Christopher Kelly (historian)

Kelly studied history and law at the University of Sydney as an undergraduate.{{cite web |title=Master |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-corpus/people/master |website=Corpus Christi College |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=1 December 2018 |language=en |archive-date=16 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416215823/https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-corpus/people/master |url-status=dead }} In 1984 he and David Celermeyer (individual winner of the public speaking competition) represented the University of Sydney as champions at the World Universities Debating Championship in Edinburgh.{{cite web |title=About the World Universities Debating Championships |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/52302418/ABOUT-THE-WORLDS-UNIVERSITIES-DEBATING-CHAMPIONSHIPS |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }}{{cite web |title=World Debating Champions and Finalists |url=https://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2010/01/past-winners-of-world-debating.html |website=World Debating News |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }}

He came to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986, presided over the Cambridge Union in Easter term 1988

{{cite web |title=List of presidents of the Cambridge Union |url=https://www.martintod.org.uk/CambridgeUnionSocietyPresidents.html |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }} and within 7 years had earned a doctorate.Random House [http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/christopher-kelly author's biography] His doctoral thesis was titled "Corruption and bureaucracy in the later Roman Empire", and was submitted in 1993.{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Christopher Mark |title=Corruption and bureaucracy in the later Roman Empire |url=https://bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990077981100100000&context=L&vid=44BL_INST:BLL01&lang=en&search_scope=Not_BL_Suppress&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=any,contains,Corruption%20and%20bureaucracy%20in%20the%20later%20Roman%20Empire&offset=0 |accessdate=7 January 2025 |date=1993}}

Kelly is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.{{cite web |title=Professor Christopher Kelly |url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/christopher-kelly |website=Faculty of Classics |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=1 December 2018 |language=en}} He is a previous chairman of the faculty. From 2006 to 2008, he held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Kelly is married to Shawn Donnelley, an American philanthropist and great-great-granddaughter of R.R. Donnelley & Sons founder Richard Robert Donnelley.{{cite web |title=Donnelley announces run for Congress |url=https://www.dmnews.com/update-donnelley-announces-run-for-congress/ |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }} They met in Corpus Christi College in 2000 and married in Chicago in 2008.{{cite web |title=An overseas romance, from Chicago to Cambridge |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/03/01/michal-raz-russo-and-zev-salomon/ |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }} Donnelley founded and is President of Strategic Giving, a firm providing consultation on philanthropy;{{cite web |title=Shawn Donnelley, 39 |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/awards/shawn-donnelley |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }} she has numerous ties to Cambridge including being elected as Guild [of Benefactors] Fellow, reserved for Corpus Christi College's most generous supporters.{{cite web |title=Corpus Christi College Guild Fellows |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/community/guild-fellows |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }} The couple continues to donate generously to the College.{{cite web |title=Shawn Donnelley and Christopher Kelly donate new chalice and paten |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/shawn-donnelley-and-christopher-kelly-donate-new-chalice-and-paten |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }}{{cite web |title=Corpus Christi College Donor List 2021-2022 |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/the_record_no.101.pdf |accessdate=7 January 2025 |language=en }}

On 12 July 2017, he was elected Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.{{cite web |title=Corpus Christi College elects a new Master |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/corpus-christi-college-elects-new-master |website=Corpus Christi College |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=1 December 2018 |language=en |date=24 July 2017}} His term as Master began in Michaelmas 2018. His appointment follows his tenure as senior tutor in the early 2000s, when he was strongly criticised by some members of the student body for his policies,{{cite web|title=Old conflicts resurface as Corpus Christi appoints new Master|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/13369|website=Varsity|author=Elizabeth Howcroft}} and the college JCR threatened to refuse to acknowledge his plans to assign rooms based on exam results.{{cite web|title=Diary: Seeing red|work=The Times|author=Mark Inglefield|url=http://www.times-archive.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/04/timopndia01001.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010527181237/http://www.times-archive.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/04/timopndia01001.html|archivedate=2001-05-27}}

Kelly was editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society and Cambridge Classical Journal from 2000 to 2006. He is currently editor of the Journal of Roman Studies and President of the Cambridge Philological Society.

Kelly's first major work was Ruling the Later Roman Empire (2006). In The End of Empire (2009), characterized as a "semi-popular work",Edward Luttwak, "The Best and the Brightest," The New Republic (August 31, 2009), [http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/the-best-and-the-fastest# review] he took a revisionist view of Attila the Hun as a "thoughtful and effective political and military leader."Bryan Ward-Perkins, "The Decline and Fall Industry," Standpoint (September 2009) [http://standpointmag.com/node/2038/full features]

Kelly contributed to The Cambridge Ancient History and to Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar.Michael Kulikowski, [http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-02-12.html review] of Kelly's Ruling the Roman Empire, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (February 12, 2005) He is an occasional reviewer for publications such as London Review of Books,London Review of Books [http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/christopher-kelly contributor's note] Literary Review, and History Today.

• {{Cite book |last= |first= |title=Ruling the Later Roman Empire | isbn = 9780674022447 | year = 2006| url = https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674022447 | publisher = Harvard University Press}}
• {{Cite book |last= |first= |title=The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction | publisher =Oxford University Press | year = 2006 | series = Very Short Introductions | isbn = 97 80192803917| url =https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-roman-empire-a-very-short-introduction-9780192803917?cc=us&lang=en&}}
• {{Cite book |last= |first= |title=The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome | publisher = Norton | location =New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-0393338492}}
• As editor: {{Cite book |title= Unclassical Traditions |volume= I (Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity)|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
• As editor: {{cite book|title=Unclassical Traditions |volume=II (Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity) | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2011 | isbn = }}
• As editor: {{cite book|title=Thedosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.| publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2013 | isbn = }}
• As editor: {{cite book|title=Keith Hopkins: Sociological Studies in Roman History.| publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2018 | isbn = }}

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