Awards & Grants


Medal of Merit, Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi (2025)

Shohet Scholar, International Catacomb Society (2025–26)

  • Awarded to pursue research on the role of religious actors in ancient Mediterranean slave revolts

Research Grant, Catholic Biblical Association (2024; $10,000 USD, with Candida Moss, Christy Cobb, and Jeremiah Coogan)

Ge’ez Intensive Course, Dumbarton Oaks & Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (2024)

  • One of 10 students selected for a three-week intensive Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic) language and paleography course

SPIRIT (Students and Professors Integrating Recreation, Intellect and Teaching) Fund, Tufts University (2024; $500 USD)

  • Used to fund three class field trips to the Royall House and Slave Quarters (Medford, MA), Museums of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA), along with additional funding provided through the Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery initiative for joint field trips

Fellowship in Values Engagement, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (2023–24; $8,500 USD)

  • Programming of a panel on “quitting your first job” for Lowell House at Harvard College; programming for the Lowell Legacies archival project

Jens Aubrey Westengard Summer Research and Travel Grant (2018, 2022; $1,900 USD)

  • Awarded to participate as a volunteer preservationist on a first-century CE archaeological site at Migdal, Israel, organized by Harvard University and Universidad Anáhuac México Sur
  • Awarded to visit papyrological archives at various libraries in the UK, Belgium, and Germany

GSAS Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2021; declined; $38,000 USD)

Summer Research Grant, GSAS Graduate Student Council, Harvard University (2020; $800 USD)

  • Awarded to study Syriac at Beth Mardutho Syriac Institute

Summer Research and Study Fellowship, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University (2018; $2,500)

  • Awarded to participate as a volunteer preservationist on a first-century CE archaeological site at Migdal, Israel, organized by Harvard University and Universidad Anáhuac México Sur

Gochman Dean’s Fund for Innovation and Development (2018; $2,000 USD)

  • Awarded by Harvard University and used to attend the Sixth Summer School in Coptic Papyrology at the Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne

Two Brothers Fellowship, Yale Divinity School (2016; $4,000 USD)

  • Used to participate as a volunteer excavator on a fifth-century CE synagogue at Huqoq, Israel

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