Oxbridge Academic Programs - The Cambridge Prep Experience

Dr. Jeff Mackowiak. AB (Hons) University of Pennsylvania, MLitt University of St. Andrews, Scotland, MPhil, PhD Cambridge. Jeff is a lecturer at Robinson College, Cambridge University, and his diverse interests include the literature of  Victorian scientific materialism, literature about university life, ‘badness’ in poetry, the English Tripos Tragedy paper, and comedy. He received his first degree Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, in English and Physics, after which he spent a year at the University of Virginia as The President’s Fellow in English Language and Literature. At Cambridge, he has played in the University’s golf squad for five years, twice captaining teams, has served as Captain of graduate rowing at Trinity College, and is a member of The Hawks' Club.

Tiffany Bergin. AB (Hons) Princeton, MPhil Cambridge. Tiffany is a doctoral student at Queens’ College, Cambridge University, where her research focuses on criminal justice policy diffusion. She received her AB with highest honors from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she was awarded The Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has held internships at the National Center for Victims of Crime in Washington DC and the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, and in 2006 received an Arthur Liman Summer Fellowship to conduct sentencing mitigation work for defendants facing the federal death penalty in New York State.

Cristian Constantinescu. BA, MA University of Bucharest, Romania, BPhil Oxford. Cristian is pursuing his doctorate in Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge University, as a Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar. He specializes in moral philosophy and meta-ethics, and is particularly interested in topics such as relativism and moral disagreement. After spending a year teaching philosophy at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, he went to Oxford to pursue a Master’s degree as a Dulverton & ORS Scholar. At Cambridge, he tutors undergraduate students at the Faculty of Philosophy, specializing in ethics.

Pablo de Orellana. BA (Hons) Oxford, MPhil Cambridge. Pablo is a Santander and College Scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, whose doctoral research interests include sponsorship and patronage relations in the international community and magic as a metaphor for human weakness – and dreams – in Renaissance Italian literature. With a First Class degree in Modern and Medieval Languages obtained as a member of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, he has always been passionately involved in the art world, curating a number of exhibitions in London, Italy and France, and writing a number of articles on the arts. He has worked as the curator of the Artscape Gallery in London and authored the catalogue that accompanied its first major exhibition, Openness or Echoes of Otherworldly Experience.

Dr. Moritz Baumstark. MSc, PhD University of Edinburgh. Moritz is a Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge University, specialising in eighteenth-century history, intellectual history, and the history of political thought. Specifically, his research concerns the life and thought of David Hume, and he is currently writing an extended study that seeks to explain Hume’s development from philosopher to historian through the medium of intellectual biography. Before coming to Cambridge, Moritz studied history and philosophy in Munich and Venice and obtained an MSc with distinction and his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He has been a historical researcher for a BBC program on the Scottish Enlightenment and has taught undergraduate students in British History and the History of Political Thought at both Edinburgh and Cambridge universities.

Oonagh King. BSc Queen’s University Belfast. Oonagh is a British Pharmacological Society National Prize Winner and a medical student at Queen’s University Belfast. In addition to her medical training and work as an auxillary nurse at Belfast City Hospital, she is a committed teacher at Methodist College Belfast and other local schools, where she helps students in English and Science. She has also served as the intercalated representative for the British Medical Association’s intra-schools committee and as the publicity officer for the medical students’ group Marrow that volunteers on behalf of the Anthony Nolan Trust, a charity focused upon leukemia and bone marrow transplantation.

Ross Sutherland. BA (Hons) University of East Anglia, MRes Liverpool John Moores University. A graduate of the University of East Anglia’s prestigious creative writing course, Ross was included in The Times’ list of The Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008 and works as a playwright, journalist, poet and tutor in creative writing. He co-founded the performance poetry collective Aisle16, with whom he still performs today, has appeared at the Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals, and has produced work with the British Council in Athens, Switzerland and Germany. Ross has written nine theater productions, including 2005’s Poetry Boyband, which won Time Out’s Critics’ Choice of the Year. His debut poetry collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town, was published in January 2009. He is currently writing the screenplay for his first feature film, which is in development with Warp Films.

Jianing Qian. BA (Hons) University of Toronto. Jianing is a Cambridge Trust and Overseas Research Studentship Scholar pursuing her doctoral degree in Biotechnology at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Her research is focused on designing novel ligands to purify specific proteins at low cost, building upon the degree work that in 2008 won her The Society of Chemical Industry Merit Award for achieving the highest marks in her program at the University of Toronto. At Toronto, she was also a teaching assistant for Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. In her native China, she has won several national championships for English public speaking and debating, including First Place in the National English Speech and Debate Contest for University Students when she was a freshman – and class president – at Dalian University of Technology.

Sumiyyah Mohammed. BSc University of the West Indies, Trinidad, MBA Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, MPhil Cambridge. A native of the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Sumiyyah is a Chevening Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University. Her research interests lie in the field of entrepreneurship and strategic management, and she holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt that she accomplished while working in the oil and gas sector as a commercial analyst and contract negotiator in Trinidad and Tobago. She graduated top of her class with a BSc in Management Studies and Finance from the University of the West Indies, and true to her Caribbean upbringing, she is a great fan of cricket.

Ed Roberts. BA (Hons) Cambridge. Ed is one of only five Wellcome Trust doctoral students in Infection and Immunity at Cambridge, whose studies include immunological memory, stem cell differentiation and the bacterial cell cycle. He specializes in the immunological tolerance of disease. He is a former undergraduate at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he was an Elected Scholar and winner of the college’s Darwin Prize in 2007 and Valerie Barker Awards in 2006 and 2005 for the highest Natural Sciences Tripos results. Now at King’s College, he supervises university undergraduates, volunteers for Dhiverse, a Cambridge-based HIV/AIDS charity, and serves as a coordinator for Linkline.

David Kendall. BA (Hons) London College of Communication, MA Goldsmiths, University of London. David is a photographer and teacher with over a decade’s experience working in communications media and photography. His photographic practice and written research specializes in exploring the dynamics of social and spatial interconnection and conflicts in urban environments. David exhibits his photographs in the UK and abroad – at the Tate Britain, London, for example – and publishes essays and reviews in photographic books, journals and magazines. He has worked with many educational, social, and media organizations, including PhotoVoice, Goldsmiths, Thomson Reuters, and University of the Arts London.

Blaine Landis. BA (Hons) Washburn University, MA University of Tulsa, MPhil Cambridge. A doctoral student at Downing College, Cambridge University, Blaine studies organizational behavior, with specific interests in psychological assessment, personality psychology, and social networks. He has a background in industrial and organizational psychology, which includes professional experience as a consulting associate for Hogan Assessment Systems, a U.S. consulting firm and test publisher specializing in personality assessment. As an undergraduate, he won Washburn University’s Anderson Scholarship for Academic Achievement and an Allyn and Bacon Award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Empirical Research.