Eric Harvey Rejoins CESTA for NEH-Funded Project
Dr. Eric Harvey has rejoined CESTA as a postdoctoral scholar in the NEH-funded project, Digital Accessibility for Blind Scholars of Antiquity. At CESTA, he will be working on a digital translation platform for ancient languages to be used by blind and low-vision humanities students and scholars. We welcome Eric back and look forward to supporting this research! You can read more about him below.
"Eric Harvey holds a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University with a specialization in Bible and the Ancient Near East. He is currently a postdoc at CESTA, co-directing the NEH-funded Braille in Ancient Studies project with Professor Mark Algee-Hewitt. His research areas include material processes of textual transmission, blindness and disability in the ancient Middle East, and the political economy of myth and ritual. He also works to increase the accessibility of ancient studies to disabled students and scholars. Last year, he was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies."