Kate Cooper | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Washington, D.C., United States |
Occupations |
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Title | Professor of History |
Spouse | Conrad Leyser |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Concord and Martyrdom: Gender, Community, and the Uses of Christian Perfection in Late Antiquity (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Brown |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Late Roman society |
Institutions |
Kate Cooper FRHistS[1] (born 1960) is a professor of history and former head of the History Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, a role to which she was appointed in September 2017 and she stood down in 2019.[2] She was previously professor of ancient history and head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester, where she taught from 1995.[2]