Past Fellows & Interns

Since 2018, our summer fellowships and internships have brought graduate students, early career scholars, and seminarians to Beth Mardutho to work on Syriac Digital Humanities projects.

2025 Fellows & Interns

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  Brenna Salverson

  PTS Intern

  Brenna Salverson is a summer intern at Beth Mardutho and a master’s student at Princeton Theological Seminary. She intends to pursue a PhD in Hebrew Bible following her graduate studies at PTS. Her research interests include biblical poetry, the visual arts, reception history, and scribalism. She continues the long-term project of digitizing books in the Beth Mardutho library, encodes Hugoye articles, and engages in community building.

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  Katie Painter

  Summer DH Fellow

  Katie Painter was a 2025 summer DH fellow. An incoming DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford in Theology and Religion (Trinity College), her dissertation focuses on inspiration and prophetic speech in Syriac poetry. Katie earned an MPhil in Theology and Religion from Oxford (Blackfriars Hall) and a BA/MA in Classics at Yale with a second major in Religious Studies. At Beth Mardutho, she worked on a study Bible with footnotes summarizing key points of Ephrem’s Commentary on the Diatessaron. She also evaluated the efficacy of generative AI to help summarize Syriac texts accurately and efficiently for lay readers.

2024 Fellows & Interns

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  Slavomír Čéplö, PhD

  Seibel Fellow

  Slavomír Čéplö is the 2024 Seibel Fellow. He earned his PhD in Mathematical Linguistics from the Charles University in Prague in 2018. He has published extensively on Maltese linguistics, Arabic dialectology, creole linguistics and Christian apocrypha. He has also worked on a number of DH projects including HunayNNET and MPCD. At Beth Mardutho, he is responsible for the entire corpus-building pipeline, including developing NLP tools and models for Syriac.

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  Jillian Marcantonio

  Summer Fellow

  Jillian Marcantonio was a Digital Humanities Fellow. A doctoral candidate at Duke University, she studies late ancient hymnography and history of doctrine. Her research examines the theological imagination crafted by liturgical poets in the Syriac and Greek traditions and currently focuses on the Holy Spirit. She previously worked for Beth Mardutho on projects such as SEDRA and Tesseract 4.0 for Syriac. In summer 2024, she updated the online catalog of the Beth Mardutho library collection.

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  Aimee Hannoush

  Summer Fellow

  Aimee Hannoush was a Digital Humanities Fellow. She is a master’s student in Early Christian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, with an undergraduate degree in history. She is especially interested in Syriac liturgy, music, and poetry. In the future, she hopes to make Syriac resources more available to scholars and members of the Syriac churches. She worked with Beth Mardutho several years ago and in summer 2024 tagged Syriac texts.

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  Nathan King

  PTS Intern

  Nathan King is an Intern for the 2024–2025 academic year and a second-year graduate student pursuing a Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). His research interests include the Hebrew Bible and ancient Middle Eastern studies, specifically within the intersection of linguistics, orality, and early conceptions of divinity. Following his time at PTS, he desires to pursue a PhD in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Middle Eastern studies. At Beth Mardutho, he is working on scanning library collections.

2023 Fellows & Interns

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  Michael David Ethington

  Seibel Fellow

  Michael David Ethington was the 2023 Seibel Fellow at Beth Mardutho. A master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Padua, he is currently writing a thesis on the Life of Rabban Bar ʿIrdta. His research interests are on Syriac hagiography and Syriac missionary work in the Silk Road. At Beth Mardutho, he worked on metadata and OCR for Simtho.

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  Paul Gillett

  Summer Fellow

  Paul Gillett was a Summer Fellow in Digital Humanities in 2023. A master’s student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he graduated from the Catholic University of America in 2022 with a BA in Philosophy and two years of Syriac classes with Aaron Butts and Monica Blanchard. His research interests are in Syriac grammar broadly and in developing tools to enable more convenient study of syntactic data and lexical use.

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  Matt Green

  PTS Intern

  Matt Green was a summer Intern at Beth Mardutho and a master’s student at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). His research interests include the poetics of the Hebrew Bible, the tension between artistic traditions and individual creativity, and aesthetic theory. He plans to pursue a PhD in biblical studies, with a focus on biblical poetry, following his time at PTS.

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  Mickey Hamilton

  PTS Intern

  Mickey Hamilton was an Intern at Beth Mardutho for the 2023–2024 academic year. A master’s student at Princeton Theological Seminary, her research interests include feminist readings of the Hebrew Bible, ecocriticism, and metaphor theory. She plans to pursue a PhD in biblical studies with a focus on feminist criticism following her time at PTS. At Beth Mardutho she continued the long-term project scanning the research library’s collection.

2022 Fellows & Interns

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  Saranya Chandran

  Summer Fellow

  Saranya Chandran was the Edward Y. Hannoush Memorial Fellow. A masters student at Central European University, Vienna, her research interests are Garshuni Malayalam, Arabi Malayalam, linguistics, and digital humanities. She trained an East Syriac OCR/HTR model and FLex Malayalam at Beth Mardutho in summer 2022.

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  Giovanni DiRusso

  Summer Fellow

  Giovanni DiRusso was the Dr. Suhail and Mrs. Luna Zavaro Fellow. He is a second-year PhD student at Harvard University’s Committee for the Study of Religion. He also holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a BA in Religion and Classics from Williams College. Giovanni’s research broadly examines Eastern Christian intellectual history and manuscript cultures in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, with particular interests in late ancient magical traditions and Christian Arabic apocrypha. In summer 2022, he prepared texts for inclusion in the Simtho corpus and helped train OCR models for Syriac.

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  Bert Jacobs

  Seibel Fellow

  Bert Jacobs was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow in Digital Humanities. Bert earned his PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in November 2021 with a dissertation on Syriac quotations from the Qurʾān in Dionysius bar Ṣalībī’s Disputation against the Arabs, with a new critical edition of Mimrō III. His current research interests are on the Christian reception of the Qurʾān and theological and cultural interactions during the Syriac Renaissance. At Beth Mardutho, he worked on metadata and OCR for Simtho.

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  Florian Jäckel

  Summer Fellow

  Florian Jäckel was the Dr. Khalid and Mrs. Amira Dinno Fellow. He studied Catholic theology and Islamics at the University of Tübingen. In 2021, he finished his PhD with a thesis on conceptions of unborn life in the writings of the Syriac polymath Barhebraeus (d. 1286); he has also published on Barhebraeus’s legal work, the Ktābā d-Huddāyē. In summer 2022 he worked on training an East Syriac OCR/HTR model and FLex XML to LaTeX via XSLT.

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  Antonio Musto

  Summer Fellow

  Antonio Musto was the Dr. Nebil and Mrs. Jennifer Aydin Fellow. He is a PhD candidate in New York University’s Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies department, and his dissertation focuses on the emergence of Sufism, usually understood as Islamic mysticism, in the 10th and 11th centuries. As part of his research, he looks to explore the relationship between Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity and formation of Sufism. At Beth Mardutho, he trained an East Syriac OCR/HTR model.

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  Giovanni Gomiero

  Interim Fellow

  Giovanni Gomiero was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow in Digital Humanities. He began his FWO-PhD at the University of Ghent in November 2022, with a four-year project on Thomas of Marga and East Syrian Historiography and Hagiography (6th–10th c.). He studied before in the University of Padua and as an intern researcher in the IRHT-CNRS (Paris). His research interests are the History of the Church of the East and its texts during Late Antiquity. At Beth Mardutho, he worked on metadata and OCR for Simtho.

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  Matthew Bachman

  PTS Intern

  Matthew Bachman (he/him/his) was a graduate intern from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studies the intersections of religion, society, and science. Matthew completed his undergraduate studies at McKendree University in Religious Studies and History. At McKendree, he was a Marian Bothwell and Clarence O. Wagner scholar and researched how various religions influenced World War II. He cataloged eBethArké and created a 25-year index for Hugoye.

2021 Fellows & Interns

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  Maroun El Houkayem

  Summer Fellow

  Maroun El Houkayem received the 2021 Dr. Suhail and Mrs. Luna Zavaro Fellowship. He is a PhD Student in Religion at Duke University. His research interests include language and religious identity, the formation of different Arabic Christian identities, and Arabic poetry. At Beth Mardutho he worked on OCR for Simtho and TEI encoding.

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  Fadi Homsi

  Summer Fellow

  Fadi Homsi was the Dr. Khalid and Mrs. Amira Dinno Fellow for 2021. Fadi is originally from Hama, Syria. He studied Arabic literature at Hama University and is currently a third-year student at St. Aphrem Theological Seminary in Ma’arrat Saydnaya, Syria, as well as a deacon in the Syriac church. He tagged liturgical texts for Simtho, working with Ephrem’s corpus.

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  Yanir Marmor

  Summer Fellow

  Yanir Marmor held the Dr. Nebil and Mrs. Jennifer Aydin Fellowship in Digital Humanities in 2021. He graduated from Tel Aviv university in 2021 with a double major in Computer Science and Talmud. He works as a data scientist and algorithm developer. Yanir concentrated on part-of-speech tagging and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in Syriac.

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  Iustinian Ioan Mindrila

  Summer Fellow

  Iustinian Ioan Mindrila was the Dr. Jack Jallo and Mrs. Gage Johnston Fellow. He is a PhD student at the Department of Ecumenical Theology and Oriental Church and Mission History of the University of Göttingen. His research focuses on an unedited and untranslated East Syriac hagiography of Ishoʿyahb III ascribed to the Catholicos-Patriarch Ḥenanishoʿ I. He TEI XML-encoded issues of Hugoye, and he worked on OCR functions and part-of-speech tagging for Simtho.

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  Anton Fleissner

  Summer Fellow

  Anton Fleissner was the 2021 Edward Y. Hannoush Memorial Fellow in the Digital Humanities. Before studying ancient and modern languages and teaching Koine Greek at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem, he finished a B.A. in mathematics at Princeton University, where his thesis focused on computational linguistics. He currently teaches math, computer science, and Latin at the Waring School in Beverly, MA. At Beth Mardutho, Anton worked on morphological tagging tools for Simtho and conjugation tools for SEDRA.

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  Brandon Allen

  Seibel Fellow

  Brandon Allen was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow and continued to lead the team OCRing texts for Simtho. He began working at Beth Mardutho in 2016 as an intern from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he graduated with his MDiv. In 2018, as curator of Beth Mardutho’s library, he led the cataloging and digitization which resulted in over 2,000 books uploaded to Archive.org. He received his MSt in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford in 2019. His research interests are in early Judaism and Christianity, focusing on the exegetical traditions and pseudepigrapha, particularly in Dead Sea Scrolls and the Syriac tradition. He also is an editorial assistant for the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project.

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  Ian Ollila

  PTS Intern

  Ian Ollila is a third-year MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary and was a graduate intern at Beth Mardutho. His primary research interest is in the field of Christian religion, specifically focused upon the New Testament with orientation towards literary analysis of the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John. He worked on the institute’s OCR/HTR project, as well as on metadata creation and file management for Simtho.

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  Patrick Kiernan

  PTS Intern

  Patrick Kiernan is completing an M.Div at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research interests are in the New Testament, the Gospels, and Historical Jesus studies. He was a graduate summer intern at Beth Mardutho and OCRed documents and created metadata for Simtho.

2020 Fellows & Interns

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  Joss Childs

  Summer Fellow

  Joss Childs was the inaugural Dr. Nebil and Mrs. Jennifer Aydin Fellow. She is a student at Mount Holyoke College, where she is pursuing majors in Ancient Greek and Religion. She hopes to continue studying early Christianity, particularly the martyrdoms of children, after she graduates. At Beth Mardutho, she TEI XML-encoded issues of Hugoye and reviewed previously-encoded issues.

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  Rami Malaab

  Summer Fellow

  Rami Malaab was the 2020 Dr. Suhail and Mrs. Luna Zavaro Fellow. A fourth-year seminarian at Mor Aphrem Theological Seminary, he previously studied Geology and Applied Geophysics. He is interested in the Syriac language and translation, and he applied his knowledge towards SEDRA by deduping entries and working with MP3 files.

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  Jonathan Warner

  Summer Fellow

  Jonathan Warner was the 2020 Mr. Malak Yunan and Dr. Evelyne Yunan Fellow. A PhD candidate in Cornell University’s Department of Classics, his dissertation, “Soldiers of Caesar and Christ: Martial Imagery and the Ethos of Church and State Service in Late Antiquity,” explores the military ethos of Roman bureaucrats and Christian ascetics. He received a B.A. in classics and history at the George Washington University and an M.A. in classical languages at the University of Georgia. He worked on projects aimed at improving SEDRA and Simtho.

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  Shelby Loster

  Seibel Fellow

  Shelby Loster was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow in Digital Humanities. Shelby completed a Master of Theology degree (with an emphasis in ancient Near Eastern studies) at Fuller Theological Seminary and is an alumna of Beth Mardutho’s Summer School program. At Beth Mardutho, she helped launch the beta version of Simtho: The Syriac Thesaurus with over 7 million words. This involved testing OCR programs, tagging files, and constructing a database. During her fellowship she worked on increasing Simtho’s corpus and adding POS tagging. In addition, she removed duplicates from SEDRA.

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  Omri Matarasso

  Summer Fellow

  Omri Matarasso received the 2020 Dr. Khalid and Mrs. Amira Dinno Fellowship in Digital Humanities. He is a PhD student in History at Princeton University. His research focuses on late antique minority groups living on the margins of the Roman and Persian empires. He is currently working on Syriac hagiographies edited in Paul Bedjan’s Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum. At Beth Mardutho, Omri worked on part-of-speech tagging and OCR functions for Simtho.

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  Brandon Allen

  Seibel Fellow

  Brandon Allen was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow and led the team OCRing texts for Simtho. He began working at Beth Mardutho in 2016 as an intern from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he graduated with his MDiv. In 2018, as curator of Beth Mardutho’s library, he led the cataloging and digitization which resulted in over 2,000 books uploaded to Archive.org. He received his MSt in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford in 2019. His research interests are in Early Judaism and Christianity, focusing on the exegetical traditions and pseudepigrapha, particularly in Dead Sea Scrolls and the Syriac tradition. He also is an editorial assistant for the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project.

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  Briana Grenert

  PTS Intern

  Briana Grenert is a graduate intern from Princeton Theological Seminary. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2018 with a double major in Classical Studies and Linguistics with a minor in Neuroscience. She took a gap year in Hawaii, where she spent her time teaching church history, tutoring French and Greek, and reading Syriac under Kapali Lyon at the University of Hawaii. She is currently an MDiv student and runs the Greek Reading Table at Princeton Seminary.

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  David Michael Felsch

  PTS Intern

  David Michael Felsch was a graduate intern at Beth Mardutho, and he recently completed the first year of the M.Div. program at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is interested in ancient religions and languages and plans to pursue academics after his masters is complete. He is particularly interested in the Gospels and Christian origins. He is also an associate editor for the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project.

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  Yevgeniy Safronov

  PTS Intern

  Yevgeniy Safronov is an MDiv Student at Princeton Theological Seminary and one of Beth Mardutho’s graduate summer interns. His academic interests include the development of Jewish traditions in the Second Temple Period and the interaction of political, philosophical, and religious thought during the Hellenistic era. At Beth Mardutho, he aimed to further the digital humanities and promote understanding of Syriac culture in the academic world and the Western church.

2019 Fellows & Interns

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  Shelby Loster

  Seibel Fellow

  Shelby Loster was a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellow in Digital Humanities. Shelby completed a Master of Theology degree (with an emphasis in ancient Near Eastern studies) at Fuller Theological Seminary and is an alumna of the Beth Mardutho Summer School program. At Beth Mardutho, she helped build an online text corpus. This involved managing and testing OCR programs, processing over 50,000 pages of text data through the OCR, participating in the build of a part-of-speech and morphological tagger, and building a corpus using corpora digital tools.

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  Patrick Conlin

  Summer Fellow

  Patrick Conlin is a recent graduate of Marquette University’s Historical Theology M.A. program. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife Amanda and their three cats. The majority of his research has been on Bar Hebraeus, but he is interested in learning more about other medieval and early modern Syriac authors. He conducted morphological analysis on SEDRA for Beth Mardutho.

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  Kyle Brunner

  Summer Fellow

  Kyle Brunner was the Dr. Talal and Mrs. Wesal Findakly Fellow in the Digital Humanities. He is a 3rd year PhD student at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. His research focuses on social and environmental issues that affected the Aramaic- and Arabic-speaking populations of northern Syria and Iraq following the rise of Islam. Kyle tested ScanTent for eBethArké and provided Syriac and Arabic catalogue support for the research library at Beth Mardutho.

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  Henry Clements

  Summer Fellow

  Henry Clements is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. His research centers on the Süryani community of the Ottoman Empire. At Beth Mardutho, Henry cataloged and created metadata for the Mardin Archive.

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  Andrea Bellettato

  Summer Fellow

  Andrea Bellettato was the Dr. Suhail and Mrs. Luna Zavaro Fellow at Beth Mardutho, where he TEI XML-encoded issues of Hugoye. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Classics in 2014 and went on to pursue an MA in the same subject at the University of Padua. He graduated in 2018 with a thesis on Tatian and Bardaisan. Andrea will be starting a PhD in Syriac Literature at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, and his doctoral project will focus on the use of florilegia and other Greek Patristic sources in the works of some key eastern Syriac authors of the early Abbasid period.

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  William Bunce

  Summer Fellow

  William Bunce was the Dr. Khalid and Mrs. Amira Dinno Fellow in Digital Humanities, working on importing the BYU JPS and Sokoloff lexica into SEDRA. He began higher education studying Literae Humaniores at Brasenose College, Oxford. After his first examinations, he took up Syriac and Aramaic, graduating with a degree in Classics and Oriental Studies, and hopes to take up an offer for an MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Wadham College, with a particular focus on John of Ephesus and the Syriac Christian communities under Justinian.

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  Bogdan Draghici

  Summer Fellow

  Bogdan Draghici was the Edward Y. Hannoush Memorial Fellow in the Digital Humanities. He is a PhD student in Oriental Studies with a specialty in Syriac Christianity at the University of Oxford. He is currently working on Bar Salibi’s unedited polemical treatise Against the Chalcedonians. He previously studied at the University of Oxford for an MSt in Syriac studies, and KU Leuven where he graduated from the Advanced Research Master’s with a dissertation on the development of ecumenical thinking during the Syriac Renaissance. He TEI XML-encoded issues of Hugoye for Beth Mardutho, making the journal fully searchable.

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  Mshamshono Aday

  Summer Fellow

  Mshamshono Aday (Muhannad Maher) comes from Syria, where he is a deacon studying theology at the Seminary of St. Ephrem. He graduated from Al-Baath University as an electronics engineer and is now in his second year of seminary. He likes the Syriac language very much and is interested in enhancing his language skills as he works on Manna’s Syriac-Arabic lexicon for Beth Mardutho.

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  Michael Sims

  Summer Fellow

  Michael Sims is a PhD Candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. His research focuses on identity formation and intercommunal relations within the Süryani and Kurdish communities of the late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman Empire. He worked on the Mardin archive for Beth Mardutho, cataloging and creating metadata.

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  Johan M.V. Lundberg

  Seibel Fellow

  Johan Lundberg received a Herman & Mary K. Seibel Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Johan is a PhD student in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University and has an extensive background in linguistic features of semitic languages. He worked to create a philologically-motivated corpus of digital Syriac texts.

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  Abigail Pearson

  Summer Fellow

  Abigail Pearson is a PhD student in Theology at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on East Syriac manuscripts containing medical recipes and protective and healing incantations. At Beth Mardutho, Abigail used Transkribus to train computer models to accurately read and automatically transcribe handwritten Syriac documents. This research built upon her work with the 2018 summer fellows testing Tesseract 4.0 for Syriac OCR.

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  Randy Garcia

  PTS Intern

  Randy Garcia of Princeton Theological Seminary is pursuing a MA(TS) in Biblical Studies. His research interests are New Testament, reception studies of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature, textual criticism, and ancient languages. He was a 2019 summer intern at Beth Mardutho working on cataloging and uploading digital content for the Beth Mardutho research library.

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  Ken Bendiksen

  PTS Intern

  Ken Bendiksen was a summer intern at Beth Mardutho. He earned his BA in Russian from Carleton College and later attended the Russian State University for the Humanities, where he studied Attic Greek and Biblical Hebrew. He completed active duty as a 1st Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in 2018 and continues to serve in the Marine Corps Reserve while pursuing an MA in Biblical Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research interests include early Christianity in its Greco-Roman context, second-temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, textual criticism, the writers of the Second Sophistic, and the works of Origen and Athanasius.

2018 Fellows & Interns

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  Samuel Barry, PhD

  Summer Fellow

  Samuel Barry of the University of Manchester received the Dr. Khalid and Mrs. Amira Dinno Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Samuel obtained his PhD in 2016 from the University of Manchester where he worked on the medical translations of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq. He has a special interest in the classical Syriac-Arabic lexicon of Bar Ali. At Beth Mardutho, Samuel’s work — incorporating Arabic resources to SEDRA, our multi-lingual dictionary project — built cognate relations between Syriac and Arabic.

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  Emily Chesley

  Summer Fellow

  Emily Chesley of Princeton Theological Seminary received The Dr. Jack Jallo and Mrs. Gage Johnston Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Emily completed her masters at Princeton Theological Seminary and entered its PhD program in History & Ecumenics. She attended the Beth Mardutho Summer School program and previously completed a Junior Fellowship at the Library of Congress in its Digitization of Monastery Manuscripts project. At Beth Mardutho, Emily trained and tested a Syriac OCR system which will allow users to scan, edit, and search Syriac texts.

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  Jana Safley

  Summer Fellow

  Jana Safley received The Mr. Malak Yunan and Dr. Evelyne Yunan Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Jana attended the Beth Mardutho Summer School program and studied in Jerusalem, and she is currently seeking a graduate program in Early Christian Hermeneutics. She tagged Syriac-English lexical data for Beth Mardutho and prepared key publications.

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  Dominique Sirgy

  Summer Fellow

  Dominique Sirgy of Yale University is a PhD student in Religious Studies with a specialty in Islam and Ancient Christianity. She worked on the Arabic resources for SEDRA.

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  Hannah Stork

  Summer Fellow

  Hannah Stork of the University of Chicago received The Dr. Talal and Mrs. Wesal Findakly Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Hannah has attended the Beth Mardutho Summer School program and spent four years working for a non-profit in the Middle East. She is currently pursuing an MA at the University of Chicago. Hannah worked on Syriac-Arabic resources for SEDRA and enriched the Beth Mardutho Library online catalog with Arabic material from the library’s collection.

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  Jillian Marcantonio

  Summer Fellow

  Jillian Marcantonio completed her master’s degree at Princeton Theological Seminary in May 2017 and went on to a PhD program in Early Christianity at Duke University. A former student of the Beth Mardutho Summer School program, Jillian focused on the SEDRA project and the completion of tagging Margoliouth’s Supplement. In addition, she worked on the OCR training and testing project.

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  Abigail Pearson

  Summer Fellow

  Abigail Pearson of the University of Exeter is a PhD student in Theology. She worked on training and testing a Syriac OCR engine and on creating a new website for the Institute.

• Winona Salesky

  Summer Fellow

  Winona Salesky received The Dr. Suhail and Mrs. Luna Zavaro Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Winona works with the Syriaca.org project and is an expert in building online systems for the Syriac Digital Humanities. At Beth Mardutho, she re-implemented the electronic journal Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies with the Srophé platform, transforming it from static HTML and PDF pages to a searchable XML TEI system that can interact with other websites using Linked Open Data.

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  Ashby Neterer

  PTS Intern

  Ashby Neterer of Princeton Theological Seminary has research interests in early Patristics and Tertullian’s rule of faith as well as his apology. During his Field Education experience at the Institute, he catalogued and uploaded digital content for the library as part of the Internet Archive scanning project.

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  Sunil Persad, MBA

  PTS Intern

  Sunil Persad of Princeton Theological Seminary has a background in business and marketing. At Beth Mardutho, he completed his Field Education placement by developing a new website for the Institute and working on the marketability of its online presence.

Former BM Interns

• Matthew Neumann (PTS Intern)
• Kyle Sorkness (PTS Intern)
• Brandon Allen (PTS Intern)
• Aron Tillema (PTS Intern)
• Leslie Virnelson (PTS Intern)
• Rebecca Francisco (PTS Intern)
• Mitchell Esswein (PTS Intern)
• Gabriel Bar-Sawme
• Emilee Walker-Cornetta
• Logan Wilmoth
• Ephrem Ishac