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Incoming Member

Thomas Kelly

Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Chinese Literature
Thomas Kelly is a scholar of late imperial Chinese literature with related research interests in the history of writing, material culture, and premodern media studies. While at IAS, he will be working on a project that examines the literary history of ephemera in early modern China.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Spring

Degrees

University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2017

Honors

2017–19
Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows

Appointments

Harvard University
2019
Assistant Professor