Robert A. Kaster (born 1948) is an American classicist and retired academic.
Born in 1948, Robert A. Kaster graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969, then secured an MA and a PhD from Harvard University (in 1971 and 1975 respectively).
[1] Kaster was a teaching fellow in classics at Harvard from 1972 to 1973, then an instructor at Colby College until 1974.
He joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1975 as an assistant professor; promoted to associate professor in 1982 and a full professorship in 1989, Kaster was appointed Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at Chicago in 1996.
He retired in 2018, and remains an emeritus professor at Princeton as of 2024.