Core Team Members
Anne Hunnell Chen, Ph.D.
Project Founder and Co-Director
Holly Rushmeier, Ph.D.
Technical Lead and Project Co-Director
Co-Assistant Director
Co-Assistant Director
Asmaa Shehadeh
Arabic Translation Coordinator
Scott DiGiulio, Ph.D.
Inscriptional Encoding Advisor
Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation
Kat Thornton
Principal Information Architect; Stories Services Collaborative
Kenneth Seals-Nutt
Principal Software Engineer; Stories Services Collaborative
Mia Abboud
Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation
Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation
Graduate Assistant in Inscriptional Documentation
Federica Cuccato
Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation
Coulson Matto
Research Coordinator
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Inscriptional Documentation
Gary Watson
Fellow in Inscriptional Documentation
IDEA_Local Teams
Archival Interventionist
Archival Interventionist
Archival Interventionist/Arabic Translation Coordinator
Archival Interventionist
Archival Interventionist
Current Student Interns
- Bee Hitz
- Jay Evans
- Peter Fields
- Holly Moore
- Charlotte Behrens
- Faith Carle
- Maia Cook
- Ethan Clark
- Adele Auchincloss
- Alex Geldzahler
- Jad Abdel Nour
- Kyran Blau
- Rachel Jacquay
Former Student Assistants
Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli
Helena Grabowska
Mary Jiang
Augustin Johnson
Samantha Simon
Melissa Sidley
Mohamad Eisa
Salman Alnoor
Ali Rajabi
Grace Molinaro
Khadija Ghanizada
Emily Costello
Coulson Matto
Dawson Escott
Praagya Khand
Ruby Rosenblatt
Julia Pelletier
Ruby Rosenblatt
Willa Larson
Conor Hardie
Eleanor Proctor
Elizabeth Tsang
Former Core Team Members
Ilaria Bucci: Post-doctoral fellow in inscriptional documentation
Aïda Sidhoum: Research Coordinator
Carl “CJ” Rice: Junior Faculty Fellow in Inscriptional Documentation
International Advisory Board
Hiba Alkhalaf, Ph.D.
Institute Fellow, Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies (CISA), Birkbeck, University of London
Asaad Alsaleh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Jennifer Baird, Ph.D.
Professor of Archaeology, Dept. of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck University
John Bodel, Ph.D.
W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History, Brown University
Gaëlle Coqueugniot, Ph.D.
Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie in Nanterre (CNRS)
Lena Denis, M.S., M.A.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D.
Professor of Antique Religions, Radboud University
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Ph.D.
AI-Bridges, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Sandra Fauconnier, M.A.
Wikimedia Foundation and Europeana TechCommunity
Blair Fowlkes Childs, Ph.D.
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Felicity Harley-McGowan, Ph.D.
Lecturer in History of Art, Yale Divinity School
Bryan R. Just, Ph.D.
Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Ted Kaizer, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
Eric Kansa, Ph.D.
Project Director, Editor in Chief, Open Context
Matthew McCarty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
Karen Stern, Ph.D.
Professor of History, Brooklyn College