Claire Bubb, PhD

Claire Bubb is Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Her research focuses on Greco-Roman medicine and the biological sciences, with publications including Dissection in Classical Antiquity: A Social and Medical History (Cambridge, 2022) and Medicine and the Law under the Roman Empire (Oxford, 2023; w/ M. Peachin). Her latest book, How to Eat: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers (Princeton, 2025), offers translations of dietetic extracts from a variety of ancient authors and is the first major output of her current research focus on theories of diet, digestion, and food in Greek and Roman medical, philosophical, and cultural thought.