Greg Woolf

Greg Woolf FSA Scot FBA
Born	Gregory Duncan Woolf (1961-12-03) 3 December 1961 (age 62)
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,

Woolf began his academic career while still studying for his doctorate; he was a part-time lecturer at the University of Leicester and a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1990, after completing his doctorate, he moved to the University of Oxford to teach ancient history and archaeology.^[5] From 1990 to 1993, he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Then, from 1993 to 1998, he was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and a lecturer in the Faculty of Classics.^[4][5]

In 1998, Woolf moved to the

In July 2021, Woolf moved to the United States where he joined University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History.^[9][10] In 2022, he became editor of the Journal of Roman Archaeology.^[11][12]

Woolf gave the

Selected works

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2015)

• Woolf, Greg (January 1994). "Becoming Roman, staying Greek: Culture, identity and the civilizing process in the Roman East". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. 40: 116–143.
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• ISBN 978-0521433693
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• Woolf, Greg (1998). Becoming Roman: the origins of provincial civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0521414456
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• Woolf, Greg, ed. (2003). The Cambridge illustrated history of the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0521827751
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• ISBN 978-0521800051
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• Woolf, Greg (2006). Et tu, Brute?: the murder of Caesar and political assassination. London: Profile Books.
  ISBN 978-1861977410
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• Woolf, Greg (2011). Tales of the barbarians: ethnography and empire in the Roman West. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
  ISBN 978-1405160735
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• Woolf, Greg (2012). Rome: an empire's story. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0199603084
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• Hemelrijk, Emily; Woolf, Greg, eds. (2013). Women and the Roman City in the Latin West. Leiden: Brill.
  ISBN 978-9004255944
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• König, Jason; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina; Woolf, Greg, eds. (2013). Ancient libraries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-1107012561
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• König, Jason; Woolf, Greg, eds. (2013). Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-1107038233
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• König, Jason; Woolf, Greg, eds. (2017). Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-1107060067
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• Woolf, Greg (2020). The life and death of ancient cities: a natural history. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0199664733
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• Rüpke, Jörg; Woolf, Greg, eds. (2021). Religion in the Roman Empire. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag.
  ISBN 9783170292260
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