The JHI is excited to announce our 2026-27 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow—Jacqueline Feke. She will join us for our theme year Doubles, Doppelgangers.
Jacqueline Feke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, and Senior Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Her research examines the history, philosophy, and rhetoric of the ancient Greek sciences. Her monograph, Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life (Princeton University Press: 2018), was shortlisted for the British Society for the History of Science's Pickstone Prize.
Fellowship Project
Histories of Science
Through the development of a series of short-form videos, this project will bring up-to-date research on the history of science, and especially ancient science, directly to the public. Whereas academic scholarship relies on peer review, no such sorting mechanism distinguishes reliable from unreliable content on social media. This project aims to cut through the noise and share actual history of science with a popular audience through a series of videos that explains the concepts, theories, and practices that featured in the sciences of the past.
About this Fellowship
The Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship is intended to foster knowledge exchange between the academy and the public. It is a component of the Jackman Humanities Institute’s research commitment to public scholarship, discussion, debate, and examination across multiple media platforms.