Chelsea Connelly

Chelsea Connelly recently received her Ph.D. in the History of Art department, specializing in Late Antique and Early Byzantine art. Her current book project explores the average Christian’s experience of gospel books in late antiquity and early Byzantium with a broad survey of artistic representations of books, literary evidence, and surviving codices from the fourth to tenth centuries in the Mediterranean. 

Chelsea has also worked as a conservation technician for rare books, manuscripts, and works of art on paper at the Harold B. Lee Library, as a graduate research assistant at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and as a McDougal Teaching Fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. She is a co-editor for Teaching Antiracist Art History, a website dedicated to student-driven, antiracist pedagogy in art history. http://dev.teaching-antiracist-art-history.yale.edu Most recently, Chelsea was an Editorial and Production Intern for the Art Workshop at Yale University Press.