Kyle Harper

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D., History, June 2007

Dissertation: “Slavery in the Late Ancient Mediterranean”

Dissertation Committee: Professor Michael McCormick, Professor Christopher Jones, Professor Brent Shaw (Princeton University)

Examination fields:

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Medieval Europe
• Modern Intellectual History

Harvard University, A.M., History, June 2003

University of Oklahoma, B.A., Letters, summa cum laude, May 2001

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2007-

Fellowships and Awards

• Whiting Foundation, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2006-7
• Dumbarton Oaks, Junior Fellowship, 2005-6
• Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (3), 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

Projects, Activities, Academic Research

• Founder, Student Coordinator, Religions and Cultures in Mediterranean Antiquity, Ford Foundation Workshop, Harvard University, 2004-5.
• Archaeology:  Fall 2006-ongoing, Snellegem, West Flanders, Geomagnetic prospection, directed by Joachim Henning (J. W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) and Michael McCormick
• Archaeology:  Summer 2004, Butrint, Albania:  Diaporit and Vrina Plain Excavation, The Butrint Foundation, directed by Richard Hodges
• Archaeology:  Summer 2003, NE Palatino Pendici, Excavation, Università di Roma La Sapienza, directed by Clementina Panella
• Summer Epigraphy School, Center for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford University, Summer, 2004.
• “Universal Citizenship and the Law of Slavery,” Paper delivered to Religions and Cultures in Mediterranean Antiquity Workshop, Spring, 2004
• “Roman Law and Greek Manumission in Late Antiquity,” Graduate Seminar on Greek Epigraphy, Research Paper, Spring, 2004
• “Sex, Slavery, and Law in the Theodosian Code,” Graduate Seminar Research Paper, Fall, 2003
• “The Pilgrim Egeria:  Early Eastern Monasticism through Western Eyes,” Graduate Seminar Research Paper, Spring, 2003
• Consultant, Translator.  New Testament Language Project, Cambridge, MA.  2005-present.

Teaching Experience

• “Introduction to Latin” = LAT 1115, Fall 2007
• “Slavery in Greek and Roman Antiquity” Fall 2007
•  “The Christian Revolution” Spring 2005
  • With Professor Christopher Jones.  Head Teaching Fellow.*
• “Medieval Europe” Spring 2004
  • With Professor Michael McCormick.  Head Teaching Fellow.*
• “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures” Fall 2003, Fall 2004
  • Teaching Fellow, 3 sections each semester.*
• Junior Research Tutorial, Spring 2004, Fall 2004
  • Tutor for junior-year History concentrators, research training
• “The World of Socrates”  University of Oklahoma, Summer 2003
  • Instructor.  Designed and taught this Honors-level course.
• Senior Thesis Adviser, 2006-7

* Awarded a Derek Bok Center for Teaching, “Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.”

Language Training

• Latin
• Ancient Greek
• Italian
• German
• French
• Arabic