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.

Background

Professor of Social Anthropology and University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2024)
Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford and Fellow of Wolfson College (from 2002 to 2008)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University (from 1994 to 2002)
Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1986 to 1990)
MPhil, Balliol, and DPhil, Wolfson College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1986)
PPE, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1976 to 1979)

Research Interests

The anthropology of South and East Asia
Religion, ritual, healing traditions
Politics, ethnicity, activism, democracy
Borders and borderlands
Caste, class, mobility

Selected publications

Re-Creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination (ed. with D.P. Martinez) (ASA conference volume). London: Routledge,2022
Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: The Making of a Safe "Hindu" Seat (with S. Chaturvedi & S.K. Pandey) Contemporary South Asia 27(1), 2019
Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora (ed. with S. Hausner) (Delhi: OUP, 2018)
Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal (ed. with S. Hausner & C. Letizia), (Delhi: OUP, 2016)
'Schools as Organizations: On the Question of Value Consensus’ Anthropology of This Century 12, (2015)
Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (with Sarah LeVine) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Publications (External Link)

Teaching

The anthropology of South Asia
Social anthropology
The anthropology of religion

Research awards and grants

‘The Dalit Search for Dignity: State, Society, and Mobilization from Below in Nepal’ (2019-2023), British Academy [HDV190020]
‘Caste, Class, and Culture: Changing Bahun and Dalit Identities in Nepal’ (2013-2017), ESRC [ES/L00240X/1]
‘Vernacular Religion: Varieties of Religiosity in the Nepali Diaspora’ (2009-2013), AHRC [AH/HO15876/1]
‘The (Micro)Politics of Democratisation: European-South Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civic Action’ (2004-2007), EU-Asialink [NP/ASIA-LINK/001 (84-062)]
'The Impact of Activism in Nepal' (2002-2005), British Academy

Dr Elizabeth Chatterjee

Lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London

BA, MSc, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2021

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2019 to 2021)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2019)
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (from 2015 to 2018)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2015)
Undergraduate, Merton College, Oxford (from 2005 to 2008) and Princeton University (Fall 2006)

Research Interests

Comparative environmental politics
Energy histories
Modern South Asia
Critical infrastructure studies

Selected publications

'The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism', Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming)
(Co-edited, with Matthew McCartney) Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
'The Politics of Electricity Reform', World Development 104 (2018): 128–139
'Reinventing State Capitalism in India', Contemporary South Asia 25.1 (2017): 85–100
(Co-edited, with Sneha Krishnan and Megan Eaton Robb) Urban Emotions in South Asia, special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27.4 (2017)
Delhi: Mostly Harmless (Random House India, 2013)

Other professional memberships and roles

Associate Editor, Politics (from 2018)
Fellow, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy, Johns Hopkins (from 2018)
Residential Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute (2018)
Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (2016)
UK–India Education and Research Initiative Visiting Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2015)

Dr Sarah Beaver

MA, DPhil

Emeritus Fellow since 2020

Background

Academic Administrator and Domestic Bursar and Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2020)
MOD as Director EU + UN, DG International Security Policy (2004-7), and Command Secretary, PJHQ (2007-8) (from 2002 to 2008)
Director, NHS Finance, National Assembly for Wales (from 1998 to 2002)
Director Procurement Finance and range of policy and administrative posts, Ministry of Defence (from 1980 to 1998)
Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and College Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1980)
Postgraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 1976 to 1978)
Postgraduate, Sheffield University (from 1973 to 1974)
Undergraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 1970 to 1973)

Other professional memberships and roles

Trustee, Marie Curie (from 2007 to 2016)

Katherine Rundell

Literature

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.

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (since 2023)
Fifty Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016 to 2023)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2016)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2015)
Undergraduate, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (from 2005 to 2008)

Research Interests

John Donne's textual afterlives (doctoral research)
Early modern poetry and reading practices

Selected publications

Rooftoppers (London: Faber and Faber, 2013).
The Girl Savage (London: Faber and Faber, 2011).

Research awards and grants

Goldsworthy Scholar (2006-2008).
Nick Young Award (2008).

Sir Guenter Treitel

QC, MA, DCL, FBA

Emeritus Fellow from 1996 to 2019

26 October 1928 - 14 June 2019

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2019)
Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979 to 1996)
Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1954-1979), Emeritus Fellow (1979-2019)
All Souls Reader in English Law, University of Oxford (from 1964 to 1979)
Lecturer, University College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1954)
Assistant Lecturer, London School of Economics (from 1951 to 1953)
Undergraduate and BCL student, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1946 to 1951)

Research Interests

Contract law
International trade law

Selected publications

(jointly) Benjamin’s Sale of Goods (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1974; 9th edn., 2014).
Frustration and Force Majeure (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1994; 3rd edn. 2014).
The Law of Contract (1st ed., London: Stevens, 1962 to 11th ed., London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2003).
Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Comparative Account (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
(with F.M.B. Reynolds) Carver on Bills of Lading (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001; 3rd edn., 2011).
Some Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Contract Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; Chinese Translation PUP, 2009).

Other professional memberships and roles

Trustee, British Museum (from 1983 to 1998)
Member, Council, National Trust (from 1984 to 1993)

Philip Woolfe

Barrister, Monckton Chambers

MA, BCL

Quondam Fellow since 2010

Link to Website

Background

Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2010)
BVC at ICSL (from 2003 to 2004)
Undergraduate, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2001 to 2003)
Undergraduate, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 1998 to 2001)

Research Interests

Commercial Law
Competition Law
Environmental Law
European Community Law
Human Rights
Public & Administrative Law
VAT & Customs Law

Joe Perkins

MA, MPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2009

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002 to 2009)
Economic Analyst, HM Treasury (from 2001 to 2003)
Postgraduate, St John’s College, Cambridge (from 2000 to 2001)
Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1997 to 2000)

Research Interests

Economics

Professor Andrew Wilson

Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire

Classical Studies

MA, DPhil, FSA

University Academic Fellow since 2004

My research interests include the economy of the Roman Empire, ancient technology, ancient water supply and usage, Roman North Africa and archaeological field survey. I co-direct, with Alan Bowman, the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), and, with Chris Howgego, the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project. With Bill Finlayson, and with David Mattingly at Leicester and Graham Philip at Durham, I am also conducting a project on Endangered Archaeology in North Africa and the Middle East, using satellite imagery to assess threats to archaeological sites. I have undertaken excavations in Rome and Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya), at Aphrodisias (Turkey) and Utica (Tunisia), and have excavated and studied ancient water systems in Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Cyprus.

Link to academia.edu page.

Background

University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
University Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, University of Oxford and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford (from 2000 to 2004)
Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1996 to 2000)
Postgraduate, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1993 to 1996)
Factory Systems Analyst, Eurotherm (from 1991 to 1993)
Undergraduate, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1988 to 1991)

Research Interests

Economy of the Roman empire
Ancient technology
Ancient water supply and usage
Roman architecture
Roman North Africa
Field survey
Excavation and field work: Aphrodisas Excavations (‘Place of Palms’), Turkey; Utica Excavations, Tunisia; Euesperides (Benghazi), Libya; Desert Migrations Project, Libya; Fazzan Project, Libya; Excavation in the Roman Forum, Rome; Janiculum Mills Project, Rome; El Anderin, Syria; Jerba Project, Tunisia; Sangro Valley Project, Italy; Yeronisos Island Expedition, Cyprus; Thamusida, Morocco; Leptiminus Archaeological Project, Tunisia

Selected publications

Wilson, A. I., Ray, N. and Trentacoste, A. (eds) (2023). The Economy of Roman Religion (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Wilson, A. I. (2022). ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events: The end of classical urbanism in southwestern Asia Minor in the early seventh century AD’, in M. Whitby and P. Booth (eds), Mélanges James Howard-Johnston (Travaux et mémoires 26), 565–594. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance.
Brughmans, T. and Wilson, A. I. (eds) (2022). Simulating Roman Economies: Theories, Methods, and Computational Models (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Duckworth, C. and Wilson, A. I. (eds) (2020). Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Wilson, A. I. and Bowman, A. K. (eds) (2018). Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Wilson, A. I. and Flohr, M. (eds) (2016). Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Link to full publications list

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 2006–
Foreign corresponding member of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 2004–
Chairman of The Society for Libyan Studies (2008–2011)
Corresponding overseas member of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France

Teaching

Courses on Roman archaeology: cities and settlements under the Roman Empire
Graduate courses on the archaeology of the Roman economy, Roman urban systems, Roman North Africa
Supervision of doctoral theses on Roman archaeology, especially those connected with the Roman economy or Roman technology

Research awards and grants

Co-director, with Professor Alan Bowman, of The Oxford Roman Economy Project.

Dr Sarah Wilkinson

Tenant, Blackstone Chambers

BA (Hons), MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2011

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2004 to 2011)
Prize Fellow in History, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2003)
Undergraduate, Keble College, Oxford (from 1993 to 1996)

Research Interests

British history 1914-45
European history 1914-45
Employment Law
Public Law and Human Rights

Selected publications

Link to publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, ELA
Member, ALBA
Appointed to the Attorney-General’s C Panel of Counsel (from 2008)

Professor Andrew Wilkinson

Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics and Perinatal Medicine

Emeritus Consultant and Director of Neonatal Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Natural Sciences

MB ChB, MA, DCH, FRCP, FRCPCH (Hon)

Emeritus Fellow since 2011

I am currently carrying out a review of the biographies and obituaries of all the Fellows of All Souls who have been qualified in the practice of medicine. I am a Board member of the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) www.rcpch.ac.uk/nnap, and the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit (NDAU) www.imperial.ac.uk/ndau and the International member of the Vermont Oxford Network Advisory Board www.vtOxford.org. I work on various research steering and data monitoring committees and with ophthalmologists in the UK and abroad on research into improvements in screening and treatment of blinding Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP).

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Clinical Reader in paediatrics, University of Oxford (from 1992 to 1997)
Consultant Paediatrician, Oxfordshire Health Authority (from 1981 to 1992)
Clinical Lecturer in paediatrics, University of Oxford (from 1978 to 1981)
Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA (from 1975 to 1977)
Nuffield Medical Research Fellow, University of Oxford (from 1974 to 1975)
Senior House Officer in paediatrics at: Great Ormond Street Hospital and Oxford. Registrar, Southampton (from 1973 to 1974)
Senior House Officer and Registrar in medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, King Edward V11 Hospital, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon (from 1970 to 1972)
House Officer in paediatrics, Warwick Hospital (from 1969 to 1970)
House Officer in medicine and surgery, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham (from 1968 to 1969)
University of Birmingham Medical School (to 1968)

Research Interests

Clinical neurodevelopmental research, particularly in newborn babies

Selected publications

Painter SL, Wilkinson AR, Goldacre MJ, Patel CK. 'Incidence and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in England between 1990 and 2011: Hospital Episode Statistics database study'. Brit J Ophth, 2015 (in press).
Jiang ZD, Wilkinson AR. 'Impaired function of the auditory brainstem in term neonates with hyperbilirubinemia'. Brain & Development 36 (2014), pages 212–218.
Lewandowski AJ, Augustine D, Lamata P, Davis EF, Lazdam M, Francis J, McCormick K, Wilkinson A, Singhal A, Lucas A, Smith N, Neubauer S, Leeson P. 'Preterm heart in adult life: cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals distinct differences in left ventricular mass, geometry and function'. Circulation 2013; 127, pages 197–206.
Jiang ZD, Zhou Y, Ping LL, Wilkinson AR. 'Brainstem auditory response findings in late preterm infants in intensive care unit'. Acta Paediatr 2011; 100: e51-4.
Acolet D†, Allen E, Houston R, Costeloe K, Elbourne D, Wilkinson AR, 'Improvements in NICU care: a cluster randomised controlled trial of Active Dissemination of Information'. Arch Dis Child – Fetal Neonatal Ed 2011; 96.
Wilkinson AR, Ahluwalia J, Cole A, Crawford D, Fyle J, Gordon A, Moorcraft J, Pollard T, Roberts T. 'The Management of Babies born Extremely Preterm at less than 26 weeks of gestation. A Framework for Clinical Practice at the time of Birth'. Arch Dis Child - Fetal Neonatal Ed 2009;94: F2-5.
Wilkinson AR, Haines L, Head K, Fielder AR. 'UK Retinopathy of Prematurity Guideline'. Early Human Development 2008, 84: 71-74.
Birtles DB, Braddick OJ, Wattam-Bell J, Atkinson J, Wilkinson AR. 'Orientation and motion-specific visual cortex responses in infants born preterm'. NeuroReports 2007, 18: 1975-1979.
Bodeau-Livinec F, Surman G, Kaminski M, Wilkinson AR. 'Recent trends in visual impairment and blindness in the UK'. Arch Dis Child. 2007, 92: 1099-1104.
Wilkinson AR, Brosi DM, Jiang ZD. 'Functional impairment of the brainstem in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia'. Pediatrics 2007, 120: 362-371.
Wood NS, Costeloe K, Gibson AT, Hennessy EM, Marlow N, Wilkinson AR. EPICure Study Group. 'The EPICure study: associations and antecedents of neurological and developmental disability at 30 months of age following extremely preterm birth'. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2005 Mar; 90(2): F134-140.
Lucey JF, Rowan CA, Shiono P, Wilkinson AR, Kilpatrick S, Payne NR, Horbar J, Carpenter J, Rogowski J, Soll RF. 'Fetal infants: the fate of 4172 infants with birth weights of 401 to 500 grams - the Vermont Oxford Network experience (1996-2000)'. Pediatrics 2004; 113: 1559-1566.
de Silva GDI, Justice A, Wilkinson AR, Buttery J, Herbert M, Day N.P.J, Peacock S.J. 'Genetic Population Structure of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Associated with Carriage and Disease in Preterm Infants'. Clinical Infectious Disease 2001; 33: 1520-8.
Wood N. S, Marlow N, Costeloe K, Gibson A.T, Wilkinson AR. 'Neurologic and developmental disability after extremely preterm birth', New Engl J Med 2000, 343: 378-84.

Other professional memberships and roles

Trustee, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds (from 2005)
Trustee, Helen and Douglas House Hospice, Oxford (from 2003)
President, Neonatal Society, Hon 2011 (from 2003 to 2006)
President, British Association of Perinatal Medicine, Hon 2011 (from 1992 to 2002)
1942 Club
Hon Secretary and Chair, Academic Board, RCPCH (from 1983 to 1989)
Honorary Fellow, RCPCH 2010. Sir James Spence Medallists, 2011 (from 2010 to 2011)
Knight, 1st Class, Order of the White Rose of Finland, SVR R1 (from 2003)

Teaching

Medical students
Advanced nurses
Graduate research supervision

Research awards and grants

Research supported by Wellcome Trust, WellChild, Action Medical, BLISS, Deafness Research UK.

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