Yale University

Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

About

My main interests, among other themes, lies in questions concerning language ideology and language use and their applicability to ancient cultures. I am also engaged in a study of the ancient Egyptian scribal culture throughout the different periods, and in comparison to other premodern cultures. Furthermore, I am generally interested in critical approaches to philology and in the intersection of intellectual history and Egyptology.

I received a BA in Judaic studies and Biblical studies (2006) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where I also finished my MA (2008) under the supervision of Prof. Orly Goldwasser, Hebrew University and University of Göttingen. My master's thesis looked into the syncretism between Baal and Seth and the conceptual changes regarding Seth as reflected in the ancient Egyptian classifier system. In 2010, I began my Ph.D. in the Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations at Yale University.

In the last couple of years I have been focusing on the phenomenon of classifiers in ancient Egyptian. I participated in the research project COST A31: 'Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective,' and in a research group of the German Israeli foundation “Ancient Egyptian Classifiers in Diachronic Perspective,” under the supervision of Prof. Frank Kammerzell, Humboldt Universität and Prof. Orly Goldwasser.