New Member Dr Sue Kelly

CACHE is delighted to welcome Dr Susan Kelly to our CACHE Membership.

Dr Sue Kelly has recently been awarded a prestigious Macquarie University COVID Recovery Research Fellowship for the project “Lifting the veil: Female social power in Early Egypt (c. 3080-2180 BCE)”. Dr Kelly is a sessional teaching academic and research fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University.

Sue completed her doctorate in 2021 at Macquarie University. Her current project is the preparation of the manuscript for the publication of her PhD thesis: Female Engagement in Domains of Social Power in Ancient Egypt’s Dynasties 1–6: An interdisciplinary approach to women’s titles. In both her MRes and PhD thesis, Sue was able to bring together her two main passions, i.e., working with titles and raising the voice of women in historical narratives. Sue studied the various roles of women in early Egypt through the lens of their titles and iconography as revealed in inscriptions of the third millennium BCE. Her methodology deviated from traditional studies in the approach to data collection, interpretative textual analysis underpinned with sociological theory that contextualises women’s agency and offers alternate societal modelling.

Sue’s objective as an academic is to elevate historical discourses by engaging with the social sciences to expand into broader historical discussions and comparative research. She conducts her research by applying gendered analytical and theoretical approaches, crossing disciplinary boundaries that apply feminist perspectives.

CACHE looks forward to following along Sue’s career and welcomes her to the CACHE community for the duration of her Fellowship.

Dr Sue Kelly is a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. For more on Sue’s work, see her Macquarie University profile and engage with her on Twitter.