Scholars & Contributors

Dr. Jackson Crawford
Leading Old Norse specialist, translator, and expert in Runic scripts

Dr. Jared Klein
Scholar of Indo-European syntax and discourse structure, focusing on Sanskrit, Old Persian, and Greek

Dr. Luke Gorton
Researcher of Mediterranean languages and religions, with a special emphasis on Wine in the ancient world

Dr. Andrew Byrd
Indo European specialist spearheading endeavors to make Proto Indo European more accessible to the public, including translation efforts for Far Cry Primal

Dr. Kenneth Harl
Anatolian expert, numismatic scholar, and author of the recent Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

Dr. Anthony Yates
Hittite scholar and researcher in Indo-European historical linguistics, with an emphasis on the Anatolian language family

Dr. Brian Joseph
Former President of the Linguistic Society of America, and a preeminent scholar of Greek, Balkan, and South Slavic languages

Dr. Brenna Reinhart Byrd
Lexington-based researcher whose work spans language pedagogy, Indo European studies, and Turkish-German linguistic identity

Dr. Joseph Salmons
Expert in speech sounds and language change, with research spanning languages as diverse as Germanic, Mixtec, and Algonquian