Averil Cameron

Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA (born 8 February 1940) is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and was formerly the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, between 1994 and 2010.

She was previously Professor of Ancient History (1978–89) and Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (1989–94) at King's College London. At Oxford, she is Chair of the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees and also sits on committees for Conflict of Interest, Select Preachers, and the Wainwright Fund.

Her commitments beyond the University include:

• Chair, Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England (1999-2005)
• Chair, Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council
• Vice-Chair of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• President of the Ecclesiastical History Society
• President, Council for British Archaeology in the Levant
• President of the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques (since 2009)
• Chair, Prosopography of the Byzantine World (until 2005)

Personal life

Cameron was raised in Leek, Staffordshire, the only child of working class parents. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford.

Honours

• Honorary Doctorates in Letters from the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, Aberdeen and the Queen's University of Belfast
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
• Fellow of the British Academy
• Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society
• Fellow of King's College London

Selected bibliography

• Agathias (Clarendon Press 1970), ISBN 0-19-814352-4
• Procopius and the Sixth Century (Duckworth 1985), ISBN 0-7156-1510-7
• Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (University of California Press 1991), ISBN 0-520-07160-3
• The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (Fontana 1993), ISBN 0-00-686172-5
• The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-600 (Routledge 1993), ISBN 0-415-01420-4
• Images of Women in Antiquity (rev. ed., Routledge 1993), ISBN 0-415-09095-4 (ed. with Amélie Kuhrt)
• The Cambridge Ancient History:
  • Vol. 12: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337 (Cambridge University Press 2005), ISBN 0-521-30199-8 (2nd ed., ed. with Alan K. Bowman and Peter Garnsey)
  • Vol. 13: The Late Empire, AD 337-425 (Cambridge University Press 1998), ISBN 0-521-30200-5 (ed. with Peter Garnsey)
  • Vol. 14: Late Antiquity: Empires and Successors, AD 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000), ISBN 0-521-32591-9 (ed. with Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby)
• The Byzantines (Blackwell 2006), ISBN 0-631-20262-5
• Dialoguing in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014)