Dr Anna Kelley

Dr Anna Kelley

Lecturer in Ancient History

Researcher profile

Email
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

  • Farisha Dannels
  • Shannon Mcmillan

Selected publications

 

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