Alex Woolf

Alex Woolf (born 12 July 1963) is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of Britain and Ireland and to a lesser extent Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on interaction and comparison across traditional ethnic boundaries. He is a senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
He is author of volume two in the "New Edinburgh History of Scotland", covering the period between 789 and 1070. For this he won the 2008 Saltire Society award for "history book of the year".
He is the younger brother of the ancient historian Greg Woolf.
Academic career.
In 1995, Woolf was appointed a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. From 1997 to 2001, he was a lecturer in Celtic and early Scottish history and culture at the University of Edinburgh. In 2001, he moved to the University of St Andrews as a lecturer in history: he was later promoted to senior lecturer.