Kate Cooper

Professor
Kate Cooper
FRHistS
Professor Kate Cooper FRHistS
Born	1960 (age 65–66); Washington, D.C., United States
Occupations	Lecturer; Classical scholar;
Title	Professor of History
Spouse	Conrad Leyser
Children	2
Academic background
Alma mater	Wesleyan University; Harvard University; Princeton University;
Thesis	Concord and Martyrdom: Gender, Community, and the Uses of Christian Perfection in Late Antiquity (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Brown
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Late Roman society
Institutions	University of Manchester; Royal Holloway, University of London;

Kate Cooper FRHistS (born 1960) is a professor of history and former head of the History Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, a role to which she was appointed in September 2017 and she stood down in 2019. She was previously professor of ancient history and head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester, where she taught from 1995.