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I first met David as an undergraduate at Oxford. I had stepped into a graduate seminar and haltingly asked my…
I had the privilege of learning of David and his work very recently. Still, this has been my most impressionable…
I did not have any personal acquaintance with David Charles, but through his writings he did more than anyone else…
When, as a nervous graduate student, I found my way into a small conference of senior scholars, David found out…
Very sad news. I had the opportunity to get to know David during a series of workshops on the Parva…
I will always hold onto this image of David: sitting cross-legged in his study at Oriel College, Oxford, with a…
…offered by the distinguished HPS program at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Machery tells me that applications will also be considered from students who are first-generation college students and from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, although those are not explicitly mentioned at the website.
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