Dr Anna Kelley
Lecturer in Ancient History
- ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- S8
- Location
- Swallowgate
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 St Andrews 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
- Jana Mauri Marlborough
- Shannon Mcmillan
Selected publications
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(Re)using Byzantine textiles: adapting and reinventing material identities through the connected Mediterranean, seventh–twelfth centuries
Kelley, A. C., 24 Nov 2024, Travelling matters: rereading, reshaping, reusing objects across the Mediterranean. Falcucci, B., Giusti, E. & Trentacoste, D. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 39-71 33 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Open access
Building women's social capital in late antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators
Kelley, A. C., Apr 2024, In: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 48, 1, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Identity and Forced Labour in the Imperial Textile Workshops, 4th-10th Centuries
Kelley, A. C., 10 Mar 2024, In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. 73, p. 57 87 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Searching for professional women in the mid to late Roman textile industry
Kelley, A., 1 Feb 2023, In: Past & Present. 258, 1, p. 3-43 41 p., gtac007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Byzantium from below: the archive of David Talbot Rice and the unearthing of Constantinople
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
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Movement and mobility: cotton and the visibility of trade networks across the Saharan Desert
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
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By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean
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