Warren Treadgold (AB Harvard 1970, PhD Harvard 1977) is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies and Professor of History at Saint Louis University.  He has also taught at UCLA, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Hillsdale College, and Florida International University.  He has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the Mellon Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and All Souls College, Oxford.  He has written various books and articles on Byzantine history and literature and on American universities, including The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education (Encounter Books, 2018), The Middle Byzantine Historians (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Early Byzantine Historians (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), A Concise History of Byzantium (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford, 1997), Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Stanford, 1995), The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (Stanford, 1988), The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (East European Monographs, 1982), and The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (Dumbarton Oaks, 1980).