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Biography

Michael is a palaeographer, epigraphist, and papyrologist with a research focus in ancient religion and magic. Most recently he has been employed as a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded ZODIAC project at Freie Universität Berlin (2021–2026), examining the transmission of astrological texts in Greek papyri. He is a Director-at-Large of the American Society of Papyrologists and Senior Editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum for the Near East and Egypt. From 2016 to 2021 he was Researcher for volume VI of the AHRC-funded Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) at the University of Oxford, with a focus on Greek names attested in Semitic-language sources. During his PhD, he was Assistant to the Curator of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael holds a PhD in Classics and Medieval Studies (concurrent) and an MA in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded a J.K. Anderson Fellowship. He completed his undergraduate studies in Classics (Magna cum laude) with foreign language citation in Classical Hebrew at Harvard University.

Research engagement

Since 2016, Michael has been a member of the editorial board for the Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies project at the University of Chicago. He is also on the board of consultants for the Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC) at Freie Universität Berlin. He is an ongoing contributor to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series (P. Oxy.), including co-editorship of vol. LXXXVI, and he is collaborating on an AHRC-funded editorial project on literary papyri from Oxyrhynchus. He has also collaborated on the manuscript culture of Roman and later Egypt more broadly, including international collaborations on graffiti from the Ptah temple at Karnak; inscriptions from Deir Anba Hadra; and science and technology in Greco-Roman Egypt for a Supplement to Brill’s New Pauly.

Teaching

Michael has experience in graduate and undergraduate teaching in ancient languages, paleography, and papyrology. He was an instructor for the American Society of Papyrologists Summer Institute at the University of Cincinnati in 2022 and Washington University in 2018, and a lector for the Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Paleography at the University of Oxford in 2018. He was a tutor in Greek Documentary Papyrology at the University of Oxford in 2019-2020, and has taught Attic Greek and Latin Prose Composition at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012–2013.

Education/Academic qualification

Classics and Medieval Studies (concurrent), Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 1 May 2016

Classics, MA, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 1 Dec 2011

Classics, A.B. (Magna cum laude), Harvard University

Award Date: 1 May 2010

External positions

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums, ERC Advanced Grant ZODIAC, Freie Universität Berlin

2021 → …

Associate Researcher, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

2021 → …

Postdoctoral Associate, St Cross College, University of Oxford

20172020

Researcher, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

20162021

Assistant to the Curator, The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley

20132016

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