Samantha Kelly
Department of History
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick NJ 08901
samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

EMPLOYMENT

2012-            Rutgers University. Full Professor.
2008-11        Rutgers University. Director, Program in Medieval Studies
2005- 2012   Rutgers University. Associate Professor.
1999-2005    Rutgers University. Assistant Professor.
1998-99        Rice University (Houston, TX). Lecturer in the Department of History.

EDUCATION

1993-98    Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). Ph.D in Medieval European History; Minor in Classical Islamic History. Thesis director: Robert E. Lerner.
1990-92    Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). Post-baccalaureate coursework in ancient and medieval history and Latin.
1985-89    Yale University (New Haven, CT). BA in American Studies, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in the Major.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Rutgers Research Council Grant (for Ge’ez manuscript study)

2011        Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship (taken 2012-13)
2010        Rutgers Research Council Grant (Amharic language training)
2008        American Academy in Rome (Rome, Italy). Visiting Scholar. July.
2003-4    Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies (Florence, Italy). Francesco de Dombrowski Fellowship, July-June.
1999        École Française de Rome (Rome, Italy). One-month residential research grant, June.
1998-99    Rice University (Houston, TX). Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Cultures, July-June.
1998        Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Travel grant to medieval law conference (Erice, Italy), October.
1997-98    Istituto Italiano di Studi Storici (Naples, Italy). Federico Chabod International Fellowship, November-May.
1997        École Française de Rome (Rome, Italy).  One-month residential research grant, Oct.
1996-97    American Academy in Rome (Rome, Italy).  Frances Barker Tracy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic Studies, September-August.

AWARDS

2005    Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Rutgers University
2004    Howard R Marraro Prize (American Catholic Historical Association), for the best book in Italian or Italian-American History, awarded to The New Solomon.

PUBLICATIONS

“Ewostateans at the Council of Florence: Diplomatic Implications Between Rome, Ethiopia, Jerusalem and Cairo.” Afriques. Debats, methodes, et terrains d’histoire. (Electronic journal of the Institut des mondes africains) (May 2016), forthcoming.

“The Curious Case of Ethiopic Chaldean: Fraud, Philology, and Cultural (Mis)Understanding in European Conceptions of Ethiopia.” Renaissance Quarterly 68 (2015): 1227-1264

“The Neapolitan Giovanni Villani.” In Renaissance Studies  in Honor of Joe Connors, ed. M. Israels and L. Waldman. Florence: Olschki, 2013.

"Medieval Influence in Early Modern Neapolitan Historiography: The Fortunes of the Cronaca di Partenope, 1350-1680." California Italian Studies 3 (2012)

The ‘Cronaca di Partenope’: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples (c. 1350). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 

2011

'"Intercultural Identity and the Local Vernacular: Neapolitan History as Articulated in the Cronaca di Partenope (c. 1350)." Medieval History Journal 14, 2 (2011): 259-84.

“Chronicon di Santa Maria del Principio.” In Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, edited by Graeme Dunphy.  Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010.

“Monarquia y ciudad. Consciencia civica y identidad urbana en Napoles antes 1400.” In Modelos culturales y normas sociales al final de la Edad Media, edited by Patrick Boucheron and Francisco Ruiz Gómez.  Cuenca, 2009.

Three translations in Medieval Italy: A Documentary History. Edited by Katherine L. Jansen, Frances Andrews, and Joanna Drell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

“La justice et la loi dans les allocutions de Robert de Naples.”  In La justice temporelle dans les territoires angevins aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles. Théories et pratiques. Edited by Jean-Paul Boyer, Anne Mailloux, and Laure Verdon. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2005.

“Religious Patronage and Royal Propaganda in Angevin Naples: An Overview.”  In The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina in Naples, edited by Cordelia Warr and Janis Elliott. London: Ashgate Press, 2004.

The New Solomon. Robert of Naples (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship.  Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Review of Sergio Bertelli, The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, trans. R. Burr Litchfield, in Speculum 78, 3 (July 2003): 835-7.

“Noblesse de robe et noblesse d’esprit à la cour de Robert de Naples.”  In La noblesse dans les territoires angevins. Edited by Noël Coulet and Jean-Michel Matz. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2000.

“Robert of Naples and the Spiritual Franciscans.” Cristianesimo nella storia 20 (1999): 41-80.

“The Visio fratris Johannis: Prophecy and Politics in Late-Thirteenth-Century Italy.” Florensia 8/9 (1994-95): 7-42.

SOME RECENT PRESENTATIONS

"Beyond Prester John: Ethiopia and Europe in the Middle Ages." Invited lecture, Binghamton University, March 2012.

"Civic Religion in Naples." American Historical Association, January 2012.

"L'usage des sources dans la Cronaca di Partenope." Invited paper for round table L’écriture de l’histoire. Université de Versailles – St. Quentin (France), 27 May 2010

"Neapolitan Historiography and the Print Revolution." Paper presented at the New College Medieval and Renaissance Conference. Sarasota, FL, 11 March 2010

“The Cathedral and Communal Memory in Medieval Naples.” Paper presented at 44^th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009

“Continuities in Angevin-Aragonese Culture: The Development of Local Historiography.”  Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Los Angeles, CA, 21 March 2009.

Concluding commentary on session “Religion and Society” at Byzantine Studies Conference, 17 October 2008

“Naples’ Legendary Past: Textual Tradition and Local Knowledge in the making of the Cronaca di Partenope.” Invited lecture, Western Michigan University, 23 September 2008

“Beyond North and South: Observations on Medieval Italian Historiography.” At the annual American Historical Association meeting. Philadelphia, PA.  January 2006.