Oxford Bulldog
A Publication of the Friends of Oxford
Message from Dr. Judith Shaw Associate Provost for International Affairs Dear Alumni and Friends of the Oxford Program,
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am very pleased to be able to write to you at this exciting time for the UGA at Oxford program. I still have very fond memories of those early summer trips to Oxford and I am always thrilled that so many of you keep in touch and write me with your news.
I hope that this annual Oxford Bulldog newsletter will provide a channel whereby you can keep in touch with each other as well as with us at the Oxford program. As many of you know, UGA at Oxford now operates year-round programs at Oxford. In 1999, President Adams chose Oxford as the site for the first of UGA’s overseas campuses, and we have not looked back since then. Today, programs serving students from UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Terry College of Business, The
UGA at Oxford Program Staff Associate Provost for International Affairs Dr. Judith Shaw Interim Director Dr. Kalpen Trivedi Assistant Director Margaret F. Perry
Law School, the School of Public and International Affairs, and the
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Grady College of Journalism – all cycle through the UGA at Oxford
Dr. Angela E. Pfile
Residential Center. UGA at Oxford has established itself as the premier study abroad program at UGA, and today, our alumni number
Administrative Assistant Jennifer Hutchison
close to 1,400. During the last two or three years the Program has also hosted
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a number of exciting events on campus for UGA students and alumni. In this newsletter you will read about the UGA-Oxford interuniversity debate competitions, the alumni tailgate at Homecoming, and a planned mini-trip for alumni who wish to return to Oxford. The Oxford Program would be very happy to hear from any of you who wish to propose such activities or help with our alumni-relation efforts.
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Since April 2005 I have been serving as the new Associate Provost for International Affairs at UGA, which is a thrilling and exciting position. I spearhead UGA’s international endeavors across the globe, putting into effect much of what I learned by starting up and running the UGA at Oxford Program for 15 years. Dr. Kalpen
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Trivedi, who like me also started life as a medievalist in the English Department, is currently Interim Director of UGA at Oxford. But the Program remains my first love, and I try to be as involved as possible. I hope that you will enjoy reading this newsletter and catching up on our news, and I hope that you all will continue to cherish fond memories of your time with UGA at Oxford.
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UGA debates Oxford Union, Take 2 The second UGA vs. Oxford Union debate took place on October 15, 2003, at Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall in Athens before a crowd of six hundred. The Oxford Union Society team, Fraser Campbell (captain), David Watson, Edward Tomlinson, Amie Barnes, and Ambrose Faulks (alternate) and the UGA team, Kenneth Rufo (captain), Naveen Ramachandrappa, Sarah Winchell, and Robert Wesley debated the resolution, “In the post 9-11 era, the U.S. is a better guarantor of peace alone than with the United Nations.” The Oxford Union team, which supported the resolution, defeated the UGA team, thereby bringing the series score to 1-1. The UGA team was drawn from members of the Georgia Debate Union, the Demosthenian Literary Society, and the Phi Kappa Literary Society. The debate format drew on both British and American styles and was a modified version of the
L-R: Wesley, Tomlinson, Barnes, Faulks, Winchell, Watson, Campbell, Ramachandrappa, Rufo
parliamentary style of debate, a format selected to allow both teams to exhibit their particular debating skills. The distinguished panel of judges included President Michael Adams, then-Dean of Franklin College Dr. Wyatt Anderson, then-HM Consul General the Honorable Michael Bates, OBE, Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox, thenAthletic Director Vince Dooley, and then-
Chief Justice the Honorable Norman Fletcher and Justice the Honorable Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court. Peter Appel, a professor at the University of Georgia Law School, moderated. UGA at Oxford plans to host a third debate in spring 2008—look for more information in next year’s Oxford Bulldog.
Oxford Revisited! Summer 2007 Alumni Tour
oxford@english.uga.edu (706) 542-2228
Does your mind slip back to the city of dreaming spires? Do you wish you could go “home” and relive the Oxford experience? Have you ever longed to share this magical place with those you love? Then read on… The UGA at Oxford Program is now offering an alumni tour tentatively scheduled from August 4 – August 11, summer 2007. Return to Oxford with your Mom, Dad, or whoever and spend seven languid summer days on the program again. You will be back in College dining at high table, visiting sites of academic interest with your Dons, and listening to them lecture on their favorite subjects. Contact us for further information. We hope to welcome you back next summer! A Publication of the Friends of Oxford
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Faculty Notes Oxford English Dictionary by Bill Kretzschmar
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all 2004 was an eventful time for me. Besides spending the term as the faculty member in residence in Oxford, a great experience in itself, I also became the CHA Willson Professor in Humanities at that time, a rare honor. I had to return to Athens for a few days in early November to give my inaugural lecture, which is an old tradition for people who are awarded special professorships. What better place to write that lecture than Oxford. The oldest universities, like Oxford, all began by teaching the humanities. Students first and foremost had to master Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic in Latin, at that time a foreign language for them. This meant learning to read and copy the great Roman writers: orators, polemicists, historians, dramatists, mythologists, fabulists, and others. Today the humanities still features the study of great writers, now in many more languages than Latin, and it still includes my own specialty, the study of language. My seminar at Oxford, taught at Worcester College (where I was thrown off the lawn by a Porter after stepping back onto the grass to take a class picture), was on English Words. Over half the students attended, which was a great advantage for me to get to know my students at the House. One of the special features of the class was a visit to the Oxford English Dictionary offices, which I could arrange because
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I edit the American pronunciations for the OED. One of our seminar readings was Simon Winchester’s The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the OED (Oxford UP, 2003), and it made a big impression for students to get an inside tour from two of the senior editors and actually to see how the dictionary is made and what Winchester was talking about. Another feature was a class trip to Cambridge University, where we were shown around by Professor Katie Wales, an old friend of mine and research fellow at Cambridge at the time, and by Bill Hollingsworth, an old UGA student of mine and a Gates Scholar at Cambridge. The Cambridge trip went along with our reading C. S. Lewis’s Studies in Words (Cambridge UP, 1967): we saw how the humanities traditions of these two fine
old universities in Britain together could help to shape the English vocabulary. Perhaps my fondest memory that term at the House was our big Thanksgiving. Everybody pitched in and made something for the feast, from two huge roast turkeys to half a dozen pumpkin pies (Patrick McGinn, my graduate assistant, and I collaborated on those). We had heaps of freshly baked rolls, vegetables of many kinds, cranberry relish—the whole all-American celebration, only across the ocean in the center of Oxford. We had Bill Hollingsworth come from Cambridge; we had parents and friends from home; and we all had a great time eating and celebrating together in the jam-packed living room and conservatory. It doesn’t get any better than that.
An Interest in Conflict by Sudhir Hazareesingh
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r. Sudhir Hazareesingh, Tutorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, has been teaching with the UGA at Oxford Program for over a dozen years now. Every summer, his International Conflict class is one of the most popular choices. Dr. Hazareesingh was awarded the Grand Prix du Mémorial in 2006, for his book La Légende de Napoléon. The book was first published in English by Granta in 2004, and uses archival sources to explain how and why Napoleon Bonaparte became a legendary figure in France’s collective memory, inspiring a political cult which celebrated him not only as a great warrior but also as one of the founders of modern French democracy. The Prize, given each year to an innovative work in the field of modern history, is the top literary award of Corsica. It was awarded in August 2006 at a ceremony in the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, in the presence of Simon Renucci, the Mayor of Ajaccio, who also presented Dr. Hazareesingh with the Medal of the City. In June 2006, Dr. Hazareesingh was also made a Fellow of the British Academy. Established by Royal Charter in 1902, the British Academy is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences, and among other things, serves as the gatekeeper for the academic profession in the U.K. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars,
elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities
and social sciences. Dr. Hazareesingh was elected by the Political Studies section.
Do you have a favorite memory from one of your classes at Oxford? Share it with us at
oxford@english.uga.edu!
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Go Dawgs!
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n 2005, UGA at Oxford switched its alumni reunion from Atlanta to Athens. We’ve now had two UGA at Oxford tailgates. Dr. David Bradshaw joined us in November 2005, when we partied near the Chapel on North Campus. Dr. Ian Archer joined us this past October for Homecoming, when we moved to the patio in front of Park Hall. Both Dr. Shaw and Dr. Trivedi were delighted to see so many alumni come back to Athens and enjoyed catching up on their news. After the tailgate, Drs. Bradshaw and Archer were treated to the spectacle of the football game from the exalted vantage point of the President’s Box in Sanford Stadium. During half-time, Dr. Bradshaw took a trip down to the field to be photographed with Uga VI. Dr. Archer recalled the crowd experience of being in the stands from his previous visits to UGA football games and saw out the 4th quarter mingling with the masses during the 2006 homecoming game. We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all our alumni for next year’s tailgate. Watch our website this summer (www.uga.edu/oxford) for more information about the 2007 Tailgate (planned for Homecoming in early November).
A few of the over 100 alumni and friends of UGA at Oxford who came to the 2006 Tailgate.
Ian Archer and Kalpen Trivedi before the Homecoming game. David Bradshaw enjoys lunch with program alumni.
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Alumni Notes Summer 1992 Class Co-Presidents Maya Maher (mayamaher@comcast.net) and Clayton Foggin (clayton_foggin@yahoo.com) Cormac and Maya (née Swenson) Maher met on the Summer 1992 program in The Eagle & Child. They loved Oxford so much that they attended the summer 1993 program as well. Maya writes that “Cormac is a neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan after years of training and no pay”. They have recently welcomed their third child Evelyn and already have a daughter Caroline (6) and a son Oliver (2.5). They live in Ann Arbor Michigan where we now divide football loyalties equally between the Bulldogs and the Wolverines. Jonathan and Clayton (née Blalock) Foggin also met on the Summer 1992 program. Clayton was already an alumna of the Summer 1991 program and Jonathan has since attended the Spring 1994 program and served as the Gradaute Assistant on the Summer 2002 Program. They live in Athens and have just welcomed their second child, Charlotte Louise. They already have one son, Will (3). In June 2006 Jonathan was ordained Priest in the Anglican Catholic Church, and currently divides his time between coaching swimming and completing his Ph.D. in English. Clayton is an Academic Advisor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA. Spring 1994 Class President: Sansanee Graves (sansanee@gmail.com) Sansanee Graves writes “I was on a northern tour of England over the summer, visiting places associated with Jane Austen and Jane Austen movies. Did you see the recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen? One of the estates I visited was Chatsworth in Devonshire, which stood in for Pemberley. Attached is
a picture of me posing with the bust of Mr. Darcy.” Summer 1995 Claire Foggin (Summer 1995) lives in Athens and serves as an Academic Counselor for UGA’s Men’s Track and Field, Women’s Golf, and Women’s Equestrian teams with the UGA Athletic Association. She is currently also pursuing a Masters’ degree in Public Administration. Summer 2003 Class President: Donny Embleton (donembleton@gmail.com) Spring 2004 Class President: Donny Embleton (donembleton@gmail.com) Donny Embleton, who attended the Summer 2003 and Spring 2004 programs at Oxford, moved to Savannah after graduation to work for Wachovia Bank. Since then, he’s transferred with the bank to Charlotte, N.C., and is currently working as a Financial Specialist in the Metro Charlotte market. He is trying to get used to liking the Panthers, but is still miffed that the England squad has left Beckham out. He no longer sports a backwards 7 or an uneven mohawk! Donny has agreed to assume the exalted mantle of alumni class president for his terms and would love to catch up on news from his fellow Oxonians at donembleton@gmail.com.
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lease help us and your fellow alums keep up with one another by volunteering to be the class president for your program. If you are interested, contact us at oxford@english.uga. edu with your name, program term and year, and your preferred e-mail address.
Tricia McElroy and UGA at Oxford Residential Center Building Manager Barbara Bradshaw outside the Sheldonian Theatre following Tricia’s graduation.
Tricia McElroy, who attended the UGA at Oxford program as a graduate student, and then was accepted to Oxford to carry out doctoral research, recently completed her D.Phil. in English Literature from University College and the English Faculty Oxford. This fall, she has joined the English faculty at the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor, where she will teach courses in English and Scottish Renaissance literature. Her dissertation, “Executing Mary Queen of Scots: Strategies of Representation in Early Modern Scotland,” examines the form and strategy of arguments about the Scottish queen, particularly how those arguments address issues of female rule, religious change, and national history. Tricia is currently working on a book-length version of her dissertation and has an article forthcoming about satirical poetry from the Scottish Reformation. Tricia remembers her time with the UGA at Oxford Program very fondly and feels very proud to have been associated with it. In an email, Tricia says, “I wouldn’t be writing you from [where I am] if it weren’t for the unflagging support of Judy and others at UGA.”
Thanks to Maya, Clayton, Sansanee, and Donny for already volunteering!
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Program Notes Where we started from: Franklin at Oxford Summer: After over fifteen years, the Franklin Summer program moved from Jesus College to Trinity College in Summer 2005, where UGA students share space with student from UMass and Georgetown. This move was necessitated by rising program costs at Jesus and the overall superior package offered by Trinity College. Prominently located in the center of Oxford, the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Oxford was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope. The College boasts some of the most spectacular gardens in Oxford and excellent cuisine. Our transition there has been an unequivocal success for the program. Spring & Fall: Growing demand for ‘Oxford’ programs on UGA’s campus and our mandate to serve the wider student community meant that we’ve had to re-jig the program calendars somewhat. The Franklin at Oxford Fall program was suspended through 2005 and 2006, so that the SPIA (School for Public and International Affairs) at Oxford program could occupy the Residential Center. With yet another calendar revision envisioned for next year, the Franklin Fall program will return in 2007. The Spring program continues to run from April through June. The Franklin semester programs continue to draw participation from highly gifted faculty and the best of the undergraduate students.
Franklin Summer 2005
Taking care of Business: Terry at Oxford The first of the specialized UGA at Oxford study abroad programs, Terry at Oxford goes from strength to strength, and has just celebrated its sixth anniversary at 106 Banbury Road! A number of distinguished Terry faculty have accompanied the program in the summers and the experience remains a memorable one for professors and students alike. The pre-program excursion to international business in finance sites is one of the most popular draws for this program. Each summer since 2005, the Terry students have invited the Franklin and Grady students to visit them at the UGA at Oxford Residential Center for an ice cream social. We’re also working with Terry to establish an MBA summer program as well as the current undergraduate program.
New opportunities available: Georgia Law at Oxford The newest UGA at Oxford program debuted in January 2006 with the arrival of a group of twenty Law students drawn from UGA’s Law School and the Ohio State Law School. The program has
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met with a tremendously positive response with both faculty and students and during its maiden year, it was inspected by the ABA. According to Dean Rebecca White of UGA Law, the report of the ABA on both the academic content of the program and the facilities at the Oxford Center was so positive that they couldn’t have written it better themselves!
Gone but not forgotten: British Studies Junemester The British Studies Junemester program, which began in 2003, gave students a different sort of study abroad experience in Oxford. Junemester offered only three courses taught primarily via WebCT (electronic virtual classroom) during June and culminating in a ten-day whirlwind ‘lab’ section in England. In addition to “Shakespeare at the Theater” and “Tudor/Stuart History,” students were offered a third course depending on faculty accompanying the program: “Roman Britain,” “Henry James in England,” and “Modernism and the Aristocracy.” One of the goals of this program was to offer an affordable, short-term study-abroad opportunity to students who were enrolled on UGA’s new British and Irish Studies Program Certificate.
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A notable achievement of the combined summer Franklin, Grady, and Terry 2006 group was beating the Georgia Tech Yellowbellies for the first time ever in the Annual Oxford Soccer Bowl! Grady 2006
Talking to foreigners: Grady at Oxford The Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication program began in 2004. Dr. Elli Roushanzamir accompanied the group for the first two years, and Dr. Barry Hollander went this past summer. A highlight of the program have been visits to the BBC and other television company studios, helping to explicate in concrete terms the differences in philosophy of communication between the United States and the United Kingdom. Students were treated to visits to the news room, dressing rooms and in-use studios, and the weather room among others.
Getting Political: SPIA at Oxford
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UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs began its SPIA at Oxford program in January 2003 under the direction of SPIA professor John Maltese. The introduction of the Georgia Law program in January 2006, meant that SPIA at Oxford moved to the fall in 2005, when it ran a joint program with Franklin at Oxford. The next SPIA program will return to its January – March slot in 2008. Students on this program are taught by distinguished UGA and Oxford faculty and have a chance to see for themselves the arcana of the British political system during visits to Parliament.
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Alumni party in Atlanta
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uite a few alumni of the UGA at Oxford program came to UGA’s Alumni Center in Atlanta for a reunion on December 9, 2004. For many alumni, particularly those from the early years of the program, this was an opportunity to see old friends and to learn more about the year-round programming made possible by the purchase of the UGA at Oxford Residential Center in 1999. The earliest participants to attend were Clayton Blalock Foggin, Nicola Russell, and William Kenyon from Summer 1991. The most recent participant was Sarah Clayton from Junemester 2004. Six terms tied for the most participants present with three each. In addition to Summer 1991, the other terms were Summer 1992 (Clayton & Jonathon Foggin and Ginger Wages), Summer 1993 (Kasee Laster, Fibbi Stansell, and Ginger Wages), Spring 1994 (Jonathan Foggin, Sansanee Graves, and Scott Mortensen), Spring 1997 (Andrea Lakly, Chloe Ruff, and Nicola Russell), and Summer 2003 (Don Embleton, Gareth Griffin, and Carrie Link).
L-R: David Shaw, Kasee Laster, Dr. Judith Shaw, Ginger Wages (Summer 1992 & Summer 1993), and Fibbi Stansell (Summer 1993)
The event also saw the kick-off of the Judith D. Shaw Scholarship Fund to help future students attend the program. Alumnus Jefferson Hancock (Spring 1995) surprised Dr. Shaw when he announced the creation of the new fund and gave a generous gift at the reunion.
Jefferson Hancock (Spring 1995) and Dr. Judith Shaw
Postcard from the West Country
The Franklin Spring 2006 group poses beside Stonehenge on their way to Glastonbury.
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Linda DePascale (front left) recently spent time in the UGA at Oxford Residential Center with members of the 2006 Decorative Arts Tour.
A Word from O IE’s D e velopment Office
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e welcome Linda DePascale as the new director of development for the Office of International Affairs / International Education and for UGA at Oxford. Linda is a native Athenian who graduated Cum Laude from UGA with BA in Romance Languages. She is Co-Founder of the Twilight Criterium, a Past Chair of the local Heart Fund and March of Dimes, and Planned Giving Officer for United Way of Northeast Georgia. “I am thrilled to be part of the International team at UGA, and I am looking forward to meeting all the Oxford Alumni. I am very excited, but ever mindful of the ongoing support needed for Oxford to complete the dream of a UGA at Oxford Center which can serve more students.” If you would like more information about how you can help the UGA at Oxford Residential Center and Study Abroad Programs, contact Linda. Linda DePascale Director of Development UGA Office of International Education 200 Barrow Hall Athens, GA 30602 (706) 542-7385 Office (706) 372-6831 Mobile
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2007-2008 Program Calendar Early Admit Deadlines available for 2008 programs. Please see the UGA at Oxford website.
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2 0 0 7 UGA Law at Oxford Spring: January 4 – April 20
SPIA at Oxford Spring: January 3 – March 15
Franklin at Oxford Spring: March 29 – June 22
UGA Law at Oxford Spring: January 7 – April 18
Franklin at Oxford Summer: July 1 – August 10
Franklin at Oxford Spring: March 20 – June 13
Grady at Oxford Summer: July 1 – August 10
NEW! Franklin at Oxford Maymester: May 8 – June 7
Terry at Oxford Summer: June 28 – August 10
Franklin at Oxford Summer: June 29 – August 8
Franklin at Oxford Fall Fall: September 6 – November 30
Grady at Oxford Summer: June 29 – August 8
“I have wanted to study abroad for a very long time, and I was worried that it would not live up to my expectations, but in fact, it has surpassed them in every respect. Oxford is a wonderful place to call home, and I shall miss it very much.”
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Terry at Oxford Summer: June 26 – August 8 Franklin at Oxford Fall: September 11 – December 5
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