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Averil Cameron (Averil Millicent Sutton) was born on 8 February, 1940 in Leek, Staffordshire, England, is an English historian of late antiquity (born 1940). Discover Averil Cameron's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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1940

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.

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.

1957

The medal was awarded for the first time in 1957.

1960

She read literae humaniores at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded the Edwards Scholarship in 1960 and the Rosa Hovey Scholarship in 1962.

1962

From 1962 to 1980, she was married to Alan Cameron (1938–2017), a classical scholar.

Together they had a son and a daughter.

1965

From 1965 to 1994, Cameron taught at King's College, London.

1968

She began as an Assistant Lecturer, before being promoted to Lecturer in 1968 and to Reader in Ancient History in 1970.

1970

Her early monographs, Agathias (1970) and Procopius and the Sixth Century (1985) were accompanied by a number of influential edited collections, including Images of Women in Antiquity, edited jointly with Amélie Kuhrt (1983), and History as Text (1989).

1978

She was Professor of Ancient History from 1978 to 1989, and Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from 1989 to 1994.

1985

Cameron was Editor of the Journal of Roman Studies from 1985 to 1990 and has served as Chair of a number of academic institutions, including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council.

She also chaired the project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine World at King's College London.

1989

She was Founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at KCL, serving from 1989 to 1994.

1990

Her work Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (1990) originated as the Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley.

With this work Cameron sparked a scholarly conversation about "the power of discourse in society" in later antiquity, seeking to understand "how Christianity was able to develop a totalizing discourse'" (the phrase itself is borrowed from the work of Michel Foucault).

Cameron holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Lund, London, and Queen's University Belfast, as well as a DLitt.

from Oxford.

1994

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.

In 1994 she was elected Warden of Keble College, Oxford, where she served as Chair of the Conference of Colleges and as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Chair of Committees relating to the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (then the Sackler Library), to the St Cross Building, to Honorary Degrees, Select Preachers, to the Bampton Lectures and to the Wainwright Fund, and was a member of the committee on conflict of interest.

L. J. Archer, S. Fischler and M. Wyke (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), 152–68, with an afterword, in ''The Religious History of the Roman Empire.

Pagans, Jews and Christians'', ed.

1999

Cameron was Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and chaired the Review of the Royal Peculiars (1999, Report published 2001).

She became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1999 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 2006.

Cameron is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Institute of Classical Studies, London King's College, London, and the Royal Historical Society.

2005

Cameron has also acted as the President of academic societies including: the Ecclesiastical History Society (2005–2006), the Council for British Research in the Levant, and the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (2009–2014).

2007

In 2007, a Festschrift edited by Hagit Amirav and Bas ter Haar Romeny, From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron (Leuven: Peeters), was published in Cameron's honour.

2011

J.A. North and S.R.F. Price (Oxford readings in Classical Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 505–30, and 'Byzantium and the limits of Orthodoxy', Raleigh Lecture on History, (Proceedings of the British Academy 154 2008), 139–52.

2013

Recent articles include 'The Cost of Orthodoxy', Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 93 (2013) 339–61, and 'Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire', repr.

from Women in Ancient Societies, ed.

2017

Cameron is the second woman to receive the award, after Joyce Reynolds (2017).

2018

In 2018, she became President of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (2018–2023).

Cameron's early articles explored early Byzantine and medieval writers including Agathias, Corippus, Procopius, and Gregory of Tours from literary and historical perspectives.

2020

In 2020, Cameron was awarded the British Academy Kenyon Medal for her lifetime contribution to Byzantine Studies.