Executive Committee
Colin Webster, President
Colin is an assistant professor of Classics at UC Davis. His research focuses on science, technology and medicine in Greco-Roman antiquity. His current book book project traces the emergence of the "organism" in Greek medical thought and places this alongside the specific investigative tools that ancient practitioners used to articulate the body. He was the Society's Vice-President from 2018–20920. His full bio and CV can be found here. Email: cwebster@ucdavis.edu
Aileen Das, Vice-President
Aileen Das is an associate professor in Classical Studies and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. As an intellectual historian, her research foregrounds medieval Islamicate thinkers’ creative reinterpretation of Greco-Roman medical and philosophical ideas in their pursuit of their own epistemic ambitions. Aileen’s first book, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus (Cambridge University Press, 2020), studies how Galen’s interpretation of Plato’s cosmological dialogue the Timaeus became a touchstone for medieval Islamicate doctors and philosophers’ refiguring of their respective disciplines. Her faculty profile can be found here. Email: ardas@umich.edu
Calloway Scott, Treasurer
Calloway is a professor of Greek history at the University of Cincinnati. His work broadly examines the entanglements of science and society in Greek antiquity, from the healing cults of Asklepios to the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus. You can find his full CV here . Email: calloway.scott@uc.edu
Jessica Wright,
Editor of The Rootcutter
Jessica Wright (she/her) is a historian, essayist, and freelance editor. Recent work includes "On What Is in Our Power" (Michigan Quarterly Review) and "On Sponges" (Foglifter Journal). Her first book, The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, is forthcoming from UC Press (2022).
Previous Executives
Courtney Roby (Cornell)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
Ralph Rosen (UPenn)
Lesley Dean-Jones (UT Austin)
Julie Laskaris (Richmond)