Academic promotions in School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

11 Jun 2024

An announcement from Thomas Schmidt, Head of School.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that a substantial number of colleagues have been successful in the 2024 round of academic promotions – probably the most important way in which the university recognises individual achievement in research, teaching, knowledge transfer and academic citizenship.

I hope you will join me in congratulating our colleagues. Please see below all the promotions in full:

Promotion to Professor: Jason Allen-Paisant (EACW), Abi Gilmore (AHCP), Douglas Field (EACW), Chris Godden (History), Christian Goeschel (History), Paul Oldfield (History), James Scorer (MLC), Edmond Smith (History) and Ed Wouk (AHCP).

Promotion to Senior Lecturer: Jenna Ashton (AHCP), Sabah Boufkhed (HCRI), Luis Catellví-Laukamp (MLC), Jesus Chairez-Garcia (History), Maria Christou (EACW), Catherine Franc (MLC), Fraser Gordon (EACW), Vera Hohaus (LEL), Jonathan Hourigan (EACW), Sheena Kalayil (UCAE), Orieb Masadeh-Tate (MLC), Amanda McCorkindale, (HCRI), Scott Midson (R&T), Kerry Pimblott (History), Ingrid Rembold (History), Luca Scholz (AHCP), Jo Taylor (EACW), Rebecca Tipton (MLC), Sundhya Walther (EACW), Tom Woerner-Powell (MLC) and Minjie Xing (MLC).

Promotion to Senior Language Tutor (MLC): Justyna Drobnik-Rogers, Mikiko Inoue, Abdelghani Mimouni and Mamiko Noda.

I am honoured to lead a School in which so much good work happens, especially by the abovementioned but really by all of you.

Best wishes, Thomas