Kit Morrell

Kit Morrell is a Roman historian specialising in the history, law, and politics of the late Roman republic (the age of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Cicero). Her current research focuses on the idea and practice of reform in the Roman republic.

Kit joined the University of Queensland in July 2020 as Susan Blake Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History. She has held previous positions as ARC DECRA fellow at the University of Melbourne and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, investigating the impact of the Augustan marriage legislation on Roman women’s legal and property rights as part of the OIKOS Anchoring Innovation project. She has also taught at the University of Sydney, where she completed her PhD in 2014.

Kit’s publications include a monograph, Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire, published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and The Alternative Augustan Age (OUP, 2019), co-edited with Josiah Osgood and Kathryn Welch. She is currently working on a monograph based on her DECRA project, 'Reforming the Roman Republic', and a coedited volume on The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome (to be published by OUP).

Kit’s research interests reflect her training in both ancient history and law. Her research expertise includes Roman republican history and politics (especially the late republic); Roman law; Roman women; ethics and exemplarity in the Roman world; and ancient historiography of the republic and early empire. She is happy to discuss potential Honours and postgraduate supervision on these and related topics.