Averil Cameron
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Prof. Dame Averil Millicent Cameron FSA FBA FRHistS |
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| Born |
8 February 1940 Leek, Shropshire, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Discipline |
Byzantine History Late Antiquity |
| Institutions | King's College London |
Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE,FBA FSA FRHistS (born 8 February 1940) is professor emerita 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) and Founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. At Oxford, she was Chair of the Conference of Colleges and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Chair of the Committee on the Sackler Library and the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees and sat on committees for Conflict of Interest, Select Preachers, the Bampton Lectures and the Wainwright Fund. She is the Chair of a number of academic institutions, including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council, the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England (1999–2005), and of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World.
Cameron has also acted as the President of multiple society including: The Ecclesiastical History Society (2005–06);Council for British Research in the Levant; The Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques (2009–2014);
Cameron holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Warwick,St Andrews,Aberdeen, Lund, the Queen's University of Belfast and London.
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