John Matthews (historian)

John Matthews
FBA FSA FRHistS
John Matthews FBA FSA FRHistS
Born	1940 (age 83–84)
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Thesis	The supporters of the Emperor in Western society in the age of Theodosius (1970)
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	Ancient history; Ancient Rome; Late antiquity; Ammianus Marcellinus; Codex Theodosianus;
Institutions	Balliol College, Oxford; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; Yale University;

John Frederick Matthews, FBA, FSA, FRHistS (born 1940) is a British historian and academic. Since 1996, he has been a professor of Roman history at Yale University, where he was also the John M. Schiff Professor of Classics and History from 2001 to 2014.