Lydia Walker and Alan James Ross were married Aug. 29 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member of the New York City Clerk’s Office officiated.
Dr. Walker, 35, is a postdoctoral fellow in international studies, focusing on global decolonization at Dartmouth. From 2002-03 she danced with Pennsylvania Ballet II in Philadelphia and toured as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001 with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, housed at the Kennedy Center in Washington. She is a founder of Delhi Dance Theater, a contemporary dance company in New Delhi and trained at the School of American Ballet. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia, where she was a founder of the Columbia Ballet Collaborative. She received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from Harvard.
She is the daughter of Bonnie Scheibman and Tertius Walker of New York. The bride’s father is a wood sculptor who creates fine art pieces and furniture for private clients. Her mother is a choreographer whose works include “Cross Rose” performed by members of Delhi Dance Theater at the Green Building in Brooklyn in 2015 and “Little Pictures” performed by Pennsylvania Ballet II at Peabody Dance at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 2008.
The bride is a paternal descendant of John Hart, a public official in colonial New Jersey who became a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Dr. Ross, 34, is a visiting scholar of classics focusing on late Greek and Roman literature at Dartmouth and a lecturer in Roman history at the University of Southampton in England. He graduated with first class honors from University College London and received a master’s degree and doctorate in classics from Oxford.
He is the son of Valerie G. Ross and Michael F. Ross of Culligran, Lower Clashandrorran, Beauly, Scotland. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a biomedical scientist in the histopathology laboratory at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen, Scotland. His father, also retired, was a partner in James Milne & Company, Chartered Accountants, also in Aberdeen.
The couple met in June 2016 at a G&D’s cafe in Oxford, England, while she was working on her dissertation at Weston Library archives and he was doing research at the Bodleian Library.
