- Trade between Sumer/Akkad and the Indus Valley in the mid 3rd millennium to mid 2nd millennium., The Minoan Linear A script, The Indus Valley Script, History of the Silk Road, Ancient History, Archaeology of the Aegean to South Asia, and 20 moreHistory, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Classics, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Archeologia medievale, Ports & Maritime Security, Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, Medieval Mediterranean, Maritime trade, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Dromography (Historic Routes Research), Maritime Transport Geography, Maritime Greek Trade, Historical Network Research, Viewshed GIS, Historical network analysis, Complexity Theory (History), and Medieval Archaeologyedit
- Read for second undergraduate degree in Historical Linguistics at Cambridge University. Advanced tutoring during the... moreRead for second undergraduate degree in Historical Linguistics at Cambridge University. Advanced tutoring during the Cambridge years at Oxford. I was allowed to read across departments at Cambridge so I read Linguistics, Archaeology, Linear B in Classics and Sanskrit in the Orientals Faculty.
Second M. A., Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania. My Masters degree was in 3 parts: South Asian archaeology, ancient history and ancient Indo-Iranian linguistics.
Intern, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Ph.D. Candidate, l`Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (dropped out-fed up with it going too slowly)
Excavation Staff, Harvard Semetic Museum`s Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, Israel (2008 season)
First B.A., Cinema Production, University of Southern California
First M.A. was an M.F.A., Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
Playwright-in-Residence, Dramatic Risks Theatre Company, New York Cityedit - John T. Killen, Advisor, (Linear A & B), Classics Faculty, Cambridge, John Chadwick, Advisor, Linear B, Cambridge, Dilip Chakrabarti, Archaeology, Cambridge, Elizabeth Tucker, Vedic, Oxford, Lance Cousins, Prakrit, Oxford, Ludo Rocher, Sanskrit, University of Pennsylvania, George Cardona, Main Advisor & Sanskrit, University of Pennsylvania, Greg Possehl, Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, Aditya Behl, Personal Advisor, University of Pennsylvania, Georges-Jean Pinault, Advisor, l`Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudesedit
A morphological analysis of the Linear A script to determine morph/word parameters in attestation strings.
Research Interests:
Arguments regarding the single exception in the Linear B syllabary of a voiceless stop consonant cluster: pte.
Research Interests:
An analysis of uncommon strings of signs within attestation in the Indus Valley Script in order to isolate phonetic signs from non-phonetic signs