Andrew Gillett
Andrew Gillett is an Australian historian and associate professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. He specializes in Late Antiquity in Western Europe and studies how public life and communication shaped that period, as well as how modern historians have written its history.
Gillett earned a BA in Australian Social History and Modern European History from the University of Queensland, and an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. His PhD supervisor was Walter Goffart, a leading figure of the Toronto School of History. He was a close colleague and friend of Michael Kulikowski at Toronto.
After his PhD, Gillett taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne. He is now an associate professor at Macquarie University.
His works include Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 (2003). He also edited On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (2002).
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