About

I am a palaeographer, epigraphist, and papyrologist with a research focus in ancient religion and magic. I hold a PhD in Classics and Medieval Studies (concurrent) and an MA in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley.

My work in papyrology began at Berkeley, where I was appointed Assistant to the Curator of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California while completing my Ph.D.  I have developed a specialization in papyri that contribute to the history of magic and religion, and to the history of the astral sciences. Since 2016, I have been a member of the editorial board for the Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies project at the University of Chicago. I am an ongoing contributor to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series (P. Oxy.), and a member of the ERC-funded ZODIAC project at Freie Universität Berlin (2021–2026), studying the transmission of astrological texts in Greek papyri.

An interest in epigraphy has led to my employment since 2012 with the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, a leading annual survey of new developments in Greek inscriptions. Currently I am a Senior Editor of the project, responsible for the Greek epigraphy of the Near, Middle, and Far East and Egypt. From 2016 to 2021 I was Researcher for another long-running project for which inscriptions are a key source, the Lexicon Greek Personal Names (LGPN) at the University of Oxford. As a co-editor of the Volume VI, I had a particular focus on Greek names attested in Semitic-language sources. I am now also contributing to international projects on graffiti from the Ptah temple at Karnak (ancient Thebes, Egypt) and inscriptions from Deir Anba Hadra (Aswan).

Listen to a podcast about my work on Coptic and  Byzantine magic here.