Kyle Harper

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Employment

• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2007-
• Religious Studies Core Faculty, 2008-

Education

• Harvard University, Ph.D., History, June 2007
  • Dissertation: “Slavery in the Late Ancient Mediterranean”
• Harvard University, A.M., History, June 2003
• University of Oklahoma  B.A., Letters, summa cum laude May 2001

Publications

• Slavery in the Late Roman Mediterranean, AD 275-425:  An Economic, Social, and Institutional Study  (under contract, Cambridge University Press).
• “The Greek Census Inscriptions of Late Antiquity,” Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008) 83-119.
• “The Senatus Consultum Claudianum in the Codex Theodosianus:  Social History and Legal Texts,” Classical Quarterly, forthcoming.
• “Marriage and Family in Late Antiquity,” in the Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, edited S. Johnson, forthcoming.
• “The End of Roman Slavery and the Idea of Transition,” in Actes du colloque international du Groupe International de Recherches sur l’Esclavage dans l’Antiquité, forthcoming.
• “Résumé de thèse,” (10 page summary of Ph.D. thesis), Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, forthcoming.
• “Predigtliteratur,” Handwoerterbuch der Antiken Sklaverei, ed. H. Heinen, et al., forthcoming.

Reviews

• Review of T. Urbainczyk, Slave Revolts in Antiquity, New England Classical Journal 36.2 (2009) p. 127-9.

Recent Courses Taught

• Origins of Christianity:  Jesus to Augustine (Spring 2008, 2009)
• Roman Civilization (Spring 2008, 2009)
• Greek Civilization (Fall 2008)
• Fall of the Roman Empire (Fall 2008)
• Introductory Latin (Fall 2007)
• Slavery in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Fall 2007)

Service

• Department of Classics and Letters, Curriculum Committee  2007-
  •  (Chair, 2008- )
• Department of Classics and Letters, Scholarships Committee, 2007-
• Steering Committee, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009-
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, “Origins of Christianity,” Fall 2008, 2009
• President, Alpha of Oklahoma Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, 2009-10
• Vice-President, Alpha of Oklahoma Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, 2008-9
• Classics Day lecturer, University of Oklahoma, November, 2007, 2008
• Greek Community Forum, Presentation, February, 2008
• OU Undergraduate Colloquium, Judge, April, 2008

Projects and Research

• From Shame to Sin:  Society and Sexual Ethics in Antiquity:  second monograph under preparation. 
• Archaeology:  Fall 2008-present, “Deciphering the Crisis”:  interdisciplinary investigation into the fall of the Roman empire focusing on scientific study of the Moselle Valley in the fifth century.

Papers and Presentations

• “The New Coordinates of the Slave Trade in Late Antiquity:  Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East,” to be delivered at the American Historical Association, January 2010
• “Climate and Economy in Late Antiquity:  The Eastern Mediterranean,” delivered at Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire, Dumbarton Oaks, April 2009
• “Shame and Sin:  A Contrast of Cultures in Late Roman Fiction,” University of Oklahoma, Medieval Brown-Bag Presentation; annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2009; Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VIII, Bloomington, IN, April 2009
• “Honor and Shame in the Talmud:  Echoes of Greek Romance in Avodah Zarah 18,” University of Oklahoma, Jewish Studies Program Brown-Bag Series, March 2009
• “Christianity and Classics,” University of Oklahoma, Department of Classics and Letters Board of Visitors, October 2008
• “The End of Ancient Slavery,” Washington and Lee University, May 2008, invited lecture
• “Greek Census Inscriptions:  Dating and Context,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2008.
• “How Christianity Did (and Didn’t) Change the Ancient World,” OU Greek Community Faculty Forum, February 26, 2008

Fellowships and Awards

• Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of Oklahoma, 2009
• Faculty Enrichment Grant, University of Oklahoma, 2008, 2009
• Small Grant, University of Oklahoma, 2008
• Whiting Foundation, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2006-7
• Dumbarton Oaks, Junior Fellowship, 2005-6
• Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2003,4,5
• Sosland Family Fellowship, Harvard University, 2001-2
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma, 2001
• Phillip Nolan Outstanding Letters Senior, University of Oklahoma, 2001
• Outstanding Classics Student, University of Oklahoma, 2000
• Phillips Foundation, Future Leaders Fellow, 2000
• Regents Scholar, University of Oklahoma, 1998-2001