Peter John Heather#
| Membership Number: | 7164 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/peter-heather |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 Interim Head of History, King's College London
- 2017 - present Vice Dean, King’s Doctoral College
- 2011 - 2013 Director of the AHRC BGP 2 Strategy, King’s College London
- 2008 - 2011 Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Arts & Humanities
- 2008 Professor of Medieval European History, King’s College, London
- 2006 - 2008 Director of Graduate Studies for the History Faculty, University of Oxford
- 2002 - 2008 Tutor & Fellow in Modern History, Worcester College, Oxford
- 1997 - 2002 Reader in Early Medieval History at UCL
- 1991 - 1997 Lecturer (temporary, then A, then B ) in Early Medieval History at University College London
- 1987 - 1991 Murray Research Fellow in History at Worcester College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolution of Christianity c.200-1200 AD
- Late Roman Empire
- Successor states to the Roman Empire
- Early Medieval European history
- Migration patterns using new DNA techniques
- Late Roman and medieval legal systems
- Barbarian hordes
