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Adam Husain is currently a Clarendon Scholar at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. He specialises in the French writer Marcel Proust, as well as contemporary French philosophy. Previous to this, he took a undergraduate degree at Brasenose College, where he graduated with a Congratulatory First Class mark, and then an MSt in Modern Languages at Wadham College. He has many years of experience in teaching, and particularly enjoys working with students on philosophical problems.

Dr. Adam Jones completed DPhil from University of Oxford after a four years undergraduate master’s programme in Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Jones is primarily involved in research on non-commutative algebra, often with application to representation theory. He has taught and supervised groups for a variety of subjects such as linear algebra, commutative algebra, representation theory and lie algebras.

GLA Course Title: The history and role of algebra in the development of mathematics

Dr. Kasberger is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dusseldorf Institute of Competition Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Vienna, M.Sc. In Economics from Institute for Advanced Studies and TU Wien and a B.Sc. In Economics from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Teaching and research areas of Dr. Kasberger include Game Theory, Auction and Market Design and Industrial Organization.

Dr. Kasberger is a recipient of multiple awards and honors such as NOeG Young Economists Award and Heinz-König-Young-Scholar-Award from ZEW Mannheim. He is an Austrian citizen and actively publishes  in renowned journals.

GLA Course Title: Strategic thinking in practice

Bojana is a DPhil candidate at Brasenose college. She is writing her thesis on the challenges which the digital economy presents to European contract law and on how to complete a Digital Single Market. She previously completed the First Bavarian State Exam at the LMU Munich, a Diploma in Legal Studies at Oxford (Prize for the Best overall performance), and the MJur at Oxford as a Peter Carter Scholar and Law Faculty MJur Scholar (winning the Law Faculty’s Clifford Chance Prize, Proxime Accessit and a Wadham College Results Prize). Her current research is supported by the Winter Williams Studentship and a Graduate Assistance Fund Scholarship.

Bojana has also collaborated with Oxford Pro Bono Publico on numerous occasions and currently serves as a member of the OPBP executive committee. She was also an associate editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog. Currently she is one of the convenors of the EU Law Discussion Group.

Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek is a Clarendon Scholar and DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is researching the political economy of multi-stakeholder extraction projects. Previously, she earned her MPhil in Russian and East European Studies; she was awarded a distinction and the Michael Kaser Prize for her thesis on EU minority laws.

In addition to her DPhil studies, Cordelia is currently a research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where she is writing on geoeconomics and US and EU climate policy. She is also a fellow with the environmental group in the Kazakhstan Futures Program. Cordelia serves as an associate editor at the forthcoming Law & Geoeconomics Journal.

Cordelia’s research interests include the political economy of climate policy; institutional change; energy resource projects, including low-carbon and rare-earth element extraction; and geoeconomics, specifically trade, regulation, and supply chain dependencies.

Davide Morassi is an ancient historian, specialised in Greek and Roman military history. His DPhil (Oxon) discusses the role and responsibilities of the Classical Athenian strategoi, arguing that they had substantial independence on the field. More recently, he won a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Fellowship, financing his study of the emotional experience of Greek warfare though the modern concept of morale. His other research interests include Athenian institutions, theories of leadership, archaic tyrannies, and gender and sexuality in Classical Athens. He taught Greek history at the universities of Oxford, Vreje Universitat of Amsterdam, and Southampton.

Prof. Attridge holds a Ph.D. and BA in English from Cambridge University. He has also done his B.A. Hons. in English and B.A. in English and Psychology from University of Natal, South Africa.

Prof. Attridge has received multiple awards and fellowships through his career such as Marie Curie Fellowship from Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; M.H. Abrams Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina; A.W. Mellon Visiting Fellowship, University of Cape Town; Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle; to name a few.

Prof. Attridge publishes extensively in the areas of literature and literary history.

GLA Course Title: The Experience of the Arts

As both architect, artist and researcher, his work spins around the studio practice and into the making, with regards to reconstruction, repetition and re-interpretation of an European pre-modern culture in regression. Diego Delas looks at certain vernacular architectural motifs –those related to storytelling and magical thinking- functioning as or embodying notions of a certain modernist drive.

Delas studied Architecture and Fine Arts in Madrid before moving to London to obtain a MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and a PhD at the Ruskin College of Art, University of Oxford while being honored to be beneficiary of prestigious grants and prizes such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford. He was also shortlisted by Cervezas Alhambra Emergent Art Award, Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize, Generación, Award by Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain; Feria BARCU, Bogotá, Colombia, Lucy Halford Bursary, Windfall Bursary or RCA (HEFCE) for Royal College of Art, London.

Being exhibited internationally with solo and group shows, his work has also been acquisitioned by art collections like those of MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León, Montemadrid Foundation, DKV Collection, Kells Collection or Cervezas Alhambra Collection.

Fearghus Tomas Horan is currently a PhD student at the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His research is focussed on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to Heidegger. In particular, he is concerned with how thinkers in this tradition carve out a specific role for philosophy in contrast to the empirical sciences.

Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Fearghus completed a BSc in Physics and Philosophy at King’s College London, and has taught in a wide variety of settings, including at the art@CMS project at CERN.

Ilona Lahdelma is a political scientist with a research interest in the formation of political attitudes, especially immigration attitudes. Ilona is interested in finding explanations for political preferences in historical legacies or in regional differences between people. Ilona has also a keen research interest in political methodology and public policies, and teaches methods and impact evaluation at Carlos III University in Madrid. Ilona received her DPhil (Phd) from the University of Oxford in 2020 and her thesis was about the local political repercussions of asylum seeker arrivals in Finland.

Dr. Liam completed his DPhil in Geography and the Environment at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, with his thesis "Rising Seas and Sinking Island: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in Tuvalu and Kiribati". Dr. Liam Saddington is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Liam first entered the department to read for a BA in Geography before completing his MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance in 2017. Dr. Liam was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the South Pacific.

GLA Course Title: The Geopolitics of Climate Change: Small Island States in a Warming World.

Linqing Zhu is a DPhil candidate of Oxford university. She pursued a B.A. in English literature in Tsinghua University and a MSt in Oriental Studies at Oxford, funded by Ertegun Scholarship. Her current project, funded by Clarendon Scholarship, is entitled “Landscape of the Heart: Literary, Calligraphic and Pictorial Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Cinema”. Apart from her research, she taught various classes of Chinese art in Oxford, and is interested in literature and art from different cultural traditions.

Dr. Luke Davies is a fellow in political theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the LSE, he completed a PhD and MA in philosophy at the University of Oxford and a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work to date has focused primarily on the political philosophy of Kant, particularly Kant's account of citizenship and rights.

GLA Course Title: The Philosophy of Rights: historical and contemporary perspectives

Dr. Maximilian Kiener received a DPhil and BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford as well as a BA in Philosophy and Public Law from the University of Regensburg in Germany. Dr. Kiener’s work has been published, for instance, in The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and The Journal of Medical Ethics, and was also awarded the international prizes SOPHIA in 2016 and the CEPE IACAP Best Paper Award in 2021.

Dr. Kiener is a philosopher at the University of Oxford and specialises in moral and legal philosophy. His research, which is supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, focuses on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence.

GLA Course Title: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Dr Barker works on animation, childhood, and film culture in post socialist Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She has been especially keen to foster greater dialogue between linguistic anthropologists and interdisciplinary scholars of visual culture. Dr Barker has published her research in Anthropological Quarterly and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. She has been a guest co-editor for two special issues in Semiotic Review, one on “Blank Faces” (2019) and another, in preparation, on the “Semiotics of the Image.” Ongoing research projects include transmediality in early Soviet children’s culture, World Expositions as media events, generic conventions of online personals ads, and the politics of amateurism among postsocialist film clubs. Before arriving at the LSE, Dr Barker was a Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, with an affiliation in the Department of Anthropology, at the University of Chicago. She finished her PhD in linguistic anthropology at the University of Michigan.
GLA Course Title: Eastern European film culture

Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Para literary: The Making of Bad Readers in Post-war America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and has been adapted for CNN/HBO Max as the documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021).

GLA Course Title: Abuses of psychometry in the marketplace

Michał Krenz holds degrees in Creative Writing from Oxford, and Architecture and Urban Design from Gdańsk and Berlin. His doctoral research at Oxford University focuses on the relationship between cinema and the image of a modernist city. With Oxford TORCH, Environmental Humanities, he researched architecture and the spatial imaginary in postmodern literature, he also wrote on the juxtaposition of urban grids and waterway patterns. He teaches creative writing at the Oxford Academia summer school. A published author and an awarded filmmaker, he works in the film industry as script consultant and assistant director. His project Sketchy News (with Anina Takeff; supported by the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, of Brandenburg) followed the connection between the media, politics and national identity. His latest projects involve the use of AI in visual storytelling, from story structure to cinematic grammar.

For most of his professional life Peter has been thinking about the idea of culture as it has been shaped and reshaped over the past two hundred years, and about the processes and perils of literary guardianship, especially in the complex, mobile, and interconnected world that emerged in the course of the long twentieth century. This guiding preoccupation has informed his work on censorship, the rise of mass culture, media history and questions of the book, the public value of literature, critical theory, and interculturalism. It has also led Peter to write on an eclectic range of authors, including Arnold, Beckett, Bennett, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Brink, Breytenbach, Amit Chaudhuri, Coetzee, Conan Doyle, Conrad, Derrida, T.S. Eliot, Gordimer, Kirsty Gunn, Sarah Howe, Jensma, Joyce, Krog, Lawrence, Matthews, Mehrotra, Mphahlele, Ndebele, Pound, Rushdie, Serote, Tagore, Woolf, and Yeats. Peter teaches literatures in English from around 1830 to the present and critical theory.
Professor, University of Oxford

Dr. Samuel is a researcher in the Emotion and Social Relations lab at University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology. His work focuses on how the interpretation and perception of facial expressions depends upon a combination of various contextual factors, and how these interpretations be affected in clinical conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

GLA Course Title: Faces and Places: Rethinking Emotion and Social Interaction

Dr. Tedd is a qualified lawyer, academic, and consultant in energy, environment, climate change, technology, sustainable development and finance. Dr. Tedd holds a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. He is also a board member and strategist in conservation, education, philanthropy, and technology ventures in sub-Saharan Africa, the UK, and the Middle East. He is currently an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy.

Dr. Tedd has research affiliations with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London and has also taught and held various multi-disciplinary positions at the Universities of St. Andrews, Cape Town, Michigan, Dundee, and LSE.

GLA Course Title: A Just Energy Transition: Global & Legal Perspectives

Dr. Théo holds a Dphil from University of Oxford. Prior to his doctoral work, Dr. Théo studied for an Msci in Astrophysics at University College London and has a Baccalaureate in France. His research work has been on areas such as ‘the dynamics of Dark Matter halos in galaxies like the Milky Way’ or ‘comparing numerical methods to simulate the formation of stellar halos’.

Dr. Théo is currently in France working towards obtaining the Agregation de Physique, a French higher education teaching certification.

GLA Course Title: From Chaos to Complexity: studying dynamical systems in physics and elsewhere