Rate My Professor Hamish Cameron

Dr. Hamish Cameron serves as Senior Lecturer in Classics within the School of Languages and Cultures at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Classics from the University of Southern California, a Master of Arts from the University of Canterbury, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the same institution. Currently on research leave until July 2026, Cameron's academic interests center on the history and geography of the Roman Near East, ideological representations of imperialism in classical literature, and the reception of ancient world ideas in modern analog and digital games. He coordinates postgraduate studies in Classical Studies, co-supervises PhD dissertations, and contributes to the VUW Game Studies Lab and Visual Narrative Lab.

Cameron's scholarly output includes the monograph Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland (Brill, 2019), which analyzes Roman literary depictions of the Mesopotamian borderland as a contested inter-imperial space. Notable publications also encompass 'The Parthian Empire' (2024), 'Caravan Cities in the Roman Near East' (2022), 'Imagining Classics: Towards A Pedagogy of Gaming Reception' (2022), 'Shadowrun (Case Study)' (2019), and 'The presentation of migration and mobility in Strabo’s Mesopotamia' (2018). He has produced two tabletop roleplaying games and presented at conferences such as the Antiquity in Media Studies annual meeting and the Australian Society for Classical Studies. Cameron teaches courses including CLAS 106: Ancient Civilisations – The Greeks and the Romans, and engages in professional activities related to classical reception and historical game studies.