Gisela Striker Editor & Author

Gisela Striker is Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita at Harvard University. She studied Philosophy and Classics in Germany, receiving her PhD in Philosophy in 1969 at the University of Göttingen, where she also taught Philosophy from 1970 to 1986. She moved to the United States in 1986, first to Columbia University in New York. In 1989, she accepted a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University, where she taught from 1989 until her retirement in 2011, with a three-year interlude at the University of Cambridge (UK) as Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy from 1997-2000.