Dame Averil Cameron FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1981
- Year of death
- 2026
- Honours
- DBE, CBE
- Subjects
- Classics, Medieval studies
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Medieval Studies
Summary
Averil Cameron read Greats at Somerville College, Oxford and taught ancient history and subsequently Byzantine studies at King's College London until becoming Warden of Keble College, Oxford. She has been Editor of JRS, President of the Roman Society, Chair of the Society for Byzantine Studies and President of FIEC. She has been the President of the Council for British Research in the Levant since 2004.
Her research interests have covered the Roman empire, and historiography, but more recently she has specialised in Byzantine history. Recent research interests include Byzantium and early Islam and the dialogue form in Byzantium.
Last post
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Aldershot President
2017 - 2022
Council for British Research in the Levant President
2004 -
Past appointments
Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford Leverhume Emeritus Fellowship
2011 - 2013
Keble College, Oxford Warden
1994 - 2010
King's College London Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
1989 - 1994
King's College London Professor of Ancient History
1978 - 1989
Publications
Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Averil Cameron - Published in 2016 by Central European University Press
Christianity and the rhetoric of empire
Averil Cameron - Published in 1991 by University of California Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Stephen Oakley FBA
Latin literature and Roman history; Livy, the transmissions and textual traditions of Latin authors, and the topography of pre-Roman Italy
Professor Cyprian Broodbank FBA
Comparative world archaeology and deep history; the archaeology of the Mediterranean; Aegean prehistory; the archaeology of islands; the emergence of connectivity, particularly maritime; landscape archaeology
