Members and Visitors

George A. Kiraz
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Ottoman Religious Minorities, Syriac Studies

George A. Kiraz's work bridges computational linguistics, the digital humanities, and Syriac Studies. He is widely recognized for developing large-scale digital infrastructures for the study of Syriac and related Christian traditions, integrating philology, manuscript studies, and artificial intelligence. His current research focuses on the Arabic Gospels, with particular attention to their multilingual transmission, textual history, and cultural contexts, situating Arabic biblical literature within broader networks linking Greek, Syriac, and Coptic traditions.

Melissa Moreton
Global Book History, Indigenous Language & Cultural Revitalization

Melissa Moreton is a scholar of the history of the book who works on projects related to global book history and Indigenous language and cultural revitalization. She is particularly interested in supporting traditional care practices for books, developing better access to heritage materials held by North American and European institutions, and creating sustainable pathways for maintaining ongoing collaborative relationships linking institutional caretakers with communities of origin. Moreton supports the NCCR project, “Knowledge on Lunaape Land,” which works collaboratively with Lunaape (Lenape/Delaware) community members to support language, cultural revitalization, and land-based learning on Lunaapahkiing (traditional Lunaape homelands) in and around Princeton, New Jersey.