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Daniel Woolf

Daniel Robert Woolf FRHistS FSA FRSC (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009.[10] He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013.[11][12] In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019.[13][14][15] He was succeeded by Patrick Deane,[16] and became Principal Emeritus.[17]

Daniel Woolf
FRHistS FSA FRSC[1]
Daniel Woolf speaking at a Queen's University event in Hong Kong in 2018
20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University
In office
1 September 2009[2] – 30 June 2019[3][4]
Preceded byThomas R. Williams[5]
Succeeded byPatrick Deane[6]
Personal details
Born
Daniel Robert Woolf[7]

(1958-12-05) 5 December 1958 (age 66)[8]
London, England[8]
SpouseJulie Gordon-Woolf[9]
ChildrenSarah, Samuel and David[7]
EducationQueen's University at Kingston (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)

Early life and education

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Woolf was born in London, England, on 5 December 1958 to a Jewish family.[8][18] His mother, Margaret Mary Woolf (1929–2014),[19] was an English instructor at a university,[7] and his father, Cyril Isaac Woolf (1930–2012), was an otolaryngologist, a Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellow[18] and an adjunct faculty member at a medical school.[7] His uncle was the historian Stuart Woolf (1936–2021),[20][21] and his brother is the Vancouver-based architect Jeremy Woolf.[8][22][23]

In 1961, his family emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada,[18] where Woolf graduated from St. Paul's High School in 1976.[17] He obtained his BA in History from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1980, and then a DPhil in Modern History from St Peter's College,[24] University of Oxford, in 1983.[25] He was supervised by Gerald E. Aylmer, a distinguished historian of 17th-century England and then-Master of St Peter's. Along with historians John Morrill and Paul Slack, Woolf would eventually co-edit a 1993 festschrift honouring Aylmer.[26] Among Woolf's contemporaries at St Peter's was David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham since 2009.[24]

Career

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Woolf returned to Canada in 1984 and taught at Queen's University as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow in history until 1986, when he moved to Quebec and became an assistant professor of history at Bishop's University. After a 1-year appointment he joined the Department of History at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, as an assistant professor.[25] Woolf was tenured in 1990, when he was also promoted to associate professor; 4 years later, he became a full professor.[7][25]

In 1999, McMaster University appointed Woolf as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, serving as a professor of history in parallel.[25] He relocated to University of Alberta in 2002, starting a 5-year term as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, a position to which he was re-appointed in 2007,[7] as well as a professor in the Department of History and Classics.[25] In 2009, he was appointed by Queen's University as its 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor.[27] He took up the role on 1 September that year,[7] serving until June 2019.[3]

Academically, Woolf's research interests are in Tudor and Stuart British history and the global history of historiography.[9][28] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society.[1] Between 1996 and 1997 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies under the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[29]

Since 2012, Woolf has been on the board of directors of Historica Canada (formerly the Historica-Dominion Institute).[25][30] Having completed one term on the board of directors of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, he is currently serving his second term (2021–2023).[31] He is a member of the board of directors of Lakefield College School since 2020.[32] He is also a member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH), currently serving as its Secretary-General (2022–2026).[33]

Previously, he was the chair of the executive committee of the Council of Ontario Universities (2017–2019),[25][34] a member of the board of directors of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (2016–2017), a member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Royal Society of Canada (2012–2016),[25] and chair of the Standing Advisory Committee on International Relation of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (renamed to Universities Canada in 2015)[35][36] (2011–2014).[25][37]

Personal life

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Woolf is married to Julie Anne Gordon-Woolf,[9] a health administrator and part-time professional harpist.[38] He has three children from a previous marriage to political scientist Jane Arscott, Sarah, Samuel and David.[8][39][40]

During his tenure as principal, Woolf is famous for handing out cookies with his wife at Queen's University’s libraries during exam season.[9] He started this "cookie drop" in 2010.[41]

Honours and awards

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In 2023, to honour Woolf's decade of service as Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University established the Principal Emeritus Daniel R. Woolf Professorship in the Humanities;[46] and renamed the first floor of Stauffer Library as the Daniel R. Woolf Gallery.[47]

In 2024, a Festschrift, titled Reckoning with History, was published in Woolf's honour, in which 11 contributors engaged with his writings and ideas.[48]

Bibliography

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Books

Selected articles and chapters

  • "A feminine past? Gender, genre, and historical knowledge in England, 1500–1800", The American Historical Review, 102.3 (2005), 645-79 [60]

References

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  20. ^ Woolf, Daniel [@woolf_atthedoor] (29 January 2017). "Buried in a bookcase-this 1951 world history given to me 50 yrs ago this month by my historian uncle Stuart Woolf" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021 – via Twitter.
  21. ^ "Remembering Stuart Woolf". European University Institute. 19 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  22. ^ Woolf, Daniel [@woolf_atthedoor] (24 February 2018). "If in Vancouver b/t April 18–30, catch my brother Jeremy's powerful and moving exhibit of Holocaust related photography. I visited the site below last summer with @Justforpun. My photos aren't nearly as good" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021 – via Twitter.
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  37. ^ "AUCC strengthens relationship with Israeli universities". Queen's Gazette. 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  38. ^ Woolf, Daniel (2011). "Acknowledgments". A Global History of History (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. xxv–xxvii. ISBN 9780521875752. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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  48. ^ Kesselring, K. J.; Neufeld, Matthew (eds.). Reckoning with History: essays on uses of the past. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780228022428.
  49. ^ Woolf, Daniel (1990). The Idea of History in Early Stuart England: Erudition, Ideology and the "Light of Truth" from the Accession of James I to the Civil War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802058621. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  50. ^ Morrill, John; Slack, Paul; Woolf, Daniel, eds. (1993). Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G. E. Aylmer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202295.001.0001. ISBN 9780191675270. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  51. ^ Mayer, Thomas; Woolf, Daniel, eds. (1995). Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe: Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.14810. ISBN 9780472105915. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  52. ^ Woolf, Daniel, ed. (1998). A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. ISBN 9780815315148. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  53. ^ Woolf, Daniel (2001). Reading History in Early Modern England. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521780469. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  54. ^ Fox, Adam; Woolf, Daniel, eds. (2002). The spoken word: Oral culture in Britain 1500-1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719057472. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  55. ^ Woolf, Daniel (2003). The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500-1730. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199257782. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  56. ^ Jones, Norman L.; Woolf, Daniel, eds. (2007). Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230597525. ISBN 9781349279623. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  57. ^ Woolf, Daniel (2011). A Global History of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521875752. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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  59. ^ Daniel, Woolf (2019). A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108550789. ISBN 9781108444859. S2CID 166601317. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  60. ^ Woolf, Daniel, (2005) A feminine past? Gender, genre, and historical knowledge in England, 1500–1800", The American Historical Review, 102.3, 645-79
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2009 – 2019 		Succeeded by
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