Her ACLS Fellowship will support full-time research and writing for the research project Expressing Agency and Point of View: The Core Cases in the Ancient Anatolian Languages, 1700-300 BCE. Petra's research interests include Anatolian languages, language change in contact, and discourse cohesion. Her publications include numerous articles and book chapters as well as the monograph The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus (2014).