Boris Rankov
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Boris Rankov is a professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway
Royal Holloway, University of London
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, University of London
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-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. He was born August 9, 1954.

Educated at Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School
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 (1963–73), then subsequently Corpus Christi College
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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, Oxford
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 (MA 1980, DPhil 1987), Professor Rankov is perhaps best known for his participation in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
The Boat Race
The event generally known as "The Boat Race" is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights each spring on the River Thames in London. It takes place generally on the last Saturday of March or the first...

, in which he led Oxford to victory six times between 1978 and 1983, three times in the 4 seat and three times in the 5 seat. This led to establishment of the so-called Rankov Rule, which states that oarsmen will compete in the race no more than four times as an undergraduate and no more than four times as a graduate. Rankov has, however, umpired the race in 2003, 2005 and 2009.

Rankov's research interests include Roman history, especially Roman Britain, the Roman army, epigraphy and archaeology of the Roman empire, and ancient shipping. Rankov served as rowing master for the Trireme Trust's reconstructed trireme
Trireme
A trireme was a type of galley, a Hellenistic-era warship that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars on each side, manned with one man per oar...

 Olympias
Olympias (trireme)
Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology.She was constructed from 1985 to 1987 by a shipbuilder in Piraeus. Finance came from the Hellenic Navy and donors such as Frank Welsh . The building was advised by the historians J. S....

. As of 2004, Rankov was chairman of the Trust.

Rankov has taught at the Classics Department at Royal Holloway University of London since 1990, and was Head of Department from 1999-2002.

He has two daughters, Helen and Lydia.

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