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William Vernon Harris (born 13 September 1938) is William R. Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University. Authors of numerous groundbreaking monographs on the Graeco-Roman world, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2008.

A scholarly biography

William V. Harris was born on 13 September 1938 in Nottingham, England. He attended Bristol Grammar School (1949-1956) and then was an Open Scholar in Classics at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. He earned first class in Classical Moderations in 1959, then first class in Literae Humaniores in 1961. From 1961 he pursued graduate studies as State Student in Oxford, and a T.W. Greene Scholarship in Classical Art and Archaeology took him to Italy from 1962 to 1964. He returned to Oxford to pursue a doctoral degree with M. W. Frederiksen, earning his D. Phil. in 1968.

From 1964 to 1965 Harris served as Lecturer in Ancient History at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1965, he joined the faculty of Columbia University in the City of New York, where in 1995 he was awarded the William R. Shepherd Professorship in History. Since 2000, he has been director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University. Since 2002 he has been Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2008, he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2008.

Publications

Monographs

1971: Rome in Etruria and Umbria (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. x + 370

1979: War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, 327 70 B.C. (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. xii + 293 (corrected reprint, 1985; Spanish translation: Guerra e imperialismo en la Roma republicana, 327-70 a.C. Madrid: Siglo XXI)

1989: Ancient Literacy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P.), pp. xvi + 383 (1991: Italian translation: Lettura e istruzione nel mondo antico, Rome and Bari: Laterza)

2002: Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P.), awarded the 2002 James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association

2009 (forthcoming) Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (Harvard University Press)[1]

Edited volumes

1984: The Imperialism of Mid Republican Rome (Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. xxix, Rome)

1986: (with Roger S. Bagnall) Studies in Roman Law in Memory of A. Arthur Schiller (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 13, Leiden)

1993: The Inscribed Economy: Production and Distribution in the Roman Empire in the light of instrumentum domesticum (Supplementary vol.6 of the Journal of Roman Archaeology, Ann Arbor)

1999: The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity (Supplementary vol. 33 of the Journal of Roman Archaeology)

2004: (with Giovanni Ruffini) Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 26, Leiden: E.J. Brill)

2005: Rethinking the Mediterranean (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

2005: (with Elio Lo Cascio) Noctes Campanae: studi di storia ed archeologia dell’Italia preromana e romana in memoria di Martin Frederiksen (Naples: Luciano)

2005: The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 27, Leiden: E. J. Brill)

2008: Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2008: (with Brooke Holmes) Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome and the Gods

External links

Columbia University, Department of History webpage [2]
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean [3]
Mellon Distinguished Award citation[4]
Columbia News[5]
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