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Kathryn Welch is an honorary associate professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, and a specialist in Roman Republican and early Imperial History.
Kathryn Welch | |
|---|---|
| Title | Honorary Associate Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney (BA & MA) University of Queensland (PhD) |
| Thesis | Caesar and Rome : a study of Roman politics and administration, 49-44 B.C. (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Roman History |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
Kathryn Welch studied for her BA and MA at the University of Sydney, before moving to the University of Queensland for her PhD.[1] Her PhD thesis, titled "Caesar and Rome: a study of Roman politics and administration, 49-44 B.C." was completed in 1990.[2] She worked for six years as a teacher at Kogarah High School.[3] In 1991, she joined the University of Sydney.[3] She has been awarded various research fellowships: including between 1993 and 1996 a Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Exeter, and in 1999 a Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Fellowship.[3] She has also held visiting research fellowships. In 2003, she was a senior visiting fellow at the Australian Centre for Numismatic Studies, Macquarie University, in 2016 a visiting scholar at Merton College, and in 2017 at the University of Heidelberg. She also held the Thompson Fellowship at the University of Sydney in 2017.[3] Between 2013 and 2017, she served as honorary secretary of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.[4][5] She retired from her university post in 2021,[6] and remains a co-director of the Pompeii Cast Project, a project which focuses on analysis of plaster casts from Pompeii.[7]
Welch's research focuses on the politics and historiography of the late Roman Republic and early empire.[8][9] Her 2012 book on Sextus Pompeius has been described as an "important contribution" and a "welcome reassessment" of the late Republican period,[10] and her chapter in the volume The alternative Augustan age was described as a "prosopographical gem".[11] Her work on Appian has similarly been described as "important" for adjusting modern assessments of the ancient historian.[12]
- Welch, K., Powel, A. (2002). Sextus Pompeius. United Kingdom: Gerald Duckworth & Co and The Classical Press of Wales.
- Welch, K., Hillard, T. (2005). Roman Crossings: Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.
- Welch, K. (2012). Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic. Swansea, UK: The Classical Press of Wales.
- Welch, K. (2015). Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.
- Welch, K. (2019). Shields of Virtue(s). In K. Morrell, J. Osgood, K. Welch (Eds.), The Alternative Augustan Age, (pp. 282–304). New York: Oxford University Press.
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