Oxbridge Academic Programs - The Cambridge Tradition

 

Dr James Gilbert. BA (Hons), MA, PhD Cambridge. A Cambridge-educated and –trained zoologist, James lectures at Derby University, having recently left the University of Maryland, where as a Post-doctoral Researcher he explored how organisms turn over key nutrients within their tissues and proteins. He obtained First Class Honors for his first degree at Clare College, Cambridge University, where he remained to conduct his doctoral research into insect parental care behavior. Over the course of his doctorate, he lived in Uganda for two years and conducted fieldwork in Egypt.

Dr Jessica Frazier. BA (Hons), MA Cambridge, MSt Oxford, PhD Cambridge. Jessica lives in Oxford where she is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, a member of the Theology Faculty, and a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. She completed her doctorate at Queens’ College, Cambridge University, having previously earned First Class Honors for her BA at Cambridge and a Master’s degree at Oxford. Her doctoral research focused on Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami and she has a number of teaching specialties, including European and Indian philosophy, comparative religion, and religious studies.

Emrys Jones. BA (Hons) Oxford, MPhil Cambridge. Emrys is studying for a PhD in 18th-century literature at Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge. He graduated from Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, with First Class Honors and received a distinction for his MPhil on the poets laureate of Hanoverian Britain. His doctoral research explores the relationship between politics and friendship in the literature of the 1730s. He has served as MCR Secretary for Peterhouse and was an executive officer in Oxford University’s Student Union. He teaches undergraduates in several Cambridge colleges and in 2009 took up a short-term fellowship at Yale University’s Lewis Walpole Library.

Justin Bangs. BA (Hons) University of Florida, MPhil Cambridge. A former Gates Scholar at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, Justin is an environmental consultant for The Cadmus Group in Washington DC, where he engages in policy and program development for governmental, private and non-profit clients. At Cambridge, he served as the Cambridge Graduate Union’s General Secretary, St Catharine’s College MCR Welfare Officer, and was a member of the Cambridge University Committee for Environmental Management. At the University of Florida, he won a number of awards, including the Morris K. Udall Award, a Unilever Congressional Fellowship, and joined the University’s Hall of Fame in recognition of his contribution to university life.

Dr Simon Dyton. BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge. Simon works in our New York office as Director of Faculty Recruitment and Coordination and joins The Cambridge Tradition as Associate Director. After earning his PhD in 17th-century history and literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, he worked as a writer and researcher in London, contributing to books such as The English Civil War At First-Hand and Puritans and Puritanism
in Europe and America. A former university athlete and a college rower, rugby player, and MCR President, his stellar academic record includes a Double First and a distinction for his MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance literature. Simon returns to The Cambridge Tradition for his twelfth year.

Tiffany Morris. BSc, MSc University of Arizona. A doctoral student at Hughes Hall, Cambridge University, Tiffany is a computational biologist investigating the molecular mechanisms of metabolic syndrome, and specifically the effects of under-nutrition during pregnancy. She has a diverse research background including two years as a Rainforest Research Specialist at Columbia University’s Biosphere 2 Center in Arizona. At Cambridge, she teaches undergraduates and tutors local A-level and GCSE students. She rows for Hughes Hall Boat Club, for which she has served as President and Captain, has trialed for Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club, and has competed in the Varsity triathlon.

Mike Collins. BA (Hons), MPhil Cambridge. Mike is a doctoral student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, specializing in the philosophy of consciousness. He is a Senior Scholar at Trinity College, where he matriculated as an undergraduate, which is also where a great many historic thinkers and philosophers once studied. His research concerns the nature of experience – of color, pain, and sensation – and whether it can be explained by science. He is the Cambridge University Athletics Club Men’s Captain and the Honorary Secretary of The Hawks’ Club, the University Sports Club.

Simon Kennedy. BA (Hons) University of British Columbia. After graduating with First Class Honors in Film and Television Studies from the University of British Columbia in Canada, Simon moved to London, where he embarked on a successful career as a television producer, working as Head of Production at Premier and Head of Promotions and Presentations at Lifestyle and Fox Kids (Europe). Since 1997, he has run his own production company, making award-winning documentaries and other programs for British TV networks.

Gillean Denny. BA (Hons) Pennsylvania State University, MPhil Cambridge. A Gates Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge University, Gillean has a background in sustainable grass-roots architecture and stage design. Having been placed in the prestigious International Solar Decathlon for 2007, graduated top of her class at Penn State, and completed an MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture at Cambridge University, her studies have led her to Italy, Portugal, Panama, and now again to the UK. Her doctoral research investigates the impact of urban agriculture on a community’s ‘ecological food footprint.’ She has worked on several development projects in the United States, at Buell Kratzer Powell Architects in Philadelphia, and continues to design several stage productions each year.

Michael Sofranko. BGS Ohio University, MFA University of Iowa. (Dean of Faculty) Michael is a writer, poet, editor, and professor who has led numerous creative writing workshops throughout the United States and Europe, and whose most recent book, American Sign, received the Antonio Machado Prize in Poetry. Michael teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the high school and university levels in Houston, Texas, and his current project is Voices Without Borders, a non-fiction dramatization about immigration. He has also been awarded the Sean Christopher Britton Prize, the Chancellor’s Medallion, and a NISOD National Award for Teaching Excellence. He returns to The Cambridge Tradition for his eleventh summer.

Svitlana Kobzar. BA (Hons) Alma College, MPhil Cambridge. A Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, Svitlana is reading for a doctorate as a member of Wolfson College. Her research concerns the effect of the European Union upon reforms in Russia and her native Ukraine, which she left at the age of 16 when she won a Future Leaders Exchange Scholarship to study in the United States. She has worked at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute and founded the Ukrainian Service Vision Program to award American students scholarships to work and study in her home country. She has conducted research projects with several think tanks, including the German Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for International Relations in Prague, and the Italian Institute for
International Political Studies.

Dr Stephen Marsh. BA (Hons), MA, BPhil, DPhil Oxford. A former Schoolmaster Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Stephen originally graduated from Oxford University, where he gained First Class Honors in Classics and a BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy. Having taught Latin and Philosophy at Oxford, and with extensive experience of teaching Latin at the university and high school levels, he is Head of Classics at Kamuzu Academy, Malawi. He taught on The Oxford Tradition for many years and returns to The Cambridge Tradition for his eleventh summer.

Alison Goldie. BA (Hons) Hull University. Alison is an accomplished actor, director and teacher. She has worked with young people for Youth Music Theatre UK, CPA School of Performing Arts and London School of Musical Theatre. Most recently she has directed Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and As You Like It, as well as contemporary theater for Vienna’s English Theatre, Rainbow Theatre Group and The Drama Hub. She was also a television presenter for BBC’s The Travel Show and has appeared regularly on BBC radio, in plays, sketches and as a correspondent. As an improviser, she was a founding member of Spontaneous Combustion and a player in Theatresports. With her own theater company, The Weird Sisters, she has toured worldwide, winning awards in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Muhammad Meki. BSc (Hons) University of Warwick, MSc London School of Economics. After graduating with First Class Honors in Management Sciences from the University of Warwick, during which time he interned with Goldman Sachs, Muhammad joined Bank of America in London and worked for three years as an interest rates trader. He then undertook his Master’s in Finance at the London School of Economics. While in London, he ran the London Marathon and pursued his love of sports, including Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts. Fluent in Arabic and French, he was born in Australia of Iraqi parents and holds an Irish passport - and is ideally qualfied to explore the international dimensions of global business.

Nikki Goldup. BA (Hons) University of Ulster, MPhil Cambridge. Nikki has taught fine art and textiles for the last twelve years, combining her love of teaching with her own artistic practice. She was Head of Art at the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge for six years, during which she read for an MPhil and MEd in Arts and Culture in Education as a member of Jesus College, Cambridge University, and graduated top of her class. Her art has been exhibited internationally and has been included in exhibitions and collections as far afield as Tel Aviv, Japan, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Her Master’s work was featured in a Channel 4 documentary and won her recognition in the Varsity 100 for 2009 – a list of Cambridge’s most talented and outstanding students.

Andrea Artz. BS (Hons) CUNY, MA Leeds University. Andrea is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts, Art History & Cultural Studies at Leeds University in England, having worked as a professional photographer for 20 years, 10 of which she spent in New York City. She trained at the Academy for Photo Design in Munich, Germany, and her portraits, documentaries and travel stories have been featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Fortune, Time, House & Garden, Geo, Spiegel and Stern. She has won the Fuji Film Euro Press Awards, the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition and was a recipient of Smith and Diego Hidalgo fellowships. She is also an accomplished painter, whose work has been recently exhibited in London, and her website is www.andreaartz.com.

Raina Brands. BSc, MA University of Queensland, Australia, MPhil Cambridge. A doctoral student at St John’s College, Cambridge University, Raina is a Benefactors Scholar, whose doctoral research at the Judge Business School concerns marketing strategies in arts and cultural industries. With degrees in Organizational Psychology and Psychological Science, and winner of the University Medal for Academic Achievement at the University of Queensland, her background includes professional experience as a development consultant for BDO, one of Australia’s largest accounting and financial advisory practices. At Cambridge, she is a keen hockey player and member of the University’s Entrepreneurs’ Club.

Daniel Marshall. BSc (Hons) University of Teesside, MA University of Leeds. A doctoral student at Darwin College, Cambridge University, Daniel is studying the role of criminal justice interventions in young people’s offending. Upon graduating from the University of Teesside, he was awarded The Dick Richardson Memorial Prize for his research on terrorism. He also spent five years working as a police officer with Durham Constabulary, in Country Durham in England, and has worked as a lecturer at Leeds and York Universities in the disciplines of Criminology, Law, Psychology, and Sociology. He is also a former semi-professional soccer player.

Oliver Lewis. BSc (Econ) University of Aberystwyth, MA University of Leicester. Oliver is a doctoral student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, where he is researching the education and socialization of British diplomats and the formation of a professional, diplomatic culture in Her Majesty’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is a consultant for a UK government project to increase co-operation in research between policy practitioners and academics and is a reserve Intelligence Officer in the Royal Air Force. At Cambridge, he is a member of Cambridge University’s running club and an accomplished boxer.

Marco Mion. MSc University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. With a five-year  ‘Laurea Magistrale’ in Psychology and a year’s experience at the Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology Service at the Sant’Anna Hospital at Como, Italy, Marco became a licensed psychologist in 2007 and entered a doctoral program at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has since transferred to Cambridge University as part of his doctoral program, where he is based at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and his research concerns early neuropsychological and neuroimaging markers of Alzheimer's Disease and broader cognitive issues in a neurodegenerative disorder known as Semantic Dementia.