Education

• PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (in progress)
  University of California, Los Angeles
• Master of Arts in Religion (2021)
  concentration: Second Temple Judaism
  Yale Divinity School
• Master of Divinity (2015)
  Lubbock Christian University

Research

• Judaism in the Second Temple Period
• Hebrew Bible
• The Judean Settlement at Elephantine, Egypt
• Aramaic Texts and Inscriptions
• The Achaemenid Empire
• Diaspora and the Early Formation of Jewish Identity and Religion
• Aramaic Dialects
• Hebrew and Northwestern Semitic Dialects

Honors & Awards

• Christian Scholarship Foundation Board Scholarship, 2023-2024
• UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship, 2022-2023
• UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2022
• Abraham Malherbe Scholarship, Yale Divinity School, 2020

Courses

• Women and Power in the Ancient World – Summer, Fall 2022; Summer 2023
• The Achaemenid Empire and the Rise of Alexander the Great – Winter 2022
• Intro to Judaism – Spring 2022
• History of Ancient Egypt, part 1 (Pre-Dynastic Period – Old Kingdom) – Fall 2023