Andrew Gillett is an Australian historian who is associate professor of history at the Department of Ancient History atMacquarie University. Aprotégé ofWalter Goffart of theToronto School of History, Gillett researches and teaches the field ofLate Antiquity.

Andrew Gillett is fromAustralia. He received hisBA in Australian Social History and Modern European History from theUniversity of Queensland (1986), and anMA (1989) andPhD (1994) inMedieval Studies at theCentre for Medieval Studies of theUniversity of Toronto. His PhD was supervised byWalter Goffart, leader of the so-calledToronto School of History. At Toronto, Gillett was a co-student and intimate friend ofMichael Kulikowski.^[1]

After gaining his PhD, Gillett taught at the universities of Toronto andMelbourne. Gillett is currently associate professor of history at the Department of Ancient History atMacquarie University.

Gillett researches and teaches the field ofLate Antiquity inWestern Europe. He is particularly interested in the role of communication in public life, and how the period of Late Antiquity has been constructed by modern historians. Gillett is well known as the editor of the bookOn Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (2002).

• Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533, 2003

• Andrew Gillett atAcademia.edu

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