I joined King’s in 2022. I have a PhD in Ancient Greek and Anatolian languages from UCL. In Spring 2026, I will hold an ANAMED Postdoctoral Fellowship, Koç University, Istanbul, ‘Authority and anonymity in early Hittite texts: law, language and power’. 

Research Interests and PhD supervision

• Historical Sociolinguistics
• Hittite
• Ancient Greek
• Digital Humanities

I am a historical sociolinguist working on Hittite (and the other languages of ancient Anatolia) and Ancient Greek. My research includes both the history of the languages themselves and the history of ideas about language. I am also interested in digital approaches to historical linguistics.

Selected publications

(2026) ‘Digital linguistic methods and approaches’ in E. Barker, O. Bobou & R. Raja ed. Oxford Handbook for Digital Classical Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

with Judson, Anna P., & Victoria Leonard (2023) ‘Wikipedia in Classics Education’, Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments, 52. https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/09/Wikipedia-in-Classics-Education.pdf

(2022) ‘Rewriting the Law: diachronic variation and register in Greek and Hittite legal language.’ in M. Bianconi, M. Capano et al. ed. Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages. Between Linguistics and Philology, Leiden: Brill

Book chapters

2022) ‘Rewriting the Law’ in M. Bianconi, M. Capano et al. ed. Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages. Between Linguistics and Philology, Leiden: Brill

Reviews

Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek, eds. Denizot and Spivak (2017), Linguist List 29.4024, 17 Oct 2018 https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-4024.html 

Teaching

I primarily teach ancient languages, especially at beginners level, including Ancient Greek, Latin and Hittite. I also regularly contribute to SunoikisisDC[link], an international consortium of digital classics programmes, and teach Digital Classics as part of the London Intercollegiate MA programmes. I am keen to promote the teaching of less-commonly taught ancient languages (i.e. those other than Ancient Greek and Latin) in the UK and internationally.

Expertise and public engagement

I appeared on the Aegean Connections podcast in August 2025.

I am a member of the #WCCWiki project.

London Centre for the Ancient Near East