Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, associate professor of Classics, has been selected as a recipient for a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. 

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Svetla Slaveva-Griffin’s academic affiliations with Classics, History and Philosophy of Science, and Religion successfully captures the interdisciplinary nature of her research. She specializes in ancient philosophy, medicine, and religion, with a particular focus on late antiquity. As she says on her FSU website, she studies the relationship of ancient philosophy and its later incarnation, Neoplatonism, with disciplines which are “outside of its box” (poetry, myth, religion, and medicine). She has widely published on topics of ancient philosophy. Her monograph Plotinus on Number was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. From the Council for Research and Creativity at FSU, she has received FYAP, COFRS in 2007 and 2011, and a Developing Scholar Award in 2012. In 2008, she received external funding from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London for her work on the pseudo-Galenic treatise On the Seed.

She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for 2013-2014 to continue her research on the interaction between philosophy and medicine in late Antiquity. By the invitation of Prof. Dr. James Wilberding, she will be at the Institute for Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. The project studies the relationship between Neoplatonism and medicine in the period from the third to the sixth century CE. Up to date there is no comprehensive study examining the nature of the relationship between the two disciplines. Upon completion, it will offer the first book-length examination of the subject and specifically it will continue the growing trend of studying the association of Neoplatonism, an ostensibly metaphysical school, with the natural sciences.
The results of the project are of interest to scholars and students of history and historiography of ancient philosophy and ancient medicine, history and philosophy of science, history of religion, medical humanities, and, more broadly, of late antiquity and early Christianity.