Dr Andrew Gillett
BA Qld, MA Tor., PhD Tor.
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Australian Research Council
Queen Elisabeth II Research Fellow Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 9966 |
Profile
Dr Andrew Gillett is an Australian Research Council Queen Elisabeth II Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities (2004-2009). He has a BA (Hons) in History (1986; Australian Social History and Modern European History) from the University of Queensland, and MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto (1989, 1994). He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, and at Macquarie. At Macquarie, he has previously held a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (1996-1998), an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2002), and a Lectureship in Late Antiquity (2003-2004).
His field of research and teaching is Late Antiquity, the intersection between the Ancient World (of classical Greece, Rome, and Persia) and the Medieval/early Modern period (of western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam), with emphasis on western Europe from the fourth to the sixth centuries. He is particularly interested in the role of communication in public life, and how the period has been constructed in modern historical thought. His two current research projects concern:
- Communication and Media in the Post-Imperial World: examines the nature and function of dossiers of diplomatic communication throughout the early medieval West and Byzantium, compiled in the sixth and seventh centuries
- Understanding the Barbarian in Late Antiquity: examines the traditions of classical ethnography in Late Antiquity, their influence on sixth-century sources, and how they have shaped modern constructs of the period.
External Appointments and Boards
Australian Research Council International Expert Assessor
Australian Association for Byzantine Studies: Committee member and Newsletter Editor
University Appointments
University Research Grants Committee
Division of Humanities Research Committee
External Awards and Grants
2006: Yale University Visiting Research Fellow (September-October)
2004-2009: Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow:
“Communication and Media in the Development of the Post-Roman/Early
Medieval and Byzantine World (fifth to eighth centuries)”
1998-2002: Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow, Macquarie
University:
“Religious and Ethnic Conflict in the Late Antique West
1998: Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Short-term Membership of the Common Room
1997: Australian Research Council Small Grant:
“Post-imperial diplomatic communication in the late Roman West and
early medieval Europe from the fifth to seventh centuries”
1996-1998: Macquarie University Research Fellowship
1995: Australian Academy for the Humanities Research Grant
1995: Canadian Association of Graduate Studies/Association canadienne pour
les études avancées and University Microfilms International
“Distinguished Dissertation Award”
(inaugural award of national, biennial prize for best doctoral thesis in
Humanities and Social Sciences)
1989-1994: Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan award (PhD)
1988-1989: Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan award (MA)
1986: First-Class Honours (History), University of Queensland
Selected Publications
Book: Sole Authored
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, series 4, no. 55 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 2003; ISBN 0521-81349-2)
Book: Edited
On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Medieval West, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 4 (University of York/Brepols, Turnhout, 2002; ISBN 2-503-51168-6) (by invitation)
Articles
(forthcoming)
“The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now,”
forthcoming in Philip Rousseau (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Late
Antiquity (Blackwell, Oxford; forthcoming 2006) (by invitation)
(forthcoming)
“The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes,” forthcoming in Byzantine
Narrative: Essays in Honour of Roger Scott, Byzantinia Australiensia
(Melbourne; forthcoming 2006)
“Ethnogenesis: A Contested Model of Early Medieval Europe,”
History Compass (Oxford) 4 (2006) EU 311, pp. 1-20
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/hico/4/2
(by invitation)
“Introduction: The Barbarian: The Alien in Antiquity,” Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 34:1 Special Issue: The Barbarian in Antiquity (2004 [2005]) 1-9 (by invitation)
“History, Ethnicity, and Methodology,” in On Barbarian Identity (above) 1-18
“Was Ethnicity Politicized in the Earliest Medieval Kingdoms?” in On Barbarian Identity (above) 85-121
“Rome, Ravenna, and the Last Western Emperors,” Papers of the British School at Rome (Oxford) 69 (2001) 131-167 (by invitation)
“Jordanes and Ablabius,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X, ed. Carl Deroux, Collection Latomus 254 (Brussels 2000) 479-500
“The Accession of Euric,” Francia (Paris) 26/1 (1999) 1-40
“The Purposes of Cassiodorus's Variae,” in After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History, ed. Alexander C. Murray (University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1998) 37-50 (by invitation)
“The Birth of Ricimer,” Historia (Tübingen) 44 (1995) 380-384
“The Date and Circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes,” Traditio (New York) (1993) 1-29
Teaching Websites
AHST104: Antiquity’s Heirs: Barbarian Europe, Byzantium, and Islam
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHST104/
AHST233/333: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHST233/
Teaching staff contact details:
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHST233/staff.htm
Other Links
Postgraduate and Beyond:
http://www.postgradandbeyond.mq.edu.au/enewsletter/05-humanities/issue_6_stories/story4.htm
Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Ancient History Documentary Research Centre:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/ahdrc.html
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/