Academic publications 2025
Univ is proud to showcase here a small selection of recent publications from our College academic family. Please note that links from book titles will take you to external websites.
Dr Adrienn Alm谩sy-Martin, Senior College Lecturer in Egyptology 2023-24, published a monograph: (Brill, 2023).
Professor Bill Allan, Dean, McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek and Latin Language and Literature and Professor of Greek, publishedin the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Professor Ruth Chang, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence and Professorial Fellow, published , edited with Amia Srinivasan, (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Dr Rajendra Chitnis, Ivana and Pavel Tyka膷 Fellow in Czech, wrote the introduction to a new collection of , as part of the series The World鈥檚 Greatest Myths and Legends (Flame Tree 451, February 2024).
Dr Ine Jacobs, Supernumerary Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology, contributed a chapter, 鈥淪tatuary, the secular and religious powers in Late Antiquity鈥� to 聽(HUP, December 2023) and 鈥淪mall, versatile, numinous: pagan-mythological statuettes at the end of antiquity鈥� to (Brepols, November 2023).
Professor Polly Jones, Schrecker-Barbour Tutorial Fellow in Slavonic and East European Studies and Professor of Russian published , (Bloomsbury, 2024). The book is dedicated to the late Dr Mike Nicholson, Univ Tutorial Fellow in Russian from 1987 to 2011. .
Professor Tamsin Mather FRS, Supernumerary Fellow in Earth Sciences, published was published in the UK by Abacus in April 2024 and in the USA in June by Hanover Square Press. It was reviewed in the Guardian, the Spectator, Nature and the New York Times.
Dr Patrick Quinton-Brown, Senior College Lecturer and Departmental Lecturer in International Relations, published a new book (Oxford University Press, April 2024).
Dr Laura Varnam, Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature, was one of the three winners of the Nine Arches Press Primers competition for her Grendel鈥檚 Mother poems which was published in August 2024 in .
Honorary Fellows
Professor Helen Cooper, Honorary and Emeritus Fellow, published Volume 2 of , co-edited with Robert R. Edwards (OUP, May 2023); and the third edition of (OUP, August 2023).
Professor Katharine Ellis (1982, Music), Honorary Fellow, won the 2023 Otto Kinkeldey Prize, awarded by the American Musicological Society, for the book (Oxford University Press).
Professor Christopher Pelling, Honorary and Emeritus Fellow, published five papers on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch, including two chapters in the (ed. F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi):
鈥淧lutarch and biography鈥�, in F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (Cambridge, 2023), 11鈥�28.
鈥淲ealth and decadence in Plutarch鈥檚 Lives鈥�, in F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (Cambridge, 2023), 243鈥�60.
鈥淔riendship in Herodotus鈥�, in A. Efstathiou, J. Filonik, C.Kremmydas, and E. Volonaki (eds.), Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael Edwards (Leiden and Boston, 2023), 155鈥�76.
鈥淒over on Thucydides鈥�, in S. Halliwell and C. Stray (eds.), Kenneth Dover: Scholarship and Controversy (London, 2023), 113鈥�30.
鈥淎 doubles match: Agis鈥揅leomenes and the Gracchi鈥�, in P. Davies and J. Mossman (eds.), Sparta in Plutarch鈥檚 Lives (Swansea, 2023), 113鈥�38.
Former Fellows
Professor Dr Tim Brook, former Shaw Professor in Chinese, published (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023).
Professor Daniel Freeman, former Supernumerary Fellow, published (William Collins, February 2024).
Published: 9 May 2025