Projects
Where is the Cuneiform?
An attempt to identify, digitally reunite, and align the histories of collections of cuneiform objects in colleges and universities in the United States.
Secrecy, Protection, and the Foundations of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the PhD in Assyriology from Brown University.
Citation Network Analysis of the Bulletin of ASOR (BASOR), 1970-2020
A poster presented at the 2021 ASOR Annual Meeting investigating the citations in BASOR as an analog for the community of scholars in ancient Near Eastern studies.
The Ratty
A public scholarship blog produced by and for graduate students.
Digitizing Cuneiform at Brown University
3D models of the cuneiform objects in the John Hay Library.
At the Margins: Interconnections of Power and Identity in the Ancient Near East
A conference organized on the campus of Brown University in October 2019. Edited volume of contributions to the conference forthcoming with the University Press of Colorado.
Some Writing
Taking the Reins, Harnessing the Digital: Enabling and Supporting Public Scholarship in Graduate-Level Training. In Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities. Coming 2024.
American Paradigm: A Brief History of Utica’s Commercial Travelers Insurance. Doubly Mad 7(11). 2024.
Foundational Texts. Contingent Magazine 2023.
Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East. University Press of Colorado. 2023.
The Agamemnon Problem: The Fluidity of History-Making and Myth-Making in the Dune Universe. New Classicists 8: 3-21. 2023.
Penelope Garcia’s Criminal Minds. Contingent Magazine 2022.
Funding research on the impact of digital scholarship and culture with a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG). National Endowment for the Humanities Blog. 2021.
Powerful Idols. Critical Muslim 37.1. 2021.
A Bibliography of Cuneiform Tablet Editions in United States Colleges and Universities through 2020. Journal of Open Humanities Data 7(3). 2021.
A Selection of Tablets and Cones from Brown University. Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin 2021(2). 2021.
Measuring the Impact of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. National Endowment for the Humanities ODH Resource Library. 2020.
National Program, Global Impact: The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. National Endowment for the Humanities Blog. 2020.
What the Digital Dark Age Can Teach Us About Ancient Technologies of Writing. Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. 2020.
An Assyriologist in the Public Humanities. John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage Blog. 2019.
