Guest
Kate Cooper
Dr. Kate Cooper is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She received her PhD from Princeton after degrees from Wesleyan and Harvard. She writes on late antique Christianity, women and the Roman household, religious conflict, and martyrdom. Her books include Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, The Fall of the Roman Household, and her forthcoming Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions. She often provides expert commentary for the BBC, CNN, and National Geographic.