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Warren Treadgold
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Request This AuthorWARREN TREADGOLD is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies and Professor of History at Saint Louis University. With a B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, he has taught at UCLA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Hillsdale College, and Florida International University and has held research fellowships at the University of Munich, the Free University of Berlin, All Souls College at Oxford, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He has published ten books and many articles on Byzantine, medieval, and late ancient history and literature and published articles on higher education in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, and Academic Questions.
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