Robert Knapp (classicist)


Robert C. Knapp is professor emeritus of classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Early life

Raised in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Knapp earned his B.A degree from Central Michigan University in 1968, majoring in history and Spanish. In 1973 he completed his PhD in ancient history at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, under Robert E. A. Palmer, was on the Roman experience in the Spanish peninsula, 218-100 B.C.

Career

Knapp worked for a short time in the classics department at Colby College and in the history department at the University of Utah. After that, he went to the classics department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He remained there until his retirement in 2006, eventually attaining the rank of professor. Besides teaching and doing research, he served in numerous administrative posts including as chairman of the classics department and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as dean in the College of Letters and Science, and chairman of the Berkeley faculty Senate.

Selected publications