Professor in the Humanities, Classics and History, Stanford University
Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Catherine R Kennedy and Daniel L Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University in California. His latest book is The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (2017).
Politics and government
The bloodstained leveller
Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence?
Nations and empires
The road from Rome
The fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t a tragedy for civilisation. It was a lucky break for humanity as a whole