

BA, MSt
Quondam Fellow since 2023

Alongside her doctoral thesis on the literary and textual afterlives of John Donne, Katherine Rundell completed an article for the London Review of Books and a draft of a chapter for an edited book on Donne for CUP. She led creative writing workshops for children in state schools across England, and acted as associated editor of the literary magazine Archipelago.

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