Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper is an American historian and classicist who studies ancient Rome. He was born in 1979 in Norman, Oklahoma, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2001 with a degree in letters; in his final year he was one of Oklahoma's two finalists for a Rhodes Scholarship. He earned a master's degree and a doctorate at Harvard University, writing his thesis on slavery in the late ancient Mediterranean. He then returned to teach at the University of Oklahoma, where he became the founding director of its Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, a full professor of classics and letters, and from 2014 to 2020 the university's provost. He is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. His books include Slavery in the Late Roman World (2011), From Shame to Sin (2013), on the Christian transformation of sexual morality, and The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (2017), which argues that climate change and pandemics played a major part in Rome's decline. He later wrote Plagues upon the Earth (2021).

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Faith: Confirmed with his wife as a member of the Episcopal Church in 2015. Source: Wikipedia