Alice Rio

Alice Rio
Born
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleChichele Professor of Medieval History
AwardsGladstone Book Prize (2009)
Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010)
Academic background
Alma materKing's College London
ThesisFrankish legal formularies, c. 500–1000 (2006)
Doctoral advisorJanet Nelson
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsNew College, Oxford
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
King's College London
All Souls College, Oxford

Alice Rio FRHistS is a French historian of early medieval Europe. She is currently Professor of Medieval History at King's College London, and in October 2025 will take up the Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. She is currently co-editor, with Matthew Kelly, of the journal Past & Present.