Greg Woolf

Greg Woolf FSA FSA Scot FBA
Born	Gregory Duncan Woolf (1961-12-03) 3 December 1961 (age 63)
Nationality	British
Title	Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History
Academic background
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis	Cultural change in central France under Roman rule (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Garnsey[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Ancient history Archaeology
Sub-discipline	History of the Roman Empire Classical archaeology Iron Age Europe
Institutions	University of Leicester Christ's College, Cambridge Magdalen College, Oxford Brasenose College, Oxford Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford University of St Andrews University of London Institute of Classical Studies University of California, Los Angeles

Gregory Duncan Woolf, FSA, FSA Scot, FBA (born 3 December 1961) is a British ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021, he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford, and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and Professor of Classics at the University of London. From January 2025 he assumed the role of Director at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University.^[2].