Dissertation

“Through the Grapevine: Tracing the Origins of Wine” (Advisors: C. López-Ruiz [Classics], B. Joseph [Linguistics], S. Meier [Near Eastern Languages and Cultures]) 

Research Interests

• Connections between Greece and the Near East
• Ancient Mediterranean Religions
• Greek, Latin, and Indo-European Linguistics 

Article

“Evidence for Adverbial Origins of Final –ς on the Medieval and Modern Greek –οντας Participle”, Journal of Greek Linguistics 13.1 (Spring 2013)

Conferences

• American Philological Association, Chicago, January 2014: "From Hebrew to Latin: Verbs in Translation in the Book of Ecclesiastes"
• Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 2013: "From Hebrew to Greek: Verbs in Translation in the Book of Ecclesiastes"
• Duke-UNC Classics Colloquium, Duke University, April 2013: “Community Under Siege: Jewish Identity During the Time of the Maccabees”
• The 10th Annual Martin Luther King Linguistics Symposium, Ohio State University, January 2013: “Wine and the Early Indo-Europeans”
• Midwestern Consortium for Greek Linguistics, University of Chicago, March 2012: “The origins of the –ονταςparticiple in Medieval and Modern Greek”

Courses Taught

• Graduate seminar on Jews in the Greco-Roman World, Methodist Theological Seminary of Ohio, August-December 2013
• Introductory Latin (two-semester course), Wittenberg University, August 2013-May 2014
• Introductory Greek (two-semester course), Wittenberg University, August 2012-May 2013
• Introductory Greek (two-semester course), Ohio State University, August 2012-May 2013
• Introductory Latin (four-quarter course), Ohio State University, March 2011-June 2012
• Classical Mythology, Ohio State University, June 2011-August 2011
• Ancient Greek Literature (TA), Ohio State University, January-March 2011
• Classical Background of Scientific Terminology (online), Ohio State University, September-December 2010
• Generative Syntax (TA), University of Georgia, August-December 2008
• Elementary Greek (four semesters, TA), Lee University, August 2005-May 2007
• Spanish Laboratory (two semesters of two sections each), Lee University, August 2004-May 2005

Languages

• Full proficiency: English, Spanish
• Full reading and teaching proficiency: Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Portuguese
• Teaching proficiency: Biblical Hebrew, Gothic
• Philological proficiency: Sanskrit (Vedic/Classical), Avestan (Young), Hittite, Old Irish, Akkadian (Middle Babylonian), Egyptian (Middle)