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Kathryn Welch

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Kathryn Welch
TitleHonorary Associate Professor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (BA & MA)
University of Queensland (PhD)
ThesisCaesar and Rome : a study of Roman politics and administration, 49-44 B.C. (1990)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineRoman History
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

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.

Career

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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]

Research

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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]

Selected publications

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ "Tour Leader | Dr Kathryn Welch". Academy Travel | Tailored Small Group Journeys.
  2. ^ "Caesar and Rome : a study of Roman politics and administration, 49-44 B.C. | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org.
  3. ^ a b c d "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney.
  4. ^ "ASCS Newsletter 2013" (PDF).
  5. ^ "ASCS Newsletter 2017" (PDF).
  6. ^ "ASCS Newsletter, May 2021" (PDF).
  7. ^ "About". The Pompeii Cast Project.
  8. ^ "Sextus Pompeius". www.classicalpressofwales.co.uk.
  9. ^ "AWAWS Mentors".
  10. ^ "Review of: Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic. Roman culture in an age of civil war". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  11. ^ "Review of: The alternative Augustan age". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  12. ^ Miltsios, Nikos; Tamiolaki, Melina (19 March 2018). Polybius and His Legacy. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 343. ISBN 978-3-11-058484-4.