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Rate My Professor George Boys-Stones

University of Toronto

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5.010/1/2025

Always patient and willing to help.

5.08/20/2025

Makes learning interactive and fun.

5.04/30/2025

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About George

George Boys-Stones is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, serving as Chair of the Department of Classics since July 2023. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, earning a BA in Classics from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1992, a DPhil on Plutarch from Oxford University, and a LittD from Cambridge. Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1995 to 1998 and a teaching fellowship in the Classics Department at Bristol University, he held a permanent position in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University for 20 years until 2019, where he served as Chair from 2009 to 2012, took leadership roles in national subject bodies for Classics, and served twice on the REF national review panel for Classics. He joined the University of Toronto in 2019 and has been Managing Editor of Phronesis since 2012. His contributions have been recognized with a Jackman Humanities Institute Research Fellowship in 2020 and an SSHRC Connection Grant in 2022.