Dr Nick Zair awarded the Johann-Kaspar Zeuss Prize

Dr Nick Zair, Research Fellow in Peterhouse and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge has been awarded the Johann-Kaspar Zeuss Prize for the best PhD in Celtic Studies of 2011. The title of his dissertation which was completed in Oxford is: ‘The reflexes of the proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic’.  We congratulate him.

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Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford.  Dr Barraclough will hold her fellowship in the Faculty of English, with an affiliation to The Queen’s College, and will be working on a research project mapping the literary landscape and conceptual geography of the […]

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Dr Denis Casey awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey for being awarded a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society for Renaissance Studies (http://www.rensoc.org.uk). Dr Casey’s project proposes to analyse Christopher Nugent’s primer for Queen Elizabeth I, within the contexts of Renaissance second language teaching and mnemonics, and Gaelic grammatical tradition.

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