Lisa Raphals (瑞麗) is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Division at the University of California Riverside. She studies the cultures of early China and Classical Greece, with research and teaching interests across several areas: comparative philosophy, religion, and history of science, with other interests in gender and science fiction studies. She is the author of four books: Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece (Cornell, 1992), Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China (SUNY, 1998), Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2013), and A Tripartite Self: Body, Mind and Spirit in Early China (Oxford, 2023); and co-editor of Old Society, New Belief: Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Oxford, 2017), and Skill and Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury, 2021); and author of many shorter studies. From 2021 to 2023 she served as the president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and she is an affiliate of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies.
Email address: lisa.raphals@ucr.edu
Institutional webpage: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~raphals/