I work on problems related to ancient and Classical Indo-European languages and literatures, especially the Greek language and early Greek epic. Combining philological methodologies and formal linguistics, my work addresses two key questions:
How did Indo-European languages evolve from prehistory to their earliest attestations?
How can we extrapolate from ancient languages (attested and reconstructed) and Classical literatures to draw meaningful conclusions about the material world of the distant past?
Specific topics of research include descriptions of weather and climate phenomena in early Greek epic, the inherited Indo-European climate and weather vocabulary, ancient Greek verbal morphology (in particular, the nasal present class in epic and classical Greek), ancient Greek phonology and sound change, and Vedic Sanskrit verbal morphology.
I am currently a fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. I recently finished a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship within the Roots of Europe Centre at the University of Copenhagen. I completed my PhD at the Harvard Department of Linguistics, advised by Dr. Jeremy Rau.