Ross Moncrieff Awarded 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize

We are delighted to announce that Ross Moncrieff (All Souls) has been awarded the 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize by the Intellectual History Review!

Ross was awarded the prize for his article in the Intellectual History Review: 'When sinologists were geologists: Chinese chronology in early modern England and the heterodox Chinese studies of Robert Hooke and John Beaumont' 

Ross is a DPhil student in History. His research focuses on early modern British understandings of China from the late-seventeenth to the late-eighteenth century, aiming to reassess to what extent this period saw a growing hostility towards China amongst British intellectuals (what is sometimes called a shift from 'Sinophilia' to 'Sinophobia'). You can read more about his work and his other publications on his Faculty webpage and his All Souls College webpage.