He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. Daniel Robert Woolf FRHistS FSA FRSC (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator.