Malina Buturovic

Malina Buturovic received her B.A. at Yale (2016) and Ph.D. at Princeton (2023) in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities. In fall 2023, she returned to Yale as a postdoctoral fellow (2023–24) and is now an assistant professor (2024–25) in the Department of Classics. She is an intellectual historian of the Imperial Greek world, with a particular interest in the period’s close entanglements between medicine, Middle Platonism, and theology. Her current projects include a monograph on heredity in Plutarch and Galen (The Transmission of Fault: Heredity Between Medicine and Theology), an article on embodiment and afterlife theology, and a paper on modern anthropology and ancient kinship. She also has interests in the reception of Greek-tragedy and the tradition of Graeco-Roman physiognomy, similarly oriented towards methodological and conceptual challenges of studying the history of the body.

Along with Professor Jessica Lamont, she is co-organizing the departmental colloquium this year on ancient medicine, in tandem with their new co-taught graduate seminar on the same subject.