Dr James Kelly
Research Fellow and Project Manager
Location: Arts Two 4.09email: j.e.kelly@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8367
After completing his BA at the University of York, James was awarded a Masters with distinction in the History of Christianity from King's College, London in 2004. Following a year working in publishing, he completed his AHRC-funded doctoral studies at the same institution, with a thesis entitled 'Learning to Survive: the Petre family and the formation of Catholic communities from Elizabeth I to the English Civil War'.
He then worked as post-doctoral research assistant on the 'Who were the nuns?' project at Queen Mary, before being appointed its Project Manager following the award of follow-on funding from the AHRC.
Research interests:
James' interests are in post-Reformation Catholic history.
Publications:
Journal articles:
'Kinship and Religious Politics among Catholic Families in England, 1570-1640', History (July, 2009), pp. 328?343.
Essays in books:
'Essex girls abroad: the politicization of convent recruitment in the seventeenth century' in C. Bowden and J. E. Kelly (eds.), The English Convents in Exile, 1600?1800: Communities, Culture and Identity (Ashgate, 2013).
'Conformity, Loyalty and the Jesuit Mission to England of 1580', in E. Glaser (ed.), Religious Tolerance in Early Modern England: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Editorial responsibilities:
Editor, Volume V: Convent Management (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). Part of six volume sources and editorial series, The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800.
C. Bowden and J. E. Kelly (eds.), The English Convents in Exile, 1600?1800: Communities, Culture and Identity (Ashgate, 2013).
Online publications:
K. Daemen-de Gelder, J. E. Kelly, P Majerus (eds.), Calendar of sources for the Who Were the Nuns? project, http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/wwtn/ (September, 2011).