JASON M. KELLY

Assistant Professor of History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies
Visiting Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

B.A. Penn State University (1997), Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara (2004).

Teaching Specialties: eighteenth-century Britain, history of archaeology, comparative imperialisms, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory.

Research: Dr. Kelly has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment: The Society of Dilettanti, 1732-1816.  His recent articles include "The Portraits of Sir James Gray, Bt." and "James 'Athenian' Stuart's Portrait of James Dawkins" for The British Art Journal and "Riots, Revelry, and Rumor: Libertinism and Masculine Association in Enlightenment London" for the Journal of British Studies.

He edited Looking Up: Science and Observation in Early Modern Europe (Legas and the Center for Communication and Information Sciences, 2002) and has published articles in The American Journal of Semiotics and the Journal of German Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. His other publications include entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2006), the Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500-1960 (Thoemmes Press, 2004), and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of World History (ABC-CLIO).

He is the co-editor for Britain and Ireland in the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Blackwell, forthcoming 2009).  His current research is a study of Sir Francis Dashwood and the Monks of Medmenham Abbey.

Service: Dr. Kelly serves on the Council of the North American Conference on British Studies. He is co-editor of H-Albion. On campus, he is the Advisor to the IUPUI Campus Democrats, and in the community, he serves on the Board of Directors at the Martin Luther King Center.

Office: CA 504B
Phone: (317) 274-1689
jaskelly@iupui.edu