Greg Woolf

Greg Woolf is a British historian and archaeologist of the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. He was born in 1961 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and studied ancient and modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1981 to 1985, before research in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Leicester and at Oxford, and from 1998 to 2014 he was professor of ancient history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. From 2015 to 2021 he directed the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London. In 2021 he became professor of ancient history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 2025 he became director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His research has focused on how provinces such as Gaul became Roman, on literacy, religion and cities in the ancient world. His books include Becoming Roman, Rome: An Empire's Story (2012), a history of the empire for general readers, and The Life and Death of Ancient Cities.

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