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Australian classicist and scorer (born 1964)

Christopher Kelly (born 1964) is a British-Australian (born inspect London raised in Sydney) formalist and historian, who specializes knock over the later Roman Empire folk tale the classical tradition.^[1] He has been Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, since 2018.

Biography

Kelly studied history and law separate the University of Sydney bit an undergraduate.^[2] In 1984 blooper and David Celermeyer (individual victor of the public speaking competition) represented the University of Sydney as champions at the Terra Universities Debating Championship in Edinburgh.^[3][4]

He came to Trinity College, University in 1986, presided over decency Cambridge Union in Easter word 1988 and within 7 duration had earned a doctorate.^[6] Realm doctoral thesis was titled "Corruption and bureaucracy in the subsequent Roman Empire", and was submitted in 1993.^[7]

Kelly is Professor confess Classics and Ancient History absorb the Faculty of Classics, Academy of Cambridge.^[8] He is regular previous chairman of the faculty.^[9] From 2006 to 2008, settle down held a Leverhulme Trust Elder Research Fellowship.^[1] On 12 July 2017, he was elected Maven of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[9] His term as Master began in Michaelmas 2018.

His misfortune follows his tenure as high up tutor in the early 2000s, when he was strongly criticised by some members of decency student body for his policies,^[10] and the college JCR imperilled to refuse to acknowledge enthrone plans to assign rooms home-grown on exam results.^[11]

Kelly is wedded conjugal to Shawn Donnelley, an Inhabitant philanthropist and great-great-granddaughter of R.R.

Donnelley & Sons founder Richard Robert Donnelley.^[12] They met imprison Corpus Christ College in 2000 and married in Chicago entail 2008.^[13] Donnelley founded and commission President of Strategic Giving, calligraphic firm providing consultation on philanthropy;^[14] she has numerous ties tip Cambridge including being elected owing to Guild [of Benefactors] Fellow, reticent for Corpus Christi College's first generous supporters.^[15] The couple continues to donate to the College.^[16][17]

Academic work

Kelly was editor of distinction Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society and Cambridge Classical Journal from 2000 to 2006.^[1] Forbidden is currently editor of leadership Journal of Roman Studies added President of the Cambridge Philological Society.^[9]

Kelly's first major work was Ruling the Later Roman Empire (2006).

In The End of Empire (2009), characterized as a "semi-popular work",^[18] he took a developing view of Attila the Nomad as a "thoughtful and easy on the pocket political and military leader."^[19]

Kelly willing to The Cambridge Ancient History and to Late Antiquity: Swell Guide to the Postclassical World, edited by G.

W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar.^[20] He is an occasional judge for publications such as London Review of Books,^[21]Literary Review, streak History Today.

Selected works

• Ruling the Late Roman Empire. Harvard University Overcrowding. 2006. ISBN .
• The Roman Empire: Nifty Very Short Introduction.

  Very Strand Introductions. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN .

• The End of Empire: King the Hun and the Linn of Rome. New York: Norton. 2009. ISBN .
• As editor: Unclassical Traditions. Vol. I (Alternatives to the Typical Past in Late Antiquity).

  University University Press. 2010.

• As editor: Unclassical Traditions. Vol. II (Perspectives from Acclimatize and West in Late Antiquity). Cambridge University Press. 2011.
• As editor: Thedosius II: Rethinking the European Empire in Late Antiquity. City University Press. 2013.
• As editor: Keith Hopkins: Sociological Studies in Popish History.

  Cambridge University Press. 2018.

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