Dr Kathryn Welch

Senior Lecturer
Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: Room 805 MacCallum
phone: 93514779
fax: 9351 3918

• 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
• Appian and Roman ideology

MA Sydney; PhD Queensland; Dip. Hum. (Latin) UNE; Dip. Ed. Sydney

• Societas: III Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology (Cume Italy, 2002) ‘Cicero, Oppius and Balbus and the Myth of Alexander’
• Societas: VI Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology (Cume Italy, 2003) ‘Nimium felix: Caesar the anti-dictator’
• The Lost Memoirs of Augustus (Hay-on-Wye, Wales 2005) ‘Alternative memoirs: tales from the other side of the civil war’

Edited books

• Welch, K. & Hillard, T.W. (eds), Roman Crossings: theory and practice in the Roman Republic, Classical Press of Wales 2005
• Powell, A. & Welch, K. (eds), Sextus Pompeius, Duckworth/ Classical Press of Wales 2002
• Welch K. & Powell, A. (eds) Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: the war commentaries as political instruments, Duckworth/ Classical Press of Wales 1998

Chapters in books

• (in press) Nimium Felix: Caesar’s felicitas and Cicero’s Philippics’ in T.R. Stevenson and M. Wilson (eds), Cicero’s Philippics: history, rhetoric, ideology (Auckland 2006)
• (in press) Alternative memories: the fashion for writing Memoirs in C. Smith and A. Powell (eds), The Lost Memoirs of Augustus (Wales 2008)
• (2005) ‘Lux and Lumina in Cicero’s Rome: a metaphor for the Res Publica and her leaders’, in Welch & Hillard, (eds), Roman Crossings: 313-338
• (2002a) ‘Both Sides of the Coin: Sextus Pompeius and the so-called Pompeiani’ in Powell. & Welch. (eds), Sextus Pompeius: 1-30
• (2002b) ‘Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica 43-39BC’, in Powell & Welch (eds), Sextus Pompeius: 31-63
• (1998) ‘Caesar and his officers in the Gallic War Commentaries’ in Welch & Powell , Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: 85-110

Refereed articles

• (in press) ‘Maiestas Regia and the Donations of Alexandria of 34BC’ Mediterranean Archaeology 19, 2006
• ‘Atticus, a Banker in Politics?’, Historia, 40, 1996, 450-471.
• ‘The Career of M. Aemilius Lepidus 49-44 BC’, Hermes, 123, 1995, 443-454.
• ‘The Office of Praefectus Fabrum in the late Republic’, Chiron, 25, 1995, 131-145
• ‘Antony, Fulvia, and the Ghost of Clodius in 47 B.C.’, Greece and Rome, 62, 1995, 182-201
• ‘The Praefectura Urbis of 45 B.C. and the Ambitions of L. Cornelius Balbus’, Antichthon, 24, 1990, 53-69

Teaching

• ANHS2607 Rome 90BC-AD14: the making of a world-city (with Frances Muecke)
• ANHS6904 Cleopatra’s Nose and other appendages
• ANHS6901 Rome and the Politics of Space: the emperors
• Units on Republican Rome, the Mediterranean World and Historiography

• Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Committee: committee member
• 1995-2005: Australasian Society for Classical Studies: departmental representative
• 1995-present: Staff liaison officer for the annual student journal Edubba: Studies in Ancient History