Professor William Harris FBA

Greek and Roman history, with special interests in Italy, the rise of the Roman Empire, literacy, and topics that verge on other disciplines, especially psychology, economics and environmental sciences
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Classics

Current post

Columbia University Professor of History

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Director

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Michael Silk FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature

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Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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Professor Lucia Prauscello FBA

Lucia Prauscello specialises in Greek language, literature and culture with a special focus on the edition of ancient texts (especially lyric) and the history of their transmission, the process of canon formation, literary papyrology, and ancient scholarship.

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