Dr Anna Kelley

Dr Anna Kelley

Lecturer in Ancient History

Email
ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
S8
Location
Swallowgate

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Biography

I received my BA from Wesleyan University with a double major in Archaeology and English Literature in 2008. After working in the private sector for several years, I received a MA in Archaeology and Art History at the School or Oriental and African Studies, University of London, followed by a MLitt in Art History and Art Business Practice at the University of Glasgow through Christie's Auction House. I then began my PhD at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies where I examined the presence of exchange networks in Africa and the Middle East through the diffusion of cotton as a commodity in the first millennium.

During the final year of my PhD I held a year-long Scouloudi Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London. I was then accepted as a Junior Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections in Washington, DC. I came to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2019 as a posdoctoral researcher in the School of History, and joined the School of Classics as a Lecturer in Ancient History in 2023.

My core research interests focus on exchange networks in Late Antiquity (particularly in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean), changes in production processes, gender and labour organisation, and the environmental history of desert landscapes.

PhD supervision

  • FarishaÌýDannels
  • ShannonÌýMcmillan

Selected publications

  • Kelley, A. C. (Editor) & Vanni, F. (Editor), 20 Jan 2025, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 354 p. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Kelley, A. C. & Vanni, F., 20 Jan 2025, Approaching social hierarchies in Byzantium: dialogues between rich and poor. Kelley, A. C. & Vanni, F. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 3-19 17 p. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Kelley, A. C., 20 Jan 2025, Approaching social hierarchies in Byzantium: dialogues between rich and poor. Kelley, A. C. & Vanni, F. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 147-174 28 p. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Kelley, A. C., 24 Nov 2024, Travelling matters across the Mediterranean: rereading, reshaping, reusing objects (10th-20th centuries. Falcucci, B., Giusti, E. & Trentacoste, D. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 39-71 33 p. (Histories in motion; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Kelley, A. C., Apr 2024, In: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 48, 1, 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Kelley, A. C., 10 Mar 2024, In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. 73, p. 57 87 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Kelley, A., 1 Feb 2023, In: Past & Present. 258, 1, p. 3-43 41 p., gtac007.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Kelley, A. C., Brubaker, L. & Reynolds, D., 1 Aug 2022, Discovering Byzantium in Istanbul: scholars, institutions, and challenges, 1800-1955. Delouis, O. & Pitarakis, B. (eds.). Istanbul: Istanbul Research Institute, p. 278-300 13 p. (Istanbul Research Institution Publications; vol. 48)(Symposium series; vol. 3).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Kelley, A. C., 29 Jul 2022, Global Byzantium: papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Brubaker, L., Darley, R. & Reynolds, D. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 138-154 17 p. (Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)); vol. 24).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Kelley, A. C., 7 Nov 2019, Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds. Ivanova, M. & Jeffery, H. (eds.). Brill, p. 274-297 23 p. (The Medieval Mediterranean; vol. 118).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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