Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin (born 1942) is a British archaeologist and academic of Late Antiquity. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at King's College London (now emeritus).

Herrin was educated at Bedales School, after which she studied history at the University of Cambridge, and undertook her PhD at the University of Birmingham. She trained in Paris and Munich.

Herrin worked as an archaeologist with the British School at Athens and on the site of Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul as a Dumbarton Oaks fellow. Between 1991 and 1995, she was Stanley J. Seeger Professor in Byzantine History, Princeton University. She was appointed Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London in 1995. She retired from the post in 2008, becoming Professor Emerita. She was president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies from 2011 to 2012.

In 2016 she won the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History.

...
Wikipedia