Annual Report 2018 - King's College, Cambridge

1Annual Report 2018TU TO RIAL RE PO RTKing’s College, Cambridge

TU TO RIAL RE PO RT2Annual Report 2018ContentsThe Provost2The apel46Choir52Research60Library and Archives64Bursary67Staff71Development75Major Promotions, Appointments or Awards103Appointments & Honours104Obituaries107Information for Non-Resident Members319

The ProvostThe University has been the subject of press attention in relation tothe relatively narrow diversity of its students. While we at King’s aredetermined to attract applications from young people with non-traditionalbackgrounds, we intend to do more to encourage such students to apply,THE PRO VO S TI write this report shortly after returninghere but additional preparation for them in advance of their arrival. Our3from the Eastern US, meeting alumni andown initiatives will be undertaken in concert with the University’s ownfriends of the College. In both New Yorkplans for improving access.THE PRO VO S Tand to provide not just extra support for them at the start of their time2City and Boston there was a good turnoutProfessor Michael Proctorat our evening event. NRMs of all ages wereI am very pleased to report, after a number of years of anticipation, thatrepresented, and I was once again struckthe Register is finished and is now on sale. It is a very valuable resourceby the warmth of recollection of the Collegeand we are enormously grateful to the editors for persevering in the facefrom so many who had been there. For thisof initial difficulties in organising the data. It was completed before thedegree of affinity, we can thank the verynew GDPR regulations came into force: producing another volume in theinformal and inclusive atmosphere of thefuture will be next to impossible because of the difficulties surroundingCollege, which has done so much to make itsdata retention under the new rules.members, from whatever backgrounds, feelat home and appreciated.The proposals, mooted last year, to cease the publication of class lists havenot been accepted. However, larger numbers of students are exercisingTwo big building projects are in progress. Bodley’s Court is beingtheir right to opt out, which means that the full lists are available onlyreroofed with new stone tiles extracted from the King’s-sponsored mineprivately to Colleges. Thus the Baxter Tables have not appeared this year,in Collyweston village. Work will take well over a year and meanwhile abut the information we have allows us to calculate that had they appeared,giant crane provides an addition to the skyline between Bodley’s and theKing’s would have been in fifth place, a highly creditable outcome and ariver. The hot dry summer together with recent rain has led to a large croptribute to our hard-working supervisors and Directors of Studies.of quinces on the old tree in Bodley’s – the first for many years thanks tonew pruning methods. Unfortunately the fruit cannot be picked as it is inThere are two momentous events ahead of us. The first is the retirementthe middle of a building site!in September 2019 of Stephen Cleobury, who has been Director of Musicsince 1982. He has conducted the Choir with energy and determination andThe other project is the construction of two new buildings on the Cranmerhas not only maintained its world-wide reputation through all these yearsRoad/Grasshopper Lodge site to provide extra rooms for our graduatebut overseen important initiatives such as the College’s concert series andstudents. This has been funded by a very generous donation. Otherthe commissioning of new music. We are immensely grateful to him for hisinitiatives are planned that should lead to us having rooms for all ourcontribution. Stephen will direct his last Festival of Nine Lessons and Carolsgraduate students within the next few years. Graduates can sometimes feelthis Christmas Eve; this will also mark the centenary of the service, first sungout of touch with the College if they have to find accommodation at somein 1918. Stephen will be succeeded by Daniel Hyde, a former King’s Organdistance, so this has been a long-held aim.Scholar, presently Director of Music at St Thomas’ Church, New York.

2018 will also see the launch of the College’s major fundraising campaign.There will be a series of inaugural events in the College on 1 December,The Fellowshipwith the aim of reaching the 100M target for needs we have identified inthe areas of student support, research support and buildings. Thanks tosome generous recent donations we have reached half this total since thestart of the campaign in 2012.New Life FellowsProfessor Anne DavisUniversities, and the country at large, face a number of uncertainties overthe next year. But I am cautiously optimistic that King’s is in good shapeFellows moving onto ride out any storms that may arise.The following left their Fellowships in the last year:Michael ProctorStephen FriedJuan GaraycoacheaRachel HoffmanSimone TeufelPaul SagarNew FellowsCaroline Goodson (Fellow, History)Caroline Goodson grew up in Texas, USA. She studied Fine Arts at Rhode IslandSchool of Design, then completed a PhD in Archaeology and ArchitecturalHistory at Columbia University, New York City (2004). From 2005–17 shewas a member of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology atBirkbeck College, University of London. In 2017 she joined the Faculty ofHistory at Cambridge as University Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History.Her research and teaching considers the formation of early medievalsocieties in the post-Roman world, especially Italy and North Africa. Herpublished work concentrates on the nature and experience of power inthese places, examining how different groups positioned themselves assuccessors of Rome’s past glories or innovators in a developing world.Her work deliberately moves between the disciplines of history andarchaeology, considering not only medieval documents and historical textsbut also excavation and standing-buildings archaeology, archaeological5THE F E LLO WS HIPTHE PRO VO S T4

observed during childhood. In addition to typical development, his labResearch Fellowship to work on her current book project examining urbanstudies babies at-risk for autism, ADHD and related conditions, in ordergardening in early medieval Italy. This research attests to the political,to understand the early precursors of these conditions. He is an electedeconomic and social values of food cultivation, reconfiguring urbanfellow of several academic societies including the British Academy (FBA)landscapes in the period c600–1100.and has been awarded a number of national and international prizes.She is author of The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817–24) (2010), andRichard Bourke (Professorial Fellow, History of Political Thought)co-author and -editor of Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and PowerRichard Bourke grew up in the Republic of Ireland, and studied for his firstin Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2017); Villa Magna: andegree in English and Philosophy at University College Dublin, graduatingImperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006–10 (2016); Cities,with a BA in 1986. After a year at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, RichardTexts and Social Networks, 400–1500: Experiences and Perceptions ofmoved in 1987 to King’s, where he took his PhD in 1990. He then spentMedieval Urban Space (2010); and Walls and Memory: The Abbey of Santhree years as a temporary lecturer in Dublin before taking up a positionSebastiano, Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissanceat Queen Mary, University of London in 1993. He took a second BAVilla and Beyond (2005).in Classics at Birkbeck College in 2001. Richard has held a number offellowships in Europe and the US, and his work has garnered a numberShe is the recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy,of awards and prizes, including the István Hont Memorial Book Prize inRome (2002–3) and is a member of the Royal Historical SocietyIntellectual History in 2016.(2010) and the Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani (2010).Richard’s research has for the most part been on the history of politicalMark Johnson (Professorial Fellow, Psychological & Behavioural Sciences)thought, with a focus on Enlightenment political ideas, but he has alsoMark Johnson was born in London of Anglo-Polish descent, but then raisedwritten on ancient and modern intellectual history, and on literary history.in Scotland. After obtaining a degree in Biological Sciences and PsychologyIn addition, he has published on Irish history, ranging from the history ofat the University of Edinburgh, he was a PhD student at King’s Collegethe modern Troubles to the history of historiography. Much of his writingfrom 1982 to 1985, supervised by Gabriel Horn and Pat Bateson. Fromhas focused on the themes of empire and democracy in political thought.1985 to 1998 he worked as a research scientist for the Medical ResearchHis major publications include Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas (2003)Council in London, interrupted by a period of four years during which heand Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (2015).was Associate Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University inHe is currently working on ideas of progress in the philosophy of history,Pittsburgh, USA. In 1998 he moved with MRC funding to take up the chairand on the history of democracy.of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and establishedthe Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development. After nearly 20 years inJoanna Kusiak (JRF, Geography)this role he recently became Professor of Experimental Psychology, andJoanna Kusiak is an urban scholar focusing on land, property and the roleHead of Department, at Cambridge.that legal technicalities play in shaping our cities. She received her PhDin Sociology from the Darmstadt University of Technology. Following theHis research is focused on the development of the human brain, and itsinterdisciplinary demands of her research, she has worked as a visitingassociation with the increasing social, motor, cognitive and language skillsscholar at a range of departments including the Department of Geography,7THE F E LLO WS HIPTHE F E LLO WS HIP6archives and material culture. During 2017–18 she holds a Leverhulme