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Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA (born February 8, 1940), is Warden of Keble College, Oxford, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
She was previously Professor of Ancient History (1978-1989) and Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (1989-1994), 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. She is a member of the Council of the University.
Her commitments beyond the University include Chair of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and of the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council, Vice-Chair of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, President of the Ecclesiastical History Society and of the Council for British Archaeology in the Levant, and Vice-President of the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques.
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[edit] 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
