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Knowles’ father, like his father before him, was a professor at the University of Oxford. After finishing his military service, the young Knowles followed them there, enrolling at Balliol College, its pristine Gothic campus home to bright and blue-blooded Britons since the 13th century. There he met a don’s daughter, Jane Sheldon Davis, and married her in 1960. Davis, a literary scholar, is an archivist at the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...There is the case of Graham Greene, who after Balliol chose not to join his family business. After an uninspiring spell in journalism, he decided to go into the Liberian interior. At the time Liberia was a large white space on the map marked “cannibals...
...trying to reinforce such a successful foundation and to help the Center move into some number of new activities and directions,” he said. During the next academic year, Schauer will be the Eastman visiting professor at Oxford University and a professorial fellow of Balliol College. Arthur I. Applbaum, a professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy school, will serve as the interim director of the center until July 1, 2008. Schauer’s interests include constitutional law, freedom of expression, and the legal components of international development. “One of the wonderful...
...curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...
...writer was a 2004 Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford...