Research Fellow and Research Associate
Archaeology Data Service
Department of Archaeology
University of York
Émilie Pagé-Perron studies the social and environmental history of third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia through its administrative archives, read at scale with computational methods: who the people in the texts were, how they were connected, and how they used and changed a landscape of marshes, rivers and fields.
She is a Research Fellow at the Archaeology Data Service, University of York, where she leads Towards Universal Access to Cuneiform Heritage (Meditor Trust, 2026–2029), and a Research Associate there on the ARIADNE and ATRIUM infrastructures for European archaeology. She is Co-Director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and a postdoctoral guest fellow of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology.
Because the questions need the whole corpus, she builds the infrastructure that keeps it open and usable: the CDLI platform, linked open data and vocabularies, and machine-assisted annotation and translation of Sumerian. Her current programme widens access to cuneiform heritage in its countries of origin, starting with Arabic-speaking users of the CDLI.
Her aim is a culture of open data and shared stewardship for the material and textual heritage of ancient societies.