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WELCOME/FAREWELL
New Members Of The Fellowship
Dr Rebecca Fell is Robinson's new Fellow in Spanish, succeeding Dr Rhiannon McGlade. After an undergraduate degree and MPhil in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge (Clare College; 1993-98), she pursued a career as a chartered accountant at Deloitte for 18 years, leaving as a Director in 2015 to return to Cambridge (Clare College) to pursue a PhD in Modern Spanish Literature.
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Dr Iza Kavedžija was elected to the Fellowship back in December 2021 but has been on research leave in Japan and thus unable to attend a formal admission until now. Her research explores the lived experience of ageing in urban Japan and how older people construct a meaningful and satisfying life through narrative activity and practices of care which pervade everyday sociality.
Dr Daniel Knorr is Robinson's new Fellow in History. Dan completed his BA at Johns Hopkins University and his MA at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2020 and worked as a teaching Fellow there in Fall 2020 before coming to Cambridge as a temporary University Lecturer in January of this year. His expertise is in the early modern and modern history of China, but he also teaches the history of East Asia and world history more broadly.
Dr James Massey is a Research Fellow in Engineering, undertaking research in hydrogen combustion for aero-engine and gas turbine applications at the Department of Engineering, and funded by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. His research interests include developing modelling frameworks for hydrogen combustion and understanding the challenges associated with using hydrogen as a fuel.
Dr Caterina Milo is Robinson' new Fellow in Law. She earned her PhD in Law (Health law) in 2020 from Durham Law School. She also holds a MA in Bioethics and Medical Law (St Mary's University-Twickenham), a 5-year master degree in Law (University of Siena, Law School, Italy) and a Diploma in Legal Studies (University of Oxford, Faculty of Law). Before joining Robinson she was Lecturer at Exeter Law School in Medical Law, Tort and EU Law. She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK and Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Rome.
Dr Christopher de Saxe joined Robinson as a Fellow in Engineering in March 2022. He explains his path to Cambridge and his research in the My Robinson section on page 6
Dr Christopher Truscott is both an alumnus of Robinson and the new Fellow in Chemistry. After an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, he pursued a PhD and post-doc in Professor Stuart Clarke's research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a technician in the X-ray Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry maintaining the Powder X-ray Diffraction facilities for the department.
Dr Adam Woodhouse is Robinson's new Fellow in the History of Political Thought. He joins the College from the University of Chicago, where he was Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences. Adam holds a BA in Ancient and Modern History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, an MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of London, and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Adam's research interests are in early modern European political thought, particularly its imperial aspects.