05/10/2026
This Michaelmas, we’re delighted to welcome 3 new Fellows, an affiliate Fellow and 3 new Bye-Fellows to Robinson.
Fellows ✨🧐
👉Dr Olivia Glaze (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge) Affiliated Lecturer in Portuguese.
Olivia works across the medical humanities and gender studies, examining representations of illness, trauma, and disability in contemporary Portuguese literature, film, and photography. Her research considers these experiences in relation to gender, empire, and austerity, with a particular focus on women’s life-writing and autofiction.
Olivia has been appointed as Robinson's first Head of Academic Skills. The role will complement the work of the Wellbeing Team with a focus on the teaching practice of staff and supervisors, as well as the academic skills of students within College. Thank you to Simon and Claire Godwin who have funded this position.
👉Dr Freddy Foks (Faculty of History)
Dr Foks’ speciality is the history of modern Britain and its empire. He was a PhD student and JRF in Cambridge and was then a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.
Dr Foks’ prizewinning first book is Participant Observers, Anthropology, Colonial Development and the Reinvention of Society in Britain. He is now working on two book projects. The first is a history of migration to and from the UK with a particular focus on subsidised emigration. He is also writing a popular history book about the maritime history of modern Britain from the Victorian era to the 1970s.
👉Dr Lucy Thompson (Department of Geography)
Lucy is a cultural, historical, and political geographer interested in dance, creative practices, mobilities, and embodiment. Her doctoral research examined the cultural and historical geographies of dance, investigating the first geographical inquiry into the overlooked circum-Atlantic histories of tap dance.
During her Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship, Lucy will work on developing her PhD into a monograph, alongside continuing her research into the renowned, but now largely forgotten, ‘first’ named tap dancer in the mid-nineteenth century – William Henry Lane (‘Master Juba’).
To find out more about our new Fellows, Affiliate Fellow and Bye-Fellows head to our website, link in comments 👇
