Kenneth Harl Biography

Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D. Professor of Classical and Byzantine History, Tulane University Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he has taught since 1978. He earned his B.A. from Trinity College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Professor Harl teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history from freshman to graduate levels. A recognized scholar of coins and of classical Anatolia, he takes Tulane students on excursions to Turkey, sometimes as assistants on excavations of Hellenistic and Roman sites. Professor Harl has published numerous articles and is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180–275 and Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700. His current work includes publishing on the coins from the excavation of Gordion, and a new book on Rome and her Iranian foes. He has received numerous teaching awards at Tulane, including, twice, the coveted Sheldon H. Hackney Award (voted by both faculty and students). Professor Harl is also the recipient of Baylor University’s nationwide Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers. In 2007, he was the Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor in History at Wofford College. Professor Harl is also a fellow and trustee of the American Numismatic Society.