Wintor Scott

Wintor Scott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Ancient Philosophy and Classics program at Princeton University, specializing in decolonial philosophy of ritual and cross-cultural philosophical analysis. His research traces the intellectual history of sacrificial slaughter in 19th-century colonial discourses and its roots in classical Graeco-Roman political philosophy.

• Education: B.A. in Classics (summa cum laude) from University of Texas; Ph.D. in progress at Princeton University
• Languages & Training: Sanskrit studies with professors in Pune, India (2018) and graduate reading groups; advanced Urdu studies in Lucknow (2022-2023) through the American Institute of Indian Studies

Key Projects: Editing Prabhākara’s Bṛhatī and Śālikanātha Miśra's Ṛjuvimalāpañcikā (Pūrva Mīmāṁsā); analyzing Stoic deliberative reason in Evagrius Ponticus; archival work on 19th-century Urdu decolonial discourses.

• Methodology: Analytic, critical, and critical-comparative approaches to texts and discourses
• Interdisciplinary Focus: Intersection of Sanskrit, Graeco-Roman, and Islamicate philosophical traditions