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William V. Harris
William R. Shepherd Professor of History
Columbia University
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Biography
Research: Greek and Roman History, especially Literacy and Orality; the Growth of the Roman Empire; Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire
William Vernon Harris, Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received the degrees of B.A., M.A. and D.Phil from Oxford University. His publications include Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy
(1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979, revised edition 1985). The books he has edited include The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity, Rethinking the
Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2004), and (co-edited with Giovanni Ruffini) Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (2004). His current work is divided between economic history (he is contributing to the Cambridge Economic History of the Greek and Roman Worlds) and the study of ancient dreams (a continuation of his interest in psychological aspects of ancient history). He is the Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient
Mediterranean. To read Harris's
article "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in
*Rethinking the Mediterranean* (Oxford University Press, 2005), click here.
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