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Dror Weil is a University Assistant Professor in the History of Early Modern Asia (East Asia and the Islamicate world) at the University of Cambridge. He holds a fellowship at King's College and has held prior positions including a permanent lectureship at King's College London and postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute and Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge. His research focuses on textual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China, histories of science and medicine in pre-modern Asia, and book culture.
Education includes a BA in East Asian Studies and Economics from Tel Aviv University, an MA in History from National Chengchi University (Taipei), and a PhD from Princeton University (2016). He has received the Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund fellowship (2017) and will serve as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study (2024/2025).
His teaching covers early modern Asian history, global early modernity, and material culture. Research interests include cross-cultural knowledge transfer, Mongol Empire histories, and the social history of science. He co-edited Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation (2022) and publishes on topics like Chinese-Islamic textual exchanges and the translation of scientific knowledge.
