Jill Diana Harries is Professor Emerita in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.
[1] Jill Harries studied Literae Humaniores at Somerville College, Oxford (1969–73) and completed her PhD in 1981.
[1] Known for her work on late antiquity, Harries has been invited to deliver a number of key lectures at international conferences, including the 2003 lecture Violence, Victims, and the Roman Legal Tradition at the Violence, Victims, and Vindication in Late Antiquity conference at University of California, Santa Barbara,[5][6] and the 2014 public lecture East versus West: Sidonius, Anthemius, and the Empire of the Dawn at the Edinburgh University conference, Sidonius, his words, and his world: an international conference.
[8] Harries' book on Sidonius Apollinaris was the first in English since the 1930s and sought to embed his biography firmly in the history of 5th century Gaul.
[17] Harries contributed to the 2001 episode on Attila the Hun for the documentary series The Most Evil Men and Women in History.