Richard Saller | |
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12th President of Stanford University | |
In office September 1, 2023 –July 31, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Marc Tessier-Lavigne |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Levin |
Personal details | |
Born | Richard Paul Saller October 18,1952 |
Spouse | Tanya Luhrmann [1] |
Education | University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (BA,BA) Jesus College,Cambridge (PhD) |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Patronage and Social Mobility in the Aristocracies of the Principate (1978) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Garnsey |
Academic work | |
Discipline | European studies |
Institutions | |
Richard Paul Saller (born October 18, 1952) is an American classicist. He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as president of Stanford for eleven months from September 2023 to July 2024.
On July 19, 2023, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign. Stanford University's board of trustees appointed Saller to serve as an interim president beginning on September 1. [2] [3] [ clarification needed ]
Was Saller promoted to full president by the board of trustees? The Stanford Daily asked a similar question in October 2023 and have yet to receive an answer. [4]
Saller was born in 1952. [5] He earned two Bachelor of Arts in history and ancient Greek at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1978. [6]
From 1979 to 1984 Saller was assistant professor at Swarthmore College. In 1984, Saller began teaching Roman social and economic history at the University of Chicago. He became a dean in 1994 and the university's provost in 2002. [7] As dean, he attracted controversy for asking the university to shut down its educational department. [8]
In April 2007, Saller was made the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. [9] He stepped down in September 2018 to teach full-time. [10]
Since 1986, the Saller Dissertation Prize has been awarded at University of Chicago for outstanding dissertations. [11]
Saller is married to anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. [12]
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