CV

Research Fellow

Research Associate

Data Engineer

Research Fellow

Junior Research Fellow of Assyriology

Staff Research Associate

Postdoctoral Guest Fellow

Research Associate

Predoctoral Guest Fellow

Ph.D., Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

M.A., Mesopotamian Studies

B.A., Religious Studies

Principal Investigator, Towards Universal Access to Cuneiform Heritage

Co-Principal Investigator, Iraqi Heritage Collections Care and Digital Stewardship Network

Co-Principal Investigator, Access to Cuneiform Texts (ACT)

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

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

Principal Investigator, Linked Dictionaries (seed grant)

• Emerging Open Scholarship Award, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute

• Access to Cuneiform Texts workshops, universities of Al-Qadisiyah, Babil, Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq. With Jaafar Jotheri, Haider Aqeel and Rune Rattenborg.

• Towards Adaptation: Environmental Sustainability in Archaeological Workflows. Theoretical Archaeology Group, York, 15–17 December. With Anne Baillot.
• Writing the Dawn of the Anthropocene. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 70, Prague, 7–11 July. With Christie Carr and Rune Rattenborg.
• Reusable Digital Research Workflows for Archaeology. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Athens, 5–9 May. With Agiatis Benardou, Anne Baillot and Julian Richards.

• Cuneiform in the Age of Digital Archaeology: Online Resources for the Integration of Text and Material Culture. ICAANE, Copenhagen, 22–26 May. With Rune Rattenborg.

• Vocabularies Consortium, three workshops of the Geomapping Landscapes of Writing project, online, Uppsala and Oxford. With Rune Rattenborg and Adam Anderson.

• Methodological Developments in Prosopographical Studies. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, 16–20 July.

• Text as Data: Digital Humanities for Text Analysis. American Oriental Society, Los Angeles, 17–20 March. With Timothy Bellefleur.

• Access at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, University of Copenhagen, 1–5 June.
• Access Improvements to Digital Cuneiform Heritage. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, 26 May.
• Access and 'Digital Repatriation' of Cuneiform Heritage. DAH Lab Digital Lunch, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 27 March.

• Linked Open Data in Cuneiform Studies: Present and Future. London Centre for the Ancient Near East seminar, 15 December.
• Documentation and Data Management (panel). Digital Heritage Conference, Riyadh, 9–10 December.
• Digital Cuneiform: Consolidation, Research, and Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Linguistics Colloquium, Augsburg, 12 November.
• From Cuneiform Tablets to Knowledge Graphs: Assyriological Metadata Standards in Context. Hydrography of Mesopotamia (HyMes) conference, Bern, 16–19 October.

• Use and Reuse of Information Extraction and Other Computational Approaches to Cuneiform Text. Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab, University of Cambridge, 4 November.

• Using the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in Your Research Workflow. Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, Helsinki, 18 August.
• From Clay to Bytes: Ancient Cuneiform in the Age of AI. Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Oxford, 6 July.

• Sustainability and Success at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Zugang gestalten!, Hamburg, 19–21 October.
• The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, Uppsala, 1–2 August.
• From Clay to Bytes: Ancient Cuneiform in the Age of AI. Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Oxford, 12 July.
• All the Things They Wrote on Clay: Exploring the Quantitative Dimensions of the Cuneiform Corpus. Uppsala University, 16 June. With Rune Rattenborg and Seraina Nett.
• The Pantheons of Adab: Texts and Contexts. Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, 7 June.

• Digital Library Organization and Accessibility. Future Philology: Digitization and Beyond, University of Oxford, 30 September – 1 October.
• The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: Infrastructure. Status quo und aktuelle Entwicklungen zu digitalen Keilschrifteditionen, Mainz, 1–2 March.

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Bibliography Management. Metadata in Assyriology, Uppsala, 23–26 November.
• The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. TextWorlds seminar, Uppsala, 21 October.
• Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages. Digging into Data Challenge conference, National Science Foundation, Alexandria VA, 29–31 January.

• New Technologies for Cuneiform Studies: Processing and Linking Textual Data, and Sumerian Annotation Workshop (with Jinyan Wang and Ilya Khait). UC Berkeley, 8 April.

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

• E-philologie d'aujourd'hui et demain ; Hypothes.is comme outil pédagogique ; Réflexion sur la visualisation des données appliquée aux corpus en cunéiforme. Caf'E.PHE, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.

• Enhancing the ARIADNE Portal through European Collaboration. Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, 2–3 September. With Sarah Middle and Julian Richards.
• Knowledge Infrastructures for Artifacts Inscribed with Cuneiform: Aggregating CDLI Records into the ARIADNE Portal. BANEA, London, 22–24 April.
• Digital Heritage Repatriation: The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in Arabic. BANEA, London, 22–24 April. With Rune Rattenborg, Haider Aqeel and Jaafar Jotheri.

• Go with the (Work)flow! Creating Reusable and Replicable Workflows for Digital Humanities Research (poster). DH Benelux, Amsterdam, 3–6 June. With Anne Baillot, Megan Black, Toma Tasovac and Matej Durco.
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: A Free Database of All Cuneiform Texts. 6th International Conference of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Al-Qadisiyah University, 25 February. With Rune Rattenborg, Jacob L. Dahl, Bertrand Lafont and Jürgen Renn.

• DEMCC: The First Online Cuneiform Texts Database in China. OpenDANES, online, 8 December. With Changyu Liu, Qier Zhang, Jing Tan and Muzhe Han.
• The ARIADNE Portal at the Heart of the ATRIUM Project. DaSCHCon, Bern, 23 October. With Julian Richards and Anne Baillot.
• We Got Cuneiform, Do You? How to Collaborate on the CDLI Framework. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, 8–12 July. With Rune Rattenborg, Jacob L. Dahl, Bertrand Lafont and Jürgen Renn.

• From Transcription to Network Analysis on Evolving Corpora. Digital Text Studies workshop, Wolfson College, Oxford, 7 June.
• A Matter of Access: Leveraging Text, Metadata, and Images of Cuneiform Artifacts by Non-Linguists. ICAANE, Copenhagen, 22–26 May.

• Building ETCSANS: The Electronic Text Corpus of Syntactically Annotated Neo-Sumerian. Digital Humanities 2022, Tokyo (online), 25–29 July. With Christian Chiarcos.
• The Vocabularies Consortium: Best Practices for Entity Standardisation and Controlled Vocabularies for Inscribed Artefact Metadata. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Mainz (online), 25–29 July. With Rune Rattenborg and Adam Anderson.

• Interoperability of the CDLI Catalogue. ArtiBites workshop, ASOR annual meeting, online, 9–12 December.
• A Next Generation Infrastructure for Digital Assyriology. Association for Computers and the Humanities, online, 21–23 July. With Christian Chiarcos.

• Open Science at the CDLI: Focus on Collaboration and Accessibility. Recent Developments in Digital Assyriology, Helsinki (online), 26–27 August.

• The MTAAC Project: Computational Analysis for Sumerian. Broadening Horizons, Berlin, 24–28 June. With Ilya Khait.

• A Sustainable Domain Digital Library: The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. NDSA Digital Preservation conference, Las Vegas, 17–18 October.
• Sustaining DL Services: The Case of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, 15–17 October.
• Cuneiform Collections as (Linked) Data. Collections as Data workshop, Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, 15–17 October.
• The Scribes of Adab. Methodological Developments in Prosopographical Studies, Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, 16–20 July.

• Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data. ASOR annual meeting, Boston, 15–18 November. With Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller.
• Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages. Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies symposium, Toronto, 30 September; and Digital Humanities Network, Toronto, 29 August. With Lucas Reckling.
• Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of the Sumerian Language. LaTeCH-CLfL, Vancouver, 4 August. With Maria Sukhareva, Ilya Khait and Christian Chiarcos.
• History and Future Developments of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Digital Humanities Summer Institute colloquium, Victoria, June.
• A Quantitative Method for Identifying Meaningful Groups of People in Administrative Cuneiform Archives. American Oriental Society, Los Angeles, 17–20 March.
• Enhancing Collaboration between Digital Assyriology Projects through Open Access Practices. CAA, Atlanta, 14–16 March. With Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Vanessa Juloux.
• Expanding Digital Assyriology with Open Access and Machine Learning: CDLI White Paper for the Global Philology Project. Global Philology Open Conference, Leipzig, 20–23 February.

• Data Mining Cuneiform Corpora: Get Relational. ASOR annual meeting, San Antonio, November 2016.
• The Fishermen of Early Dynastic Lagash. American Oriental Society, Boston, March 2016.
• Data Mining and Visualizing Data from Cuneiform Texts. ISAW LAWDI Digital Antiquity Coffee House, New York, October 2015.
• La reconstruction du panthéon au 3e millénaire avant notre ère : le cas de la « déesse mère ». CIRFF, Montreal, August 2015.

Enmetena (Sumerian reading)

Gudea (Sumerian reading)

Akkadian Unseen Texts (graduate)

Elementary Sumerian

Law and Administration in Mesopotamia

History and Civilisations of Mesopotamia; Writing Systems

The Heartland of Ancient Empires: Mesopotamia

Religions, Arts and Literature of the Ancient Near East

Biblical World

Ideas of the World II, Prehistory to the Renaissance

Land of the Pharaohs

Introduction to Akkadian

Research Assistant, Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire online

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

Project Manager and acting PI, CDLI Framework Update

Archaeological Database Manager, Diyala Project

Research Assistant, epigraphic mission at the Damascus Museum

• Short Term Scientific Mission grant, COST Action IG18128: Automating Metadata Harvesting for Aggregation in ARIADNE, CNR-ISTI Pisa (€1,500)

• University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award ($6,000 per year)

• SSHRC Doctoral Award ($20,000 per year)
• University of Toronto Fellowship; School of Graduate Studies research and travel grants; Digital Humanities Summer Institute scholarship; American Oriental Society graduate scholarship

• Jackman Humanities Institute Junior Fellowship ($5,000 per year)
• University of Toronto Fellowship ($23,500 per year)

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000, declined)