William V. Harris
Encyclopedia
William Vernon Harris is William R. Shepherd Professor of History
, Columbia University
. Authors of numerous groundbreaking monograph
s on the Greco-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.
, England
. He attended Bristol Grammar School
(1949–1956) and then was an Open Scholar in Classic
s at Corpus Christi College, 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.
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)http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HARDRE.html
, 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
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. Authors of numerous groundbreaking monograph
Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
s on the Greco-Roman world
Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman culture, or the term Greco-Roman , when used as an adjective, as understood by modern scholars and writers, refers to those geographical regions and countries that culturally were directly, protractedly and intimately influenced by the language, culture,...
, he is a Fellow
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of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969...
in 2008.
A scholarly biography
William V. Harris was born on 13 September 1938 in NottinghamNottingham
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, England
England
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. He attended Bristol Grammar School
Bristol Grammar School
Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England. The school was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne....
(1949–1956) and then was an Open Scholar in Classic
Classic
The word classic means something that is a perfect example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality. The word can be an adjective or a noun . It denotes a particular quality in art, architecture, literature and other cultural artifacts...
s at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
. He earned first class in Classical Moderations in 1959, then first class in Literae Humaniores
Literae Humaniores
Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics at Oxford and some other universities.The Latin name means literally "more humane letters", but is perhaps better rendered as "Advanced Studies", since humaniores has the sense of "more refined" or "more learned",...
in 1961. From 1961 he pursued graduate studies
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
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
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
with M. W. Frederiksen, earning his D. Phil. in 1968.
From 1964 to 1965 Harris served as Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...
in Ancient History
Ancient history
Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...
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 + 3701979: 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
Siglo Veintiuno
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)
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
James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, where he continued to...
Prize of the American Historical Association
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...
2009 (forthcoming) Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (Harvard University Press)http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HARDRE.html
Edited volumes
1984: The Imperialism of Mid Republican Rome (Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in RomeAmerican Academy in Rome
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, vol. xxix, Rome)
1986: (with Roger S. Bagnall
Roger S. Bagnall
Roger Shaler Bagnall is an American classical scholar. He was a professor of classics and history at Columbia University from 1974 until 2007, when he took up the position of first Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University...
) 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
Elio Lo Cascio
Elio Lo Cascio is an Italian historian, who teaches Roman History at the Sapienza University of Rome. Lo Cascio's main research interests are the institutional, administrative, social and economic history of Ancient Rome from the Republic to the Late Empire, and Roman population history.- Life :Lo...
) 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
Oxford University Press
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)
2008: (with Brooke Holmes) Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome and the Gods
External links
- Columbia University, Department of History webpage http://www.columbia.edu/cu/classics/fac-bios/harris/faculty.html
- Center for the Ancient Mediterranean http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cam
- Mellon Distinguished Award citation http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/announcements-1/2007-distinguished-achievement-award-recipients-named/
- Columbia News http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/08/01/harris.html