
Dale Kedwards, Mark Dyble and Ryan Heuser have been admitted as Official Fellows at a ceremony on 15 October.
Dale’s expertise focusses on a variety of texts composed and written in Old Norse-Icelandic, including the Icelandic sagas, mythological poetry, and the little-studied manuscripts containing what is usually called alfræði (‘encyclopaedic texts’), comprising a nebulous mix of natural philosophy, history, and literature.
Mark is an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Archaeology where he teaches evolutionary perspectives on human biology, behaviour, and health. Much of his research focuses on the evolution of human social behaviour and is informed by ethnographic fieldwork with hunter-gatherer communities in the northern Philippines, zoological fieldwork with wild meerkats in South Africa, and by computational and mathematical modelling.
After being a Research Fellow at King’s between 2019 and 2022, Ryan is the third Official Fellow admitted this term. Ryan’s research and pedagogy span topics from the history and theory of digital humanities to its methodological groundings in data science and visualization, natural language processing, network theory, machine learning, and large language models. His work focuses on computational approaches to prosody and rhythm, literary and intellectual history, and the history and impact of artificial intelligence on language.
Georgia Nasseh, Tamanna Jain and Iris Hardege join the College as Research Fellows.
At King's Georgia Nasseh will explore how performance companies, festivals, and the space of the theatre have operated as transnational sites of internationalist activity across Africa and the Americas between the 1960s and the 1980s, foregrounding the literary and intellectual production of Portuguese-speaking nations within comparative frameworks.
Tamanna Jain works on using gravitational waves to study the theory of general relativity and alternate theories of gravity, with a particular focus on building analytical gravitational waveform templates for interpreting information about its origin.
Iris Hardege’s current research predominately focusses on the study of the surprising complexity of neurotransmitters and their receptors in the model organism C. elegans, and how they contribute to the generation of complex behaviours such as learning.
Five Bye-Fellows have also been appointed to enhance the teaching available to our students:
Steven Gratton is a theoretical cosmologist. As an Associate Teaching Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) here in Cambridge, he helps deliver the new MPhil in Data Intensive Science.
Jane Hall is a founding member of the architecture collective Assemble, which in 2015 won the Turner Prize for their work refurbishing a series of houses in collaboration with residents in Granby (Liverpool) and were recently elected as Royal Academicians. She is currently writing a narrative history of gender, sisterhood and queerness in architecture.
Oliver Higgins (KC 2018) is a Historian whose recent research examines how German idealists from Immanuel Kant to G. W. F. Hegel projected a rational idea of justice or “Recht” onto changing forms of political power after the French Revolution.
Mezna Qato, a former Research Fellow at King’s, is the Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies and her teaching centres on histories and theories of social, economic and political transformation amongst refugee and stateless communities, the politics and practice of archives, and global micro-histories of movements and collectivities in the Middle East.
Férdia Stone-Davis’ research interests lie at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and music, focusing on the different ways in which music allows us to “make sense”. She has written about musical beauty and the sublime, as well as about musical “worldmaking” more generally. She is Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge.
Luca Allodi and Richard Read are also joining King’s as Visiting Fellows.
Luca Allodi is an Associate Professor and the lead of the Threat Analysis group in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His multidisciplinary work combines insights from computer science and economics to investigate both emerging and established cyber-threats.
As part of his long-standing interest in how meta-paintings prompt reflection on the nature of painting itself, Richard Read will work in Cambridge on The Reversed Canvas in European Culture, a book that defines the motif as a painting that depicts another painting (or paintings) from behind (e.g. Las Meninas).
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King’s is delighted to announce that six Fellows have been promoted by the University from 1 October 2024.
Chez Hall, Sharath Srinivasan, Bert Vaux and Jamie Vicary have received a full Professorship. Phil Knox has been promoted to University Associate Professor and Sophie Pickford to Associate Teaching Professor.
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And finally, heartfelt congratulations to King’s Fellow Professor Cam Middleton who is among the 71 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology recently elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering.