Dr. Molly Ayn Jones-Lewis
Non-Tenure Track
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
Research interests
Roman medicine and Roman law, Roman intellectual history, Identity and intersectional dynamics in Roman medical culture
Teaching interests
Latin & Greek language, Ancient Mediterranean culture, religion, medicine, and law
Education
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Ph D, Greek and Latin
— The Ohio State University (2009) A Dangerous Art: Greek Physicians and Medical Risk in Imperial Rome
- MA, Greek and Latin — The Ohio State University (2006)
- Other — American School of Classical Studies in Athens (2006)
- BA, Honors Latin — Swarthmore College (2003)
Publications
- “CLARE BUBB and MICHAEL PEACHIN (Eds), Medicine and the Law under the Roman Empire (Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 349. ISBN 9780192898616 (hbk.): £100.00.” 2025
- SHAUN TOUGHER, THE ROMAN CASTRATI: EUNUCHS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. x 217. Isbn 9781847251688. £85.00. 2022
- "HIPPOCRATES, FACTS AND MYTHS - (H.) King Hippocrates Now. The ‘Father of Medicine’ in the Internet Age. Pp. X 262, Ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-350-00589-1 (978-1-3500-0592-1 Online)." 2022
- Mutuo metu aut montibus: People and Land in the Germania of Tacitus 2020
- Physicians and "Schools" 2016
- Routledge Companion to Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds 2016
- Tribal Identity in the Roman World: The Case of the Psylloi 2016
- Surgery at the Museum: Notes from Turkey 2015
- “Israelowich, Ido, Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire 2015
- Nicander’s Snake Repellant Reicpe II: Pastoral Horror and Rustic Remedies 2015
- Nicander’s Snake Repellant Recipe I: Practical Myth and Magic 2015
- Poisoning 2015
Presentations
- De-colonizing African Science and Scientists in Pliny the Elder 2022
- When Freedom Isn't Free: Patron's Rights in Roman Slaving Law 2022
- De-colonizing African Science and Scientists in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History 2022
- Roman Surgery 2022
- Roman Surgery 2022
- Classics for Every Body—Beyond Universal Design 2021
- The Case of the Missing Ban: Cadaver Dissection in Roman Law 2018
- The Misbehaving Doctor in Roman Law 2016
- Environmental Determinism and the Rationalization of Imperialism in Tacitus’ Germania 2015
Performances and Exhibits
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC Collegium
- UMBC's Collegium and MEMS present: An Early Modern Salon
- UMBC Collegium
Courses Taught
- Special Author Seminar
- Intermediate Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Warfare in the Ancient World
- Topics: Ancient Studies
- Latin 396: Vegetius reading
- Sel Roman Historians
- Ancient Medicine
- Topics: Ancient Studies
- Elementary Latin I
- Indep Projects In Ancs: Tacitus' Germania
- Topics: Ancient Studies: Warfare in the Ancient World
- The Ancient Greeks
- Topics: Ancient Studies: Ancient World in Modern Film
- Roman Comedy
- Topics: Ancient Studies: Ancient Medicine
- The Roman World
- Topics: Ancient Studies: Magic and Witchcraft in the Ancient World
- Intermediate Latin
- Intermediate Latin