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Selected Presentations & Appearances


More Than Records: The Case for Archives as Cultural Heritage - Institute of Advanced Study Creative & Research Collaborative: Interrogating Archives Working Group · March 2025 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Minnesota , Minneapolis
Turning the Page: Forgotten Texts, Rescue Apologetics, and Manuscript Collections - The Future of the Past Lab: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History · March 2025 Lecture University of Minnesota , Minneapolis
Manuscripts in Conflict: The Bibliothèque Orientale During WWI - New Directions in The Study of the Arab World, Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop · February 2025 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium NYU, Abu Dhabi
Reassembling the Orient: Louis Cheikho and the Bibliothèque Orientale · November 2024 International Meeting or Conference Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting,
“Our Manuscripts Have Been in Great Danger in Recent Days": The Bibliothèque Orientale, Beirut, and the Trials of World War I - Annual Meeting · November 2024 International Meeting or Conference American Academy of Religion, San Diego
Retelling the Story: Claudius Rich’s Syriac Manuscripts - Syriac Studies in the UK: Past, Present, Future · March 2024 International Meeting or Conference Durham University, Durham, U.K.
Desiring Manuscripts: From Biblical Truth to Preservation and Progress - Digital Humanities 2.0 · March 2023 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Authoritative Texts and Their Receptions, Athens, Greece
Power and Appropriation: Manuscript Catalogues · November 2022 International Meeting or Conference American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO
Langue et Pouvoir: Le Commentaire de Daniel de Salah sur le Psaume 83 - XIII Symposium Syriacum · 2022 International Meeting or Conference INALCO, Paris, France
Experiencing Language: Elias of Nisibis and Arabic - Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies · 2022 National Scientific Meeting Fordham University,
'Foreign to Divine Order and Ecclesiastical Rule': the Career of Melitius of Lycopolis - North American Patristics Society · 2022 International Meeting or Conference
A Syriac Orthodox Community of Discourse: From Timothy Aelurus to Daniel of Salah - Inaugural Graduate Conference on Early Christian Studies · 2022 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Notre Dame,
Orientalism, Disorientation, and 'the Other Side of the World' - Middle East Graduate Seminar · 2022 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University,
Syriac OCR on escriptorium · 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Beth Mardutho,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Speaker - From Dirty to Unstable: The Middle East and Manuscripts · June 26, 2023 Research SWANA Forum for Social Justice , University College London

Service to the Profession


Co-Organizer - Performing the Sacred: Soundscapes and Senses in the Late Ancient and Medieval World · April 2024 Event/Organization Administration Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies,
Research Associate - Sinai Manuscripts Data Portal Project · 2023 Editorial Activities UCLA,
Member of External Planning Committee - Dorushe Graduate Student Conference · 2022 Event/Organization Administration Fordham University,
Annotations Editor - Antioch Bible · 2021 - 2022 Editorial Activities Gorgias Press,

Service to Duke


Arabic Language Examiner · 2022 Other History Department,

Academic & Administrative Activities


Mentor, MA Mentorship Program, Department of Religious Studies, 2023

Graduate Coordinator, Middle East Graduate Seminar, 2021-2023 

Graduate Student Representative, Department of Religious Studies, 2022 - 2023

Graduate Affiliate, Manuscript Migration Lab, 2020-2023