Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire with the Science of the Human Past
Michael McCormick
Monday, 22 Oct 2018 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Michael McCormick is the Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University, Director in Cambridge of the Max Planck - Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, and the founding chair of Harvard’s Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. The Initiative brings historians and archaeologists together with other scholars and scientists to apply the tools of 21st-century science and technology to the study of the human past. From using DNA analysis to rethink migration and human health history, to the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, to studying ice cores to assess human-climate interactions over two millennia, the Initiative’s cross-disciplinary work is breaking new ground.Michael McCormick has been at Harvard since 1991. Prior to that he served on the faculty in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.
Cosponsored By:
- Classical Studies
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology
- Economics
- Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
- History
- International Studies
- Office of the Vice President for Research
- Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
- University Library
- World Languages and Cultures
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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