Alan Bowman

Alan Keir Bowman, FBA (born 23 May 1944), is a British classicist and academic. He is a former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Bowman was born on 23 May 1944 in Manchester, United Kingdom. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, The Queen's College, Oxford and the University of Toronto.

After holding academic positions at Rutgers University and theUniversity of Manchester he was elected as University Lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford University and Official Student of Christ Church, Oxford.He was Senior Censor at Christ Church from 1988 to 1990.

In 1995 Bowman became founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford. In 2002 he became Camden Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of Brasenose College.

In 1996, Bowman co-edited volume 10 of the Cambridge Ancient History second edition series, entitled 'The Augustan Empire, 43 BC - AD 69'. As well as co-editing the volume, he also contributed the chapter on 'Provincial Administration and Taxation'. His fellow editors were Andrew Lintott, also of Oxford, and Edward Champlin, of Princeton University.