Supervision of master and doctoral degree students

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Master's degree students:

Completed:

1. Inon Mazuz (summa cum laude), Department of History (2021-2023)
   Thesis Title: Natural-Language-Processing Applications in the Humanities: The Case of Attitude to Doctors and Medical Knowledge in the Rabbinic Literature

2. Dmitry Ezrohi (summa cum laude), Department of Classics; Fellow of the Mandel Excellence Program (2021-2023)
   Thesis Title: The Anatomy and Physiology of Digestion in Aristotle

3. Gideon Mannelis, Department of Classics, Digital Humanities Module
   Title: Galen’s Theory of Voice Production (2023 – 2026)

Doctoral degree students:

Current:

1. Esteban Marroquín Arroyave, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment (co-supervised with Prof. Joshua Milgram, School of Veterinary Medicine, HUJI) (2020 – )
   Dissertation Title: Characterization of dermal layered bone in the Pectoral Fin Spine of the Russian sturgeon (Huso gueldenstaedtii)

2. Gabriele Torcoletti, Department of Classics, HUJI. Co-supervisor (with Prof. Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven) (2024 – )
   Working Title: Pulse and Physiology in Hellenistic Science

3. Timo Zarakovitis, Department of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Co-Supervisor (with Prof. Pieter d’Hoine, KU Leuven) (2024 – )
   Working Title: The philosophical canon and the art of (mis)quoting Plato and Aristotle in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca

4. Aharon Moskowitz, Department of Talmud, HUJI. Co-Supervisor (with Dr. Yakir Paz, HUJI) (2024 – )
   Working Title: Gynaecological Knowledge between Greece, Rome and Jewish Ancient Thought

5. Gideon Mannelis, Department of Classics, HUJI. President Fellowship at Mandel School (2025 –)
   Working Title: Voice in Greco-Roman Medicine and Culture.

Past:

6. Dmitry Ezrohi (Classics), Department of Classics, Recipient of President’ Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
   Working Title: Changes in the Conception of Body Parts in Greco-Roman medicine
   Continuing studies abroad (Princeton, USA)

 

Post-doctoral Visitors

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1. Andrés Pelavski Atlas (2023 – 2026)

2. Marco Vespa (2021 – 2026)

3. Lidia Ozarowska (2022 – 2023)

 

Courses taught at the Department of Classics, HUJI

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*Sabbatical leave 2025-2026 Academic year.

Bachelor’s degree courses

2024-2025

1. Greek for Beginners (annual course, 8 credits)

2. Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome (2 credits) (* HUJI Avnei Pina)

3. Ancient Medicine (Tutoring; 2 credits)

2023-2024

4. Greek for Beginners (annual course, 8 credits)

5. Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome (2 credits) (* HUJI Avnei Pina)

2022-2023

6. Greek for Beginners (annual course, 8 credits)

2021-2022            

7. Advanced Greek (Part 1)     (2 credits)

8. Roman Historians: Readings in Advanced Latin Prose (2 credits)

9. Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome (2 credits) (* HUJI Avnei Pina)

2020-2021

10. Lysias: Readings in Easy Greek Prose (2 credits)

10. Thucydides: Readings in Advanced Greek Prose (2 credits)

12. Ancient Digital Science (in English) (2 credits) (Digital Humanities credits)

Master's degree courses

2024-2025

1. Health and Sickness in the Ancient World: Medicine and Society in the Greco-Roman and Jewish Worlds

2023-2024

2. Historical Writing in Ancient Greece: Thucydides and the Plague (2 credits)

3. Galen on the Voice (Annual Tutoring, Classics, 4 credits)

2022-2023

4. The Heart in Greco-Roman Science (Digital Humanities credits, 2 credits)

4. Physiology, Anatomy and Scientific Method in Aristotle (Annual Tutoring, Classics, 4 credits)

6. Galen’s Biology – Mixtures and Elements between Body and Soul (Annual Tutoring, for the department of philosophy, 4 credits)

2021-2022

7. Digital Research in the Humanities: from Idea to Output (in English, 2 credits – Digital Humanities credits; Open to students from all departments)

2020-2021

8. Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome (2 credits)