I received my Ph.D. from the department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Yale University. My specialization is the Classical Near East, a field which focuses on the formation of various religious, intellectual and literary traditions that shaped the history of the Near East in the first millennium and beyond, crossing political and religious borders between the Byzantine and the Islamic worlds. Bridging disciplinary boundaries, I study primary materials that shed light on how religious communities defined themselves and reacted to linguistic change after the Arab conquest. At FSC, I leverage my language skills to teach World History courses from antiquity to premodern times.