Associate Professor Kathryn Welch
PhD UQ MA Sydney DipHum UNE DipEd SydAssociate Professor
Associate Professor
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
I joined The University of Sydney in 1991 after six years as a teacher at Kogarah High School and three years as a teaching assistant/PhD student at the University of Queensland. My main teaching and research interests are in Roman republican and early imperial history and historiography, though I also love teaching the history of the city of Rome from antiquity to the present – either in Sydney or on the ground in Rome.
Research interests
- Political and social transformation of Rome between Republic and Empire
- Republican and Augustan Topography of Rome
- The wider Mediterranean World in the first century BC
- Greek authors and Roman History
- The Pompeii Cast Project: www.castprojectpompeii.org.
Teaching and supervision
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Units taught include:
Completed PhD and Masters students and their topics
- Jules Flego (MPhil) 2018 Theodor Mommsen: an Enduring Legacy of Rome’s Past
- Mary Jane Cuyler (PhD) 2016 The Urban Landscape of Late Republican and Early Imperial Ostia
- Sheira Cohen (MA Res.) 2016 Perspectives on Space and Place in Republican Rome
- Kit Morrell (PhD) 2014 Pompey, Cato, and the governance of the Roman empire
- Liam McGowan (PhD) 2013 Urbs Maiestatis: Recovering the Roman Republican City
- Alina Kozlovski (MPhil) 2013 Off the map: the Conceptualisation of Urban Space in Ancient Rome and Italy
- Andrew Stiles (MPhil) 2010 Germanicus Caesar: the ‘Unburnt Heart’ of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
- Fiona Tweedie (PhD) 2009 Independence and integration: the allies, the army and the land from the Hannibalic to the Social War
- Hannah Mitchell (MPhil) 2009 A false dichotomy?: tragedy and moralism in Plutarch’s Demetrius and Antony
- Lily Withycombe Taperell (MA Res.) 2009 Building Jupiter: Deconstructing the Reconstruction
- Natalie Angel (PhD) 2007 Clementia Caesaris: the creation and dissemination of a reputation
- Robert Wood (MPhil) 2006 Motivations and machinations : Gracchan opponents, supporters and Asia
- Bronwyn Hopwood (PhD) 2005 Heres esto: Property, Dignity, and the Inheritance Rights of Roman Women 215 BC-AD 14
Current projects
- Marcus Antonius(Routledge).
- Livia and the Women of Rome(Oxford University Press, ‘Women in Antiquity’ series).
- The Alternative Augustan Age(editor with Kit Morrell and Josiah Osgood, Oxford University Press).
- Lazer, E., Canigula, R., Vu, D., Middleton, A., Luyck, S., Babino, G., and Welch, K., ‘The CT Scans and X-ray Analysis of the Casts’ in Osanna, M. (ed.), Il Grande Projetto di Pompeii.
- (in press) ‘History Wars: who avenged Caesar and why does it matter’, in I. Gildenhard et al. (eds), Augustus and the Destruction of History (Oxford University Press).
- (in press) ‘The Lex Pedia of 43 BCE and its aftermath’, in Westall, R. (ed.), The Roman Civil Wars. Hermathena 2018.
- (under review) ‘Selling Proscription to the Roman Public’, in Rosilio-Lopez, C. (ed.), Public Opinion in Roman Politics.
- (under review) ‘Shields of Virtue(s)’, in Morrell, K., Osgood, J., and Welch, K. (eds), The Alternative Augustan Age (Oxford University Press).
- (under review) ‘Marcus Antonius and the Platonic Virtues’
- (under review) ‘Excavating Polemic: Appian and Cicero’, Greece and Rome.
- ‘Dio and the Virtues’, in Osgood, J., and Baron, C. (eds), Dio and the Late Republic.
- ‘Women and Civil War: a longer view’, in Havener, W., and Gotter, U. (eds) A Culture of Civil War.
- ‘Appian and Civil War’, in Lange, C.H., and Vervaet, F.J. (eds) The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War.
- ‘The Fall of the Roman Republic’, in Rosenstein, N. (ed.) The Oxford History of the Roman World.
Selected Presentations
- January 2018. SCS Boston. Presenter: ‘What was he thinking: Antonius and the Parthian Expedition 36-34 BCE’.
- May 2017. Dio and the Late Republic (Georgetown University, Fiesole Campus, Italy). Keynote Speaker: ‘Dio and the Virtues’.
- June 2017. A Culture of Civil War (University of Heidelberg/Konstanz). Presenter: ‘Women and Civil War: a longer view’.
- October 2016. First Symposium Campanum: The Alternative Age of Augustus (Cuma, Italy). Leading convener and funded speaker: ‘The Shield of Virtues Revisited’.
- September 2016. Public Opinion in Roman Politics (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla). Invited funded speaker: ‘Selling Proscription to the Roman Public’.
- June 2016. Celtic Conference in Classics: Panel: Coins of the Roman Revolution (49BC – AD 14): Evidence without Hindsight (Dublin, Ireland). Invited presenter: ‘Primores Feminae: Women on the Coins, 40-29BC’.
- April 2016. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, UK). Presenter: ‘Marcus Antonius and the Provinces: politics, legislation and survival’.
- January 2016. Politics and Power in the Early Roman Republic (509 - 264 BC) (Auckland, NZ). Presenter: Dionysius on Veturia: a civil war myth?
- June 2015. The Poetics of War: Remembering Conflict from Ancient Greece to the Great War: Panel: Rome: Remembering Wars Imperial and Civil (UCL, London). Invited funded speaker: ‘Marcus Antonius: the alternative princeps’.
- September 2014. Augustus from a Distance (Sydney, Australia). Leading convener and presenter: ‘The Shield of Virtues Revisited’.
- April 2014. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Nottingham, UK). Presenter: ‘The Virtuous Marcus Antonius’.
- September 2013. Augustus and the Destruction of History (Kings College Cambridge, UK). Invited funded speaker: ‘History Wars: who avenged Caesar and why does it matter’.
- September 2012. Ancient Literary and Visual Representations of Civil War Conference (Margherita di Savoia, Italy). Keynote Speaker: ‘A Vocabulary of Murder: the Lex Pedia and its aftermath’.
- April 2012. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Exeter, UK). Presenter and panel convener: ‘Why Bibulus: choosing a naval commander in 48BC’.
- February 2012. Friends of the Museum of Antiquities annual address (ANU, Australia). Occasional speaker: ‘On being eternal: discovering ancient Rome in the modern city’.
Academic Distinctions
- 2017 Visiting Scholar, University of Heidelberg
- 2017 Thompson Fellowship, University of Sydney
- 2016 Visiting Scholar, Merton College
- 2003 Senior Visiting Fellow, Australian Centre for Numismatic Studies, Macquarie University
- 1999 Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Fellowship
- 1993–1994 Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow, Exeter University UK
Conference Organisation
- 2016 The Alternative Augustan Age, First Symposium Campanum (Cuma, Italy).
- 2014 Augustus from a Distance, University of Sydney
- 2010 Appian and the Romans, University of Sydney
Selected grants
2017
- Livia and the Women of Rome; Welch K; DVC Research/Thompson Fellowships.
2014
- Augustus from a Distance - Conference grant - Ian Potter Foundation; Welch K; Ian Potter Foundation/Travel Support.
2012
- Living and Dying in Pompeii; Welch K; University of Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Support Scheme.
2010
- Appian and Roman Imperialism; Welch K, Rich J; DVC Research/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
- Appian and the Romans; Welch K; University of Sydney/Faculty of Arts Conference Funding.
2009
- Seed funding for the conference 'Appian and the Romans'; Welch K; University of Sydney/School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Seed Funding.
2007
- Speaking Roman Writing Greek: Appian and the Fall of the Roman Republic; Welch K; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
2006
- Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic; Welch K; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
Selected publications
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Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War (The Classical Press of Wales, 2015)
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Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (The Classical Press of Wales, 2012)
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Roman Crossings: Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic (The Classical Press of Wales, 2005)
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Sextus Pompeius (Gerald Duckworth & Co and The Classical Press of Wales, 2002)
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