Stanford University
Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. His work ranges from ancient social and economic history and pre-modern historical demography to the comparative and transdisciplinary world history of inequality, state formation, and human welfare. In 2017 Princeton University Press published his book “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.”