I’m a historian of the ancient Near East with a focus on the science and
scholarship of first
millennium Mesopotamia. Currently I serve as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of
British Columbia.
My research investigates the role of layout and structure of material text and their relation to
the
transmission and receptions of scientific knowledge. Most of my primary sources are Astronomical
and
Astrological cuneiform texts from ancient Iraq.
I’m currently writing a book entitled The Micro-zodiac Texts from Seleucid Babylonia with
translations of a number of cuneiform tablets from southern Iraq dating to the Hellenistic
period
(4th-2nd c. BCE). The book investigates the changing nature of astrology during the end of
cuneiform
culture.