Richard Saller

Saller was born in 1952.^[4] He earned two Bachelor of Arts in history and ancient Greek at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1978.^[5]

In 1984, Saller began teaching Roman social and economic history at the University of Chicago. He became a dean in 1994 and the university's provost in 2002.^[6] As dean, he attracted controversy for asking the university to shut down its educational department.^[7]

In April 2007, Saller was made the dean of the School of Humanities and SciencesatStanford University.^[8] He stepped down in September 2018 to teach full-time.^[9]

Since 1986, the Saller Dissertation Prize has been awarded at University of Chicago for outstanding dissertations.^[10]

Saller is married to anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann.^[11]

• Saller, Richard P. (1982). Personal Patronage under the Early Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Garnsey, Peter; Saller, Richard P. (1987). The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Saller, Richard P. (1994). Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Saller, Richard P. (2022). Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.