Linda Rabieh

Linda Rabieh is Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught political philosophy there since 2010, primarily in Concourse, an interdisciplinary program in the humanities and sciences, but also in the political science and philosophy departments. Linda received her PhD from the University of Toronto and is the author of Plato and the Virtue of Courage (2006), which won the inaugural Delba Winthrop Mansfield prize for excellence in political science. She is also the author of numerous articles that explore the political thought of ancient and medieval thinkers, including Thucydides, Plato and Maimonides. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment of Humanities Independent Scholar Fellowship and various awards and fellowships at MIT. For the past nine years, Linda has been co-director of an annual January study program for MIT students to Greece and Rome, and, more recently, she became one of the faculty directors of the Civil Discourse Project at MIT. She writes and teaches courses on ancient and medieval treatments of ethics in war, political ambition, and the extent and limits of knowledge.