Elections to Fellowships, 2004

Elections to Fellowships, 2004

Elections to Fellowship under Title A (Research Fellowships)

Dr Sarah Houghton was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2004, for research in English.  She graduated from St John's with a BA in 1999, was awarded an MPhil in 2000, and a PhD in 2004.  Her PhD thesis was entitled 'The Faith and Theodicy of John Clare'. During the course of her tenure she will be researching various aspects of the literature of 'the long eighteenth century', exploring in particular how certain symbols or figures articulate religious, socio-political or aesthetic concerns.

Dr Gregory Jefferis was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2004, for research in Neuroscience.  He graduated with a BA from St John's in 1998, and received his PhD from Stanford University in 2003.  His PhD thesis in developmental neurobiology was entitled 'Wiring Specificity in the Olfactory System of Drosophila'.  During the tenure of his fellowship he will work on how the neural circuits in the fly brain process raw olfactory information, generating specific behavioural responses to different odours.

Mr Martin Patrick O'Neill was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2004, for research in Philosophy.  He has a BA, BPhil and MA from Balliol College, Oxford, and an AM from Harvard University. He is currently completing his Harvard PhD thesis, which is entitled 'Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility: From Agency to Egalitarianism'. During the tenure of his fellowship he will work on normative problems in moral and political philosophy, concerned with issues of responsibility, justice, risk and insurance.

Dr Akhilesh Reddy was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2004, for research in Molecular Biology.  He has a BA, MA, MB, BChir and a PhD from Downing College.  His PhD thesis was entitled 'Molecular Neurobiology of the Mammalian Circadian Clock'.

Elections to Fellowship under Title B (Teaching Fellowships)

Dr Keith Johnstone was elected to a Fellowship from 1 October 2004 and appointed a College Lecturer in Biology.  He has been with the Department of Plant Sciences at Cambridge since 1989, as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer, and has been a Fellow of Queens' College since 1985.  Prior to that he has spent time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Botany and Broodbank Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge, and as a Lecturer in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Leeds. His research interests are Molecular Microbiology and Plant Pathology. He has a BSc from the University of Leeds and a PhD from Gonville & Caius College.

Miss Sylvana Tomaselli was elected to a Fellowship from 1 October 2004, and appointed College Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences.  She has been a temporary College Lecturer in History at St John's since 2000 and has been Director of Studies in History, and Acting Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences.  She was a Fellow of Hughes Hall from 1997 until 2002, has been an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at Cambridge since 1998, and is now also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.  From 1985 to 1988 she was the Sarah Smithson Research Fellow at Newnham College. She has written widely on topics relating to History, Social and Political Sciences, and particularly Enlightenment political theory and the conjectural histories of woman, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  She has a BA from the University of British Columbia, and MAs from York University, Canada, and from Cambridge.

Dr David Leonard Williams was elected to a Fellowship from 1 October 2004, and appointed a College Lecturer in Pathology.  He has been Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine since 1997, and an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge since 1999.  He runs the ophthalmology clinic at the Department of Veterinary Medicine and leads a research group there, 3CO, the Cambridge Centre for Comparative Ophthalmology. He has been self-employed as an ambulatory referral veterinary ophthalmologist since 2001, and prior to that worked as a Veterinary Ophthalmologist in Peterborough; he has also worked with the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, Suffolk. His research interests are in the area of veterinary ophthalmology, immunology and exotic animal medicine.  He has a BA, MA and a VetMB from St John's and a PhD from the University of London, having studied at the Royal Veterinary College.

Election to Fellowship under Title C (Professorial Fellowship)

Professor Graeme Barker was elected to a Fellowship from 1 October 2004, on taking up his appointment as Disney Professor of Archaeology in the University.  He is also Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.  He had been at the University of Leicester since 1988, where he held the positions of Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeological Studies, Graduate Dean, and finally Pro-Vice-Chancellor.  Prior to that he was Director of the British School at Rome, a position he took up in 1984, having spent twelve years with the University of Sheffield. His archaeological fieldwork has ranged from Italy to South-western Asia, North Africa, and most recently Borneo. A Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Society of Antiquities, he is also a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, is President of the Prehistoric Society, and is on the Board of Management of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. He has a BA and a PhD from St John's College.