Gisela Striker

Gisela Striker (born 1943) is a German classical scholar and Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University, specializing in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She was educated in Germany, earning her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Göttingen in 1969 and her Habilitation in 1978, both under the supervision of Günther Patzig. Striker taught philosophy at Göttingen from 1971 to 1986, then at Columbia University from 1986 to 1989, and at Harvard from 1989 to 1997. In 1997, she became the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge until 2000, after which she returned to Harvard. Her scholarly work centers on ancient philosophy, including Plato and Aristotle, with a particular focus on the epistemology and ethics of the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics, as well as Aristotelian logic.