Tobias Philip came to Rutgers in 2020 after completing his B.A. at Swarthmore College with High Honors in Greek and Latin. At Rutgers he has greatly enjoyed teaching courses on Plato and ancient athletics, as well as year-long and summer intensive language courses in Greek and Latin. His dissertation, titled "Tertullian and the Philosophical Tradition of Anti-Spectacle Thought,” places the beginning of Christian polemics against the Roman spectacles in the context of the ancient philosophical criticism of the arts. He has also presented papers at conferences on the Symposium of Methodius (Edinburgh 2024), the philosophy of Xenophon (SCS 2024), the Greek mystery cults and St. Paul (SCS 2023), and late antique North Africa (CAMWS 2021). He is spending the 2024–2025 academic year as a Fulbright Study-Research Fellow in Heidelberg, Germany.
