Ballot Archive

25 Feb 2016

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Gregory Duncan Woolf

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA Ancient & Modern History, Christ Church, Oxford, 1985; PhD Classics, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1990

Profession or occupation

Professor of Classics and Director of the ICS, University of London

Grounds for election

Greg Woolf is Professor of Classics at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, having been Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University from 1998-2014. He has published numerous books and articles on the Roman world and Iron Age Europe, including Rome: An Empire's Story (2012), Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West (2011) and Becoming Roman. The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998). His current research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the very large scale, including projects on urbanism, mobility, ancient library culture and the role of sanctuaries in forming religious experience. He currently chairs the Council of University Classical Departments and serves on the Leverhulme Trust Research Awards Advisory Committee and the British Museum Research Committee. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Associate Fellow of the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt.

Signatories

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