Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies
About
Aileen Das received her BA in Latin and Greek language and literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2008, her MA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2009, and her PhD in Classics from the University of Warwick in 2013. Her work integrates the study of Greek and Latin medical texts and the corpus of materials preserved in medieval Arabic sources. Her current project, based on her dissertation, examines Galen’s conceptions of medicine and philosophy, and their influence in the medieval Islamicate world. In particular, she studies how Galen’s writings, via medieval Syriac and Arabic translations, influenced the ways Jewish and Muslim thinkers interpreted Plato’s Timaeus in medical and philosophical contexts. Dr. Das was a Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute, London, and a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She has published several articles on Greek and Arabic medical texts and on the relation between medicine and philosophy in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
