Robert Garland

Robert Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate University, where he has taught for thirty years. He attended drama school before completing his PhD at University College London. He has recorded four courses for The Great Courses and written two videos for TED Animation. Robert has published thirteen academic books on both Greek and Roman history. His interest is in how to make history come alive and his most important contribution to the discipline has...See more

Robert Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate University, where he has taught for thirty years. He attended drama school before completing his PhD at University College London. He has recorded four courses for The Great Courses and written two videos for TED Animation. Robert has published thirteen academic books on both Greek and Roman history. His interest is in how to make history come alive and his most important contribution to the discipline has been to identify categories of people who have been generally overlooked in conventional accounts of ancient history, including the disabled and refugees. See less