Philosopher and social scientist - Berggruen institute
Boris Shoshitaishvili is a USC-Berggruen Fellow with a background in evolutionary biology, comparative literature, and classical studies. His research focuses on interconnections among the Earth sciences, globalization, and collective identity. He has published academic and public-facing articles on planetary thought in Anthropocene, The Anthropocene Review, Earth’s Future, and Noema, and co-authored scientific papers in Ageing Research Reviews and The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. His chapter on Homeric epic and the origins of the Greek philosophical tradition is forthcoming in Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Intersections of Myth, Science and History (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in UC Berkeley’s Anthropology Department after earning his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, M.A. in Classics from the University of Arizona, and Sc.B. in Biology and A.B. in Classics from Brown University. He currently heads an interdisciplinary project on “planetary metaphysics” for the Berggruen Institute.
