Daniel Woolf - Academic Career

Academic Career

Daniel Woolf graduated from St. Paul's High School, Winnipeg, in 1976. He received a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in History from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1980, and received a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1983, where he was supervised by the distinguished historian of seventeenth-century England and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Gerald Aylmer. Along with historians John Morrill and Paul Slack, Woolf would eventually co-edit the festschrift honouring Aylmer (1993). Among Woolf's contemporaries at St Peter's was David Eastwood, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Woolf was appointed an honorary fellow of St Peter's in 2009.

Woolf returned to Canada in 1984 and taught at Queen's University as a SSHRCC postdoctoral fellow (1984–86), Bishop's University (1986–87), Dalhousie University (1987–1999), McMaster University (1999–2002), and the University of Alberta. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society. In 1996-97 he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a class that included noted sociologist of science Thomas F. Gieryn, anthropologist Kay Warren, and cognitive scientist Mark Turner. Woolf's major areas of research are in Tudor and Stuart British history and the history of historiography both in Britain and globally.