Keith Hopkins

Morris Keith Hopkins (June 20 1934–March 8 2004) was a British historian and sociologist. He was professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2000.

Hopkins had a relatively unconventional route to the Cambridge professorship. After Brentwood School, he graduated in classics at King's College, Cambridge in 1958. He spent time as a graduate student, much influenced by Moses Finley, but left before completing his doctoratecite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1457002/Professor-Keith-Hopkins.html|title=Obituary in The Telegraph|year=2004] for an assistant lectureship in sociology at the University of Leicester (1961-63).

He returned to Cambridge as a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge (1963-67) while at the same time taking a lectureship at the London School of Economics, before spending two years as professor of sociology at Hong Kong University (1967-69) After a further two years at the LSE (1970-72), he moved to Brunel University as professor of sociology in 1972, also serving as dean of the social sciences faculty from 1981-85.

In 1985 he was elected to the Cambridge chair in ancient history.cite web|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,1180272,00.html|title=Obituary in The Guardian|date=2004]

Publications

*"Conquerors And Slaves" (1978)
*"Death And Renewal" (1983)
*"A World Full Of Gods" (1999)
*"Rome The Cosmopolis" (2002), a volume of essays written in honour of Keith Hopkins

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