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), along with Ellen Greene.