Emeritus staff
Professor Judith Herrin
Professor Emerita, Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow & Fellow of King’s College London
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2330
Email judith.herrin@kcl.ac.uk
Address Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
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London WC2R 2LS
Research interests
Judith Herrin's current research interests include women in Byzantium, Byzantium in relation to Islam and the West, and a history of the city of Ravenna in Late Antiquity. She is best known for her books, The Formation of Christendom (London 1989), Women in Purple (London, 2000), and Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (London, 2007); she has also published widely on Byzantine archaeology and other fields.
Professor Judith Herrin's Research Gateway profile (includes full list of publications).
Biography
Judith Herrin studied history at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, receiving her doctorate from the latter; she has also worked in Athens, Paris and Munich, and held the post of Stanley J. Seeger Professor in Byzantine History, Princeton University before taking up her appointment as the second Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's. Upon her retirement in 2008 she became a Research Fellow in the Department. In 2002 she was awarded the Golden Cross of Honour by the President of the Hellenic Republic of Greece.
Further activities
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Member and Vice Chairman of the Editorial Board, Past & Present
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Member of the Governing Board of the Warburg Institute , London University (1995-2001)
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University of London appointed Governor of Camden School for Girls (1995-2002)
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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Fellow of King's College London
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Member, British Academy Committee for the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
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Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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Member of the Advisory Board of the international Byzantine periodical, Symmeikta
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Member of the Honorary Board of Euro-Clio, the European Association of History Educators
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Member, Publications Board, British School of Archaeology at Athens
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Member, Committee for Society, Arts and Letters, British School of Archaeology at Athen