Robert C. Knapp (February 12, 1946–September 17, 2023)[1] was an author, historian, and professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1973 he completed his PhD in ancient history at the University of Pennsylvania.
His dissertation, under Robert E. A. Palmer, was on the Roman experience in the Spanish peninsula, 218-100 B.C.
He remained there until his retirement in 2006, eventually attaining the rank of professor.
Besides teaching and doing research, he served in numerous administrative posts including as chairman of the classics department and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as dean in the College of Letters and Science, and chairman of the Berkeley faculty Senate.