Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin is an award-winning historian and the author of many books, including Byzantium, Ravenna, and The Formation of Christendom (all Princeton), which have been translated into many languages. She was the first Stanley J. Seeger Professor of Byzantine History at Princeton University and was awarded the Heineken Prize, the Dutch “Nobel,” for history. She is professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at King’s College London and an honorary citizen of Ravenna.