Lawrence Okamura

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984
area: Ancient, Late antiquity, Roman frontier history
office: 213 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-8365
email: okamural@missouri.edu

B.A. Pomona College, Claremont, California
M.A. University of Chicago
Seminar fur Alte Geschichte & Seminar fur Provinzial-Romische Archaeologie (Universitat Freiburg)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1984

Professor Okamura is a member of the graduate Ancient Studies Committee (Departments of Anthropology; Art History/Archaeology; Classical Studies; History; Philosophy; Religious Studies), and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Roman history, as well as humanities courses (ancient world) in the Honors College.

Dr. Okamura's committment to his students has resulted in his being singled out among his MU peers for a 2003 William T. Kemper Award. The award carries a generous stipend for excellence in teaching. Only 10 Kemper awards are announced each year.

In addition, this year, Dr. Okamura was honored to be selected by President Bush to serve as a council member for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

His interests include imperial Roman history; political anthropology, and Roman law and comparative Chinese/Roman frontiers. He has done fieldwork on Roman sites in Austria, England, Germany, Jordon, and Yugoslavia.

His present research project is warlords and barbarians in the late Roman Rhineland and Danube.

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Professor Okamura