Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1923 to 1926.^[1]

Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883^[2] and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.^[3]

• Wells, J. (1907). "The Persian Friends of Herodotus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 27: 37–47. doi:10.2307/624403. JSTOR 624403.
• "The Genuineness of the Γῆς περίοδος of Hecataeus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 29 (1): 41–52. 1909. doi:10.2307/624641. JSTOR 624641.
• "Cicero and the Conquest of Gaul". The Quarterly Review. 230: 361–379. October 1918.
• Wells, J. (October 1928). "Herodotus and Athens". Classical Philology. 23 (4): 317–331. doi:10.1086/361074. S2CID 162214786.

• Oxford and its Colleges, etc.
• A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896)
• Wadham College (1898)
• The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906)
• The Charm of Oxford (1920)
• ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols)
• Studies in Herodotus, 1923

• Works by Joseph Wells at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Joseph Wells at the Internet Archive