University in Budapest. She also held visiting professorships in Cynthia Howard (1951) cities from Berlin and Paris, to Tel Aviv and Princeton. Sally enjoyed the company of the seriously clever and they Born into a family of teachers in hers. Despite her excellent brain, she refused to confront Newark, Cynthia was the middle modern technology: she had a TV and particularly enjoyed child of three. After the early Master Chef, but she never used a computer and had email death of her father, she was only sent to an intermediary, who printed it out and posted it to 8 years old when she went to her. The telephone was her preferred means of communication boarding school in Cheshire, but she and she had long conversations with old friends. Intransigent in proceeded to do well academically her views and not always easy, Sally was nevertheless a great and became Head Girl. Her time personality and generous friend. reading French at Somerville was She was also an extremely adventurous traveller and in her one of the happiest times of her CYNTHIA HOWARD later years organized a party to travel by boat up the Nile, in life. She loved academic life, got a which, to the horror of those with her, she swam. But sailing first and maintained a close relationship with College for the was her lifelong passion: expeditions included South America, rest of her life. Scandinavia and, above all, the Aegean. Reflecting her love of books and languages, Cynthia worked Sally’s research applied anthropological theories and in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum for methodologies to ancient history, as demonstrated in her twenty years, before moving on to a second career, teaching 1978 collection of essays, Anthropology and the Greeks. French at secondary level. In it, she explained that her inspiration was a technological On retirement, Cynthia could spend more time on her hobbies question concerning the design and use of ancient Greek of travelling and photography. She loved cars, owning a range, ships, which she approached by sailing around the Aegean in from minis to sporty hatchbacks, and often drove across an open, keelless boat. She realized that while much remained Europe. An active member of the Anglo-Spanish Society, she the same as it was in the ancient world (for example, the winds spent a lot of time travelling over there and met the King of and sailing conditions) much has changed, and that changes Spain. Her wonderful photographs of her travels were, of in economic institutions were more important than those in course, beautifully catalogued. sailing technology. Fellow Somervillian, Penny Minney (1953), Her family and friends remember her driving to see them, published Crab's Odyssey: Malta to Istanbul in an Open Boat, and always arriving with a tale or two to tell. A policeman, in which she described the initial sailing adventures that she and Sally experienced, covering 1500 miles in four years. for instance, who stopped her for speeding on Kew Bridge on Boxing Day got a good telling off! ‘How dare you stop an The analysis of social and economic structures was central elderly lady off to visit her family at Christmas! Shame on you!’ to her subsequent work. She has also used the lens of Her arrival, beautifully dressed with an elegant hat and brightly anthropology to explore ancient law, family structures and coloured scarf, camera in hand is missed by those friends kinship. Her second collection of essays, The Family, Women and family. and Death: Comparative Studies, was published in 1983 and her third book, The Strangeness of Gods: Historical perspectives on the interpretation of Athenian religion, Sarah (Sally) Humphreys followed in 2004. Her magnum opus, Kinship in Ancient Athens: an anthropological analysis was published in two (née Hinchli昀昀, 1953) volumes by OUP in 2018, to considerable international acclaim. Sally Humphreys followed her Anne Jacobson (née Jaap, 1965) – Mary undergraduate study in Literae Humaniores at Somerville Ewart Junior Research Fellow 1967-69 with an impressive career in Classical scholarship. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Anne Jaap After initial research fellowships had graduated from the University at the University of Oxford, she of California, Berkeley, before she became the academic librarian at reached Somerville. She completed the Warburg Institute in London. a BPhil and a DPhil here before Along with Arnaldo Momigliano, she SALLY HUMPHREYS becoming the Mary Ewart Research ran the Ancient History Seminar Fellow between 1967 and 1969, there, before moving to University College, London, as a and moving to St Anne’s to become lecturer, and set up a joint honours degree in Ancient History their Fulford Research Fellow. and Social Anthropology. Married to Allan Jacobson, and with ANNE JACOBSON In the late 1980s, she became Professor of History, a son, Anne moved back to the US, Anthropology and Classical Studies at the University of holding positions at Princeton, Rutgers and Lehigh before a Michigan at Ann Arbor, and then Professor at Central European move to the University of Houston. There she was an Associate 47