Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published OCHRE: An Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (Eisenbrauns 2012), which he coauthored with Sandra R. Schloen. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Comparative Economics, a collaboration with Alain Bresson and E. Glen Weyl, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.