Tejas Aralere is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the UCSB Classics department. He is interested primarily in ancient science, intercultural exchange of ancient ideas, and constructions of the “self” and the “body” in ancient texts. Tejas graduated from The College of William and Mary in 2015 with a BA in Latin and a BS in neuroscience in his home state of Virginia. His undergraduate years consisted of developmental neuroscience research with spare moments outside the lab taken up with Latin homework. After graduating, he continued his Classics education at W&M by completing a Classics post-baccalaureate program (2016), during which he studied Sanskrit. His current research focuses primarily on the intersections between ancient Indian and Greek astronomy, astrology, and biology as they appear in the “Yavana Jataka” - a Sanskrit text that combines Greco-Babylonian astrology with ancient Indian astrology and biology. He is excited to be a Crossroads fellow and looks forward to studying the unconscious mind through literature.

Contact: tsaralere@umail.ucsb.edu