Evelyn Welch

Evelyn Welch
MBE
Evelyn Welch MBE
Born	Evelyn Kathleen Samuels; 1959 (age 66–67)
Board member of	UCEA(2024-; UUK (2024-); Russell Group (2022-, ex officio); Worldwide Universities Network (2022-, ex officio); V&A Museum (2012-2016); Association of Art Historians (chair, 2007-2011);
Spouses	Nick Welch (m. 1982; div. 1999); Peter Openshaw;
Children	3, including Florence
Relatives	John S. Samuels III (father); John Stockwell (brother)
Awards	Wolfson History Prize ; 2005 Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600 ;
Academic background
Education	Phillips Exeter Academy
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA); University of London (PhD);
Thesis	Secular fresco painting at the court of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 1466-1476 (1987)
Academic work
Discipline	History, History of Art
Sub-discipline	Renaissance History and Literature
Institutions	University of Essex; Birkbeck, University of London; University of Sussex; Queen Mary University of London;
14th Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 2022
Preceded by	Hugh Brady
Principal of King's College London
	Acting
	In office; 1 February 2021 – 1 June 2021
Preceded by	Ed Byrne
Succeeded by	Shitij Kapur

Evelyn Kathleen Welch MBE (née Samuels; born 1959) is an American scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, and the 14th Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol. She was previously a professor and academic administrator at King's College London, where she served as Interim Principal during 2021.