Notes on Contributors
David W. Anthony is an Emeritus Professor at Hartwick College. He specializes in the Eneolithic and Bronze Age societies of the Eurasian steppes, emphasizing Indo-European linguistics and links between archaeology and language, the evolution of Eurasian steppe pastoralism, modeling human migration, and the study of ancient DNA in Eurasian steppe populations.
Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena). He holds a BA and an MA degree in Indo-European Studies from the University of Copenhagen (2017) with a minor in Norse Philology. His research areas include the formative stages of Proto-Indo-European and the methodology in discerning cognates and loanwords from chance phenomena in prehistory.
José L. García Ramón is Senior Fellow in Linguistics at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington / Harvard University) since 2015, Docente a Contratto at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), and corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres (Paris). Formerly he served as Professor of Historical–Comparative Linguistics at the University of Cologne (until 2015) and of Greek Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research centers on morphosyntax, lexicon and onomastics, poetic language and Indo-European reconstruction, with a special interest in Greek (also Mycenaean), Latin and Italic, Indo-Iranian and Anatolian.
Riccardo Ginevra is a 2019–2020 Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He received his PhD in Historical Linguistics in 2018 from the Università per Stranieri di Siena in joint supervision with the University of Cologne, where he has since been lecturing on Comparative Indo-European Poetics and Mythology.
Adam Hyllested is a comparative–historical linguist specialized in the prehistory of Eurasian languages, focusing on etymology, language relationship and contacts. He holds an advanced research degree (magisterkonferens) in Indo-European Studies, Uralic Linguistics and Balkanistics, and a PhD in Comparative Linguistics, both from the University of Copenhagen. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary Roots of Europe Centre at the University of Copenhagen, established 2008.
James A. Johnson is currently Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is Project Director of the Uy River Valley Communities of Practice project in Russia and Lead Director of the Bel’sk Project in Ukraine. His work focuses on exploring the materialized socio-political connections between mobile peoples and place / time, including a comparative examination of how those connections impact local ecologies through time.
Kristian Kristiansen is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. His books include Europe before history and The rise of Bronze Age society (with Thomas B. Larsson), and most recently the co-edited books Organizing Bronze Age societies (with Timothy Earle), Trade and civilization (with J. Myrdal and T. Lindkvist) and Warfare in Bronze Age society (with Christian Horn), all at Cambridge University Press. He is co-editor of the Critical Heritage Studies Element Series at Cambridge University Press.
H. Craig Melchert is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for twenty-nine years. His research centers on historical linguistics, with special emphasis on the Anatolian sub-family of Indo-European. His interests include the modeling of language change, reconstruction of the culture and society of the Proto-Indo-European speech community, and the application of modern linguistic formal theories to ancient Indo-European languages and their prehistory.
Matthew Scarborough studied Classical Philology and Linguistics at the Universities of Alberta (BA 2009, MA 2011) and Cambridge (PhD 2017). Since 2015 he has been Research Associate in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for the Science for Human History (Jena). His research interests include Ancient Greek dialectology and the application of phylogenetic and quantitative methods to linguistic data for the investigation of cladistic hypotheses.
Peter Schrijver is Professor of Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University. He specializes in the historical grammar of western Indo-European languages and of Northeast-Caucasian. He is the author of several books, including Studies in British Celtic historical phonology and Language contact and the origins of the Germanic languages.
Matilde Serangeli is Research Associate in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Department for Indo-European Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Formerly she was a Marie-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the research centre Roots of Europe, University of Copenhagen, and Research Associate at the University of Cologne, where she earned her PhD (2015). Her research focuses on language change in the Indo-European languages, with special attention to the morphology and semantics of Anatolian and Ancient Greek.
Zsolt Simon holds a PhD degree from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2013). He is a research associate at the Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and formerly a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and at Koç University, Istanbul. He is co-author of the Digital Philological–Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages.
Rasmus Thorsø is a PhD student at the EUROLITHIC project (Leiden University), specializing in the history of the Armenian language. He studied Indo-European linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his MA degree in 2016.
Michael Weiss is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He is the author of Language and ritual in Sabellic Italy (2010) and Outline of the historical and comparative grammar of Latin (2nd ed. expected 2019). He has been co-editor of three Festschrifts and has written articles about Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, Greek, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Tocharian, Anatolian, and Proto-Indo-European.