60 | Members’ News
Kati Whitaker (Mrs Hughes) has had a busy year. In July, as part of the Saturday night series Archive on Four, Radio 4 transmitted her programme about Harold Macmillan’s Night of the Long Knives. In September she produced and presented a documentary for the BBC World Service about the Ghana witchcamps. She has been shortlisted for The Guardian International Development Competition for an article about a village in Mali battling against the encroaching desert. As a finalist she will be sent to another developing country to write an article to go forward to the finals.
1978 Lynn Enterline has published her third book Shakespeare’s Schoolroom : Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Carole Celia Fairbairn (Professor Perry) writes: “Having completed periods of service as trustee and elected council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007-2011) and chaired the UK Heads of Chemistry (2009-2011), 2011 has been very different with a month as guest professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and the award of the Edward, Frances and Shirley B Daniels Fellowship and a Wyss Fellowship to join the class of 2012-2013 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Harvard, USA. I am greatly looking forward to being back in a collegiate environment.” Ann Olivarius has been named by the American Civil Liberties Union as one of the “Nine Most Influential Actors in Title IX’s History” for her work in the landmark case Alexander v Yale. Title IX is the US Federal
law that prohibits discrimination at schools and universities, and the ACUL is the leading defender of individual liberties in the United States. Congratulations to Ann for fighting the good fight so successfully.
1979 Claudine Dauphin moved in 2011 from the University of Nice, joining “Orient et Méditerranée” in Paris (CNRS, Sorbonne, EPHE, Collège de France). She has published two books: In Memoriam: Fr Michele Piccirillo, OFM (19442008). Celebrating His Life and Work, BAR International Series 2248, Archaeopress, Oxford 2011 (co-edited with Basema Hamarneh), La Piscine probatique de Jésus à Saladin. Le Projet Béthesda (1994-2010), Special issue of Proche-Orient Chrétien, Jerusalem 2011 (co-edited with Frans Bouwen), eight articles and two reviews. Combining archaeology, textual sources and GIS, her project “Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: Population Dynamics and Artistic Expression”, is affiliated to the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Amman, and partly funded by the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, near Cannes, curated by Somervillian Mark Merrony, whose small catalogue she has translated into French (MACM, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, La Collection Famille Levett, France, 2012, 96 pages).
1982 Laura Wilson has recently published A Willing Victim (Quercus), the latest in her DI Stratton series of historical crime novels.
1983 Anna Kingsmill-Stocker (Mrs Kingsmill-Vellacott) has recently, with some colleagues, set up The Consortium for the Built Environment. It is a grouping of international experts in all matters to do with the built environment. She has also just launched www. businesssafetynet.com, which is an online package to help microbusiness owners sort out their risk management. Magdalen (Maggie) Parham (Mrs Fergusson) was awarded an MBE for services to Literature in the New Year’s Honours List 2012. In June 2012 she published Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse (HarperCollins Publishers Limited). Caroline Hauxwell is Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology. She is happily settled in Australia, but has enjoyed two long visits to Oxford in 2012 under a Queensland Fellowship. “To my surprise I can probably say (after 25 years) that I’ve made a career in scientific research.”
1984 Colette Lux has been appointed the Director of Marketing at King’s College, London. “I am thrilled to take on this exciting role as Higher Education contends with the radical changes it faces due to government policy, increased student choices and the impact of the global economy.” Claire Preston, after 21 years at Cambridge, moved in September 2011 to the University of Birmingham and a Chair in English.