Person Greg Woolf

Greg Woolf, geboren 1961, ist seit 2021 Ronald J. Mellor Professor für Antike Geschichte an der University of California in Los Angeles. Davor lehrte er als Professor für Alte Geschichte an der University of St. Andrews und war bis 2020 Leiter des Institute of Classical Studies in London. Er war Fellow mehrerer Colleges in Cambridge und Oxford und ist Fellow der British Academy und des Max-Weber-Kollegs in Erfurt. Zu seinen Publikationen gehört »Rom: Die Biographie eines Weltreichs« (Klett-Cotta, 2015).

Greg Woolf has since July 2021 been Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History in the University of California, Los Angeles. Before taking up this post he directed the Institute of Classical Studies in the School of Advanced Study of the University of London and was Professor of Classics there (2015-2021). Prior to that position he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews (from 1998). His research focus is Cultural change in the Roman World, Seasonality and Roman Society as well as Migration and human mobility in antiquity.