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Dr. Kathryn Welch is an Honorary Associate Professor in The University of Sydney's Department of Classics and Ancient History, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland and an MA from the University of Sydney, with additional qualifications in Humanities and Education. Her career includes teaching at Kogarah High School and research roles at the University of Queensland before joining Sydney in 1991.
Her research focuses on Roman Republican and early Imperial history, historiography, and topography. Key areas include political/social transformation between Republic and Empire, Roman urban landscapes, and Mediterranean dynamics in the 1st century BCE. She co-leads the Pompeii Cast Project, examining archaeological casts of Pompeian victims.
Publications span monographs like Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (2012) and edited volumes such as The Alternative Augustan Age (2019). Recent articles analyze Appian's historiography, Cicero's rhetoric, and Augustan propaganda, demonstrating interdisciplinary engagement with archaeology, numismatics, and cultural studies.
She has received prestigious awards including the Thompson Fellowship (2016) and Leverhulme Fellowship (1993–1994). Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Roman history and historiography, including City of Rome: History and Landscape and Ancient Rome: Space and Power.
Welch has advised over a dozen PhD/Masters students on topics ranging from Republican topography to civil war historiography. Grants include funding for projects on Pompeii victims and Livia's influence, totaling over AUD 200k. She actively organizes international conferences, including Augustus from a Distance (2014) and First Symposium Campanum (2016).
