PhD Classical Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts
MA History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts
BA Classics, Cornell University
Research Interests:
Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting of the Hellenistic/Republican, and Roman Imperial periods (particularly in Rome, Italy, Turkey, and Greece)
Sample Courses:
War Booty and Roman Aesthetics
City of Rome: Romulus to Augustus
City of Rome: Then and Now
Issues in the Aesthetics of Roman Domestic Space
Sculpture and Architecture of Aphrodisias, Turkey
Art and Archaeology of Roman Spectacle
Sculpture of the Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods
Ancient Roman Spain
Selected Publications
Books:
Roman Aesthetics of War (under consideration at Cambridge University Press)
The Roman Amphitheater from its Origins to the Colosseum.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (paperback 2008)
Dillon, S and K. E. Welch, eds.Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Introduction (pp. 1-26) and chapter
(pp. 91-161) by K. Welch (paperback 2009)
Articles:
"Judicial Process and Public Visibility in the Greek Agora, Roman Forum, and in Pagan and Early Christian Basilicas” forthcoming.
"Pompeian Men and Women in Portrait Sculpture." In The World of Pompeii, edited by P. Foss
& J. Dobbins.New York: Routledge,
2007.
“Some Architectural Prototypes for the (6th-7th c. AD)
Auditoria of Kom el- Dikka and three earlier Comparanda from Aphrodisias in
Caria.” In Alexandria: Auditoria of Kom El-Dikka and Late Antique Education,
Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 8,
edited by T. Derda and T. Markiewicz, 115-133.Warsaw: Warsaw University, 2007.
"Art of the Roman Republican Period." In The
Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic,
edited by N. Rosenstein and R. Marstein-Marx, 496-542.Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
"Esther B. Van Deman" Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists,, G. M. Cohen & M. S. Joukowsky, eds., University of Michigan Press (2004) 68-108. (paperback 2006)
"A New View Origins of the Roman Basilica: the Atrium
Regium, the Graecostasis, and Roman Diplomacy." Journal of Roman
Archaeology 17 (2003): 5-34.
"Nerone e i Flavi: dialoghi fra la Domus Aurea ed il
Colosseo, il quarto tipo di
ritratto di Nerone e l'immagine di Vespasiano." In Neronia
VI: Rome à l'époque
"Roman Sculpture."In Oxford Illustrated History of Art, edited by M. Kemp, 38-41.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Selected Honors:
1984 Foundation Research grant
Juror, Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
Advisory Board, American Journal of Archaeology
Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society
Research Fellow, American Research Institute in Turkey
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
Oscar Broneer Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Dean’s Fellowship, Harvard University