ISAW Director Greg Woolf Receives Honorary Degree from the University of Chicago

Congratulations to Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Greg Woolf on being awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the University of Chicago’s 540th Convocation ceremony in recognition of his distinguished contributions to scholarship and the humanities on June 6, 2026.

Prior to coming to ISAW in 2025, Woolf held the Ronald J. Mellor Distinguished Professorship of Ancient History at UCLA, with additional appointments in the Classics Department and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. He was previously a professor of Classics and director of the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, a visiting professor of Archaeology at University College London, and a professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews.

Woolf’s work focuses on the archaeology and history of the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean world more widely. He has published on literacy, ancient knowledge cultures and libraries, the Roman economy, ancient religion, the European Iron Age, and questions of resilience and environmental history. He is currently researching mobility and migration in the ancient world.

He has published six single-authored books, including Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul, and 10 edited works. Woolf is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Roman Archaeology and a former editor of the Journal of Roman Studies. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Please join us in congratulating Greg on this well-deserved distinction!

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