Michael Scott

Michael Scott (born 3 April 1981) is a Professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Warwick.

Scott is a professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick and member of Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre.

His research and teaching focuses on aspects of ancient Greek and Roman society, as well as ancient Global History. In 2017-8 Michael held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on an ancient global history research project looking at the movement of luxury goods between the Mediterranean and China in antiquity. He is a National Teaching Fellow (the UK's most prestigious award for teaching in Higher Education); Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; winner of the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence and Foundation Fellow of theWarwick Higher Education Academy. In 2015, Michael was also made an honorary Citizenship of Delphi, Greece – Επίτιμος Δημότης Δελφών – in recognition of his work related to the sanctuary of Delphi.

Scott is also well known for his public engagement and outreach work as a speaker and broadcaster. He is President of the Lytham Saint Annes Classical Association, the largest branch of the Classical Association in the UK. He has written for national and international newspapers and magazines, lectured to schools and groups in the UK and Europe, and has taught in the UK, Europe, US and Brazil.

Scott grew up in Wimbledon, south London, where he attended King's College School, an independent day school there (and a member of the Eton Group of schools). He studied classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, and read for an MPhil and PhD in classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he was also a Moses and Mary Finley research fellow in ancient history at Darwin College, as well as an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Classics. Scott is now a professor in classics and ancient history at the University of Warwick. The focus of his work is on the ancient history and archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Scott has written and presented a range of TV and Radio programmes for National Geographic, History Channel, Nova, BBC & ITV including "Delphi: bellybutton of the ancient world" (BBC4); "Guilty Pleasures: luxury in the ancient and medieval worlds" (BBC4); "Jesus: rise to power" (Nat Geo); Ancient Discoveries (History Channel); "Who were the Greeks?" (BBC2); "The Mystery of the X Tombs" (BBC2/Nova); The Greatest Show on Earth (BBC4, in conjunction with the Open University); "Roman Britain from the Air" (ITV); "Rome's Invisible City" (BBC1), "Italy's Invisible Cities" (BBC1); "Sicily: Wonder of the Mediterranean" (BBC2) and "Ancient Invisible Cities" (BBC2). He has also presented a radio series for BBC Radio 4, 'Spin the Globe'.

• M I Finley: An Ancient Historian and His Impact (2016) Cambridge University Press. Edited Volume (Co-editor with Prof Robin Osborne and Daniel Jew). ISBN 9781107149267
• Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West (2016) Hutchinson/Windmill. ISBN 978-0091958817
• Delphi: centre of the ancient world (2014) Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400851324
• Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds (Key Themes in Ancient History series) (2012) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107401501
• Risk in our time: Proceedings of the Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. (Co-editor with Dr Layla Skinns and Tony Cox) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521171977
• Delphi and Olympia: the spatial politics of panhellenism in the archaic and classical periods (2010) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107671287
• From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great (2009) Icon Books. ISBN 978-1848311312