Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch
Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch
BA Hons (Melb), MA (Lond), PhD (Melb), FRHistS
Megan Cassidy-Welch (Cassidy ’85) is a leading historian of medieval history, and one of a family of three girls who all attended St Catherine’s School. Megan graduated with an Honours degree in History from the University of Melbourne in 1989. She then undertook a Masters in Medieval Studies at the University of London, graduating with Distinction, and completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1997.
Megan has held appointments at the University of Tasmania, the University of Melbourne and Monash University where she was Head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. At the University of Queensland she was Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry and the first woman to be appointed to the McCaughey Chair in History. Megan has also served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
In 2021, Megan was appointed as Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies program at the Australian Catholic University.
Megan has published seven books and dozens of journal articles, book chapters and reviews in academic journals. She draws on a broad knowledge of languages in her work including Medieval and Modern French, Middle High and Modern German, Latin, Italian, Old English, Anglo-Norman and Medieval Spanish.
Megan has served on numerous advisory boards and committees across the tertiary sector in Australia. In recognition of her contributions to scholarship, Megan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2019.
Megan enjoys tennis, yoga, reading, gardening and spending time with her husband and two adult sons.
