I am an intellectual historian of the body in the Imperial, and occasionally Classical, Greek worlds. I work primarily on medical and scientific texts (especially Galen of Pergamon), but with an eye to establishing their entanglements with literature, philosophy and theology. Thus, my current book project (The Transmission of Fault) reads across the corpora of Plutarch and Galen to chart a convergence between theologies of delayed divine punishment and the biology of heredity. Recent and in-progress article projects examine afterlife theology, the anthropology of kinship, and body and “heredity” in Greek tragedy. A second book, tentatively titled Inheriting Physiognomy, will trace the tangled legacies of physiognomy and medical ethnography in ancient thought, with special attention to the history of “temperament” (krasis). These projects are motivated by my belief that ancient theology, literature, and philosophy should be read in a way that restores their conceptual and historical entanglement with the (ancient and modern) scientific body.
I received my BA at Yale (2016) in Classics and PhD at Princeton (2023) in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities. In fall 2023, I returned to Yale as a postdoctoral fellow (AY 23-24) and am now Assistant Professor (Fall 24-) in the Department of Classics.