Miller Prosser is the Associate Director of the University of Chicago’s program in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History in which he teaches courses on data management and data publication for the humanities. He earned his PhD in Northwest Semitic Philology from the University of Chicago. Prosser’s research focuses on the socioeconomic organization of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit and surrounding regions. He is the co-director of the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory, a digital publication of inscribed objects from Ras Shamra-Ugarit. See his chapter, “Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational Intelligence.” Prosser also investigates questions related to the digital representation of humanities research more broadly, from digital textual studies to archaeology. For over a decade now, Prosser has supported the use of the OCHRE database platform for a wide variety of research projects.

To learn more about Prosser’s research and project affiliations, please visit his profile page at the Digital Studies program.