Our Team

Core Team Members

Anne Hunnell Chen, Ph.D.

Project Founder and Co-Director

Holly Rushmeier, Ph.D.

Technical Lead and Project Co-Director

Eleanor Martin

Co-Assistant Director

Emily Helm

Co-Assistant Director

Jihan Assaf

Arabic Translation Coordinator

Scott DiGiulio, Ph.D.

Inscriptional Encoding Advisor

Jasmine Sahu-Hough

Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation

Kat Thornton

Wikimedian in Residence

Kenneth Seals-Nutt

Wikimedian in Residence

Kimiko Adler

Graduate Assistant in Data Development and Curation

Maxime Guénette

Graduate Assistant in Inscriptional Documentation

Federica Cuccato

Graduate Assistant in Inscriptional Documentation

Coulson Matto

Research Coordinator

Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Inscriptional Documentation

Gary Watson

Fellow in Inscriptional Documentation


IDEA_Local Teams

Lamis Bakjaji

Archival Interventionist

Bahaa Abdallah

Archival Interventionist

Adnan Al Mohamad

Archival Interventionist/Arabic Translation Coordinator

Hazem Al Khleaf

Archival Interventionist

Yasser Showhan

Archival Interventionist

Current Student Interns
  • Bee Hitz
  • Jay Evans
  • Peter Fields
  • Holly Moore
  • Charlotte Behrens
  • Faith Carle
  • Maia Cook
  • Ethan Clark
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

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

Lisa Brody, Ph. D.

Associate Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery

Gaëlle Coqueugniot, Ph.D.

Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie in Nanterre (CNRS)

Lena Denis, MS, MA

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries

Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D.

Professor of Antique Religions, Radboud University

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

Ted Kaizer, Ph.D.

Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University

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