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Ph.D. Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

• Dissertation: The Pantheons of Adab
• Advisor: Paul-Alain Beaulieu

M.A. Mesopotamian Studies

• Thesis: The Fish Industry in Early Dynastic Lagash
• Advisor: Antoine Cavigneaux

B.A. Religiology

• Thesis: The Kallu Doms of Varanasi (including field research)

Data Engineer

Research Fellow

Junior Research Fellow of Assyriology

Staff Research Associate

Postdoctoral Guest Fellow

Research Associate

Predoctoral Guest Fellow

• Emerging Open Scholarship Award (Canadian Social Knowledge Institute)

Co-PI, Access to Cuneiform Texts (ACT) project

• £5,740

Co-PI, Access to Cuneiform Texts (ACT) project

• £5,000

Researcher Co-Investigator, “Toward Cuneiform Insights into the Dawn of the Anthropocene”

• £52,000

Co-Applicant, “Broadening Participation to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Project”

• £15,000

Principal Investigator, Seed grant for the "Linked Dictionaries" project

• £1,500

• “Commoning the digital and public space: Activism for sustainable preservation.” Nordic Theory in Action (TAG), Kalmar, Sweden, May 6-9. [with Anne Baillot and Megan Black]

• “Towards adaptation: environmental sustainability in archaeological workflows.” Theory in Action (TAG), Theoretical Archaeology Group Annual Meeting, York, Dec 15-17. [with Anne Baillot]
• “Writing the Dawn of the Anthropocene.” Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 70, Prague, July 7-11. [with Christie Carr and Rune Rattenborg]
• “Reusable Digital Research Workflows for Archaeology, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.” CAA Conference, Athens, May 5-9. [with Agiatis Benardou, Anne Baillot & Julian Richards]

• “Cuneiform in the Age of Digital Archaeology: Online Resources for the Integration of Text and Material Culture Workshop.” ICAANE, Copenhagen, May 22-26. [with Rune Rattenborg]

• “Vocabularies Consortium.” Three workshops of the Geomapping Landscapes of Writing project, virtual/Uppsala/Oxford. [with Rune Rattenborg and Adam Anderson]

• “Methodological Developments in Prosopographical Studies” Workshop. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, July 16-20.

• “Text as Data: Digital Humanities for Text Analysis.” American Oriental Society, Los Angeles, Mar 17-20. [with Timothy Bellefleur]

• “From cuneiform tablets to knowledge graphs: Assyriological metadata standards in context.” 1st International Conference of the SNSF Sinergia Project Hydrography of Mesopotamia, Bern, Oct 16-19.

• “Use and reuse of Information Extraction (IE) and other computational approaches to cuneiform text.” Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab (CDAL), University of Cambridge, Nov 4.

• “Using the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in your research workflow.” Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, Helsinki, Aug 18.
• “From Clay to Bytes, Ancient Cuneiform in the Age of AI.” Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford, University of Oxford, July 6.

• “Sustainability and Success at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).” Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe, Hamburg, Oct 19-21.
• “The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).” Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, Uppsala, Aug 1-2.
• “From Clay to Bytes, Ancient Cuneiform in the Age of AI.” Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford, University of Oxford, July 12.
• “All the Things They Wrote on Clay: Exploring the Quantitative Dimensions of the Cuneiform Corpus.” Uppsala University, June 16.
• “The pantheons of Adab: texts and contexts.” Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series, University of Oxford, June 7.

• “Digital Library Organization and Accessibility.” Future Philology: Digitization and Beyond, University of Oxford, Sep 30 - Oct 1.
• “The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative - Infrastructure.” Status quo und aktuelle Entwicklungen zu digitalen Keilschrifteditionen, Universität Mainz, Mar 1-2.

• “Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Bibliography Management.” Metadata in Assyriology, Uppsala University, Nov 23-26.
• “The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.” TextWorlds Seminar Series: Cuneiform, Uppsala University, Oct 21.
• “Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages.” Digging into Data Challenge Conference, NSF, Alexandria DC, Jan 29-31.

• “New Technologies for Cuneiform Studies: Processing & Linking Textual Data.” UC Berkeley, Apr 8.
• “Sumerian Annotation Workshop.” [With Jinyan Wang and Ilya Khait] UC Berkeley, Apr 8.

• “Pre-requisites and Workflow for the Machine Translation of the Sumerian Language.” Future Philologies Workshop, ISAW New York, Apr 20.
• “Recent Developments in Natural Language Processing for Cuneiform Languages.” Venice, Mar 27-28.
• “Le projet MTAAC: traduction et analyse automatique de textes cunéiformes.” Université du Québec à Montréal, Mar 13.

• “E-philologie d'aujourd'hui et demain, l'assyriologie digitale en contexte.” Caf'E.PHE 15th edition, Paris, Feb 24.
• “Hypothes.is comme outil pédagogique.” Caf'E.PHE 15th edition, Paris, Feb 24.

• “Réflexion sur la visualisation des données appliquée aux corpus en cunéiforme.” Caf'E.PHE 11th edition, Paris (virtual), Feb 9.

• “Go with the (Work)flow! Creating Reusable and Replicable Workflows for Digital Humanities Research.” Digital Humanities Benelux, Amsterdam, June 3-6. [with Anne Baillot, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Megan Black, Toma Tasovac, Matej Durco] (Poster)
• ‘Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: A Free Database of All Cuneiform Texts.’ 6th International Conference of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Al-Qadisiyah University, Iraq, Feb 25. [with Rattenborg, Dahl, Lafont, Renn]

• “DEMCC - The First Online Cuneiform Texts Database in China.” OpenDANES conference, online, Dec 8. [with Changyu Liu, Qier Zhang, Jing Tan, Muzhe Han]
• “The ARIADNE Portal at the Heart of the ATRIUM project.” DaSCHCon, Bern, Oct 23. [with Julian Richards, Anne Baillot]
• “We got cuneiform, do you? How to collaborate on the CDLI Framework.” Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 8-12. [with Rune Rattenborg, Jacob L. Dahl, Bertrand Lafont, Jürgen Renn]

• “From transcription to network analysis on evolving corpora.” Digital Text Studies Workshop, Wolfson College, Oxford, June 7.
• “A matter of access: leveraging text, metadata, and images of cuneiform artifacts by non-linguists.” ICAANE, Copenhagen, May 22-26.

• “Building ETCSANS: The Electronic Text Corpus of Syntactically Annotated Neo-Sumerian.” Digital Humanities, Tokyo, July 25-29. [with Christian Chiarcos]
• “The Vocabularies Consortium: Best Practices for Entity Standardisation and Domain-Specific Controlled Vocabularies for Inscribed Artefact Metadata.” Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Mainz, July 25-29. [with Rune Rattenborg, Adam Anderson]

• “Interoperability of the CDLI Catalogue.” ArtiBites Workshop, ASOR annual meeting, Dec 9-12.
• “A Next Generation Infrastructure for Digital Assyriology.” Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, July 21-23. [with Christian Chiarcos]

• “Open Science at the CDLI: Focus on collaboration and accessibility.” Recent developments in digital Assyriology, Helsinki, Aug 26-27.

• “The MTAAC Project: Computational Analysis for Sumerian.” Broadening Horizons, Berlin, June 24-28. [with Ilya Khait]

• “Cuneiform Collections as (Linked) Data.” Collections as Data workshop, Digital Libraries Forum, Las Vegas, Oct 15-17.
• “The scribes of Adab.” Methodological Developments in Prosopographical Studies Workshop, Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, July 16-20.

• “Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for producing Linked Open Assyriological Data.” ASOR annual meeting, Boston, Nov 15-18. [with Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller]
• “Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages.” Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Symposium, Toronto, Sep 30. [with Lucas Reckling]
• “Introducing the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages Project.” Digital Humanities Network Event, Toronto, Aug 29. [with Lucas Reckling]
• “Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of the Sumerian Language.” LaTeCH-CLfL workshop, Vancouver, Aug 4. [with Maria Sukhareva, Ilya Khait, Christian Chiarcos]
• “History and future developments of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, Victoria, June 4-16.
• “A Quantitative Method for Identifying Meaningful Groups of People in Administrative Cuneiform Archives.” American Oriental Society 227th Meeting, Los Angeles, Mar 17-20.
• “Enhancing Collaboration between Digital Assyriology Projects through Open Access Practices.” CAA international conference, Atlanta, Mar 14-16. [with Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Vanessa Juloux]
• “Expanding Digital Assyriology with Open Access and Machine Learning: CDLI White Paper for the Global Philology Project.” Global Philology Open Conference, Leipzig, Feb 20-23.

• “Data Mining Cuneiform Corpora: Get Relational.” ASOR annual meeting, San Antonio, Nov 16-19.
• “The Fishermen of Early Dynastic Lagash.” American Oriental Society 226th Meeting, Boston, Mar 18-21.

• “Data Mining and Visualizing Data from Cuneiform Texts.” ISAW LAWDI Event: Digital Antiquity Coffee House, New York, Oct 2.
• “La reconstruction du panthéon au 3e millénaire avant notre ère: le cas de la 'déesse mère'.” CIRFF, Montreal, Aug 24-28.

Instructor, Faculty of Oriental Studies

• Enmetena (Sumerian reading), Gudea (Sumerian reading), Akkadian unseen texts, Elementary Sumerian, Law and Administration in Mesopotamia, History and Civilisations of Mesopotamia, Writing Systems

Instructor, Department of Religious Studies

• Religions, Arts and Literature of the Ancient Near East

Instructor, Faculty of the Humanities

• Introduction to Akkadian

Teaching Assistant, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

• The Heartland of Ancient Empires: Mesopotamia, Biblical World, Land of the Pharaohs

Teaching Assistant, Department of History

• {"Ideas of the World II"=>"Prehistory to the Renaissance"}

Research Assistant, Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire online project

Project Manager, CDLI Framework Update (NEH)

Project Coordinator, Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages Project (MTAAC)

• Managed UCLA and Toronto teams

Archaeological Database Manager, Diyala Project

Research Assistant, Epigraphic Mission at the Damascus Museum

• Investigator, Automating Metadata Harvesting for Aggregation in ARIADNE, COST Action IG18128

• SSHRC Doctoral Award
• University of Toronto Fellowship
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship
• School of Graduate Studies Research & Travel Grants, University of Toronto
• American Oriental Society Graduate Scholarship

• Jackman Humanities Institute Junior Fellowship
• University of Toronto Fellowship