Frisbee Sheffield is an Associate Professor in Classics, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Areas of interest are ancient Greek philosophy, particularly ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, politics and the value of Socratic dialogue. She also works on Hannah Arendt and the reception of ancient Greek Philosophy. She is currently writing a paper with Richmond Kwesi on Kwame Nkrumah's reception of Greek philosophy.

She is the author of Plato’s Symposium: The Ethics of Desire (2006) as well as co-editor of a collection of essays: Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception (2006), co-editor of a new edition of Plato’s Symposium, for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series (2008), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2013). She is working on a new book Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation for Oxford University Press.

Frisbee serves on the Steering committee for the Global Humanities Initiative at the University of Cambridge, is a series editor for the Cambridge Elements Series in the Global Humanities, and leads the Classics Beyond Borders initiative:

https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/classics-beyond-borders

https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-africa-updates/classics-beyond-borders/