Eric Moses Gurevitch

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His research tells a global history in which unexpected voices, practices, and events come to stand alongside standard narratives. 

Gurevitch’s first monograph, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, is titled Everyday Sciences: Practical Knowledge and Knowledgeable Practice in South Asia. The book documents the rise of vernacular sciences in precolonial South Asia and explores how people turned to writing to describe practices such as predicting the weather, assaying gold, and healing poisons. It will be published simultaneously in South Asia through Permanent Black Press.

His second monograph-length project explores the literate and numerate practices of artisans and other people from caste-oppressed communities. The project brings together questions of craft, technology, and caste to tell an intellectual history that extends beyond the history of intellectuals. 

Gurevitch earned a PhD at the University of Chicago, and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.