News: Visting Fellows - Michaelmas Term 2009

This term, Grey welcomes six distinguished Fellows who are working on: mathematical physics, medieval history, the history of country houses in the north east; legal issues of mental health; contractual law; and, as an IAS Fellow, on a sculpture on the theme of “Water”.

Donald P Arnavas is a Dickinson Dees Fellow in Law. Mr Arnavas has written extensively on contract law, especially within the context of government contract arrangements. Mr. Arnavas spent the first several years of his career as a private practitioner in Washington, D.C. and as assistant general counsel for a major management consulting firm. In 1978, he was appointed a Judge on the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, a position that he held for 8 years. Subsequently, he resumed an active private practice in Washington with a specialization in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Iona College and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.

Professor Warren Brookbanks is a Dickinson Dees Fellow in Law. He is currently Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He holds a BD from Melbourne College of Divinity and LLB and LLM degrees from Auckland. He has been awarded a number of significant distinctions, is a member of many professional societies and has authored a considerable number of books, book sections and articles. His major professional interests are in the relationship between the law and mental health issues.

Professor Bin Chen is the Alan Richards Fellow in Mathematics. He holds a full Professor appointment at the School of Physics, Beijing University. His major research interests are in string theory, cosmology and mathematical physics. He has written approximately fifty publications in these fields.

Ranjit Singh Gaekwad, scion of the Royal family of Baroda, holds a degree in Fine Art  from Baroda University and a diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has previously held exhibitions in Durham (Grey College), Delhi, London and Mumbai. Although his main media are watercolour, acrylic and oils he is also a self-taught sculptor. He is an IAS Fellow this term and is working on a sculpture related to the current IAS theme of “Water”.

Dr Chris Jones is a senior Lecturer at the School of history, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Chris works in the field of medieval European history and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London. He read History as an undergraduate at Grey College before undertaking postgraduate research at Durham and the Université Paris X-Nanterre (France). He subsequently taught as an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (UK) and undertook postdoctoral research at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Canada). He joined Canterbury as a Lecturer in 2006 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in Medieval History in 2009. He is the author of several books and articles and will be working on a short monograph dealing with the life and work of Geoffroi de Collon during the tenure of his fellowship at Grey College.

Mr Lloyd Langley is the Curator of Wallington Hall, a house in Northumberland in the care of the National Trust. During his time at Grey he will be working on a book on the development of historic houses as seen through National Trust properties in Yorkshire and the North East.

Added Thursday 8th October 2009