TORCH is very pleased to welcome six new members to the TORCH Management Committee for the next academic year 2024-25.
“I am delighted to welcome our new members from faculties across the Humanities Division and beyond. Their respective expertise and experience will be crucial over the next three years. With the opening of the Schwarzman Centre planned for Summer 2025, this will be an exciting and important time to capitalise on the interdisciplinary opportunities that the new building will offer, and to explore the many new ways of working together."
Professor Christine Gerrard, Director of TORCH
The new members are:
Professor Shadreck Chirikure (Archaeology)
Professor Jacob Dahl (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Dr Onyeka Igwe (Ruskin School of Art)
Professor Sho Konishi (History)
Professor David Taylor (English)
Professor Jennifer Walshe (Music)
We are also very grateful to the members of the committee who will be staying on for a further year:
Professor Santanu Das (English)
Professor Sondra Hausner (Theology and Religion)
Professor Polly Jones (MML)
Dr Sian Pooley (History)
About TORCH
Established more than a decade ago, TORCH continues to support humanities interdisciplinary research and research engagement across many areas. Our Research Hubs and Networks enable us to explore interdisciplinary questions and ideas together. International engagement has grown from strength to strength, supporting both institutional partnerships and individual researchers. Our support for public engagement with research is based on our ongoing collaborations with external partners both locally and nationally and has allowed us to engage creatively and impactfully with public and community audiences.
The TORCH Management Committee’s role is integral to TORCH’s strategy and priority areas, including decision-making on funding applications for both the TORCH Network and International Engagement schemes. The involvement and guidance of committee members helps shape the work of TORCH, putting researchers at its heart and bringing an important cross-faculty perspective to its mission.
We are profoundly grateful to the previous members of the committee over the last ten years, including the most recent members who are stepping down after their term of office:
Dr Priya Atwal (History)
Prof Jas Elsner (Classics)
Dr Rachel Fraser (Philosophy)
Prof Gascia Ouzounian (Music)
Prof Tian Yuan Tan (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Prof Wes Williams (MML, French)
Prof Maria del Pilar Blanco (MML, Spanish)
