Tue. Oct 20th, 2026

Academic and Technical Certificates

Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (SSLL 2026), completed July 17, 2026. Courses included Historical Linguistics (Norbruis); Northwest Semitic: Ugaritic and Phoenician (Gianto); Syriac (Baasten); and Reading Classical Ethiopic Literature (Baasten).
Safaitic Epigraphy, completed June 26, 2026. This two-week course (15 contact hours) was taught by Ahmad Al-Jallad via The Epigraphic Institute.
Ancient South Arabian, completed June 26, 2026. This two-week course (15 contact hours) was taught by Alessia Prioletta via The Epigraphic Institute.
DAA Certificate
Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School (DAA 2024), completed Aug. 30, 2024. The summer school covered the following topics: data collection, cleaning, and management; Programming with Python; Data visualization with Tableau; Creating maps with QGIS; Social and lexical network analysis using Gephi.
Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities, completed July 12, 2024. Organized and taught by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Related skills included eye-tracking, imaging technologies, digital scholarly editing, TEI-XML, and cultural heritage.
Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (SSLL 2025), completed Aug. 1, 2025. Courses included Introduction to Arabic Paleography and Epigraphy (Al-Jallad); Comparative Semitics (van Putten, Suchard, and Al-Jallad); Rabbinic Hebrew (Baasten); and Classical Ethiopic (Baasten).
Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (SSLL 2024), completed July 26, 2024. Courses included Northwest Semitic: Ugaritic and Phoenician (Gianto); Advanced Biblical Hebrew (Gianto); Introducing Sabaic: Script, Grammar, and Lexicon (Koutchoukali); and Historical Grammar of Hittite (Kloekhorst).
DH2 Certificate from HarvardX
Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Question to Results, completed Aug. 11, 2024. This course, offered by Harvard University, addresses digital methods for analyzing large databases of text, creating enhanced datasets by scraping websites, identifying character sets and search criteria, and using APIs, enriching metadata to optimize analysis, and digital methods such as topic modeling, vector models, and concept search.
Certificate for Harvard University's "Introduction to Digital Humanities" online course offered via EdX
Introduction to Digital Humanities (Harvard's DH101), completed June 22, 2024. Related skills include digital humanities projects and tools; acquiring, cleaning, and creating data; the command line; and Voyant Tools.
Antwerp DHSS Certificate of Attendance
Certificate of Attendance for the Antwerp Summer School in Digital Humanities. Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents. University of Antwerp, Belgium. July 1-5, 2024
Antwerp DHSS Micro-Credential Certificate
Related skills include XML; TEI-XML; HTML; CSS; XPath; XSLT; Oxygen XML Editor; Visual Studio Code; Git; GitHub; HTR; Transkribus; eScriptorium; Axolotl; Keystroke Logging; Inputlog; GGXLogger; Keystroke Loxensis; Digital scholarly editing
Certificate for Judeo-Greek from the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages
Judeo-Greek @ Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages, completed June 21, 2022.
Certificate for Arabic 101 & 102 from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
Arabic 101 & 102 by the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, completed May 5, 2022.
Certificate for Syriac 1 from Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Syriac 101 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, completed Jan. 1, 2022.
Certificate for Modern Hebrew Ulpan 1 (Aleph) accredited by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Modern Hebrew Ulpan 1, completed Dec. 2, 2021.

Other Certificates: Technical Training

Top 10 Skills for Computational Linguistics (Jan. 17, 2025)
Top 10 Skills for Computational Linguistics Certificate
Top 10 Skills for Computational Linguistics, completed Jan. 17, 2025. Associated skills include: linguistics; data science; Python; Natural Language Processing (NLP); text sentiment; machine translation; machine learning; speech recognition.
Certificate of Completion for the course "Learning DNS" via LinkedIn Learning
Learning DNS, completed Jan. 7, 2025. Domain Name System (DNS) helps us whenever we browse the internet by translating domain names that are easy for humans to read into IP addresses.
Certificate of Completion for the course "WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site" via LinkedIn Learning
WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site, completed Jan. 7, 2025. Associated skills include monitoring website speed, website hosting, optimizing images, content delivery network (CDN), offloading media files, "busting" cache, etc.
WordPress FSE Cert Jan 6 2025
WordPress: Mastering Full Site Editing, completed Jan. 6, 2025. Associated skills include Full Site Editing (FSE), creating custom patterns and reusable blocks for web design, translating Figma designs, building engaging pages, and prioritizing accessibility.
WordPress Essential Training Certificate of Completion, Matthew Saunders
WordPress Essential Training, completed Jan. 6, 2025. Associated skills include WordPress security, pages, posts, plugins and themes, design customization, media library, and WordPress maintenance (site health, troubleshooting, security maintenance, performance maintenance).
Best WordPress Plugins in 2024
Best WordPress Plugins in 2024, completed Jan. 4, 2025. Learned about top innovative free plugins (e.g. Block Visibility, eCommerce, Image Lightbox, Google Analytics, etc.) for a WordPress website.
LinkedIn Learning's "Git Essential Training" Certificate
Git Essential Training, completed July 7, 2024. Skills include Git; GitHub; and Visual Studio Code.
LinkedIn Learning's "XML Essential Training" Certificate
XML Essential Training, completed July 6, 2024. Related skills include XML; XML DOM; XPath; XSLT; XML Schema; HTML; and CSS.
Certificate for LinkedIn Learning's "Foundations of GIS" online course
Foundations of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), completed June 28, 2024.
Certification for Coursera's "A Crash Course in Data Science" taught by Johns Hopkins University
Crash Course in Data Science (JHU), completed June 4, 2024.
Certification for Udemy's "WordPress for Beginners: Create a Website Step by Step"
WordPress for Beginners: Create a Website Step by Step, completed May 10, 2024.
Certificate for Open Source Intelligence Essential Training via LinkedIn Learning
OSINT Essential Training, completed Sept. 15, 2021.
Certificate for Biblical Aramaic accredited by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Biblical Aramaic, completed Aug. 13, 2021.
Certificate for Google's Technical Support Fundamentals course
Google's Technical Support Fundamentals, completed June 4, 2021.
Problem Solving Using Computational Thinking (UMichigan), completed May 9, 2021.
Intro IT & Cybersecurity Cert
Introduction to IT & Cybersecurity, completed Nov. 18, 2020.