This program includes the following projects:
- Knowledge transfer and administrative professionalism in a pre-typographic society: Observing the scribe at work in Roman and early Islamic Egypt
- The Dictionary of Roman Biography project
- Communication networks in Upper Egyptian monastic communities in the 6th to 8th centuries CE
- Language, literacy, and acculturation in Early Ptolemaic Egypt
- Idiolect and social dialect in the Zenon Archive
- Words from the sand: A lexical analysis of early Greek papyri from Egypt
- Communication and media in the development of the Post-Roman/Early Medieval and Byzantine World (5th to 8th centuries)