2022 St Cross Prizewinners

Tristan Alphey, Nazia Thakur, and Tanya Zeif.

Each year the College offers a number of annual prizes to current students at St Cross.

The Ralph A. Lewin Prize is open to all St Cross students in their second year and above currently studying for a DPhil degree in any of the biological and environmental sciences. The 2022 Ralph A. Lewin Prize has been awarded to Nazia Thakur whose research aims to define the role of cross-protective antibodies against emerging viruses with a focus on two families of viruses – Coronaviruses and Henipaviruses - in order to determine whether pre-existing immunity to either groups of these viruses can cross- neutralise similar viruses, known or unknown.

The Collingswood Prize in History is open to all St Cross students in their second year and above currently studying for a DPhil in History. The 2022 Collingswood Prize in History has been awarded to Tristan Alphey whose research studies historical socio-onomatics within an early medieval context as well as the role of bynames in creating informal power networks and regulating society. His research interests focus in particular on the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon worlds and their varying byname traditions.

The Marcus Harmelin Travel Prize is open to all St Cross members to support the cost of travel for research in the humanities and social sciences, particularly for projects exploring Jewish life, history or culture, and may have a focus on Austria, Germany, Poland or Ukraine. The 2022 Marcus Harmelin Travel Prize has been awarded to Tanya Zeif for her proposed project to study the synagogues of Odessa which were turned into gyms during the Soviet era. Her project will comprise a historiography of these synagogues, from when they were built through to their conversion into gyms and finally their return to being spaces of worship for the remaining Jewish community.

The HAPP Centre awards an annual Essay Prize in the History/Philosophy of Physics which is open to any undergraduate or Master's student in History, Philosophy or Physics at the University of Oxford. The 2022 HAPP Essay Prize in the History/Philosophy of Physics has been awarded to Amit Karmon (Reuben) for his essay entitled "Two Seconds per Second".