She received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2015. Her research focuses on multiculturalism and communication practices in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 1st millennium BCE. Her new project, Beyond the Rosetta Stone, will incorporate several cases studies that examine how individuals manipulated the visual presentation of scripts in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. She has also participated in archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, Sudan, and Egypt, and is co-director of the “Qarah el-Hamra Fayum Project” with Bethany Simpson.