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Robert Eugene Somerville (born 1940 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is the Ada Byron Bampton Tremain Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University New York. He has taught at Columbia since 1969 except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania (1976–1977)Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner at Yale University. He has published widely on the high medieval history of the papacy and of canon law.