Eric Moses Gurevitch
Department of Asian Studies
eric.m.gurevitch@vanderbilt.edu
Education
- 2022 PhD, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations/Committee on
Conceptual & Historical Study of Science, University of Chicago - 2013 BA, Religious Studies, University of Chicago
professional APPOINTMENTS
- 2022–2025 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Awards
- Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year, 2023-2024, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs/Vanderbilt Postdoc Association, Vanderbilt University
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Articles
- “The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History,” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, forthcoming, with Shireen Hamza
- “The Epistemology of Difference: Caste and the Question of Natural Kinds in the Courts of Medieval India,” Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, 2023
- “When Is Medicine? Contesting the Temporality of Healing in Precolonial South Asia.” Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2023
- “Practices of Translation in Medieval Kannada Sciences: Removing the Conflict Between Textual Authority and the Worldly,” in Narratives on Translation across Eurasia and Africa: From Babylonia to Colonial India, edited by Sonja Brentjes, Jens Høyrup, and Bruce O’Brien, Brepols Publishers, 2022
- “The Uses of Useful Knowledge and the Languages of Vernacular Science: Perspectives from Southwest India.” History of Science, 2021
Translations
- “Words and Signs in the Vernacular in Sanskrit,” in Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective: Premodern and Early Modern Sources in Original and Translation, edited by Glenn Most and Maria Avxentevskaya, Brill, forthcoming
Teaching
Vanderbilt University
- History of Modern Sciences and Society
- Cheap Things, Cheap Natures
- Science and Society in South Asia
Emory University
- Medicine in South Asia
University of Chicago
- Science Outside of Europe