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Daniel Woolf (Daniel Robert Woolf) was born on 5 December, 1958 in London, England, is an A canadian male non-fiction writer. Discover Daniel Woolf's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Daniel Robert Woolf
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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 5 December 1958
Birthday 5 December
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1929

His mother, Margaret Mary Woolf (1929–2014), was an English instructor at a university, and his father, Cyril Isaac Woolf (1930–2012), was an otolaryngologist, a Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellow and an adjunct faculty member at a medical school.

1936

His uncle is the late historian Stuart Woolf (1936–2021), and his brother is the Vancouver-based architect Jeremy Woolf.

1958

Daniel Robert Woolf (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator.

Woolf was born in London, England, on 5 December 1958 to a Jewish family.

1961

In 1961, his family emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, where Woolf graduated from St. Paul's High School in 1976.

1980

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, University of Oxford, in 1983.

1984

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.

1990

Woolf was tenured in 1990, when he was also promoted to associate professor; 4 years later, he became a full professor.

1993

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.

1996

Between 1996 and 1997 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies under the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

1999

In 1999, McMaster University appointed Woolf as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, serving as a professor of history in parallel.

2002

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, as well as a professor in the Department of History and Classics.

2009

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.

He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.

Among Woolf's contemporaries at St Peter's was David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham since 2009.

In 2009, he was appointed by Queen's University as its 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor.

2010

He started this "cookie drop" in 2010.

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; and renamed the first floor of Stauffer Library as the Daniel R. Woolf Gallery.

2012

Since 2012, Woolf has been on the board of directors of Historica Canada (formerly the Historica-Dominion Institute).

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).

2013

He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013.

2017

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.

He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus.

Previously, he was the chair of the executive committee of the Council of Ontario Universities (2017–2019), 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), 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) (2011–2014).

Woolf is married to Julie Anne Gordon-Woolf, a health administrator and part-time professional harpist.

He has three children from a previous marriage to political scientist Jane Arscott, Sarah, Samuel and David.

During his tenure as principal, Woolf is famous for handing out cookies with his wife at Queen's University’s libraries during exam season.

2019

He took up the role on 1 September that year, serving until June 2019.

Academically, Woolf's research interests are in Tudor and Stuart British history and the global history of historiography.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society.

2020

He is a member of the board of directors of Lakefield College School since 2020.

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).