Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics and history at Stanford University. The author, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books, he is one of the most cited Greco-Roman historians in North America. He is the creator of Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World and is an editor of The Oxford World History of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020) and the Oxford Studies in Early Empires (Oxford University Press). He has been awarded the Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has helped develop the Future of Classics Initiative at Stanford and the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an early initiative for open access scholarship.
November 2026
Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics and history at Stanford University. The author, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books, he is one of the most cited Greco-Roman historians in North America. He is the creator of Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World and is an editor of The Oxford World History of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020) and the Oxford Studies in Early Empires (Oxford University Press). He has been awarded the Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has helped develop the Future of Classics Initiative at Stanford and the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an early initiative for open access scholarship.
November 2026