Dr Benjamin Gray

Lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London

MA, MPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2013

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2006 to 2013)
Undergraduate, Merton College, Oxford (from 2002 to 2006)

Research Interests

Greek history and thought of the later Classical and Hellenistic periods
Ancient Greece and modern political and ethical theory

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Law

MA, DPhil

Emeritus Fellow since 2014

I am an international lawyer, dealing primarily with the legal aspects of refugee flows, migration, and forced displacement. I am also involved with related issues, including statelessness, deprivation of citizenship, ‘counter-terrorism’, and the challenges to human rights raised by the widespread emphasis globally on ‘securitisation’, and more recently as a consequence of COVID-19. In addition, I remain particularly interested in the activities of international and regional organisations, both in contributing to the resolution of humanitarian problems and as potentially ‘representative’ forums. I practised as a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London, from 2002-2018, and from July 2017–December 2021, I was Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales; I have been an Honorary Professor since January 2022. In February 2020, I was awarded the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award at Berkeley Law for my contributions to international law and international refugee law, and in September 2021, Oxford University Press published the fourth edition of The Refugee in International Law (with Professor Jane McAdam and Emma Dunlop).

External homepages:

http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002 to 2014)
Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford (from 1998 to 2014)
Rubin Director of Research, Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford (from 1997 to 2002)
Professor of Asylum Law, University of Amsterdam (from 1994 to 1999)
Professor of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (from 1989 to 1997)
Senior Legal Research Officer and variously Legal Adviser, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, London, Sydney, Geneva (from 1976 to 1988)
Visiting Lecturer, Public International Law, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston-upon-Thames (from 1973 to 1976)
Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, The College of Law, London (from 1971 to 1976)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1974)

Research Interests

Public international law, with particular interests in immigration, refugees, statelessness and asylum, the use of force, elections and electoral standards

Selected publications

‘A Short History of International Refugee Law: The Early Years’
‘The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Sources of International Refugee Law’, (2020) 69 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 1
‘A Brief and Somewhat Sceptical Perspective on the International Organization for Migration’, Refugee Studies Centre Workshop, ‘IOM: The UN Migration Agency?’, Oxford, 2 February 2019
‘United Nations Treaty-Making: Refugees and Stateless Persons’, in Simon Chesterman, David Malone & Santiago Villalpando, eds., Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, Ch. 22, 427-49
'The Global Compacts and the Future of Refugee and Migrant Protection in the Asia Pacific Region’, (2018) 30 International Journal of Refugee Law 674-683
with Philippe Weckel, eds. Protection des migrants et des réfugiés au XXIe siècle: Aspects de droit international/Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2015
'Asylum (Colombia v. Peru), 1949 and Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 20 November 1950 in the Asylum Case (Colombia v. Peru), 1950', in Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida & Jean-Marc Sorel, eds., Latin America and the International Court of Justice: Contributions to International Law, London: Routledge, 2017, 170-82
'Setting the Scene: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants at Sea – The Need for a Long-Term, Protection-Centred Vision', in Violeta Moreno-Lax & Efthymios Papastavridis, eds., 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2017, 17-31
'The Movements of People between States in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Urgent Institutional Change', (2016) 28 International Journal of Refugee Law 679
'The Mediterranean Papers: Athens, Naples, and Istanbul', (2016) 28 International Journal of Refugee Law 276
‘Migration and Forced Migration Today: Challenges for the Rule of Law’, in Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Philippe Weckel, eds., Protection des migrants et des réfugiés au XXIe siècle: Aspects de droit international/Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2015, 3-22
'Current Challenges in Refugee Law', in Jean-Pierre Gauci, Mariagiulia Giuffré & Evangelina (Lilian) Tsourdi, eds., Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015, 9-28
‘Non-Refoulement, Temporary Refuge, and the “New” Asylum Seekers’, in David Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Leiden: Brill, 2014, 433-59.
‘The International Law of Refugee Protection’, in Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long & Nando Sigona, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 36-47.
‘The Dynamic of International Refugee Law’, (2013) 25 International Journal of Refugee Law, 651.
'Palestine, UN Membership and Popular Representation: International Legal Challenges and Strategic Options’, in Mutaz Qafisheh, ed., Palestine Membership in the United Nations: Legal and Practical Implications, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 30-44.
‘The Right to Seek Asylum: Interception at Sea and the Principle of Non-refoulement’, (2011) 23 International Journal of Refugee Law 443.
‘The Politics of Refugee Protection’, (2008) 27(1) Refugee Survey Quarterly 8.
(ed. with Hélène Lambert), The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
(ed. with Ian Brownlie, Q.C.), Brownlie’s Documents on Human Rights, 6th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Free and Fair Elections, 2nd revised and expanded edn. (Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2006)
‘Mr Al-Jedda, Deprivation of Citizenship, and International Law’, paper (revised) presented at Middlesex University, 14 February 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship resulting in Statelessness and its Implications in International Law: Opinion’, 12 March 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship resulting in Statelessness and its Implications in International Law: Further Comments’, 6 April 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship, Statelessness and International Law: More Authority (if it were needed...)’, 5 May 2014

Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Professor, University of St Andrews

BA, AM, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2020

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2020)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2015)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007 to 2010)
Postgraduate, Harvard University, USA (from 2000 to 2007)
Undergraduate, Wellesley College, USA (from 1994 to 1998)

Research Interests

Later medieval France
Legal, political, and institutional history
Lordship and power
Women and gender in the Middle Ages

Selected publications

The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants’ Revolt, Oxford Studies in Medieval European History (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Violence and the State in Languedoc, c. 1250-1400, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
‘Two Kinds of Freedom: Language and Practice in Late Medieval Rural Revolts’, Edad Media. Revista de Historia, Vol. 21 (2020): 113-52
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt, ed. Justine Firnhaber-Baker with Dirk Schoenaers (Routledge, 2017)
‘Seigneurial War and Royal Power in Later Medieval Southern France’, Past & Present, no. 208 (2010): 37–76
‘From God’s Peace to the King’s Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare’, Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol. 23 (2007): 19-30
(ed. with Meredith Cohen), Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming)
‘“Injurious to Our Lordship and Sovereignty”: Seigneurial War and Royal Power in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France’, Past and Present; forthcoming
‘From God’s Peace to the King’s Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare’, Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 23 (2006), 19-30
‘The Fonds d’Armagnac: Some Archival Resources for the History of Languedocian Women’, Medieval Feminist Forum, No. 39 (2005), 22-9

Other professional memberships and roles

American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America
International Medieval Society - Paris
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Research awards and grants

Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, Whiting Foundation (from 2006 to 2007).
Bourse Chateaubriand, Government of France (from 2003 to 2004).
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (from 2000 to 2001).

Professor Patrick Finglass

Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2017

Background

Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol (from 2017)
Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham (from 2012 to 2017)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2017)
Associate Professor in Greek, University of Nottingham (from 2009 to 2012)
Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Nottingham (from 2006 to 2008)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2008)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1997 to 2001)

Research Interests

Archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially Stesichorus, Pindar, and Sophocles

Selected publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Editorial Board, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (from 2014)
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (from 2014)
Member, Council, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (from 2014)
Member, Advisory Board, Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (from 2014)
Head of Department, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (from 2013 to 2014)
Member, Comitato Scientifico, Eikasmos: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica (from 2011)
External Examiner, Department of Classics, King's College London (from 2010 to 2014)

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012).
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Early Career Research Fellowship (from 2012 to 2013).
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant (2009).
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research Leave Award (2009).
British Academy, Small Research Grant (2008).

Professor Paul Fendley

Natural Sciences

PhD

Senior Research Fellow since 2014

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Assistant Professor (until 2002), Associate Professor (until 2007) and, Professor (until August 2014), University of Virginia (from 1997 to 2014)
Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory (from 1996 to 1997)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Southern California (from 1993 to 1996)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boston University (from 1990 to 1993)
Postgraduate, Harvard University (from 1985 to 1990)

Research Interests

Statistical mechanics
Condensed matter physics
Mathematical physics

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Physics

Research awards and grants

Principal Investigator on US National Science Foundation Grants (1998-2015).
Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator.

The Very Revd Dr John Drury

Literature

Emeritus Fellow since 2024

My book Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert was published by Allen Lane / Penguin in 2013. I am now working on an edition of Herbert’s complete poetry for Penguin Classics, due to be published in 2014.

Background

Chaplain and Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2024)
Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (from 1991 to 2003)
Dean of Chapel and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge (from 1981 to 1991)
Lecturer in Religious Studies, Sussex University (from 1979 to 1981)
Resident Canon of Norwich Cathedral and Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Norwich (Vice-Dean of Norwich, 1978) (from 1973 to 1979)
Chaplain and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (from 1969 to 1973)
Chaplain, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1966 to 1969)
Curate, St John’s Wood Church, London (from 1963 to 1966)
Ordained at Westcott House, Cambridge
Undergraduate, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (to 1961)

Research Interests

Theology
A study of the poetry of George Herbert in its historical context and for its present power and value

Selected publications

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (London: Allen Lane, 2013).
Painting the Word (London: Yale University Press, 1999).
The Burning Bush (London: Fount, 1990).
Critics of the Bible, 1724-1873 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
The Parables in the Gospels (London: SPCK, 1985).
The Pot and the Knife (London: SCM Press, 1979).
Tradition and Design in Luke’s Gospel (London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1976).
Luke (London: Collins, 1973).
Angels and Dirt (London : Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1972).

Other professional memberships and roles

Hon. Student of Christ Church
Hon. Fellow of Exeter College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Hussey Lecturer, University of Oxford (1997)
Syndic, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (from 1988 to 1991)
Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Chichester (from 1980 to 1982)
Fleck Resident in Religion, Bryn Mawr College, USA (1978)
Member, Doctrine Commission of Church of England (from 1978 to 1982)
Joint Editor, Theology (from 1976 to 1986)

Dr Wolfgang de Melo

MA, MPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2012

Apart from teaching, Wolfgang de Melo has spent the last academic year working on his edition and translation of Varro's De lingua Latina. A draft of text and translation is almost finished, but will require further work before a commentary accompanying the text can be started.

Link to Website

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2012)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2008)

Professor G.A. (Jerry) Cohen

BA, BPhil, FBA

Emeritus Fellow from 1985 to 2008

14 April 1941 - 5 August 2009

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2009)
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 2008)
Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London (from 2009)
Lecturer in Philosophy (1963–78) then Reader (1978–84), University College London (from 1963 to 1984)
Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1961 to 1963)
Undergraduate, McGill University, Canada (from 1957 to 1961)

Research Interests

Political Philosophy

Selected publications

Why Not Socialism? (2009)
Rescuing Justice and Equality (2008)
If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich? (2000)
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995)
History, Labour, and Freedom: Themes from Marx (1988)
Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence (1978)

Codrington Library, All Souls College, Saturday 19 June 2010, 2:15pm

Professor Angelos Chaniotis

Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton

Associate Member, All Souls College

BA, MA, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2010

Link to Website

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls (from 2006 to 2010)
Vice-Rector for International Affairs, University of Heidelberg (from 2001 to 2006)
Professor of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg (from 1998 to 2006)
Professor of Classics, New York University (from 1994 to 1998)
Assistant and then Associate Professor, University of Heidelberg (from 1986 to 1994)
Postgraduate, University of Heidelberg (from 1982 to 1984)
Undergraduate, University of Athens (from 1978 to 1982)

Research Interests

Hellenistic history
History of Greek religion
Cultural history of the Hellenistic and Roman East
History of Crete
Greek epigraphy

Selected publications

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005)
Die Verträge zwischen kretischen Städten in der hellenistischen Zeit (1996)
Historie und Historiker in den griechischen Inschriften (1988)
For a full publicaton list, please see CV (above).

Other professional memberships and roles

Editor of Mnemosyne (from 2008)
Editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 1998)
Editor of the new inscriptions of Aphrodisias (from 1995)
Member of the Academia Europaea

Research awards and grants

Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council for the project ‘The social and cultural construction of emotions’ (from 2008 to 2013).
Grant of the Packard Humanities Institute for Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 2005 to 2009).
Grant of the German Research Council for the project ‘The language of religious communication in the Roman East’ (from 2005 to 2007).
Grant of the Ministry of Research of Baden-Württemberg for the project ‘Persuasion strategies’ (from 2004 to 2006).
Grant of the German Research Council for Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 2003 to 2006).
Grant of the German Research Council for the project ‘Ritual and Communication in the Greek communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods’ (from 2002 to 2009).
State Research Award 2000 of Baden-Württemberg (2001).
Teaching Award, New York University (1997).
Nikos Svoronos History Award (1991).

Professor Mary Carruthers

BA, MA, PhD, FBA

Quondam Fellow since 2009

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2007 to 2009)
George Eastman Visiting Professor, University of Oxford (from 2005 to 2006)
Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University (from 2001)
Professor of English, New York University (from 1991)
Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois of Chicago (from 1975 to 1990)
Assistant Professor of English, Smith College (from 1964 to 1973)
Postgraduate, Yale University (from 1961 to 1964)
Undergraduate, Wellesley College (from 1957 to 1961)

Research Interests

Medieval literature
History of rhetoric
Memory and invention
Medieval aesthetics

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow (President (2005-6)) of the Medieval Academy of America
The New Chaucer Society (President 1996-8)

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