Tara Welch
Tara Welch is an American professor of classics at the University of Kansas. She is the author of two books, The Elegiac Cityscape and Tarpeia ; she also served as a co-editor for Oxford Readings in Propertius .
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 Ph.D. 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 has been 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.