Kyle Harper
Historian and classicist
Kyle Harper is an American historian and classicist at the University of Oklahoma. He wrote The Fate of Rome, on climate, disease and the end of the Roman Empire.
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American Born in Edmond, United States
About Kyle Harper
Kyle Harper is an American historian of the ancient world, with a focus on Rome. At the University of Oklahoma, his alma mater, he teaches as a professor of classics and letters and holds the Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. He was the university's provost from 2014 to 2020. He draws on the natural sciences when studying the past, and has examined how climate change and disease affected the course of civilization. The Fate of Rome first appeared in 2017 and has since been translated into 12 languages. Harper has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fractal Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.