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Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters, and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of the new book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.

Latest articles by Kyle Harper

The Big Idea
6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire
The Big Idea

New scholarship on Rome reminds us of the fragility of human societies in the face of nature.

By Kyle Harper