Latest news from Balliol

For the first time, an official Balliol team participated in the Oxford Town and Gown 10k run on 12 May 2024.

Three Balliol students will star in an upcoming production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Oxford Playhouse.

Professor Carol E Harrison (Balliol 1990) is the co-author – with Professor Thomas J Brown of the University of South Carolina – of a new book, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance, published by LSU Press in April 2024.

Balliol alumnus Dr Robert Montgomery (Balliol 1990) has been awarded the Excellence in Transplantation Award by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).

Lindy Cameron (Balliol 1991) has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of India, becoming the first woman to serve as High Commissioner for the UK in India. 

Two Balliol alumni have been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, an annual award given for a work wholly or mainly about some aspect of Greece or the world of Hellenism.

Hermán Luis Chávez (2023, MSt Modern Languages — Spanish) has been awarded the 2024 Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting for their essay on the composer Atiliano Auza León (b.1928) and 20th-century Bolivian Art Music.

The Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) has awarded Marco de Jong (Balliol 2018) the Tracey Banivanua-Mar PhD Prize for 2024.

Professor Jin-Chong Tan (Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science) has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project that could transform the field of nanoenergy conversion.

Over the Easter vacation the Balliol College Boat Club attended training camp in Chester with the St John’s College (Oxford) Boat Club. Markus Baumgartner (BCBC Captain) reports.