Sally McKee

Sally McKee (* 1955 in Plainfield , New Jersey ) is an American medieval historian who deals with the social history of the Venetian colonial empire and with slavery in Italy and the eastern Mediterranean up to the 19th century. In addition, she deals with the history of work and gender , mobility and racism.

Life

McKee graduated from high school in 1973 , lived in Northern California until 1980 , received his bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University . She then spent a year and a half in Cambridge , nine years in Toronto and was admitted to the Center for Medieval Studies in 1993 with the work Uncommon Dominion. The Latins and Greeks of Fourteenth Century Venetian Crete from the University of Toronto, Canada . From Toronto she went to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington , spent two years at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh , then five years at Arizona State University in Tempe . Since 2000 she has been teaching at the University of California, Davis .

In 2016, she published a monograph on Edmond Dédé (1827–1901), a Creole violinist from New Orleans who lived in France for almost four decades and headed the Théâtre l'Alcazar for 27 years in Bordeaux , where he stayed from 1864 .

She describes herself on her website as a “writer, historian, bonne vivante”.

Works

• Greek women in Latin households of fourteenth-century Venetian Crete , in: Journal of Medieval History 19 (1993) 229–249. ( online )
• The Revolt of St Tito in fourteenth-century Venetian Crete: A reassessment , in: Mediterranean Historical Review 9.2 (1994) 173-204. ( online )
• Households in Fourteenth-Century Venetian Crete , in: Speculum 70 (1995) 27-67. ( online )
• Women under Venetian Colonial Rule in the Early Renaissance , in: Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998) 34-67. ( online )
• Wills from Late Medieval Venetian Crete, 1312-1420 , Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. ISBN 978-0-88402-245-9
• Uncommon Dominion. Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
• Inherited Status and Slavery in Late Medieval Italy and Venetian Crete , in: Past & Present 182 (2004) 31-53. ( online )
• The Implications of Slave Women's Sexual Service in Late Medieval Italy , in: Erdem Kabadayi, Tobias Reichardt (ed.): Unfree work. Economic and cultural-historical perspectives , Georg Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2007, pp. 101–114. ( online )
• Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy , in: Slavery & Abolition 29,3 (2008), pp. 305-326. ( online )
• with Frank Kidner, Maria Bucur, Ralph Mathisen, Theodore Weeks: Making Europe. People, Politics, and Culture , Vol. 1: To 1789 , Houghton Mifflin, 2009. ISBN 978-1-111-84133-1
• Making Europe. The Story of the West , Vol. 1: Since 1300 , Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. ISBN 978-1-111-84132-4
• Making Europe. The Story of the West , Vol. 2: Since 1550 , Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013.
• The Exile's Song. Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World , Yale University Press, 2016.

Web links

• Page on the University of California Davis website