Fellow 2023/2024 Kate Cooper
Fellowship Term 04/2024 – 06/2024
Ancient Historian Kate Cooper is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She previously taught at the University of Manchester (1995-2017) and Barnard College, Columbia University (1992-94), and was educated at Princeton University (Ph. D. 1993), Harvard University (M. T. S. 1986), and Wesleyan University (B. A. 1982).
Her books include Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women (London: Atlantic Books, 2013), The Fall of the Roman Household (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Virgin and The Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996), and the forthcoming Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions (New York and London: Basic Books, 2023).
Previous grants, awards, and prizes include the Shelby Cullom Davis Fellowship (2020-21), the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2012-15), the Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties Fellowship (2009-12), and the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome.
