22 Facts About Daniel Woolf

Daniel Woolf 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.

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

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

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.

Daniel Woolf was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus.

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

Daniel Woolf's mother, Margaret Mary Woolf, was an English instructor at a university, and his father, Cyril Isaac Woolf, was an otolaryngologist, a Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellow and an adjunct faculty member at a medical school.

Daniel Woolf's uncle was the historian Stuart Woolf, and his brother is the Vancouver-based architect Jeremy Woolf.

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

Daniel Woolf 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.

Daniel Woolf was supervised by Gerald E Aylmer, a distinguished historian of 17th-century England and then-Master of St Peter's.

Daniel 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.

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

Daniel Woolf 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.

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

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

Since 2012, Daniel Woolf has been on the board of directors of Historica Canada.

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

Daniel Woolf is a member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography, currently serving as its Secretary-General.

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

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

In 2019, Daniel Woolf was criticized for wearing the United Nations Service Medal Korea: an honour to which he was not entitled.