Curriculum vitae

Academic Positions

• 2022–2024 Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany

• 2018–2022 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (Full-time), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge, UK

• 2018–2022 Research Associate (Part-time), Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge

• 2020–2022 Fellow and Tutor, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge

• 2019–2020 Research Fellow, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge

• 2019 Visiting Scholar, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

• 2018 Research Assistant (Part-time), Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge

Education

• 2018 PhD in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, FAMES, University of Cambridge

• 2014 MPhil in Hebrew Studies (Merit), FAMES, University of Cambridge

• 2013 BA in Arabic & Theology (1st class honours; final grade: 80%), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

• 2010 University of Damascus, Syria (Year Abroad)

Funding and Awards

Postdoctoral Awards and Funding

• Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) (January 2022–April 2024).

• Recipient of a Cambridge Fellowship for ‘The Introduction to Islamic Codicology’ Course, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (23–27 September 2019).

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, FAMES, University of Cambridge (1 October 2018–18 January 2022).

Doctoral Scholarships and Grants

• ‘Le Bas Award’, Cambridge Home and European Scholarship Scheme (CHESS) Award, (October 2014–February 2018)
• Rothschild Hanadiv (Europe) Foundation Fieldwork Grant (October 2014–February 2018)
• Rothschild Hanadiv (Europe) 3-Years of PhD Funding (declined)
• Fieldwork Expenses Grant, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (2017)
• Martin Hinds Travel Fund Grant, FAMES, University of Cambridge (2014)

Undergraduate Award

• Dean’s Award for Excellence, University of Exeter (2013)

Welfare, Supervising, and Outreach

• 2020–2022 Graduate Tutor at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge
• 22 August 2019 ‘Introduction to the Cairo Genizah’, talk for attendees of the Sutton Trust Summer School, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library
• 20–23 August 2019 Mentor for Sutton Trust Summer School, FAMES, University of Cambridge
• 24 November 2018 ‘Judaeo-Arabic: The Language Variety of Jews in Arab Lands’, Masterclasses for Prospective Undergraduates, University of Cambridge (Invited Speaker)
• 19–22 August 2018 Mentor for Sutton Trust Summer School, FAMES, University of Cambridge
• 2017–2018 Classical Arabic Grammar supervisions at MPhil level, FAMES, University of Cambridge, 2–4 hours per week

Committee Memberships

• 2019–2022 Governing Body, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge
• 2019–2021 Research Committee, FAMES, University of Cambridge
• 2020–2022 Von Hügel Institute Committee, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge
• 2021–2022 Arts Committee, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge
• 2020 Athena SWAN Bronze Award Application, FAMES, University of Cambridge
• 2019–2020 Fellows’ Stewards Committee, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge

Conference and Seminar Presentations

• 09 November 2021 ‘Qur’an Fragments in the Cairo Genizah Collections’, The Long Room Hub and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, with Nick Posegay (Invited Speaker)
• 22 December 2020 ‘Qur’an Fragments in the Cairo Genizah Collections’, Research Colloquium for Doctoral Students, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität
• 15 December 2020 ‘Judaeo-Arabic’, Chat with PhD candidates at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität on Judaeo-Arabic philology
• 22 January 2020 ‘Medieval manuscripts of the Qur’an’, Late Antique and Medieval Middle East (LAMMEC) Seminar, FAMES, Cambridge, with Nick Posegay
• 16 January 2020 ‘Arabic and Romance Influences on Late Judaeo-Arabic Orthography’, DMES Seminar, FAMES, University of Cambridge (Invited Speaker)
• 25 October 2019 6-minute presentation, Research Salon, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge (Invited Speaker)
• 23–24 May 2019 Respondent to Prof. Clive Holes and Dr. Liesbeth Zack at Ottoman Arabic Workshop, Woolf Institute, Cambridge
• 11–13 February 2019 Respondent to Dr. Rachel Hasson at Parenting, Schooling and Identity Formation and Reformation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (Invited Speaker)
• 15 November 2017 ‘Recent Research on Judaeo-Arabic’, Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge
• 24 May 2017 ‘Some Orthographic Features of Judaeo-Arabic Letters and Folk Narratives from the Ottoman Period’, Graduate Symposium, University of Cambridge
• 20–21 April 2017 ‘Adverbial Subordination in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Muslim Middle Arabic Folk Narratives from the Ottoman Period’, The Arabic Literary Genizot: Beyond Denominational Borders, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
• 20–24 March 2017 ‘A Diachronic Examination of Some Functions of Prepositions in Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters from the Ottoman Period’, International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA), University of Strasbourg, France
• 23 November 2016 ‘Revisiting the Question of ğīm from the Perspective of Judaeo-Arabic’, Semitic Linguistics Seminar, University of Cambridge
• 21–22 April 2016 ‘Some Functions of Prepositions in a 19th c. Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative’, Ottoman Arabic Workshop, FAMES, University of Cambridge
• 9–12 March 2016 ‘Genre-specific Variation in Code-Switching in Judaeo-Arabic Letters’, HiSON, University of Helsinki, Finland, co-presented with Dr. Esther-Miriam Wagner

Conference and Seminar Organisation

• January–July 2021 Lead organiser of the Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive online program (5–16 July 2021)

• 24 May 2021 Lead organiser of Ask the Professors! FAMES’ Research Day Event 2021

• January–July 2020 Lead organiser of the Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive online program (1–12 July 2020)

• January 2018–July 2019 Lead organiser of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew: New perspectives in philology and linguistics (8–10 July 2019), Jesus College, University of Cambridge

• January–July 2019 Lead organiser of the Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive summer school (1–12 July 2019)
• January–July 2018 Co-organiser of the Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive summer school (1–12 July 2018)
• 2016–2017 Co-organiser of the Bilingual Code-Switching Reading Group, University of Cambridge, an inter-disciplinary group aimed at strengthening ties between FAMES, the English Faculty and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
• 3–4 October 2016 Member of the organising committee for the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching Conference, University of Cambridge