Graduate Education Committee (Fall 2008), Development Committee Chair (Fall 2008), Space Committee (Fall 2008)

William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his 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). The books he has edited include The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity (1999), Rethinking the Mediterranean (2004), and (with Giovanni Ruffini) Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (2005). 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. Read Harris's articles "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in *Rethinking the Mediterranean* (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Quando E Come L’Italia Divenne Per La Prima Volta Italia?Un Saggio Sulla Politica Dell’Identità", and "The Late Republic", from the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World.