Participant Info
- First Name
- Kelsey
- Last Name
- Granger
- Country
- Germany
- State
- kelsey.granger@outlook.com
- Affiliation
- Ludwig Maximilian University
- Website URL
- https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/KelseyGranger
- Keywords
- Chinese history; environmental history; Silk Roads; material culture
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Kelsey Granger is a Sinologist and Historian of China (esp. 600–1200 CE) and the Silk Roads with a particular focus on material culture and environmental history. She is interested in the commodification of the environment in the Tang and Song dynasties, as well as women’s roles in proliferating exotic products and practices. Her research makes use of received Classical Chinese texts alongside excavated Chinese and Tibetan manuscripts, visual sources incl. murals and ceramics, and archaeological remains.
She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU, Munich, where she is researching the significance of horses in first century BCE excavated documents from Xuanquan 懸泉, a postal relay station on the edge of the Han empire.
- Recent Publications
Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, eds. Saved from Desert Sands: Re-discovering Objects on the Silk Roads. East and West Series, Vol. 18. Leiden: Brill (anticipated 2024 publication).
Kelsey Granger. ‘Calm at the Carriage, Kills Bandits, Protects the Stables: Unique Horse Names in Excavated Han Administrative Documents from Xuanquan’. Early China (accepted).
Kelsey Granger. ‘From Tomb-keeper to Tomb-occupant: The Changing Conceptualisation of Dogs in Early China’. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 33.3 (2023): 685–701. Winner of the 2023 Sir George Staunton Prize.
Kelsey Granger. ‘Violence, Vigilantism, and Virtue: Re-Assessing Medieval Female Avenger Accounts through the Study of Narratives about Xie Xiao’e’. Journal of the American Oriental Society 142.4 (2022): 915–34.
N. Harry Rothschild and Kelsey Granger. ‘Twenty-Six Reasons to Hate Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong: Confucian Historiographical Construction of Wu Zhao’s “Male Favorites”’. American Review of China Studies 22.2 (2021): 53–77.
Kelsey Granger. ‘Three Curious Dogs in a Dunhuang Manuscript: Re-evaluating the Identification of “Yaks” in Pelliot chinois 2598’. Bulletin of SOAS 84.2 (2021): 341–54.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- China; Silk Roads
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, China, East Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Gender, Material Culture, Women
