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)