Eric Moses Gurevitch

Department of Asian Studies

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

2022–2025 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year, 2023-2024, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs/Vanderbilt Postdoc Association, Vanderbilt University

“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

“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