Claire Bubb

Claire Bubb received her A.B. in Classics: Greek and Latin from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. 

Her research interests center on medicine and the biological sciences in the Greco-Roman world. Her book, Dissection in Classical Antiquity: A Social and Medical History (Cambridge, 2022),  traces the practice of dissection from early Greece through Late Antiquity and offers a parallel study of anatomical literature across the same span. It received a C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit and a Young Historians Prize in 2023. She also co-edited, with Michael Peachin, the volume Medicine and the Law under the Roman Empire (Oxford, 2023), which argues for unique parallels between the two fields and juxtaposes them within their broader social contexts. She has also published a set of dietetic translations (How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living (Princeton, 2025)), preliminary to her current book project focusing on the topics of diet and digestion in Greek and Roman medical and philosophical thought. 

Other work includes studies of Aristotle’s biology, of material evidence for the cultural contexts of medical and biological knowledge, and of the spread and prevalence of medical and scientific knowledge. Broader interests range across the literature and society of the high Roman Empire, ancient education, animals, the reception of Greek medicine, and the social history of science.