His work revolves around reconstructing the historical economy. He is director of the Old Assyrian Research Environment Project, and co-creator of tabeltninjas.com, a website to crowdsource the indexing of cuneiform tablet photos. His forthcoming book: A Year of Vengeance: Time, Narrative, and the Assyrian Trans-Taurus Trade in 1891 BC, deals with the discovery of Old Assyrian commercial time through narrative reconstruction. He is interested in critical Digital Humanities and rendering epistemologically consistent data models.