Kenneth Sheedy
Associate Professor
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Kenneth Sheedy was appointed the founding director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies in 2000. He is also a member of the teaching staff of the Department of Ancient History and a member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre. He received his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of Sydney in 1987. Between 1988 and 1991 he was a curator at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. He was appointed Deputy Director of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in 1991. In 1997 he obtained the position of curator for the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (SNG) Project at the British Museum, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2010. He is the representative of the Academy for the SNG Australia Project at the International Union of Academies.
Research Interest
Ancient History
Publications
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Significance of the weight, size and purity of Archaic 'Owl' Tetradrachms Davis, G., Sheedy, K. & Gore, D. 2018 (In preparation) Metallurgy in Numismatics, Volume 6. London: The Royal Numismatic Society, Vol. 6
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Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos Davis, G. & Sheedy, K. 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte.
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Archaic Athenian Electrum Coinage Sheedy, K. 2018 (In preparation) White Gold. Wartenberg, U. (ed.). New York: The American Numismatic Society
