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 Roger Bagnall FBA

History of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Near East; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Papyrology; Epigraphy

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Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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Professor Werner Eck FBA

Ancient History, History of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces, Roman Epigraphy

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