On July 19, 2023, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign.
Stanford University's board of trustees appointed Saller to serve as an interim president beginning on September 1.
[4] He earned two Bachelor of Arts in history and ancient Greek at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1978.
In 1984, Saller began teaching Roman social and economic history at the University of Chicago.
[7] In April 2007, Saller was made the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.