S’ RESEARCH AND universities, founded in 1707. Previous recipients of the CTU’s Dhc include Tomas G Masaryk, founder president of Czechoslovakia. Nick, the 159th recipient, has had links with CTU since 1987, working with Professor Ales Prochazka on signal and image processing with multi-resolution wavelet methods. Heonik Kwon (e 2011), has published North Korea Beyond Charismatic Politics with Rowman & Littlefield. He examines the problems of personal charismatic power in contemporary politics and argues that we need to bring back Max Weber in order to find solutions. Angela Leighton (e 2006) has published a new collection of poetry, The Messages, with Shoestring Press. ‘The Penny Ferry’, locally inspired, gives a taste of her style: The Penny Ferry Yet, water might afford a crossing… spill and whirl go riverring across the fen’s rough fodder, flood-plains, soft-rush, sweet-flag, saw-sedge, plantain, long lost slip-roads to a landing-stage, where once the penny ferry carved
desire-lines on uncompassed water, paused, and took them lightly over… shore to shore a boat-ride only-toll and passing, sleep and story. John Lonsdale (1958) helped to launch in Tokyo, in July, his co-edited Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa (Cambridge)—a challenge to the conventional economic wisdom that ‘tribalism’ has been the root cause of Africa’s difficulties. The book is the fruit of a research programme funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, JICA. Jo Miles (e 1999) is working on two enquiries funded by the Nuffield Foundation. First, with Dr Emma Hitchings of Bristol University, she is examining 400 final settlements in financial disputes following divorce, where we need to know more about how agreements are reached. Secondly, Jo is advising on how the law might react to the views on child-support obligations revealed in the British Social Attitudes Survey. The team includes Professor Ira Ellman of Arizona State University, a Visiting Fellow Commoner in 2010, who studies similar problems in the USA. Details of both projects can be found at: http:// www.nuffieldfoundation.org/
Robert Neild (1943) has followed his financial history of Trinity, Riches and Responsibility, with The Financial History of Cambridge University, published by the Thames River Press. Denying that the animals portrayed resemble any persons living or dead, he leaves to his readers the question why he chose one of Tenniel’s illustrations in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for his cover. Alexandra Walsham (1990) won a Wolfson History Prize for 2011, always announced a year late, for The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity & Memory in Early Modern Britain & Ireland (Oxford). In this distinction she follows Nicholas Thomas (e 2006), with his Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (Yale) who, in his turn, followed Dominic (Chai) Lieven, who won in 2009 with his Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe 1807 to 1814 (Penguin). Trinity, never known to rush, did not elect Chai Lieven to a Senior Research Fellowship under Title ‘B’ until 2011. Nevertheless, let no one say that only one of C P Snow’s Two Cultures, the scientific, flourishes in Trinity.
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