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Recent and ongoing research projects include:
Astronomy, Calendar, And Related Sciences In Near Eastern Cultures, Third-Eighth Centuries CE (2025-2030) This UKRI Frontier Research Grant funded project investigates the history of astronomy, calendar computation, and related sciences in the Near East (3rd-8th centuries CE), highlighting minority cultures' contributions to science and knowledge
Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish (2019-2022) An AHRC funded project describing and analysing the grammatical and sociolinguistic features characteristic of the Yiddish used by Hasidic communities worldwide
Introducing Assyrian Medicine: Healthcare Fit for a King (2020-2023) This is a Wellcome Funded Research Resources Award at the British Museum and UCL to publish online the cuneiform Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia from the 7th century BCE Royal Library of Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Saadya Gaon’s Works on the Jewish Calendar: Near Eastern Sources and Transmission to the West (2021-2023) This Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded project investigates Saadya Gaon’s literary production on the calendar
Qaraite and Rabbanite calendars: origins, interaction, and polemic (2018–2021) This Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded project investigates the origins of the Qaraite and fixed Rabbanite calendars and studies the calendar disagreement between Qaraites and Rabbanites