Kathryn Welch | |
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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 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 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]
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