I am a graduate student at Harvard University studying ancient Egypt. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Hendrix College in 2016, followed by a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University in 2021. My master’s thesis focused on a single object—a cippus—and how photogrammetry, reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), and digital epigraphy could enrich understandings of items within museum collections. My interest in Egypt focusses on the Late Period (664-332 BCE) and includes questions of trade and production. Specifically of interest for me are questions concerning how the proletariat acquired and processed the goods for clothing, eating, drinking, and other daily life activities. My primary focus is on the common people and the items they would have interacted with on a daily basis.
My interests in the digital humanities are oriented around public education and museum collections. This includes but is not limited to 3D models of objects in museum collections using photogrammetry, RTI to increase readability of inscriptions, digital epigraphy to collate inscriptions, and ArcGIS to visualize cities and landscapes.
I have presented on the application of new technology in ancient studies at conferences. In 2019 I presented a poster on the application of the program Anki for learning ancient languages. In 2021, I presented my research for my master’s thesis as part of a panel concerning technology in ancient studies.