Sharon Weisser has a B.A. in Classical Studies and Jewish Studies, and an M.A. from the department of Comparative Religion, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE, Paris) on Eradication or Moderation of the Passions? The dispute between Peripatetics and Stoics in the Hellenistic and Roman Period under the supervision of Prof. Guy Stroumsa and Prof. Philippe Hoffmann. She was also a Visiting Student Research Collaborator in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University (2010-2011). Her current research project, titled “Eradication or Moderation of the Emotions? The Stoic and Platonic-Aristotelian Debate and its Afterlife in the Second to the Fourth Centuries CE” aims to analyze from a multidisciplinary point of view the formation of philosophical identities in the Roman Empire of the second to the fourth centuries through the study of this central issue in Greek Ethics.