James Hua

James is a third-year DPhil in Ancient History (Merton College), writing a thesis on population displacements and refugee crises in the Classical and early Hellenistic Greek World. At CSAD, he works as a Research Assistant for Professor Jonathan Prag and Imran Asif on the 'FAIR Epigraphy Project', which aims to make inscriptions 'Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable' by 'creating the tools and the community needed to transform epigraphic research in the digital age'. Specifically, James works on cleaning up and digitising the bibliographies and vocabularies of various epigraphic projects to consolidate a community-wide standard. In addition, James has also worked with Professor Prag on the I.Sicily project, digitising ancient Sicily's inscriptions into EpiDoc TEI-XML standard. He is also an Assistant Editor for SEG.