Name Tara Welch | ||
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Tara Welch (née Silvestri) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. She has published two books, The Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments (2005) and Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015). She has also served as co-editor for the work Oxford Readings in Propertius (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) (2012), co-edited with Ellen Greene.
Welch received her bachelor's degree from University of Southern California in 1990, majoring in Latin and Greek. In 1989, she was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. She earned a master's degree in 1993 from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999.
While at USC, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and as well as the Mortar Board. Welch is currently a member of the Society for Classical Studies, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, the International Plutarch Society, and the Women's Classical Caucus.