Dr Dror Weil

I am a historian of the pre-modern Asia, with a particular interest in scientific and other textual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China; cultural, intellectual and social histories of Late Imperial China; histories of medicine and science in Asia; and, histories of the book and textuality.
I studied for my BA degree in East Asian Studies and Economics at Tel Aviv University, and for an MA degree in History at National Chengchi University (政治大學) in Taipei. I earned a PhD degree from Princeton University with a dissertation titled: "The Vicissitudes of Late Imperial China's Accommodation of Arabo-Persian Knowledge of the Natural World, 16th-18th Centuries" in 2016. I was a recipient of the Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund for Excellence in Historical Research fellowship at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University in 2017 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge between 2017-2019.
Before taking up a university lectureship at Cambridge in 2021, I served as a University Lecturer at the Department of History, King's College London for two academic years between 2019-2021. In 2022, I was invited to serve as a Visiting Professor at EHESS (Paris and Marseille).
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Edited volumes
Selected articles and book chapters
co-authored with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, “Chapter 29 - Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints,” in Peter Singer and Ralph Rosen (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Galen (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
“Kaifeng youtai houyi zai shisi shiji zhi shiqi shiji zhong de wenhua renting” 開封猶太後裔在 十四世紀至十七世紀中的文化認同 (“The Cultural Identity of the Descendants of Kaifeng Jews between the Fourteenth and the mid-Seventeenth centuries”) in Zhong Caijun and Zhou Daxing (eds.), Youtai yu Zhongguo chuantong de duihua 猶太與中國傳統的對話 (Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Literature and Philosophy, 2011), 263-309. (in Chinese)