Edward Kennard Rand

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Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945) was an American classicist and medievalist. He was educated at Harvard (B.S. 1894) and the University of Munich (Ph.D. 1900), and he taught at Harvard (1901–1942), where he was Pope Professor of Latin (1931–1942). Rand founded the Medieval Academy of America (1925) and the journal Speculum. At Dumbarton Oaks, Rand was a Senior Fellow (1943–1944) and a Research Scholar (1944–1945) in Byzantine Studies. In 1943–1944, the general Byzantine Studies research program was under the Direction of Rand and George La Piana. https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/dumbarton-oaks-archives/collections/historical-papers/edward-kennard-rand-papers accessed 8/29/2017