Departmental homepageProfessor Malcom Schofield came to St John's as an Entrance Scholar in 1960. After Classics Part I and Moral Sciences Part II, he completed a DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, and then secured a first position of Assistant Professor of Classics at Cornell in 1967. After a few years, he returned to Balliol as Dyson Junior Research Fellow in Classics and then returned to Cambridge as Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of St John's in 1972, In College, he has held positions as Praelector, Dean of Discipline, Tutor, Admissions Tutor, President, Acting Librarian and Fellows' Steward. He retired from the University as Director of Research in 2013. He is a Fellow of the the British Academy and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Schofeld undertakes some undergraduate supervision in ancient philosophy, mostly for St John's College.
Professor Schofield works across a broad range of topics in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and political thought. His current focuses within this field are on Plato and Cicero.
G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 [2nd edn])
M. Schofield, The Stoic Idea of the City (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999 [2nd edn])
M. Schofield, Plato: Political Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
M. Schofield, Cicero: Political Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
