Max joined the department as part of the combined Classics and Philosophy program in 2019, after completing a BA in Classics and Philosophy at Rutgers University. Max’s dissertation focuses on Epicurus’s understanding of pleasure, deliberation, and the goal of life, as well as deliberation about life and death in particular. Max’s broader interests in Epicureanism extend to Lucretius and Philodemus; Epicurean sexual ethics; the implications of Epicureanism for current-day philosophy of death; and the relationship between Epicureans and Cyrenaics. Max’s other classical interests include ancient medicine and consolation literature.