Mansfield People

Hannah is responsible for the College Telethon, Giving Day, and various exciting fundraising campaigns that bring our alumni community together throughout the year. She also manages the 1886 Circle, Mansfield’s new initiative to recognise those who make leadership gifts to the College.

If you have any questions about supporting Mansfield or if you're interested in making a regular gift to the College, please get in touch with Hannah.

Richard's research focuses on the politics of decolonisation, especially in British colonial Africa/Labour governments of 1960s and 1970s.

International history of Africa in 1960s & 1970s: colonial Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria.

Oil and the politics of decolonisation.

James is the University of Oxford’s Public Affairs & Communications Director. He joined the University in 2019 from the Civil Service, where he worked for the Ministry of Defence. He has over 20 years’ experience in Global, EMEA and U.K. communications and government relations within both the private and public sector.

At Oxford, his team has won five national and global awards for how the university communicated its COVID-19 research, including on the vaccine. This includes the Times Higher Education award for outstanding communications team for 2022, and the PRWeek global award for campaign work.

James read Geography at Sheffield University, and did a Masters in Environment and Development at SOAS. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Andrei Constantin is a Stephen Hawking Fellow in Theoretical Physics. After his doctorate at the University of Oxford he moved to Uppsala as a postdoctoral researcher and then returned back to Oxford. His research lies at the interface of string theory, algebraic geometry, and machine learning and focuses on developing mathematical and computational tools to study string theory and its implications for particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Research Area: Category Theory and Applications

Topics of interest include the study and classification of Contextuality in Quantum Computing, the Topos theoretic approach to foundations of Quantum Physics, applications of the concept of Partial Evaluations within Categorical Probability, Higher Category Theory and Computer Science as well as the use of Local State Monads in modelling computational processes which have access to a Quantum Register.

Additionally, Carmen has a keen interest in Mathematical Teaching and Outreach and has developed extensive experience, ranging from highschool to graduate level courses.

Matt joined Oxford’s Faculty of History and Mansfield College as the inaugural Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexuality in October 2023. Prior to that he spent 18 years at Birkbeck, University of London, latterly as Professor of Modern History and Head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. Whilst at Birkbeck he directed the Raphael Samuel History Centre for eight years and convened the Gender and Sexuality Studies MA/MSc.

Matt was educated at state secondary school in Staffordshire, at Sheffield University (BA English Literature) and at Queen Mary, University of London (MA 'Literature Culture and Modernity' and PhD in History).

His first academic role was as Lecturer in Modern History at Keele University (2002-2005).

Sam manages and maintains accurate financial records for the College. She prepares financial statements, handling accounts payable and receivable, reconciling bank statements, and ensuring compliance with relevant financial regulations.

Elizabeth Drummond MA (Oxon) BCL is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Mansfield College.

Elizabeth read for her undergraduate law and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees at Worcester College, Oxford. She later qualified as a solicitor in a major London law firm before joining the Law Commission as a team lawyer in the Property, Family and Trust Law team. Highlights of her five years at the Commission include working as part of the team reviewing the law of intestacy and family provision claims on death, and supporting the enactment of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 and the Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013.

Elizabeth returned to Oxford full-time in 2013, though she has been teaching Oxford undergraduates since 2008. She specialises in tutoring students in the Final Honour Schools courses in Land Law and Trusts, and the first-year Roman Law course. Her research interests lie in the fields of succession law, trusts and land law.

Torin is a second year DPhil student in Applied Mathematics working in collaboration with global domestic appliance brand Beko plc, using mathematical modelling to understand microplastic fibres in washing machines.

He graduated top of his cohort from the University of Birmingham in July 2022, with a First Class (Hons) MSci degree in Mathematics. Torin's Masters dissertation was titled "Mathematical Modelling of Rotary Jet Spinning", studying the viscoelastic fluid properties of a rapidly rotating and curving liquid jet.

Jessica is a University Research Lecturer, teaching for the Theology and Religion Faculty on Hinduism and Theories of Religion, and for the Philosophy Faculty on Indian Philosophy. Her research explores key philosophical themes across cultures, from Indian classical theories of Being to twentieth-century phenomenology. Her books explore conceptions of reality, the self and the good across cultures, focusing on classical Indian metaphysics and German phenomenology, and her forthcoming books explore Indian approaches to Being, definitions of the material and the divine, and Gadamer’s distinctive “hermeneutic” ontology. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (OUP).

Her work on Hindu ideas translates them into global terms, so that we can all think in new ways about issues that shape our society: the nature of a good life, justice and human rights, metaphysics, the goals of community. She anchors these perspectives in classic texts, and bring them into conversation with academic philosophy and existential concerns.

Carl-Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.

After studying economics, history, and management at Lund University, Carl completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He subsequently joined the Oxford Martin School where he founded the programme on the Future of Work. Between 2012 and 2014, he was teaching at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.