Kelsey Granger
Biographic Data
| ID | 709790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsey Granger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Granger |
| SIGNATURE | GRANGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0673-9088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Animals into East Asian History
Calm at the Carriage, Kills Bandits, Protects the Stables
The Xuanquan postal station is to date the most well-documented example of a working postal station from the Han period. This paper presents a corpus of 115 excavated horse names recorded in Xuanquan administrative documents. Analysis of these names not only clarifies what tasks these horses were expected to perform at the station, but two unique naming conventions further articulate the complex relationships forged between humans and horses at t…
From tomb-keeper to tomb-occupant
Dogs have played a vital and varied role in the social history of early China. Whether used as a source of food, a hunting-aid, or a sacrificial victim, dogs were intimately connected with human life and death. The placement and significance of dismembered and slaughtered dogs in human tombs have been a source of scholarly interest across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, less attention has been paid to sources which present us w…
Violence, Vigilantism, and Virtue
While less common than narratives about their male counterparts, accounts of female avengers are scattered throughout Chinese literature and historiography. Nevertheless, despite being included in a variety of genres and modes of writing, the extant corpus of Tang and pre-Tang female avengers appear to share remarkably similar tropes, tensions, and outcomes. In this article, I will explore how three tensions are apparent across Tang and pre-Tang …
Three curious dogs in a Dunhuang manuscript
A relatively understudied manuscript in the Pelliot collection, Pelliot chinois 2598, features a drawing on its verso of three animals tentatively identified as yaks. However, I would like to re-identify these as being a particular kind of dog which appeared suddenly in the early Tang 唐 (618-907) dynasty. This case will be built on the visual correlations between this image and other descriptions and depictions of such dogs. The manuscript and dr…
Measuring Muslim Religious Identity Formation
Previous religious identity research has focused on Christian and Jewish religious identity formation, with only a few studies focusing on religious identity development within the American Muslim population. Because of the growing number of Muslims in the United States, it is critical to expand our understanding of this population. The current study samples self-identified Muslim students (N = 194), with the aim of developing a 92-item assessmen…
From tomb-keeper to tomb-occupant
Dogs have played a vital and varied role in the social history of early China. Whether used as a source of food, a hunting-aid, or a sacrificial victim, dogs were intimately connected with human life and death. The placement and significance of dismembered and slaughtered dogs in human tombs have been a source of scholarly interest across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, less attention has been paid to sources which present us w…
Measuring Muslim Religious Identity Formation
Previous religious identity research has focused on Christian and Jewish religious identity formation, with only a few studies focusing on religious identity development within the American Muslim population. Because of the growing number of Muslims in the United States, it is critical to expand our understanding of this population. The current study samples self-identified Muslim students (N = 194), with the aim of developing a 92-item assessmen…
Three curious dogs in a Dunhuang manuscript
A relatively understudied manuscript in the Pelliot collection, Pelliot chinois 2598, features a drawing on its verso of three animals tentatively identified as yaks. However, I would like to re-identify these as being a particular kind of dog which appeared suddenly in the early Tang 唐 (618-907) dynasty. This case will be built on the visual correlations between this image and other descriptions and depictions of such dogs. The manuscript and dr…
Violence, Vigilantism, and Virtue
While less common than narratives about their male counterparts, accounts of female avengers are scattered throughout Chinese literature and historiography. Nevertheless, despite being included in a variety of genres and modes of writing, the extant corpus of Tang and pre-Tang female avengers appear to share remarkably similar tropes, tensions, and outcomes. In this article, I will explore how three tensions are apparent across Tang and pre-Tang …
From tomb-keeper to tomb-occupant
Dogs have played a vital and varied role in the social history of early China. Whether used as a source of food, a hunting-aid, or a sacrificial victim, dogs were intimately connected with human life and death. The placement and significance of dismembered and slaughtered dogs in human tombs have been a source of scholarly interest across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, less attention has been paid to sources which present us w…
Calm at the Carriage, Kills Bandits, Protects the Stables
The Xuanquan postal station is to date the most well-documented example of a working postal station from the Han period. This paper presents a corpus of 115 excavated horse names recorded in Xuanquan administrative documents. Analysis of these names not only clarifies what tasks these horses were expected to perform at the station, but two unique naming conventions further articulate the complex relationships forged between humans and horses at t…
Writing Animals into East Asian History
Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)