Averil Cameron

Dame Averil Millicent Cameron ( Sutton; born 8 February 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She writes on Late Antiquity, Classics, and Byzantine Studies. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, between 1994 and 2010. Early life Cameron was born on 8 February 1940 in Leek, Staffordshire. She was the only child of working-class parents, Tom Roy Sutton and Millicent ( Drew) Sutton. She read literae humaniores at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded the Edwards Scholarship in 1960 and the Rosa Hovey Scholarship in 1962. From 1962 to 1980, she was married to Alan Cameron (1938–2017), a classical scholar. Together they had a son and a daughter. Career From 1965 to 1994, Cameron taught at King's College, London. She began as an Assistant Lecturer, before being promoted to Lecturer in 1968 and to Reader in Ancient History in 1970. She was Professor of Ancient History from 1978 to 1989, and Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from 1989 to 1994. She was Founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at KCL, serving from 1989 to 1994.