# Jennifer Devereaux Associate of the Department of Philosophy Harvard Appointment Dates: July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027 ![Jennifer Devereaux](/sites/g/files/omnuum4436/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-07/Jennifer-Devereaux.jpeg?itok=JVUxwhw8) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://www.jennifer-devereaux-phd.com/) laptop\_windows [harvard.academia.edu](https://harvard.academia.edu/JenniferDevereaux) I specialize in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature, especially questions of knowledge, cognition, interpretation, and prediction. My work connects ancient philosophy with philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence by examining how interpretive and inferential systems shape evidence, bias, judgment, and reality. I am especially interested in how formal and figurative structures acquire authority over what can be perceived, known, and contested. My visit to the Department of Philosophy will support the completion of my book, *The Ethical and Social Challenges of Technological Change from Antiquity to AI*, a project on ancient and modern predictive systems, artificial intelligence, knowledge formation, and human judgment. I also plan to develop a related project on anomaly, misfit, and the ways interpretive and explanatory systems manage apparent impossibility. I received my Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Southern California in 2019. From 2020 to 2021, I was Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where I taught intermediate and advanced Latin and courses on social inequality, ecology, and technology in the Greco-Roman world. From 2021 to 2022, I was a researcher in the Ancient Values and Emotions project at Uppsala University. Since 2022, my Harvard appointments have included a Mind, Brain, and Behavior College Fellowship in the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Laboratory, a three-year lectureship in Human Evolutionary Biology, and a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies. These positions have supported an interdisciplinary research and teaching program on social cognition, cultural evolution, and human-AI interaction. - ## Person Categories [Visitors](/taxonomy/term/125871)