ISAW Faculty Members Claire Bubb and Sebastian Heath Receive Promotions
This article by Marc LeBlanc first appeared in ISAW Newsletter 24, Spring 2019.
Effective September 1, 2019, Claire Bubb will be promoted to Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science at ISAW. Prof. Bubb received her A.B. in Classics: Greek and Latin from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. Prior to this new appointment, she was Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at ISAW, Faculty Fellow at the NYU Department of Classics, and Visiting Assistant Professor at ISAW.
Prof. Bubb’s research centers on medicine and the biological sciences in the Greco-Roman world, with particular focus on Galen and Aristotle. She is now completing a monograph entitled Anatomy on Display: The Roots and Rise of Dissection as Public Spectacle in the Roman Empire, which offers a history of the practice of dissection in Classical antiquity, with a particular focus on its popular efflorescence in the Roman period, as well as its later reception. She has also begun a second book project on the topic of digestion in Greek and Roman medical and philosophical thought. In addition, she engages in focused work on Aristotle’s biology, especially his views on the heart and vascular system, with articles on the subject appearing or forthcoming in Apeiron, Classical Quarterly, and Sudhoffs Archiv. Her other interests include the literature and society of the high Roman Empire, ancient education, animals, and the social history of science.
Also effective September 1, 2019, Sebastian Heath will be promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Computational Humanities and Roman Archaeology at ISAW. Prof. Heath has an A.B. from Brown University in Medieval Studies and received his Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. Prior to this new appointment, he was Clinical Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at ISAW, Research Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at ISAW, and Director of Information Technology at the American Numismatic Society. He also holds courtesy appointments as Consulting Scholar in the Mediterranean Section of the University Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and as Research Scientist at the American Numismatic Society.
Prof. Heath’s research interests include Roman pottery, numismatics, and Digital Humanities with a focus on computational approaches to Mediterranean archaeology. He is editor of ISAW Papers and ISAW’s born-digital books. Dr. Heath has participated in excavations and survey in Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Current field work includes publication of Roman pottery from the Lower City at Troy in Turkey and work on archival material from the American Excavation at Kenchreai in Greece. Much of his published work appears in digital form. His recent publications include “Animated Shadows on Virtual Stone: Ancient Sundials in a Gallery Setting” with C. Roughan and R. Herschman in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and “Roman Studies and Digital Resources” with Roger Bagnall in the Journal of Roman Studies.