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
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- “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 4, no. 1 (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 59, no. 3 (2021).
Teaching
Vanderbilt University
- Cheap Things, Cheap Natures
- Science and Society in South Asia
Emory University
- Medicine in South Asia
University of Chicago
- Science Outside of Europe